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ART HISTORY 126g
Introduction to Asian Art: 1300-Present
Reynolds
MW, 8:30 - 9:50
Please contact the department for course description.
ANTHROPOLOGY 100g
Principles of Human Organization: Non-Western Societies
Moore
MW 8:00 - 9:30
This course is designed to look at both universal social organizational themes and their culture-specific variations. We do so by reading and discussing the ethnographies (holistic descriptions of a particular society's cultural tenets and folk ways) of five non-western societies. Having gained an overview of each society in the first third of the course, the next two-thirds of the semester is devoted to cross-cultural comparisons of eight of the societies' shared principles of organization (kinship and family, belief, political, law, and economic systems as well as their understandings of medicine and health, time and them selves as evolving social entities across time, space and intercultural contact.) In the past, Dr. Weibel-Orlando has lectured about the Trobriand Islanders of the Western Pacific, the Yanomano of So. Venezuela, the Cheyennes of Colorado, the Nuer of the So. Sudan, and a Hindi agrarian village in No. India.
Readings and Assignments:
The students are expected to read relevant portions of a classic ethnography about each of the cultures under exploration. Weekly reading assignments average about 50 pages. There are two, in-class mid-term tests and one final test given during exam week. Each test is worth 20 percent of the final grade. A comparative term paper of not less than 10 pages is due the 12th week of class. It, too, constitutes 20 percent of the grade. Discussion group attendance is mandatory. Ones attendance record and intellectual participation in discussion group are evaluated at the end of the semester and constitute 20 percent of the final grade.
Note: The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
ANTHROPOLOGY 235g
The Changing Pacific: History, Culture and Politics of the New South Seas
Lutkehaus
MW, 2:00-3:30
This Course examines societies of the island Pacific region traditionally identified as Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, and studies how they have changed since the time of the first European contact to the present day. The course fulfills a General Education requirement in Non-Western Civilizations through an in depth examination of the Trobriand and Manam Island Societies of Papua New Guinea, The Polynesian Cultures of Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti and Tonga, as Fiji and the Marshall Islands (Micronesia). It also examines the historical processes of exploration, contact, colonization, and nationalism in the wider Pacific region, including relations with the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and Indonesia in order to provide a context for understanding contemporary political, economic, and social relations between these small Pacific island societies and their larger Pacific Rim neighbors and overseers.
Themes to be examined in the course include the different perceptions of contact between the Europeans and indigenous Pacific Islanders, different perceptions of Pacific cultures among missionaries, explorers, and anthropologists, indigenous forms of political economy, forms of exchange, men's and women's roles in exchange, male and female initiation practices, millenarian movements and cargo cults, migration, changing notions of personhood and identity, economic development and change, the impact of tourism, and the contemporary development of independence movements and forms of cultural identity, such as the revival of tattooing and the hula.
Readings and Assignments:
Howe, K.R. 1984. Where the Waves Fall: A New South Seas History from First Settlement to Colonial Rule. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Lockwood, Victoria S., Thomas G. Harding and Ben J. Wallace, eds. 1993. Contemporary Pacific Societies: Studies in Development and Change. Prentice Hall.
Weiner, Annette. 1988. The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
Also a course reader: still in press.
In past semesters when this course was offered, the assignments were:
- map quiz (10%)
- midterm (25%)
- final exam (25%)
- 8-10 page term paper (30%)
- discussion section attendance and participation (10%)
Expect the work load and assignments to be similar to this in Fall '00. The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
ANTHROPOLOGY 250g
Race and Sexual Politics in Southeast Asia
Hoskins
TTh, 2:00 - 3:30
This course will introduce the student to the subject matter and theories of social anthropology through the extensive use of visual media, especially through film. Topics will cover a spectrum of issues, including: marriage and the family; economics; ritual and religion; conflict and conflict resolution; and culture change, among others. The approach will be broadly comparative. Traditions covered in the course will include those of Africa, Latin America, and the Balkaus, among others.
Readings and Assignments:
Course readings will vary from semester to semester, but will usually include four books. Course requirements are: a midterm, final, film journals, and a term paper.
ANTHROPOLOGY 263g
Exploring Culture Through Film
Simic
TTh, 2:00 - 3:30
This course will introduce the student to the subject matter and theories of social anthropology through the extensive use of visual media, especially through film. Topics will cover a spectrum of issues, including: marriage and the family; economics; ritual and religion; conflict and conflict resolution; and culture change, among others. The approach will be broadly comparative.
Traditions covered in the course will include those of Africa, Latin America, and the Balkaus, among others.
Readings and Assignments:
Course readings will vary from semester to semester, but will usually include four books. Course requirements are: a midterm, final, film journals, and a term paper.
Note: For other Anthropology 263g sections, see the next entry.
ANTHROPOLOGY 263g
Exploring Culture Through Film
Boehm
TTh, 11:00-12:30
TTh, 12:30 - 2:00
Please contact the department for course description.
Note: For the other Anthropology 263g section, see the previous entry.
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CULTURES 110g
East Asian Humanities: The Great Tradition
Hayden
TTh, 11:00-12:20
This course introduces the fundamental humanistic traditions of China, Japan, and Korea through representative works of traditional literature, esthetics, social philosophy, religion, and historical writing. The readings are mostly from primary sources as translated into English. No previous knowledge of an East Asian culture or language is expected.
Readings and Assignments:
Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol. I
Sources of Japanese Tradition, vol I
Anthology of Chinese Literature, vol. I
Anthology of Japanese Literature
Anthology of Korean Literature
Note: The readings and assignments may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CULTURES 130g
East Asian Ethical Thought
Birge
WF, 10:00-12:00
The principle aim of the course is to heighten the student's awareness of the traditional and modern patterns of the Japanese people. This is done by surveying the main characteristics and historical development of Japanese philosophy, religion, literature, art, and political and social institutions, from earliest times to the present era, and by exploring the cultural traditions of Japan.
Readings:
H. Paul Varley, Japanese Culture
Conrad Schirokauer, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization
Edwin Reischauer, The Japanese Today
K. Yoshida, Essays in Idleness
Note: The readings and assignments may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CULTURES 352g
Chinese Literature and Culture
Hayden
TTh, 2:00-3:20
Please contact the department for course description.
EAST ASIAN STUDIES CENTER 150g
East Asian Societies
Cooper
TTh, 11:00 - 12:200
Please contact the department for course description.
HISTORY 106g
Chinese Lives: An Introduction to Chinese History
Wills
MWF, 8:00 - 8:50
This class introduces students to some key themes in the history of China from the origins of the civilization down to our own day. The emphasis is not on volume of material read or facts mastered, but on reading, thinking, and writing. Wills, Mountain of Fame provides some continuity of exposition and introduction to some key themes and problems through the study of a series of famous and infamous lives of individuals in Chinese history. Ebrey, Chinese Civilization gives you a sense of the variety of Chinese experience and the challenges of trying to make sense of sources in translation. Very short writing exercises are required regularly, to give you practice in the kinds of writing and thinking we want you to work on in this course, and to push you to keep up with the readings.
Readings and assignments:
Some kind of writing or exam is due in almost every week of this class. Most are brief and based entirely on assigned readings; all are carefully laid out in course materials and sessions. There are a mid-term exam and a final; two short essays, not over 1000 words; a longer paper, not over 2000 words, due at the end of the class; and short assignments, not over 250 words each, which may be handwritten, and due in most weeks when there is no longer paper or exam.
HISTORY 107g
Japanese History
Berger
TTh, 12:30 - 1:50
This course has two essential purposes. The first is to acquaint you with a survey of Japanese history. Our purpose will not be to memorize names, dates and places, but rather to see how a civilization quite different from those of the West evolved, developed, and met human needs. We may thereby learn quite a bit not only about Japan, but about our own cultural traditions. At a time when comparisons between contemporary Japan and America appear daily in the mass media, seeing the patterns of Japanese history may help us understand the patterns of contemporary Japan, and evaluate those comparisons with a more educated eye.
The second purpose is to explore what "history" means as an intellectual discipline, and how materials from other branches of knowledge, such as archaeology, economics, fine arts, literature and political science may be deployed to enrich our understanding of the past. The major cultural traditions explored are Japan's agrarian-village tradition, warrior (samurai) tradition, aristocratic/bureaucratic (court nobility) tradition, and the patterns of embracing or rejecting traditions encountered from foreign sources.
Readings:
DeBary, et.al. Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume I;
Murasaki Shikibu, Tale of Genji;
Shirokaues, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization;
and collected photocopied materials.
Assignments:
Midterm (25% OF GRADE); Final Examination (40% of grade); term paper exploring how a piece of literature, art, or architecture reflects the times in which it was created by the Japanese (35% of grade).
Note: The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
HISTORY 324g
Islam in Russia and the Soviet Union
Rorlich
TTh, 9:30 - 10:50
The main goal of this class is to equip students with the basic empirical information and analytical approaches that will enable them to understand the dynamics of religion, culture and politics in shaping one of the world's major civilizations. Hence, guided by a comparative perspective, this class focuses on the study of those societies of the former Soviet Union whose identities and cultures were shaped by Islam but also by their encounter with the colonial "other", be it in Tsarist or Soviet form. Given its focus on an area outside the "core" Middle Eastern countries, this course also contributes to a better understanding of the cultural diversity of the "Muslim World" against the background of its unity of faith while also identifying the remarkable diversity of "Russian Islam" forged as it was, by the interaction of the settled and nomadic; urban and rural; Muslim and non-Muslim societies.
This course will begin with a general discussion of Islam as a religion and way of life; it will then turn to its main focus, the exploration of the beliefs, religions practices, cultural traditions, social institutions, and political culture of the Muslims of the former Soviet Union from the tenth century until the emergence of independent states such as Azerbaijan, Kazakhastan, Uzbedistan, and others.
Readings:
Reader
A Guillaume, ISLAM
R. Bukharev, ISLAM IN RUSSIA. THE FOUR SEASONS
S. Koplik, K. Aruz, P. Steinberger, eds., CENTRAL ASIA
HISTORY.ETHNICITY. MODERNITY
L. Blanch, SABRES OF PARADISE
G. Aitmatov, THE DAY LASTS MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS
Assignments:
Two Midterms
Annotated Bibliography
Book Reviews
Final
Note: The readings and assignments list may be subject to change. Please contact the department for verification.
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LINGUISTICS 295g
The Ancient Near East
Zuckermann
TTh, 2:00 - 3:20
Please contact the department for course description.
RELIGION 131g
Religions of Asia
Slingerland
MWF, 10:00 -10:50
Please contact the department for course description.
SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES 330g
Russian Thought and Civilization
Postoutenko
MW, 2:00 -3:20
Please contact the department for course description.