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| Africa: Peoples & Cultures |
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for FALL 2003 | For changes to this syllabus during the
semester, check the MESSAGES-UPDATES page. |
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Optional readings appear in italics. The book icon indicates
longer-than-normal assignments -- don't wait till the last minute. Click
here for the reference list. |
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Africa and Us |
| | Wed
27 Aug | | Introduction & Overview | top10 |
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1 Sep | Labor Day | | |
| | Wed 3 Sep |  | Lenses
Through Which We See Africa | Conrad, Heart of Darkness (web);
Kaplan 1994, The Coming Anarchy (web);
Stone and Stone 1996, Out of Africa (web).
OPT: Richburg 1995, Continental Divide; Harrison
& Palmer 1986:79-92, News Out of Africa |
| | Mon
8 Sep |  The Language You Cry In | A
Story of Roots | Gullah-Mende handout (web) |
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Geography |
| | Wed
10 Sep | Quiz 1
(mainly
map) | Physical Geography | McNulty
1995, Contemporary Map of Africa (Eres); Africa maps (web) |
| | Mon 15 Sep | | Resources;
Linguistic and Agricultural Geography |
Harlan, Indigenous African
Agriculture (Eres) |
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Culture in Prehistory and Early History |
| | Wed 17 Sep |
Friedman on borders |
Prehistory:
Human Origins, Bantu Expansion | Lamphear & Falola 1995:86-94,
on the Bantu expansion (Eres) |
| | Mon 22 Sep | Different But Equal | Nubia,
Egyptian Colonies, and Other Early History Highlights |
Lamphear
& Falola 1995, Aspects of Early African History (Eres); Bosch depiction (web) |
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Colonialism and Culture |
| | Wed
24 Sep | Caravans of Gold | African
Islam; Swahili culture |
Hanson 1995, Islam and African Societies
(Eres) |
| | Mon 29 Sep | |
Slavery,
Colonialism, and Culture |
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Red Rubber and the Pygmies in St. Louis |
| | Wed 1 Oct | | Congo,
Conrad, and Leopold | Appiah on Turnbull (web);
Grinker 1994:1-13, Houses in the Rain Forest (Eres).
OPT: Harms 1975, The End of Red Rubber; Grinker
2000, In the Arms of Africa (web) |
| | Mon 6 Oct (Yom Kippur
-- make-up available) | Quiz
2
| Pygmies and the Fair |
Bradford
& Blume 1992, Ota: The Pygmy in the Zoo (Eres) |
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Culture, Ecology, and Politics in the Kalahari |
| | Wed 8 Oct | | Ethnicity
and Cultural Ecology in the Kalahari | Lee 1968, excerpt from
What Hunters Do for a Living (Eres);
Mail & Guardian 1998, The Tribe Germany Wants to Forget (web) |
| | Mon
13 Oct | | Cultural Politics in the Kalahari |
Gordon
1992 (The Bushman Myth) (Eres); Boynton 1997, Search for Authenticity (Eres) |
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| | Wed 15 Oct | Midterm
1 |
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Culture and Environment |
| | Mon
20 Oct | | Politics of Resource Conflict |
Fairhead
2001 (International Dimensions of Conflict over Natural and Environmental Resources)
(Eres) |
| | Wed
22 Oct | Second Nature | Guinea:
Afforestation |
Fairhead and Leach 1995 (Local Agro-Ecological
Management) (Eres) |
| | Mon 27 Oct | | Sahelian
Land-Use and Desertification |
Batterbury and Warren 2001 (Desertification) (web); see optional refs on lecture notes |
| | Wed
29 Oct | |
Kofyar Intensive Agriculture (ppt) |
Stone
1991, What is Agricultural Intensification? (web);
Stone, Kofyar Slide (web);
Stone 1996, Social Organization of Agriculture (web) |
| | Mon 3 Nov | |
Tiv
Culture, Agriculture, and Conflict (ppt) |
Stone 1997, Predatory
Sedentism |
| | Wed 5 Nov
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Hochschild
Class at 12:15
Quiz 3 |
Tiv
(con't) | No required reading. |
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Witchcraft and Religion |
| | Mon
10 Nov | African Feast | |
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African States and Culture |
| | Wed
12 Nov | | Witchcraft |
Karp 1995, African Systems of Thought (Eres) |
| | Mon 17 Nov | | Tribalism |
Southall 1970:41-50, The Illusion of Tribe (Eres); Dorwood 1969, Development of British Colonial Admin. among the Tiv (Eres) |
| | Wed 19 Nov | M.
P. Stone | S. Africa: Mandela, Black Rule, and other
changes | Selected South Africa Readings (Eres) |
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| | Mon
24 Nov | Midterm 2 |
| | Wed
26 Nov | Thanksgiving Break |
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Medicine, Culture, and Population |
| | Mon
1 Dec | |
African Cultures and the Modern Nation State: Nigeria case study |
Soyinka 1995:1-60, A Flawed Origin (from Open Sore of a Continent) (Eres). OPT: King 1996, The Ogoni Situation (URL); French 1997, A Century Later, Letting Africans Draw Their Own Map (web) |
| | Wed
3 Dec | | Female Genital Cutting |
Parker 1995, Rethinking Female Circumcision; Leonard 2000, 'We Did It for Pleasure Only' (Eres) OPT: Charles 1994, An Open Wound |
| | Mon 8 Dec | | AIDS and Malaria |
Hippisley (1764) On the Populousness of Africa |
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Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you'll flunk, but you might have flunked anyway; that's my point. - Jack Handey |
