21F 830 Global Culture
Required Reading
Coursepack [available second week of classes]
Blank, Burden of Dreams
Films
Blank, Burden of Dreams
Chaudry, I'm British, But...
Fricke, Baraka
Herzog, Fitzcarraldo
Leach/Kildea, Trobriand Cricket
Nair, India Cabaret
O'Rourke, Cannibal Tours
O'Rourke, The Good Woman of Bangkok
Schwartz, Rainforests: Proving Their Worth
Taylor/Barbash, In and Out of Africa
Recommended Reading
Anderson, Imagined Communities
Appadurai, ed., The Social Life of Things
Lindstrom, Cargo Cult
Lutz/Collins, Reading National Geographic
MacCannell, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
Naficy, The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles
Price, Primitive Art in Civilized Places
Steiner, African Art in Transit
Taussig, Mimesis and Alterity
Torgovnick, Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives
Assignments and Grading
Mid-term paper (5 pages): 20%
Final paper (5 pages): 20%
Project (undergraduates: 10 pages; graduates: 20 pages): 20%
Web site: 20%
Preparation/Participation: 20%
Global Culture