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Schedule of
Lectures and Readings
To obtain a copy of the printable
syllabus, please click here.
Reading Guide:
each
week, reading questions will be posted that can serve as a guide
for your readings by helping you to focus on specific subject
matter, in a way that is of direct relevance to the course.
Lecture
Outlines: these do not consist of notes -- they comprise the
key headings used to organize the lecture, extended quotes,
statistics, and images. They are place online either immediately
before class, or after.
Readings:
click on the items below. All links open new windows or new tabs
in your current window.
Jan. 6 | Jan. 13
| Jan. 20 | Jan. 27 |
Feb. 3 | Feb. 10 |
Feb. 17 |
Mar. 3 | Mar. 10 |
Mar. 17 | Mar. 24 |
Mar. 31 |
Apr. 7 |
PART ONE: Identity, Evolutionism, Extinctionism
Introduction
1. Tues., January 6 [top]
Assigned
Readings:
The Science,
Ideologies, and Practices of Extinction
2. Tues., January 13 [top]
Assigned
Readings:
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Sahlins,
Marshall. 1999. “What Is Anthropological Enlightenment? Some
Lessons of the Twentieth Century.” Annual Review of
Anthropology, 28: i–xxiii.
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Forte,
Maximilian C. 2006. “Extinction: Ideologies Against
Indigeneity in the Caribbean.” Southern Quarterly,
43(4): 46-69.
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Broome,
Richard. 2001. Aboriginal Australians: Black Responses to
White Dominance, 1788-2001. 3rd ed. Sydney,
Australia: Allen & Unwin. (Ch. 6, Racism Enshrined, 91-104,
298-299)
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reading
questions
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lecture
outline
Monday, January
19, 2009
•
Last day to add
winter-term courses.
•
Deadline for
withdrawal with tuition refund from winter-term courses.
3. Tues., January 20 [top]
Film: Assimilation 101 (30 mins., 1991)
Assigned
Readings:
First paper, covering Part One, up to and including Jan. 20,
is due on Feb. 3
PART TWO: “Real” Indians, “New Settings”
“Real
Indians”? “Race” and the Politics of Contemporary Indigeneity
4. Tues., January 27 [top]
Assigned
Readings:
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Harmon, Amy.
2006, April 12. “The DNA Age: Seeking Ancestry in DNA Ties
Uncovered by Tests.” The New York Times.
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Sturm, Circe.
1998. “Blood Politics, Racial Classification, and Cherokee
National Identity: The
Trials and Tribulations of the Cherokee Freedmen”.
American Indian Quarterly, 22 (1–2) Win/Spr:
230–258.
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Churchill,
Ward. 2004. “A Question of Identity.” In Stephen Greymorning,
ed., A Will to Survive: Indigenous Essays on the Politics
of Culture, Language and Identity. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
59-94.
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reading
questions
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lecture
outline
5. Tues., February 3 [top]
Assigned
Readings:
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Hitt, Jack. 2005, August 21. “The Newest Indians.” The
New York Times.
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Garroutte,
Eva Marie. 2003. Real Indians: Identity and the Survival
of Native America. Berkeley, CA: University Of
California Press. (Ch. 4, If You're Indian and You Know It
(but Others Don't)—Self–Identification, 82-98, 186-190)
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Warren,
Jonathan W. 2001. Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and
Indian Resurgence in Brazil. Durham, NC: Duke University
Press. (Ch. 1, Posttraditional Indians, 5-33)
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reading
questions
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lecture
outline
Indigeneity in
New Settings, I: Urbanization & “Supratribalism”
6. Tues., February 10 [top]
Film: Urban Natives (30 mins., 1990)
Assigned
Readings:
Indigeneity in
New Settings, II: Indigenous Transnationalism
7. Tues.,
February 17
[top]
Assigned
Readings:
Second paper, covering Part Two, up to and including Feb. 17,
is due on Mar. 17
Tues., February 24: NO
CLASSES, MIDTERM BREAK
PART THREE: Anthropologists and Indigenous Peoples
Anthropologists and Indigenous Peoples: Conflicts and
Collaborations
8. Tues., March 3 [top]
Assigned
Readings:
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Kuper, Adam. 2003. “The Return of the Native”. Current
Anthropology, 44 (3): 389-402.
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Kenrick, Justin and Lewis, Jerome. 2004. “Indigenous
Peoples' Rights and the Politics of the Term 'Indigenous'.”
Anthropology Today,
20 (2): 4-9.
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Deloria, Vine, Jr. 1969. Custer Died For Your Sins: An
Indian Manifesto. London: Collier-Macmillan. (ch 4.
“Anthropologists and Other Friends,” 78-100).
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Grobsmith, Elizabeth S. 1997. “Growing Up on Deloria: The
Impact of His Work on a New Generation of Anthropologists.”
In Thomas Biolsi and Larry J. Zimmerman, eds., Indians
and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria Jr. and the Critique of
Anthropology, pp. 35-49. Tucson: University Press of
Arizona.
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reading
questions
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discussion/lecture
outline
Please note that from this point onwards, the dates reflect the
actual schedule, and not the original one -- we are currently
behind by one week, and the dates below now reflect that fact.
9. Tues., March 17 [top]
Assigned
Readings:
Monday, March 16,
2009
•
Last day for
academic withdrawal from two-term and winter-term courses.
Third
paper, covering Part Three, up to and including March 17, is due
on the last day of class
PART FOUR: Indigenous Resurgence Struggles
Red Power:
North American Indigenous Movements
10. Tues., March 24 [top]
Film: You Are On Indian Land (36 mins., 1969)
Assigned
Readings:
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Alfred,
Gerald Taiaiake. 2005. Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of
Action and Freedom.
Peterborough ON: Broadview Press. (First Words,
19-38)
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Nagel, Joane.
1996. American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the
Resurgence of Identity and Culture. New York: Oxford
University Press. (Ch. 5, The Politics of American Indian
Ethnicity: Solving the Puzzle of Indian Ethnic Resurgence,
113-157)
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Champagne Duane. 1997. “Self-determination and Activism
Among American Indians in the United States 1972-1997.”
Cultural Survival Quarterly, 21.2:
http://209.200.101.189/publications/csq/index.cfm?id=21.2
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Deloria, Vine, Jr. 1994.
God is Red: A Native View of Religion. Golden, CO:
Fulcrum Publishing. (Ch. 1, The Indian Movement, 4-24)
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reading
questions
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lecture
outline
Episodes of
Indigenous Struggle, 1
11. Tues., March 31 [top]
Assigned
Readings:
Episodes of
Indigenous Struggle, 2
12. Tues., April 7 [top]
Assigned
Readings:
Episodes of Indigenous Struggle, 3
13. Tues., April 14
[top]> make-up class
Assigned
Readings:
Fourth and final paper,
covering Part Four, up to and including the last day of class, is due on Apr.
21 – submitted by hand in H-1125-11 between 5:00pm and 6:00pm,
or dropped off in the mailbox any time before 5:00pm on Apr. 21
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