| Africa: Peoples & Culture SYLLABUS for FALL 2007 |
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Africa and Us |
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| Thu 30 Aug |
Music: Dolly P. & Ladysmith Black Mamb. | Introduction & Overview | ||
| Tue 4 Sept |
 Music: Fred Onovwerosuoke; |
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 6 Sept |
 "Language You Cry In" Music: Orchestra Baobab; Djembe drumming |
A Story of Americans and African Roots | Gullah-Mende handout (web) | |
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| Tue 11 Sept |
Quiz 1 Music: Ethiopian jazz |
Physical Geography ppt html | McNulty 1995, Contemporary Map of Africa (Eres); Africa maps (web) |
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| Thu 13 Sept |
Resources, Language and the Culture map ppt | Lamphear & Falola 1995:86-94 (part of Aspects of Early African History on the Bantu expansion) (Eres) | ||
First Citizens and Modernity: Two Key Case Studies |
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| Tue 18 Sept |
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Kalahari Ethnology & Ecology html | 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 20 Sept |
Kalahari History & Politics (ppt) |
Smith et al. 2000, Chaps 9-10 (web); BBC 2003,
Boynton 1997, Search for Authenticity (Eres) OPT: Gordon 1992 (The Bushman Myth) (Eres); Kalahari cactus (web) |
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| Tue 25 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 27 Sept |
Quiz 2 |
Red Rubberand the Fair (html) |
Bradford & Blume 1992, Ota: The Pygmy in the Zoo (whole book on Eres) | |
Colonialism, Tribalism, and the African State |
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| Tue 2 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 4 Oct |
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Tribalism and Colonialism: Tiv and Hausa | Dorwood 1969, Development of British Colonial Admin. among the Tiv (Eres) (see note on Dorwood) | |
9 Oct Midterm |
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| Thu 11 Oct |
Music:Fela Kuti, Expensive Shit | 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 16 Oct |
Music: Babatunde Olatunji, Drums of Passion | 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) Bowen 1996, Myth of Global Ethnic Conflict excerpt (web) |
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| Thu 18 Oct |
Quiz 3 |
Ongoing conflicts: DRC and Darfur ppt | de Waal 2007, Darfur - The Crisis Explained (pdf) OPT: Eric Reeves' Sudan website |
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African Agrarian Societies |
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| Tue 23 Oct |
Music: Toumani Diabate (Mali) & Taj Mahal, "Kulanjan" |
Introduction to population & agricultural (html) |
Fairhead and Leach 1995 (Local Agro-Ecological Management) (Eres) | |
| Thu 25 Oct |
Music: Ali Farka Toure (Mali) and Ry Cooder, "Talking Timbuktu" | African Population & Agric Change (html) | Is Overpopulation a Problem for Africa? (web) |
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| Tue 30 Oct |
Crowded agricultural societies: Kofyar (ppt) | Stone, Kofyar Slide (web); Stone 1996, Social Organization of Agriculture (web) 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 1 Nov |
King Sunny Ade | Tiv: Culture, Agriculture and Conflict (ppt) | Stone 1997, Predatory Sedentism | |
| Tue 6 Nov | Sahelian Land-Use and Desertification (html) | Batterbury and Warren 2001 (Desertification) (web) OPT: see refs in lecture notes |
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| Thu 8 Nov |
AFRICAN FEAST | African foodways | food pages | |
Religion, Philosophy and Witchcraft |
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| Tue 13 Nov |
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Religious Traditions | Karp 1995, African Systems of Thought (Eres) |
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| Thu 15 Nov |
Music: Yvonne Chaka Chaka | Witchcraft and Religion (html) | Kopytoff 1971, Ancestors as Elders in Africa (pdf) |
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Thu 22 Nov Thangsgiving break |
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Medicine, the Body, and Culture |
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| Tue 27 Nov |
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 29 Nov |
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Female Genital Cutting | ||
| Tue 4 Dec |
HIV/AIDS | |||
| Thu 6 Dec |
Population, Health, and Economy pop density map and data table |
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