From: web-form@Oswego.EDU Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:06 AM To: ucc@oswego.edu Subject: Web Form: Course_Submission Department_Chair: Paul Voninski Department_Chair_Email: voninski@oswego.edu Additional_Contact: Stephen Saraydar Additional_Contact_Email: saraydar@oswego.edu Course_Number: ANT 377 Course_Type: New Course Course_Title: European Ethnography Catalog_Description: This course turns the anthropological lens to the historical and social contexts of Europe. We explore how European peoples and institutions construct and negotiate identities to make meanings out of their lives, and how ethnographers investigate these meanings. These issues help us to understand human experience across and beyond Europe. Prerequisites: ANT 112 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Sp_every Spring: Yes Semester_Hours: 3 Justification: As part of both the major and minor for Anthropology, students are required to take a course in an ethnographic area (courses numbered 37X). Adding a new course focused on the European region increases the diversity and extent of our set of educational offerings on specific world regions. This course also serves the campus goal of greater international focus and is of particular interest to students across disciplines exploring international cultures, preparing for research and study abroad, or adding greater awareness of people’s lived experience to their understandings of historical geopolitical forces. As a 300-level advanced seminar course, classes will rely upon close discussion of issues that arise from readings, writing assignments, and other course materials. Class size should remain small to achieve this goal; an enrollment cap of 19 is appropriate. Course_Objectives: The goal and expectation in this upper level cultural anthropology course is that students expand their understanding of human experience across cultures, teaching them about others and themselves. The issues here are grounded in cases taken from or relating to the European geographical region, informing them about those specific cases, broad contemporary European issues, and international diversity in general. Students will expand their knowledge of European ethnography for a deeper understanding of the cultures and traditions interacting across and beyond the changing European scene. Students will also understand the concepts and methodology involved in ethnography, the core qualitative research method of cultural anthropology. They will also have some experience in and understand the principles of close social observation, interviewing, and analysis. Students will be able to show increased facility in critical thinking, analyzing and evaluating authors’ key arguments, and finding connections across different cases. Course_Description: In this course, we turn the anthropological lens to the variety of cultural forms and identities found within the diverse historical and social contexts of Europe. Students will expand their knowledge of European ethnography for a deeper understanding of the cultures and traditions at work in the context of the ongoing social and political changes in the contemporary European arena today. We explore how European peoples make cultural meanings out of their lives, and how social and cultural anthropologists investigate these meanings. A central theme running through the course is how people and institutions construct and negotiate identities – as Europeans, as “civilized” peoples, as proper middle-class citizens, as women or men, or as members with a sense of belonging to national, ethnic, religious, or political groups. The themes and issues we cover are particularly significant for the European region, as well as broadly applicable to understanding human experience across cultural and geographical locations. This is a seminar course based upon class discussions generated from the reading, writing, film, and ethnographic activities we engage in. Interesting classes and active discussions begin from students’ thoughtful comments and questions on the book and/or article selections of that day. Evaluated Course Requirements include: Ethnographic Assignments and Reading Questions, Active Discussion Participation, Exams, and basic Attendance. Most days, students write short informal “Reading Questions” to bring in (and turn in for credit) to start the day’s discussion. We also engage in some “hands-on” ethnographic assignments every few weeks, from which students write short, focused 2-3 page essays to turn in. These exercises get students out talking to people, observing activities, and/or analyzing a very specific aspect of the social world around them (e.g., people’s use of, experience of, and attitude toward “time,” or a specific social space which has been built and organized for particular purposes). Each specific ethnographic assignment theme or focus springs from course materials and is discussed in detail in class. Exams may take the form of objective, short answer, and/or essay questions. Resources: The Penfield library staff has already been actively purchasing useful texts and media for this course, and I would anticipate suggesting additional purchases as new publications and funds become available. The course will use the resources of a “smart classroom” to load and view educational media resources. Selected articles for course readings will be made available to the students through ANGEL or on E-Reserves through the library. Bibliography: Augé, Marc. 2002. In the Metro. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [Originally published as Un ethnologue dans le metro, copyright Hachette, 1986.] Bellier, Irene and Thomas M. Wilson, eds. 2000. An Anthropology of the European Union : building, imagining and experiencing the new Europe. Oxford: Berg. Berdahl, Daphne. 1999. Where the World Ended. Berkeley: University of California Press. Birdwell-Pheasant, Donna and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga, eds. 1999. House Life: Space, Place and Family in Europe. Oxford: Berg. Boissevain, Jeremy. 1996. Coping with Tourists: European reactions to mass tourism. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books. Bringa, Tone. 2002. “Averted Gaze, Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1992-1995,” in Annihilating Difference, The Anthropology of Genocide. Alexander Hinton, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press. Carrier, Peter. 2005. Holocaust monuments and national memory cultures in France and Germany since 1989. New York: Berghahn Books. Césaire, Aimé. 2000 [1953]. Discourse on Colonialism. New York: Monthly Review Press. Cohen, Anthony. 1985. The Symbolic Construction of Community. New York: Tavistock Publications. Cole, Jeffrey. 1997. The New Racism in Europe: a Sicilian Ethnography. New York: Cambridge University Press. Dostal, Walter, Helmuth A. Niederle, Karl R. Wernhart, eds. 1999. Wir und die Anderen: Islam, Literatur und Migration. Vienna: WUV Universitätsverlag. Dunn, Elizabeth C. 2004. Privatizing Poland. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Frykman, Jonas and Orvar Löfgren. 1987. Culture Builders, a Historical Anthropology of Middle-class Life. Rutgers University Press. Goddard, Victoria, Josep R. Llobera, and Cris Shore, eds. 1994. The Anthropology of Europe: identity and boundaries in conflict. Oxford: Berg. Greenhouse, Carol J., Elizabeth Mertz, and Kay B. Warren, eds. 2002. Ethnography in Unstable Places. Durham: Duke University Press. Hebdige, Dick. 2004 [1979]. Subculture: the meaning of style. London: Routledge. Herzfeld, Michael. 1987. Anthropology Through the Looking Glass: critical ethnography on the margins of Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press. Hight, Eleanor M. and Gary D. Sampson. 2004. Colonialist Photography: imag(in)ing race and place. London: Routledge. Killian, Caitlin. 2006. North African women in France : gender, culture, and identity. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Kosnick, Kira. 2007. Migrant Media: Turkish broadcasting and multicultural politics in Berlin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Macdonald, Sharon. 1997. Inside European Identities: Ethnography in Western Europe. Oxford: Berg. Magliocco, Sabina. 2006 [1993]. The Two Madonnas: the politics of festival in a Sardinian community. Long Grove: Waveland Press. Orwell, George. 1958 [1937]. The Road to Wigan Pier. New York: Harcourt Brace. Parman, Susan. 1998. Europe in the Anthropological Imagination. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Rogers, Susan Carol, Thomas M. Wilson, Gary W. McDonogh, eds. 1996. European Anthropologies. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association. Rothfels, Nigel. 1996. “Aztecs, Aborigines, and Ape-People: Science and Freaks in Germany, 1850-1900” in Freakery, Rosemarie Garland Thomson, ed. New York: New York University Press. Said, Edward, 1974 [1978]. Orientalism New York: Vintage Books. Saul, Nicholas and Susan Tebbutt. 2004. The Role of the Romanies: images and counter-images of 'Gypsies'/Romanies in European cultures. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press. Smith, Jeffrey Alyn. 2007. “The Five-Year Plan to Trap Your Man: Discourses on Marriage, Family, and Divorce in Hungary,” J. Soc. Anth. of Europe, 7:2 (3-18). Stacul, Jaro, Christina Moutsou, and Helen Kopnina, eds. 2006. Crossing European Boundaries. New York: Berghahn Books. Terrio, Susan J. 2000. Crafting the Culture and History of French Chocolate. Berkeley: University of California Press. Thiessen, Ilká. 2007. Waiting for Macedonia. Broadview Press. Vale de Almeida, Miguel. 1996. The Hegemonic Male, Masculinity in a Portuguese Town. Berghahn Books. Vermeulen, Han F. and Arturo Alvarez Roldän, eds. 1995. Fieldwork and Footnotes: studies in the history of European anthropology. London: Routledge. Films owned (or being purchased) by Penfield Library: Kypseli: Women and Men Apart -- A Divided Reality (40min) 1973 We are All Neighbors (55min) 1993 When the Wall Came Tumbling Down (89min) 1999 Whose is this Song? (70min) 2003 Films (currently in use) not owned by Penfield Library: The Life and Times of Sara Bartmann, The Hottentot Venus (50min) 1998 Young, Muslim and French (55min) 2004 Other_Comments: IP_Adress: 129.3.50.145