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Academic Year 2005/2006

"Becoming Indian": Latin America's Indigenous Peoples
HIST 104 FA
Crosslistings:
LAST 104

Students enrolled in "Becoming Indian" will analyze monographs, testimonies, and fiction to explore the construction of indigenous identities and the history of indigenous communities in Mexico, Central America, and the Andean highlands. The course will emphasize 19th- and 20th-century indigenista movements, social issues, and contemporary political revolutions but will also cover the colonial period.

MAJOR READINGS

Argueta, ONE DAY OF LIFE
Barrios de Chungara, LET ME SPEAK!
Becker, SETTING THE VIRGIN ON FIRE
Cope, THE LIMITS OF RACIAL DOMINATION
Marategui, SEVEN REALITIES
Menchu, I RIGOBERTA MENCHU
Thurner, FROM TWO REPUBLICS TO ONE DIVIDED: CONTRADICTIONS OF POSTCOLONIAL NATIONMAKING IN ANDEAN PERU
Vargas Llosa, DEATH IN THE ANDES
Additional texts will be added, depending on availability

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Six short papers, class presentation, final project.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-30-2006

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