| Africa: Peoples & Culture SYLLABUS for FALL 2005 (revised 23 Oct) |
| 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 |
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| Thu 1 Sept |
Introduction & Overview | |||
| Tue 6 Sept |
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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 |
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| Thu 8 Sept |
 "Language You Cry In" |
A Story of Americans and African Roots | Gullah-Mende handout (web) | |
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| Tue 13 Sept |
Quiz 1 (mainly map) |
Physical Geography | McNulty 1995, Contemporary Map of Africa (Eres); Africa maps (web) |
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| Thu 15 Sept |
Resources, Language and the Culture map ppt | Lamphear & Falola 1995:86-94, on the Bantu expansion (Eres) | ||
First Citizens: Two Key Case Studies |
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| Tue 20 Sept |
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Kalahari Ethnology & Ecology | Smith et al. 2000, The Bushmen of Southern Africa, Chaps 1, 4-8 (web);
Lee 1968, excerpt from What Hunters Do for a Living (Eres); Mail & Guardian 1998, The Tribe Germany Wants to Forget (web) |
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| Thu 22 Sept |
Kalahari History & Politics (ppt) |
Smith et al. 2000, Chaps 9-10 (web); BBC 2003, Kalahari cactus (web) Boynton 1997, Search for Authenticity (Eres) OPT: Gordon 1992 (The Bushman Myth) (Eres); Chennels talk (video) |
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| Tue 27 Sept |
Ituri Ethnology (html) | Appiah on Turnbull (web); Grinker 1994:1-13, Houses in the Rain Forest (web) OPT: Harms 1975, The End of Red Rubber; Grinker 2000, In the Arms of Africa (web) |
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| Thu 29 Sept |
Quiz 2 |
Red Rubberand the Fair (html) |
Bradford & Blume 1992, Ota: The Pygmy in the Zoo (Eres) | |
Colonialism, Tribalism, and the African State |
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| Tue 4 Oct |
Different but Equal |
Pre-European case: Nubia and Egypt | Lamphear & Falola 1995, Aspects of Early African History (Eres); Bosch depiction (web) |
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| Thu 6 Oct |
Tribalism and Colonialism: Tiv and Hausa | Dorwood 1969, Development of British Colonial Admin. among the Tiv (Eres) | ||
Tue 11 Oct MIDTERM #1 |
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| Thu 13 Oct |
Guest: Dr. Priscilla Stone | South Africa: Black, White, Colored, Truth, and Reconciliation | South Africa readings (Eres) | |
| Tue 18 Oct |
Postcolonial Africa and States: Nigeria case study html | Soyinka, A Flawed Origin (Eres -- listed under "Flawed Origin") OPT: French 1997, A Century Later, Letting Africans Draw Their Own Map (web) |
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| Tue 25 Oct |
Colonial and postcolonial Rwanda: Hutu and Tutsi ppt |
Human Rights Watch 1999, Leave None to Tell the Story, pp. 6-37 (up to "The Single Party State") (pdf) |
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African Agrarian Societies |
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| Thu 27 Oct |
Second Nature |
Guinea: Afforestation | Fairhead and Leach 1995 (Local Agro-Ecological Management) (Eres) | |
| Tue 1 Nov |
African Population ...
COMPARE FERTILITY POP DENSITY: DATA & MAP... AIDS ppt |
Is Overpopulation a Problem for Africa? (web) | ||
| Thu 3 Nov |
Crowded agricultural societies: Kofyar (Shifting ppt) | Stone 1991, What is Agricultural Intensification? (web); Stone, Kofyar Slide (web); Stone 1996, Social Organization of Agriculture (web) |
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| Tue 8 Nov |
Kofyar Frontier & Homeland (ppt) | Stone 1998, Keeping the Home Fires Burning (pdf) OPT: Netting et al 1989, Kofyar Cash-Cropping: Choice and Change (web) |
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| Thu 10 Nov |
Tiv: Culture, Agriculture and Conflict (ppt) | Stone 1997, Predatory Sedentism | ||
| Tue 15 Nov | Sahelian Land-Use and Desertification | Batterbury and Warren 2001 (Desertification) (web) OPT: see refs in lecture notes |
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Food & Feast |
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| Thu 17 Nov | AFRICAN FEAST | African foodways | food pages | |
Tue 22 Nov Midterm #2 |
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Thu 24 Nov Fall Break |
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Witchcraft and Religion |
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| Tue 29 Nov |
Witchcraft and Religion (html) | Karp 1995, African Systems of Thought (Eres) |
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| Thu 1 Dec |
Guest: Dr. John Nunley, SLAM | Arts in Africa and the Diaspora | Nunley reading (temporary location -- will be available by early morning Nov 30) | |
Medicine and Culture |
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| Tue 6 Dec |
Female Genital Cutting (html) | Parker 1995, Rethinking Female Circumcision;(Eres) Leonard 2000, 'We Did It for Pleasure Only' (Eres) NYT 2004, Most Private of Makeovers OPT: Charles 1994, An Open Wound; Obermayer 2003: 401-408 Health Consequences of Female Circumcision |
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| Thu 8 Dec |
AIDS, Malaria and Prospects for the Future (ppt) | Hippisley (1764) On the Populousness of Africa | ||
