ANTH 303 Indigenous Cultures Today  
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]

  • Overview of course objectives and requirements

  • Lecture: “Setting the Stage for Contemporary Indigeneity”

Assigned Readings:

The Science, Ideologies, and Practices of Extinction

2. Tues., January 13 [top]

  • Lecture: “The Capture of the Indigenous in the Social Sciences: Extinction and Evolution”:

    • --Theories of Evolution: “Inevitable Decline” in the “Science of Man”

    • --Ideologies of Extinctionism: “Providential Decline” & Pathetic Primitivism

Assigned Readings:

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]

  • Lecture: “Genocide and Ethnocide: Attempting Extinction in Practice”

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]

  • Lecture: “Certifiably Indian? Blood Quantum, DNA, Race”

Assigned Readings:

5. Tues., February 3 [top]

  • Lecture/Discussion: “Anxieties over Authenticity and Purity”

Assigned Readings:

Indigeneity in New Settings, I: Urbanization & “Supratribalism”

6. Tues., February 10 [top]

  • Lecture: “Urban Natives: Supratribalism and Translated Indigeneity”

Film: Urban Natives (30 mins., 1990)

Assigned Readings:

Indigeneity in New Settings, II: Indigenous Transnationalism

7. Tues., February 17 [top]

  • Lecture: “New Routes for Roots: Indigenous Transnationalism”

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]

  • Lecture: “Reflecting on Patterns of Anthropological Relationships with Indigenous Peoples” Part One

Assigned Readings:

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]

  • Lecture/Discussion: “Reflecting on Patterns of Anthropological Relationships with Indigenous Peoples” Part Two

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]

  • Lecture/Discussion: “Recovery, Re-Identification, Decolonization”

Film: You Are On Indian Land (36 mins., 1969)

Assigned Readings:

Episodes of Indigenous Struggle, 1

11. Tues., March 31 [top]

  • Lecture/Discussion: “Bolivia: Indigenous Challenges to Neoliberalism”

Assigned Readings:

Episodes of Indigenous Struggle, 2

12. Tues., April 7 [top]

  • Lecture/Discussion: “Indigenous Rights or Revolutionary Transformation?”

Assigned Readings:


Episodes of Indigenous Struggle, 3

13. Tues., April 14 [top]> make-up class

  • Closing Discussion: “Chiapas and Beyond”

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