Syllabus

• 12 Sept: Introduction

1. Strange Encounters

   • 19 Sept: Trobriand Cricket
     • Leach/Kildea, Trobriand Cricket
     • Leach, "Structure and Message in Trobriand Cricket"[C]
     • Weiner, articles on Trobriand Cricket [C]
   • 26 Sept: Cargo Cult
     • Lindstrom, selected chapters from Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond [C]
     • Jacopetti, Mondo Cane [excerpt]

   2 Oct: FILM SCREENING: O'Rourke, Cannibal Tours [place and time tba]

   • 3 Oct: Tourists and Other Cannibals
     • O'Rourke, Cannibal Tours
     • MacCannell, "Cannibal Tours." In Empty Meeting-Grounds: The Tourist Papers [C]
     • Lutkehaus, "'Excuse Me, Everything Is Not Alright': On Ethnography, Film, and Representation" [interview with Dennis O'Rourke] [C]
   • 10 Oct: NO CLASS [day after Columbus day]

2. We Are the World

   • 17 Oct: National Geographic
     • National Geographic, The Explorers: 100 Years of National Geographic [excerpts]
     • Lutz/Collins, chapter from Reading National Geographic [C]
     • Price, "The Universality Principle" [C] In Primitive Art in Civilized Places
   • 24 Oct: A World Beyond Words
     • Fricke, Baraka
     • Staples, "Mondo Meditations" [C]

   MID-TERM PAPER DUE

3. Modernity/Primitivism

   • 31 Oct: Heart of Darkness
     • Herzog, Fitzcarraldo
     • Blank, Burden of Dreams [text and film]
   • 7 Nov: Trade Routes
     • Avon in the Amazon dossier [C]
     • Body Shop dossier [C]
     • Schwartz, Rainforests: Proving their Worth
     • Guest speaker: Jonathan Schwartz, Interlock Media

4. African Mythologies

   • 14 Nov
     • Bruner/Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, "Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa"
     • MacCannell, "Staged Authenticity." In The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class [C]
   • 21 Nov
     • Taylor/Barbash, In and Out of Africa
     • Steiner, selected chapters from African Art in Transit [C]

5. Sex

   • 28 Nov
     • O'Rourke, The Good Woman of Bangkok / Nair, India Cabaret
     • Rieker, "Narrating the Post-Colonial Everyday: An Interrogation of The Good Woman of Bangkok" [C]
     • Kotz, "Striptease East and West: Sexual Representation in Documentary Film" [C]

6. Diasporas

   • 5 Dec: Indian
     • Chaudry, I'm British, But...
     • Clifford, "Diasporas" [C]
     • Guest speaker: Walter Bender, News of the Future Group, Media Lab, MIT
   • 12 Dec: Iranian
     • Naficy, Introduction to The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles[C]

   FINAL PAPER DUE

   • 13 Dec: LAST DAY OF CLASSES
   • 18-22 Dec: EXAM PERIOD