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  • Spring 2008 Folklore Classes

    ANTHROPOLOGY 162 P 001 LEC   
    Topics in Folklore: Bodylore   
    TuTh 2-330P, 155 DONNER LAB   
    YOUNG, K G   
    Course Control Number: 02669
    Description: Culture is inscribed on the body. Our beliefs about the body, our perceptions of it and the properties we attribute to it, both symbolic and literal, are socially constructed. The body is being invented. The way we hold our bodies, the way we move them, the way we accoutre them, display our membership in a culture. The folklore of the body reveals cultural assumptions about what it is to be a person. Some of the likely topics include: SURFACE INSCRIPTIONS (The examination of tattoos as materializations or literalizations of the inscription of culture on the body); DISCIPLINES OF THE BODY(How practices of the exterior form practices of the interior); BODY SYMBOLS (The body as a source and site of symbolic representations);BOUNDARIES OF SELF(Skin as the boundary of the self, moving from the construction of exteriority in proxemics to the construction of interiority in interoception);BODY IMAGE (The trope of interiority and the invention of an inner self);THE MIND/BODY PROBLEM (The core problematic of the course: the mind/body problem. A phenomenology of the body in terms of which to conceive ourselves as persons);EXPRESSIVE PROPERTIES OF THE BODY (The expression of emotion: inner states or external inscriptions of a social convention?).
    Course work: Consists of a project on body language, worth 30% of the grade; a mid-term examination focusing on the mind/body problem worth 30%; a field research project and final paper on the theory of embodiment of a specific cultural practice worth 40%.
    Required Texts:
    Elizabeth Grosz. 1994. Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
    Katharine Young, ed. 1993. Bodylore.  Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press and Publications of the American Folklore Society.
    Course Reader   

    ANTHROPOLOGY 184 P 001 LEC     
    South Asia: Cultural Politics and the Indian Cinema
    TuTh 8-930A, 155 KROEBER   
    COHEN, L
    Course Control Number: 02678
    Description: India is well known for having the world's largest film industry, encompassing not only popular Hindi film produced in Bombay or Mumbai (the so-called Bollywood industry), but large Tamil and Telegu language film production, fairly large Bengali and Malayalam language production, and significant production in numerous other languages and increasingly in English.  These cinemas are popular not only in India, its neighbors, and in the South Asian "diaspora," but among many other non-Indian publics, especially in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia.
    Despite this popularity, much scholarship on Indian cinema has failed to put film into the context of its production and consumption: how it is produced, how consumed, by whom, and how practices of both production and consumption relate to other forms of practice, from politics to kinship to housing to labor to state and non-state violence to other arts to sex and to pleasure more generally.  This course will utilize both films and secondary sources to address these questions, and to link the study of film in India both to the general study of Indian economy and society and to broader questions in anthropology.
    Each week is divided into two sessions.  In one, we screen part of a film or films; in the other, there is a lecture and discussion on a major course theme.  Each week students will be expected to watch on their own or in groups one film that will be available in the language lab or in a media lab to be created, or, if there is interest, in a group screening at someone's home.
    This course will serve as an introduction to general questions of the politics of culture in India, for those with little familiarity, and as a way to rethink concepts and debates, for those with more background.
    The dominant cinema of India is the Hindi cinema and this will be our focus; however, we will be examining the south Indian cinemas in particular as well.
    Requirements include (1) class attendance and active participation; (2) weekly readings, from a reader and required books; (3) weekly film screenings;  (4) a midterm examination; (5) final paper (10-20 pages).

    ANTHROPOLOGY 250X P 001 SEM  
    Ethnography   
    W 10-12P, 115 BARROW
    NADER, L
    Course Control Number: 02936   
       
    ANTHROPOLOGY 250X P 008 SEM 
    Narratives and Violence in Latin America
    Tu 11-2P, 101 2251 COLLEGE
    BRIGGS, C L
    Course Control Number: 02951

    ANTHROPOLOGY 250X P 012 SEM   (course website)
    Theories of Narrative
    W 2-5P, 2311 TOLMAN   
    YOUNG, K G   
    Course Control Number: 02963

    ANTHROPOLOGY C262B P 001 SEM   
    Theories of Traditionality and Modernity    
    Th 11-2P, 101 2251 COLLEGE   
    HAFSTEIN, V
    Course Control Number: 02966   
    Cross-listed with Folklore C262B Section 1 with BRIGGS, CL, CCN: 31903  

    CELTIC STUDIES 129 P 001 LEC  
    Aspects of Modern Celtic Cultures and Folklore
    MWF 10-11A, 205 DWINELLE
    KLAR, K A
    Course Control Number: 10289
    Description: A comparative introduction to modern Celtic cultures: principally Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Breton. The development of the distinctive cultures of the Celtic "nations without states" from 1500 to the present; an examination of the role of minority cultures and minority languages in larger political cultural entities. Theme topics will vary, but will include folklore, nationalism and linguistic history from time to time.   

    CHINESE 188 P 001 LEC     
    Popular Culture in 20th-Century China    
    TuTh 1230-2P, 160 DWINELLE   
    JONES, A F
    Course Control Number: 20755
    Units/Credit: 4                           
    Description: This course is an introduction to media culture in 20th-century China, with an emphasis on photography, cinema, and popular music. The course places these productions in historical and cultural context, examining the complex intertwinement of culture, technology, and politics in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan from the turn of the last century to the beginning of the 21st. Students will also be introduced to a number of approaches to thinking about and analyzing popular cultural phenomena.

    GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES C146 P 001 LEC  
    Cultural Representations of Sexualities: Queer Visuality
    TuTh 330-5P, 106 MOFFITT
    DAVIS, W M
    Course Control Number: 32966     
    Cross-listed with Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender St C146 section 1        
       
    GERMAN C109 P 001 LEC  
    Language and Power
    TuTh 11-1230P, 2 LECONTE
    KRAMSCH, C J
    Course Control Number: 37508   
    Description: Multidisciplinary explorations into the origins, nature, and exercise of language as social symbolic power, drawing on readings taken from anthropology, social and cultural theory, and critical discourse analysis. Topics include language and myth, the meaning of meaning, the economy of verbal exchanges, perspective and ideology in language, institutional discourse, gender and discourse, and linguistic imperialism. Also listed as Letters and Science C180T.

    GERMAN 168 P 001 LEC  
    Yiddish Literature and Culture in Translation
    MWF 1-2P, 262 DWINELLE
    ADLER PECKERAR, R
    Course Control Number: 37541
    Description: Introduction to the development of Yiddish literature from the start of the modern period, with particular emphasis on the global flourishing of the language of Ashkenazi Jews from the mid-19th century until the Nazi genocide and its aftermath. Works include a wide range of fiction, essays, political tracts, journalism, radio, photography, music, and theatrical and film performance.

    MUSIC 135A P 001 LEC  
    Musics of the Caribbean
    TuTh 930-11A, 125 MORRISON
    GUILBAULT, J M
    Course Control Number: 60544
    Description: Focus on the history, musical structure, and socio-political, economic, and cultural roles of selected traditional and popular music genres of the Caribbean.
    Final Exam Group: 

    MUSIC 139 P 001 LEC  
    Topics in Musics of the World
    MWF 11-12P, 125 MORRISON
    FUSON, T D
    Course Control Number: 60564

    NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES 120 P 001 LEC 
    Topics in Native American Arts
    TuTh 1230-2P, 140 BARROWS
    PEARSON, D J
    Course Control Number: 61127

    NEAR EASTERN STUDIES C104 P 001 LEC
    Babylonian Religion
    TuTh 2-330P, 20 WHEELER
    TANAKA, T W
    Course Control Number:     61421
    Description: A survey of Babylonian religious beliefs and practices based on indigenous texts and monuments. Also listed as Religious Studies C104.

    RELIGIOUS STUDIES 190 P 001 LEC
    Topics in the Study of Religion
    TuTh 330-5P, 534 DAVIS
    BURLEIN, A   
    Course Control Number:     77651

    RELIGIOUS STUDIES C182 P 001 LEC
    Sociology of Religion
    MWF 1-2P, 3 LECONTE
    NESBIT, P
    Course Control Number:     77636

    RELIGIOUS STUDIES C132 P 001 LEC
    Jewish Civilization I: The Biblical Period
    Location:     TuTh 11-1230P, 110 WHEELER
    Course Control Number:     77627

    RHETORIC 171 P 001 LEC
    The Problem of Mass Culture and the Rhetoric of Society
    TuTh 2-330P, 136 BARROWS   
    Course Control Number:     77944

    RHETORIC 136 P 001 LEC
    Rhetorical Approaches of Folklore
    TuTh 330-5P, 136 BARROWS   
    Course Control Number:     77917

    RHETORIC 135 P 001 LEC
    Rhetoric of Narrative Genres in Nonliterate Societies
    TuTh 5-630P, 108 WHEELER
    Course Control Number:     77914

    RHETORIC 132 P 001 LEC
    Rhetoric, Culture and Society
    M 2-5P, 242 DWINELLE
    WINTROUB, A M
    Course Control Number:     77911

    SCANDINAVIAN 115 P 001 LEC
    Studies in Drama and Film
    TuTh 11-1230P, 142 DWINELLE
    RUGG, L H
    Course Control Number:     78769

    SCANDINAVIAN 106 P 001 LEC
    The Works of Hans Christian Andersen
    TuTh 330-5P, 122 WHEELER
    SANDERS, K L   
    Course Control Number:     78766

    SOUTH ASIAN C123 P 001 LEC
    Religion in Medieval India
    TuTh 11-1230P, 206 WHEELER
    DALMIA, V
    Course Control Number:     84023

    THEATER, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE ST 202 P 001 SEM (
    Methodologies and Approaches to Theater in Context
    Tu 2-5P, 30 DWINELLE
    COLE, C
    Course Control Number:     88264

    THEATER, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE ST 203 P 001 SEM
    Theatrical Texts, Spaces, and Bodies
    M 3-6P, 30 DWINELLE
    Instructor:     GLAZER, P   
    Course Control Number:     88267

    THEATER, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE ST 153B P 001 LEC
    Changing Forms in 20th-Century Dance
    TuTh 330-5P, 175 BARROWS
    JOHNSON, J L   
    Course Control Number:     88129

    THEATER, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE ST C131B P 001 LEC
    Contemporary African American Drama
    TuTh 2-330P, 111 KROEBER
    Course Control Number:     88105

    THEATER, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE ST 121 P 001 LEC
    Performance and Culture
    TuTh 2-330P, 170 BARROWS
    GRIFFITH, M
    Course Control Number:     88093

    THEATER, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE ST 25AC P 001 LEC
    The Drama of American Cultures: An Introduction to Dance
    TuTh 11-1230P, 277 CORY
    CAPPELLI, M
    Course Control Number:     88039





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