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Fall Semester 2000

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ADDED CLASS: CCN: 02950
ANTHRO 210: SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: "NATURES AND MODERNITIES, GENOMICS AS A MODE OF SOCIO-CULTURAL LIFE"
P. Rabinow, S. Beck 4 units, Th: 10-12, Rm. 101, 2251 College
ANTHRO 225: EUROPEAN AND NEAR EASTERN PREHISTORY
R. Tringham 4 units, W: 10-12, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont
This seminar will focus on the construction of prehistoric and early historic places in Europe and Anatolia through the engagement of multimedia sources. We shall explore the presentation of research of specific sites and questions on the World Wide Web and CD-ROM publication, and discuss the advantages, disadvantages and future of digital publication of archaeology. One of the aims of this course is for participants to develop modules that can be used in the teaching of the Ancient Societies curriculum of 6th grade students in the Oakland School District. Thus the seminar will involve some instruction in multimedia authoring. The aim is to be able to express multivocal and multiscalar interpretations of the data through hypermedia linking of images and texts from a wide variety of sources. See http://mactia.berkeley.edu

Prerequisites:
This course will be more meaningful to you if you have some familiarity with the prehistory, early history and archaeological practice of Europe and/or Anatolia. However, even if you think that you do not have enough familiarity, come to the first meeting and let us know, so that we can bring you up to speed.
A knowledge of the geography and more recent history of Europe and Anatolia would also be most desirable.
A familiarity with multimedia technology is not a prerequisite. If you have explored the Web and are familiar with simple computer programs, that is enough for a start.
ANTHRO 229A: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH STRATEGIES
K. Lightfoot/L. Wilkie 4 units, W 2-5, Rm. 101, 2251 College
This graduate seminar is REQUIRED for all first and second-year graduate students in archaeology. It is open to other students in anthropology and in other departments who are interested in the history and theory of archaeological practice. Particular attention in the seminar will be given to the Anglo-American tradition of archaeological practice, although other intellectual regions will be considered, depending upon the areas of student interest and research. In particular we shall focus on the emergence and specification of the so-called "ecological-evolutionary"paradigm: how and why it came to take the form(s) that it did, what issues and approaches were precluded or marginalized, what "gains" it has achieved, and how and why it set the stage for the various "post-processualist" types or archaeology that have emerged recently. There will be regular discussions and extensive reading. Students are expected to attend all classes, to participate and to be prepared. In addition, one major research paper (20-25 pages long) and probably a few debate presentations will be required during the course of the semester.
ANTHRO 230-1: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: "ARCHAEOLOGY, NATIONALISM AND COLONIALISM"
J. Habu 4 units, M: 10-12, Rm. 101, 2251 College
The aim of this course is to examine the relationship between archaeological practice, nationalism and colonialism. With the growing awareness of subjectivity in archaeological interpretation, the majority of English-speaking archaeologists today agree that the social and political environment could play a vital role in shaping particular archaeological theories and/or interpretation. For example, Kohl and Fawcett's edited volume ("Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology", Cambridge University Press, 1995) include many case studies from various countries, in which close relationships between archaeological work and its social, economic and political contexts are suggested. Because of this close relationship, some post-processual archaeologists advocate the hyper-relativist position, suggesting all explanations of the past are equally valid. According to this perspective, the aim of archaeological studies should be to disempower political and intellectual elites by opening up the past to other' voices. Other scholars, however, believe that, while explicit discussions of the positive and negative features of the socio-political/economic contexts are necessary, the extreme relativist position should be rejected, and that the growing empirical data base excavated by archaeologists should constrain archaeological interpretations.

Contrasting these two perspectives, this seminar examines various theoretical issues surrounding the study of the social/political contexts of archaeological studies. Case studies to be discussed will include those from East Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America, and Africa. Particular emphasis will be placed on the discussion of (1) the implications of the two opposing perspectives in the context of the globalization of archaeological studies, and (2) the relationships between Western and non-Western archaeologies.

Requirements:
Weekly readings will be assigned on thematic topics. At each class meeting, the instructor will give a short lecture, which will be followed by class discussion on the assigned readings. It is expected that all students (including the ones who are auditing the class) complete the readings before each class.

1. Class presentations and participation: 20%
2. Term paper outline: 10%
3. Term paper presentation: 20%
4. Final term paper: 50%
ANTHRO 230-2: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: "PALEOETHNOBOTANY"
C. Hastorf 4 units, T: 9-12, 16 Hearst Gym
This graduate seminar will focus on current issues of analysis and interpretation of archeological plant material. We will be reading current research and also completing analysis on new data in search of new interpretations and approaches to answer more cultural questions.
ANTHRO 230-3: SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: "TEMPORALITIES AND ARCHAEOLOGY"
R. Joyce 4 units, W: 3-5, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont (note change of room)
CANCELLED.
ANTHRO 240A: FUNDAMENTALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY
S. Pandolfo 5 units, T: 2-5 in Rm. 101, 2251 College (students meet) and Th: 2-5 in Rm. 101, 2251 College (students with Pandolfo)
This seminar deals with central issues in socio-cultural anthropology: the conceptualization of culture and society, concepts and controversies associated with fieldwork and ethnography, the dimensions of time, space and history, issues of power and knowledge and the meaning of comparison in anthropology. These issues are explored within various traditions: evolutionary, historical, structural-functional, materialist, symbolic, etc. mainly in U.S. and European traditions. The course ends just short of the current and continuing debates in the field which will be taken up in the 240B graduate seminar in spring semester.
This seminar is required of all first-year graduate students in Social/Cultural Anthropology. It will focus on major ideas in social/cultural anthropology. The course is restricted to graduatestudents in Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, and Demography.
ANTHRO 250C: TRANSNATIONALISM: "GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNMENTALITY AND CITIZENSHIP"
A. Ong 4 units, T: 10-12, 327 Kroeber (note change of room)
As a way to bring some order to our conceptual thinking, and thus to guide anthropological research, this seminar will sort out theories and accounts of globalization, transnationalism, and citizenship in anthropology and allied fields.

Transnationalism and globalization are terms produced by economists to describe the strategies and goals of market enterprises. But many academics have taken the terms to mean a slew of cultural phenomena--flows, media-scapes, networks, new kinds of spatialized power--without considering how markets interacting with different social systems are actively involved in shaping these relationships. Thus some anthropologists view cultures, having been "liberated" by globalization, as playing a subversive role vis-a-vis capital and the nation-state. On the contrary, a range of studies show that the interactions between proliferating markets and social systems reorder social space, and give rise to new practices of governance that variously deploy and transform cultures.

An anthropology that combines social theory and careful empirical research can make a distinctive contribution to debates about globalization and governmentality, and migration and citizenship. Methodologically, we will explore how the ethnographic method can study changes in the meaning of citizenship, public culture and politics in the new global-cities and frontier areas that elaborate or take counter-positions to universalizing categories based on Enlightenment and neo-liberal assumptions.

Requirements:
Priority is given to graduate students in Berkeley anthropology. Students are expected to make class presentations and to write a research paper based on theoretical arguments read in class. No incompletes are accepted.

Required texts:
Sayer, D., 1991. Capitalism and Modernity: An Excursion on Marx & Weber, Routledge.
Harvey, D., 1989. The Condition of Postmodernity,Blackwell.
Castells, M., 1996. The Rise of Network Society, Blackwell.
Anderson, B., 1983. Imagined Communities, Verso.
Shafir, G. ed., 1998. The Citizenship Debates: A Reader, Minn.
Barry, A., T. Osbourne, N. Rose, eds. 1996 Foucault and Political Reason, Chicago.
Ong, A. 1999., Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, Duke.
Castles, S., & A. Davidson, ed., 2000. Globalization and the Politics of Belonging, Routledge.
ADDED CLASS: CCN: 02977
ANTHRO 250J: ETHNOLOGICAL FIELD METHOD
K. Erwin 4 units, Th: 2-4, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont
This course is designed to provide graduate students in anthropology, medical anthropology, and related disciplines with an opportunity to undertake ethnographic field projects and explore fieldwork methods during the 2000-01 academic year. This course will be especially useful for students who want to conduct pilot, comparative, or dissertation research in the San Francisco Bay Area. First year doctoral students, and those from outside the department, must have instructor's permission to enroll. Students are required to attend weekly seminars, discuss assigned readings, and conduct ongoing fieldwork at a local site. In addition, students will be required to write a final paper, designed in consultation with the professor, that reflects their stage of research and is useful in their progress towards their degree. Course readings and discussions will span topics ranging from the practical to the theoretical and the ethical, including: project design, establishing a site and building rapport, note-taking and filing systems, reviewing progress and overcoming obstacles, etc.; the politics and ethics of fieldwork; the utility and shortcomings of fieldwork as method, and what to do about it; the relationship between fieldwork and ethnography; etc. As the semester proceeds, discussions will increasingly focus on students' own fieldwork encounters, and the issues from readings that they illuminate. No prior fieldwork experience is required, however it is expected that students will seriously and enthusiastically engage with both the readings and the possibilities provided by their chosen projects. Prospective students must attend the first class meeting to enroll in the course. A partial and preliminary list of readings includes selections from: Malinowski A Diary in the Strict Sense of the Word Rabinow Reflections on Fieldwork in Morrocco Skibo Ants for Breakfast Nordstrom (ed) Fieldwork under Fire Lewin and Leap (ed.) Out in the Field Golde (ed.) Women in the Field Gupta and Ferguson (eds.) Anthropological Locations
ANTHRO 250X-1: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL: "ORIENTALISM, OCCIDENTALISMS, AND CONTROL"
L. Nader 4 units, W: 12-2, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont
This seminar will explore the ways in which East and West define each other to create their own special identity. Topics include the use of gender, development, modernization, religion, law, science/technology as categories crucial to a critical understanding of both "orientalism" and "occidentalism" in relation to hierarchy and control. During the first part of the seminar readings will be discussed in seminar time and different participants will be designated to lead the discussions. Possible topics for papers should emerge from these discussions. The latter part of the seminar will include presentations of student research papers. The seminar will be structured by means of four topics: 1) the critique of the study of others; 2) the ubiquitous interest in other peoples that was part of the human experience long before there were social sciences; 3) 20th century views of the peoples of other civilizations--western, Islamic, Indian, Chinese, Japanese; and 4) the reactions and consequences of the present global interaction between civilizations of differing power positions.
ANTHRO 250X-2: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL: MODERNITY
P. Rabinow 4 units, W: 2-5, 221 Kroeber (note change of schedule)
This seminar--intended mainly for anthropology graduate students--will explore several of the main twentieth century thinkers who have provided an "analytics" of modernity. Analytics is to be distinguished from theory. The course this year will provide an extended encounter with the works of Max Weber, Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin.

Consent of instructor required (at first the first class meeting) for students outside the anthropology department. Active classroom participation and a term paper will be required.

Required texts:
Max Weber:
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Roxbury Publishers.
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, Berth and Mills (ed.), Oxford University Press.
The Methodology of the Social Sciences, The Free Press.

Michel Foucault:
Discipline and Punish, Pantheon Books.
History of Sexuality, Vol. I Pantheon Books.
Ethics, Subjectivity and Truth, The New Press.

Walter Benjamin:
Reflections, Shocken Books.
Illuminations, Shocken Books.
ANTHRO 250X-3: CULTURES OF POST-SOCIALISM: THE FORMER SOVIET UNION, EASTERN EUROPE, AND CHINA
A. Yurchak 4 units, Th: 10-12, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont (note change of schedule)
This course focuses on the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and on China. It explores the transformations of "cultural logics," power relations, and people's understandings, aspirations, and practices in these countries during the periods of "late socialism" and "post-socialism." The 14 weeks of the seminar are divided into several topics, each offering a different perspective on these issues and drawing on materials from several countries for a comparative view. The idea is to concentrate on these topics as an analytical exercise and as a means for exploring the questions and methods for anthropological research of post-socialist developments in these parts of the world. The course combines research and analytical methods of socio-cultural anthropology with those of sociology and political science. Anthropology offers its concern with the production and transformation of cultural forms, meanings, and subjectivities, and its emphasis on their detailed ethnographic investigation. Sociology and political science bring their perspectives on the study of social groups, institutions, and the state.

Requirements:
Class Presentation and Final Research Paper: each of you will make one presentation in class on your project. Choose the week with the most suitable seminar topic for this presentation. You may assign additional readings (20-40 pages) for that week. The final paper (15-20 pages) is due at the end of the semester (Tue., Dec. 12).

Required texts:
The following books are available in the campus bookstore (other books and the articles for the course will be put on reserve or in the course folder in the Anthropology Library):

Susan Gal and Gail Kligman. 2000. The Politics of Gender After Socialism. Princeton UP.
George Faraday. 2000. Revolt of the Filmmakers: The Struggle for Artistic Autonomy and the Fall of the Soviet Film Industry. Penn State UP.
Lisa Rofel. 1999. Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China After Socialism. UC Press.
Katherine Verdery. 1999. The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change. Columbia UP.
Alena Ledeneva. 1998. Russia's Economy of Favours: Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange. Cambridge UP.
Catherine Wanner. 1998. Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine. Penn State UP.
Ann Anagnost. 1997. National Pastimes: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China (Body, Commodity, Text). Duke UP.
Katerine Verdery 1996. What Was Socialism and What Comes Next. Princeton UP.
Martha Lampland. 1995. The Object of Labor: Commodification in Socialist Hungary. UChicago Press.
Mayfair Yang. 1994. Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China. Cornell UP.
ANTHRO 250X-4: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL: ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY
S. Pandolfo 4 units, M: 12-3, Rm. 101, 2251 College (note change in time)
This course is taught jointly by Stefania Pandolfo (Anthropology) and Beshara Doumani (History).
Cross-listed as History 280F.

Through a reading of key texts and a reflection on the hermeneutics and praxis of work in progress, the seminar addresses the theoretical and methodological challenges posed by inter-disciplinary approaches to ethnographic and archival research. We propose to rethink the debate between history and anthropology by including approaches on historiography and temporality originating outside the geographical and discursive spaces in which this debate first emerged (from classical Arab theories of civilization and history, to contemporary post-colonial approaches in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa), considering them side by side with critical works on European cultural and social history (from J. Le Goff and P. Brown, to the anthropological-psychoanalytic historiography of C. Ginzburg and M. De Certeau), and anthropological works on memory. We stress on the other hand the relevance of cultural-historical approaches for the analysis of conditions of historicity in non-European settings, in terms of their attention to the specificity, complexities and difference of practices and vocabularies (of power and subjectivity, sexuality, the body and the person, the family, the environment, the imagination and dreaming, etc.).

In the aftermaths of the critical cultural turn in both Anthropology and History--which shaped Anthropology since Levi-Strauss and Geertz, and History since the Annales School, post-Marxist social history, and the Italian Microhistories--the seminar follows the genealogy of current debates with a focus on ethnographic and archival fieldwork. We will move from the critique of the notion of evidence and fact in both history and anthropology, to that of the concepts of culture and structure, and the renewed attention to processes of historical becoming and the topics of alterity. In conclusion we will attempt a return to "facticity", to a notion of evidence differently understood. The seminar will conclude on an emergent focus, in recent works on memory, trauma, and science, on the impact of contingency and the problematic status of "events" in the anthropology of the contemporary.

In the specific forms and vocabularies of the particular case studies we consider, the seminar attempts to ask the question of the present. What are the stakes involved in thinking historically? It is a question M. Foucault understood as that of the present moment, "of today as difference in history and as motive for a particular philosophical task" and which, with a different emphasis, W. Benjamin phrased as the creative possibility of the "now". For "to articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it the way it really was. It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger".

Readings: will include selections from Tabari and Ibn Khaldun, works by J. Le Goff, P. Brown, C. Ginzburg, M. De Certeau, M. Halbwachs, H. White, W. Benjamin, M. Foucault, Levi-Strauss, C. Geertz, M. Sahlins, L. Hunt, V. Das, P. Rabinow, D. Chakrabarthy, T. Asad, B. Messick, B. Johansen, A. Hammoudi, U. Makdisi, D. Sabean, J. & J. Comaroff, S. Pandolfo, B. Doumani, and others.
ANTHRO 250X-5: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL: TIME, NARRATIVE, AND ETHNOGRAPHY
X. Liu 4 units, F: 10-12, Rm. 15, 2224 Piedmont (note change of room)
The question of narrative or, rather, its recent revival in our intellectual interests, can be traced to three main streams of thought. First, it has always been part of the discussion among literary scholars, for whom the question of narrative is essentially a question about the form of literature. Second, the question of form, in the heated debates among historians or philosophers of history in the past few decades, is primarily concerned with how "historical facts" are constituted in writing. These two streams of thought converged on the question of forms in the representation of reality; and this convergence was linked to the rise of Structuralism and its innovative approach to narrative, with which our discussion will begin. The third stream of thought on narrative is philosophical, in which the question of narrative has become-no longer simply about the representation of reality-an inquiry into the nature of reality itself. What is out there in the everyday world of social and cultural life? It is to this question that our questioning of narrative is (in)tended. The notion of reality thus invoked is the human reality that consists of various kinds of experiences in and of time. The question of Time/time, which is not an unfamiliar theme for anthropological studies, therefore has to be addressed; and this examination of the problem of temporality aims at providing a theoretical background for our increasing interests in a number of research sites such as memory or imaginary. Finally, the seminar will read a couple of ethnographic examples to show whether these broad theoretical discussions may bring any fruitful insights to the anthropology of everyday life in the contemporary world.

Required texts:
Propp, V., [1928] 1968. Morphology of the folktale.
White, H., 1973. Metahistory.
Mitchell, W., J. T. ed., 1980. On Narrative.
Ricoeur, P., [1983]1984. Time and Narrative. Vols. 1 and 2.
MacIntyre, A., 1984. After Virtue.
Carr, D., 1986. Time, Narrative, and History.
Taylor, C., 1989. Sources of the Self.
Gell, A., 1992. The Anthropology of Time.
Finnegan, R., 1998. Tales of the City.
Liu, X., 2000. In One's Own Shadow.

Additional Texts:
(Note: these texts are additional in the sense that they provide a background for the theoretical discussions of the seminar; and a further reading list of anthropological studies of temporality, memory, and imaginary, will be prepared and handed out in the first meeting of the seminar.)

Durkheim, E., 1915. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (esp., Intro.).
Schutz, A., [1932] 1967. The Phenomenology of the Social World (esp., Ch. 4).
Evans-Pritchard, E. E., 1940. The Nuer (esp., Chs. 2 and 3).
Leach, E., 1961. Rethinking Anthropology (esp., "Two Essays").
Levi-Strauss, C., [1962] 1966. The Savage Mind (esp., Ch. 8).
Greimas, A-J., [1966] 1983. Structural Semantics (esp., Ch. X and XI).
Gale, R. M., 1968. The Language of Rime (esp., Part I and II).
Jameson, F., 1972. The Prison-House of Language (esp., Part I and II).
Geertz, C., 1973. The Interpretation of Cultures (esp., Ch. 14).
Sokolowski, R. 1974. Husserlian Meditations (esp., Ch. 6).
Danto, A. C., 1985. Narration and Knowledge.
Sahlins, M.,1985. Islands of History.
Chartier, R., 1997. On the Edge of the Cliff: History, Language, and Practices.
Bourdieu, P., [1997] 2000. Pascalian Meditations (esp., Ch. 6).
ANTHRO 250X-6: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL: "THE POLITICS OF CONSUMPTION"
R. Stein 4 units, W: 10-12, Rm. 101, 2251 College
This graduate seminar examines the cultural politics of consumption through the lens of popular culture. The project is both to explore the material and symbolic practices and effects of consumption and to trace the genealogy of "popular," "mass," or "low culture" as analytic construct within scholarly literature of the last century. We will be particularly concerned with questions of subjectivity and power and the relationship between the political economy of consumption and its more symbolic valences in diverse historical and geographical locales. We will explore the dialectical relationship between the global circulation of commodities, narratives, and political ideologies, and the highly localized meanings of space and place that are produced through their consumption in situated sites and contexts. By studying the relationship between dissimilar popular cultural practices and communities of consumers, we will interrogate the very notion of "consumption," consider its limits as anthropological concept, and investigate the ways it might be elaborated.
ANTHRO 250X-7: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL: "BETRAYAL AND PUNISHMENT"
P. Reynolds 4 units, W: 2-4, C337 Cheit (note change of room)
The course will focus on bringing anthropological ways of seeing to bear on sets of issues that relate to powerful modern institutional forms that are being established to tackle the problems that arise in the aftermath of deadly struggles. The forms have not yet become embedded in contexts that are circumscribed by established rituals, norms, narratives or formal patterns of procedure. The institutions are set up to help a nation reflect on the past and to move into the future after conflict. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission represents the most complex, ambitious and democratic example yet established. The Report on its findings was published in October 1998 although the Amnesty Committee has not yet fulfilled its task.

During the course we shall explore four themes: The Repercussions of Pain; Excavating the Past through Investigation; Perpetrators: Commission and Remission; and The Insidiousness of Betrayal. We shall draw on experiences from countries that include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland, Germany, former Soviet block countries, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Our disciplinary interests and insights will inform our approach to the topics. We shall be particularly interested in discussing what the social sciences have to offer in the analysis of political, moral, economic, legal, medical and social interpretations of the effects of recent conflicts. We shall examine the nature of the assumptions made by those in authority as they determine whom to forgive, whom to punish, whom to grant amnesty and to whom reparations should be paid.

Goals: It is expected that students will emerge from the course with an understanding of the ways in which socio-cultural studies contribute to the formation of institutions that are being established to tackle the consequences of conflict that, given the nexus of the global and the local, require national and international attention. A critical response will be developed as we consider the power that institutions can wield in defining patterns of description and prescription of issues like the definition of a warrior as against a victim.

The format of the sessions includes discussion and the use of testimonies (written and oral); film; radio compilations; and recently published and unpublished academic texts and fiction.

Requirements:
Active participation in the seminar discussions and in co-leading one of the sessions. Co-leading requires additional preparation including the reading of both required and suggested reading and consultation with the instructor. Each student is expected to write a brief (3-5 pages) critical response paper each week reflecting on some part (or all) of the required readings after the seminar meeting. These are to be left, in duplicate, in my mailbox by 15:00 on Mondays. They will constitute part of the final assessment and will guide our exploration. Each student will write a research paper (20-25 pages maximum) on a substantive topic related to the course. A one page research proposal/abstract and a list of readings is due in class on October 4.

Required texts:
Daniel, E, Valentine. 1996. Charred Lullabies: An Anthropology of Violence. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Das, Veena; Kleinman, Arthur; Ramphele, Mamphela and Reynolds, Pamela. (eds.). 2000. Violence and Subjectivity. Berkeley: University of California Press.
De Kock, Eugene as told to Jeremy Gordin. 1998. A Long Night's Damage. Working for the Apartheid State. Saxonwold, South Africa: Contra Press.
Finkelstein, Norman. G. and Birn, Ruth Bettina. 1998. A Nation on Trial. The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth. New York: Henry Holt and Company Inc.
Krog, Antjie. 1998. Country of My Skull. Johannesburg: Random House.
Manganyi, N. Chabanyi and Du Toit, A. (eds.). 1990. Political Violence and the Struggle in South Africa. Halfway House, South Africa: Southern Book Publishers.
Rosenberg, T. 1995. The Haunted Land. Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism. London: Vintage.

Recommended texts:
Arendt, Hannah. 1970. On Violence. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Dyzenhaus, David. 1998. Truth, Reconciliation and the Apartheid Legal Order. Cape Town: Juta and Company Ltd.
Langer, Lawrence, L. 1998. Preempting the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Nuttall, Sarah and Coetzee, Carli. 1998. Negotiating the past: The Making of Memory in South Africa. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.
Scarry, Elaine. 1985. The Body in Pain. The Making and Unmaking of the World. New York: Oxford University Press.

Recommended: Fiction and Personal Accounts. (Not essential to purchase).
Behr, Mark. 1996. The Smell of Apples. London: Abacus.
Dikeni, Sandile. 1992. Guava Juice. Cape, South Africa: Rustica Press.
Lomax, Eric. 1996. The Railway Man. London: Vintage.
Ondaatje, Michael. 2000. Anil's Ghost. London: Bloomsbury.
Schlink, Bernhard. 1998. The Reader. Tr. Carol Brown Janeway. London: Pheonix.
Sophocles. 1993. Antigone. New York: Dover Publications Inc.
Taylor, Ubu. 1998. Ubu and the Truth Commission. Cape Town, South Africa: University of South Africa Press.
ANTHRO 250X-8: SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIAL/CULTURAL: "HISTORY AND DISCOURSE"
W. Hanks 4 units, T: 11-2, 15, 2224 Piedmont
ANTHRO 260: TOPICS IN FOLKLORE: "FOLK BELIEF"
U. Valk 4 units, M: 2-4, 51 Evans
This seminar examines how belief as mental reality is verbalised and manifested in different genres of folklore. We shall discuss how belief is transmitted and transformed in various channels of folkloric communication: legends, memorates, folk tales, jokes, songs, etc. The polyphony of opinions and diverse attitudes of the tradition bearers towards the supernatural, will be considered. Material for discussion will be drawn from Estonian and European folklore of the last few centuries and of the present day. The seminar highlights the dialogic relationship between church doctrine and folklore. We shall examine the reflections of folk belief at the witch trials and the Devil in folklore as examples of the syncretic fusion of learned and popular traditions. Seminar discussions will be based on weekly reading.
ANTHRO 290: SURVEY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH
C. Hastorf 1 unit, M: 4-6, 160 Kroeber
The departmental seminar, which is held on alternate Mondays from 4-6 p.m. in 160 Kroeber throughout each semester, presents a range of speakers on current topics in anthropology. Speakers and topics are announced prior to the event on the glassed-in bulletin board opposite the main office (232 Kroeber). All students are invited; however, enrollment is strictly limited to and required of all Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, and Demography graduate students who have not been advanced to candidacy.
FOLK 250A: FOLKLORE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES
A. Dundes 4 units, W: 4-6, 332 Giannini
This seminar, the first semester of a two-semester sequence, is a survey of the history of Folkloristic Theory and method worldwide. Assignment includes the compilation of an annotated bibliography on some folkloristic topic, the bibliography to be the basis of a research paper in the second semester of the year-long seminar.
Prerequisites: Consent of the instructor.

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