Fall 2007

Anthropology/Global Studies 103 *

http://www.globalstudies.uiuc.edu

Anthropology in a Changing World

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-11 a.m., 112 Gregory Hall http://compass.uiuc.edu Professor: Ellen Moodie emoodie@uiuc.edu, 391 Davenport Hall, 244-7849, OH T 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Teaching Assistants: Karin Berkhoudt berkhoud@uiuc.edu, 309E Davenport Hall, OH F 9:30-11:30 a.m. Hee Jung Choi chj9884@gmail.com, 309E Davenport Hall, OH W 10 a.m.-12 p.m. You may also arrange meetings with your professor or teaching assistants by appointment. Course description This course will introduce you to sociocultural anthropology through a series of stories, situations and case studies. You will discover the enormous range of this field of study, from long-term links across the globe to close contacts among friends. Youll learn about diverse people and their ways of engaging with the particular worlds around them. The thrust of the class is globalization of those worlds. In an increasingly globalized, culturally diverse environment, anthropology is a good base on which to build careers in law, medicine, business, journalism, public policy, politics, diplomatic service, public health, social work, international development, education, activism, adventure travel, novel writing, theater, art almost anything! Sociocultural anthropologys main method for research is ethnographic fieldwork, or participant- observation. This approach contributes a crucial perspective to discussions of globalization. It attends to local, often personal, relationships within and among groups of people. In their analyses, anthropologists consider how actions, interactions and varying identifications are formed by, and help form, broader structures, whether economic, religious, political or cultural. Class readings will expand your own worlds. They move from New Age shops in Australia to an irregularly heated tenement building in East Harlem, New York; from rural villages in Cote dIvoire to the site of a Coca-Cola plant in India. They ask how gender varies in different places and reflect on how witchcraft helps explain the world for some people; they delve into the debate over gay marriage and ponder the role of ideas about culture in the war on terror. Case studies we will look at this fall include an investigation of the controversy over how the Yanomami people of the Amazon have been treated by scientists and other outsiders, as well an exploration of the global and transnational dimensions of identity as lived by gay Filipino migrants in New York City. As the weeks pass, we will return again and again to think about the ways global and local contextswhich arent so distinctmerge and move, often resisting change but also compelling transformations. As we exchange our ideas and compare experiences, the class will surely compel some transformations in all of our ways of thinking about the world.
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ANTH 103 meets UIUCs General Education criteria for a UIUC Social Sciences, Non-Western Cultures, and Western Comparative Cultures course.

Class themes There are five parts to this schedule. Each loosely organizes units of knowledge that you should be able to talk about comfortably by the end of the term. The class begins with an introduction to the field of anthropology. It outlines major concepts and provides historical background to the development of the discipline. It continues with Other Knowledge, a theme drawn from the disciplines perhaps sordid origins. Anthropology emerged as people from parts of Europe and North America who were involved in long-distance trade, conquest, and colonialism began to wonder about their encounters with so many people who looked different, and had unfamiliar customs. It started as a scientific way to create Knowledge about Others. The third section, States and Capital, should challenge us to think about how any economic system (any form of exchange) is cultural, rather than natural or scientific. It explores effects of the dominant economic system in the world today, capitalismthe driver behind colonialism considering how it operates through the dominant social arrangement in the world today, the state. Identification and Experience examines how categories of identity and difference, of belonging and exclusion, are structured. It explores the always-interconnected elements of human experience encompassed in categories of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion and class. It also investigates classic anthropological interests in kinship and marriage. Anthropology in Action will show us what sociocultural anthropologists do. It offers an extended study of particular interactions in a specific space and timein 1980s and 1990s New York City among gay Filipino migrants.

Course texts We suggest that you buy the books listed below. All the texts contain required readings. The books will also be on reserve at the undergraduate library. Material from all texts will be included in the midterm or final exams, as well as in quizzes and writing assignments and exercises. You will also be required to read short selections before the three GSI events (and take an on-line quiz related to the readings). Those texts will be available on both the Compass and Global Studies web sites. Talking About People: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Anthropology (referred to as Haviland in the syllabus) is a collection of articles that will form the main archive of course readings. Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Manalansan) offers you a full-fledged anthropological study of a particular migrant community in the U.S. Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology (Lavenda) provides valuable background to help explain class lectures and readings, offering a kind of conceptual support system to the specific case studies in the syllabus. We will not always refer to everything you read in the CORE CONCEPTS reading assignments; they have been included like hyperlinks, for you to go to with questions or when you want to know more. We will always indicate in class what material will be included on exams and quizzes. There will be a fourth text, to be purchased on-line as part of the first writing assignment project. It is an abridged version of Robert Borofskys book Yanomami: The

Fierce Controversy and What We Can Learn From It (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005) (Borofsky). We will give you more details of this book the first week of class. It will be available through the web site https://www.publicanthropology.net. Many required readings, listed below in the schedule, are only available through the library e-reserve system, http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ereserves/querycourse.asp. On the page that opens up at that address, click on the ANTH 103 link. Some articles will download with an .asp suffix that should be changed to .pdf. (Some readings are accessible through URLs listed on the syllabus). We strongly recommend that you print out these electronic texts in order to read them carefully. The in-class quizzes will be open-book, so you will do much better if you have the printed articles with you.

Books to purchase at a local bookstore W. Haviland, R. Gordon, and L. Vivanco, Talking About People: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Anthropology, 4th Ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006) [Haviland] Martin F. Manalansan IV, Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003) [Manalansan] Robert H. Lavenda and Emily A. Schultz, Core Concepts in Cultural Anthropology, 3rd Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006) [Lavenda] Course schedule As part of the Global Studies Initiative, Anthropology 103 has an unconventional set-up. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, we survey anthropological themes. On three Wednesdays, we will attend afternoon eventstwo lectures and a documentary film. These events, each about globalization from different perspectives, punctuate the course like blue hyperlinks. They connect to class material by showing us possibilities for broadening ideas about the world. Course issues and policies Academic honesty: All students should know and abide by academic ethics. Plagiarism, whether intentional or not, whether it involves forgetting to cite all your sources of information or turning in someone elses work as your own, has serious consequences. Read more about this at the following web site: http://www.research.uiuc.edu/ethics/plagiarism.asp#students . A students first instance of plagiarism will be turned back with the opportunity for resubmission valued at half-grade; a second instance will result in failure for the course. We shall electronically screen suspect out-of-class essays for plagiarism. Special Needs: Any students with special needs should discuss them with the professor as early in the semester as possible. We shall arrange for alternative test sites if needed and if specified seating arrangements are needed, we are happy to accommodate students. Attendance at all lectures, in ANTH 103 class (T-Th, 9:30-11 a.m., 112 Gregory Hall) in the GSI lectures (selected Ws, 4-5:30 p.m., Foellinger Auditorium), as well as the LAS 101 classes, for most of you (W 4-5 p.m.), is crucial to getting the full benefit of the course, especially because there isnt one central textbook. Getting to know the professor and/or T.A.stalking to them before or after class, or in office hoursas well as participating in class discussionwill always help you get more involved in class. It is very important to read the assigned texts at least once before the date for which they are listed in the schedule. You would do well to keep

notes on key terms and ideas. You may ask about these issues in class, in office hours, through email, if you happen to run into the professor or a T.A. in the gym or the street, or via the web page discussion options. Your understanding of reading assignments, lectures and films will be occasionally checked with the in-class quizzes, on-line exercises, and short writes. Grades from unannounced in-class quizzes or missed exercises cannot be made up. Grades Your grade will be based upon a combination of measures. Mid-term exam (20 percent) Final exam (30 percent) Two out-of-class writing assignments (10 percent + 15 percent = 25 percent) Periodic assignments (20 percent) o in-class quizzes on assigned readings, films, and class lectures o on-line exercises on assigned readings Three on-line quizzes in connection with the special GSI events (3 percent) Two surveys at the start and end of the semester (2 percent) No late work will be accepted except under exceptional circumstances. These circumstances must be discussed with the professor. Exams (50 percent): The mid-term and final exams are worth 20 percent and 30 percent, respectively. Most of the grade for each exam will be based on the answers to multiple-choice questions, identifications, and short questions. The dates of these exams are October 9 (during regular class time) and December 10 (1:30-4:30 p.m.). There will be review sessions before each exam. The final exam will focus on material in the second half of the course but will assume knowledge of material from the entire semester. Out-of-class writing assignments (25 percent): There will be one on-line letter-writing exercise, carried out between September 17 and October 3, and one three-page essay, due just before Thanksgiving break (November 16). Details will be announced closer to the due dates. Periodic assignments and quizzes (20 percent): o Quizzes: there will be a number of unannounced quizzes during the semester. Some will be in the form of short essays. Most will be multiple-choice exercises. You will be able to drop one low score (10 percent). o On-line exercises: These will be available on-line to help comprehension on assigned readings (10 percent). Special event quizzes (3 percent): Prior to each of the three special speakers presentations you will be asked to go on-line to the Compass course web site to take a quiz based on the assigned readings for the scheduled speaker. This activity should be completed by 1 p.m. the Wednesday of the Foellinger Auditorium lecture. GSI surveys (2 percent): These measures of knowledge must be completed at the start and end of the semester.

Reading schedule ** You should have completed the assigned readings by the day listed on this schedule. Often there will be a reading review exercise available on Compass to help you think through the main ideas in the reading. You may notice that some weeks have more reading than others; it is up to you to manage your workloads in order to keep up (reading ahead on the lighter weeks). The readings from the books are denoted by the surname of the first author (i.e., Haviland stands for Talking about People). Readings with a URL are available in open links. Readings marked with an asterisk (*) can be found on e-reserve, http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ereserves/querycourse.asp. As we have already suggested, electronic readings should be printed out and read with a pen in hand to write down questions and underline important ideas. Interacting physically with a text aids in remembering material. PART I: INTRODUCTION August 23 Theme: Introduction 28 Theme: What is anthropology? Reading: *Luke Eric Lassiter, Evolution and the Critique of Race: A Short Story. In Invitation to Anthropology, 3-32 (Oxford, U.K.: AltaMira Press, 2006). *Horace Miner, Body Ritual Among the Nacirema. American Anthropologist 58(3) (1956): 503-507. CORE CONCEPTS: Lavenda, 2-12 Theme: What is culture? Reading: Haviland, 27-29, 42-44, 45-49 Basic Concepts: What is the Meaning of Culture? Sally Engle Merry, Human-Rights Law and the Demonization of Culture Jane Mulcock, Ethnography in Awkward Spaces: An Anthropology of Cultural Borrowing CORE CONCEPTS: Lavenda, 16-30

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PART II: OTHER KNOWLEDGE September 4 Theme: Culture, self and experience Reading: Haviland, 72-76, 84-86 Socialization: How Do People Learn and Experience Their Culture? Amparo B. Ojeda, Growing Up American: Doing the Right Thing Alma Gottlieb, The Anthropologist as Mother: Reflections on Childbirth Observed and Childbirth Experienced.

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Theme: Ethics and understanding Reading: Renato Rosaldo, Of Headhunters and Soldiers: Separating Cultural and Ethical Relativism. In Issues in Ethics 11 (1) (Winter 2000). http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v11n1/relativism.html Theme: How do we know others/the Other? Reading: *Rebekah Nathan, As Others See Us. In My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student, 67-89 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005). Haviland, 24-26 Gregory Starrett, Culture Never Dies: Anthropology at Abu Ghraib Theme: The long quest for the primitive Reading: Borofsky, xiii-xv, 3-21 *Napoleon A. Chagnon, Doing Fieldwork among the Yanomam. In One World, Many Cultures, 5th edition, eds. Stuart Hirschberg and Terry Hirschberg, 446-460 (New York: Pearson Longman, 2004). See web site http://www.publicanthropology.net ASSIGNMENT: On-line letter-writing exercise to be carried out between September 17 and October 3, 2007, described on web site http://www.publicanthropology.net Theme: Power relations (in and out of the field) Reading: Borofsky, 22-60 Theme: Ethics and fieldwork practices Reading: Borofsky, 61-106 See web sites http://www.research.uiuc.edu/ethics/ http://www.research.uiuc.edu/ethics/anthropology.asp Theme: Language and culture: Translation and social order Reading: Haviland, 56-68 Salikoko S. Mufwene, Forms of Address: How Their Social Functions May Vary Jane H. Hill, Language, Race and White Public Space CORE CONCEPTS: Lavenda 34-51 Theme: Language and culture: Can global be local? Reading: *David Crystal, Why a global language? In English as a Global Language, 2nd edition, 1-28 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).

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October 2 Theme: Social movements Reading: *Guillermo Delgado-P., The Makings of a Transnational Movement. In NACLA: Report on the Americas 35 (6) May/June 2002, 36-38. *Vandana Shiva, Building Water Democracy: Peoples Victory Against Coca Cola in Plachimada. In Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically About Global Issues, ed. Paula S. Rothenberg, 580-583 (New York: Worth Publishers, 2006). 3 GSI Cross-Course Lecture Series: Activism and the Call of Conscience Kathy Kelly, Co-founder of Voices in Wilderness, Co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence On-line quiz must be submitted by 1 p.m., October 3, for full credit. Review Midterm

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PART III: STATES AND CAPITAL 11 Theme: Exchange and giving Reading: *Marcel Mauss, Gift, Gift. In The Logic of the Gift, ed. Alan Schrift, 28-32 (New York: Routlege, 1997 [1924]). CORE CONCEPTS: Lavenda, 132-152 Theme: Primitive quests? Reading: *Marshall Sahlins, The Original Affluent Society. http://www.eco-action.org/dt/affluent.html Theme: Capitalism Reading: *Jack Weatherford, Cocaine and the Economic Deterioration of Bolivia; and *Philippe Bourgois, Office Work and the Crack Alternative. In Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology, 12th edition, eds. James Spradley and David W. McCurdy, 143-177 (Boston: Pearson, 2005). Theme: Colonialism Reading: *Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time. In Anthropology/Annual Editions 00/01, 222-224 (Guilford: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 2000). CORE CONCEPTS: Lavenda, 188-207 Theme: States and order Reading: Haviland, 201-202, 209-217, 191-196 Politics: How Do People Exercise Power Over Each Other?

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Pierre L. Van den Berghe, The Modern State: Nation-Builder or Nation Killer? Alex de Waal, The Genocidal State: Hutu Extremism and the Origins of the Final Solution in Rwanda CORE CONCEPTS: Lavenda, 112-129 30 Theme: Intervention and development Reading: Haviland, 245-257 Change: What Does It Mean to Modernize? James L. Brain, The Ugly American Revisited James Ferguson with Larry Lohmann, The Anti-Politics Machine: Development and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho GSI Cross-Course Event: Sacred TerrorTheirs and Ours Pervez Hoodbhoy, Professor of Nuclear Physics at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, and Chairman of Mashal, a non-profit organization. On-line quiz must be submitted by 1 p.m., October 31, for full credit.

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PART IV: IDENTITY AND EXPERIENCE November 1 Theme: Religion: Global history and individual experience Reading: Haviland, 223-230, 234-241 Religion: How Do We Make Sense of Peoples Beliefs and Ritual Practices? Isak Niehaus, Witchcraft in Anthropological Perspective Sian Sullivan, On Dance and Difference: Bodies, Movement and Experience in Khoesaan Trance-DancingPerceptions of a Raver 6 Theme: Race/ethnicity/class/gender Reading: *Marisol de la Cadena, Reconstructing Race: Racism, Culture and Mestizaje in Latin America. NACLA Report on the Americas (May/June 2001), 1623. *Stuart Hall, Old and New Identities. In Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically About Global Issues, 220-224. Theme: Class/ethnicity/race/gender Reading: Haviland, 181-190 Brett Williams, Owning Places and Buying Time: Class, Culture, and Stalled Gentrification *Karen J. Hossfeld, Gender, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley. In Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically About Global Issues, 264270.

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Theme: Gender and sexuality Reading: Haviland, 125-129, 134-140. Gender and Sexuality: How Do Women and Men Relate to Each Other? Roger N. Lancaster, The Place of Anthropology in a Public Culture Reshaped by Bioreductivism Gay and Lesbian Marriage: Should Gays and Lesbians Have the Right to Marry? GSI Cross-Course Event: Rich Men, Poor Women Documentary by Bill Moyers discussing the cases of Thailand and Senegal in relation to market liberalization and how it affects womens situations in those two countries. On-line quiz must be submitted by 1 p.m., November 14, for full credit.

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PART V: ANTHROPOLOGY IN ACTION 15 Theme: Public visibility Reading: Manalansan, 1-44 ASSIGNMENT DUE: 3-page essay on topic to be announced.

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THANKSGIVING BREAK 27 Theme: Speaking and seeing Reading: Manalansan, 45-88 Theme: Drama at home and on stage Reading: Manalansan, 89-151

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December 4 Theme: AIDS and global suffering Reading: Manalansan, 151-191 6 Theme: Wrap-up and review Reading: *Michael Schwalbe, Afterword: The Costs of American Privilege. In Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically About Global Issues, 603-605. FINAL EXAMINATION, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

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