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| Course Objectives: |
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INVITATION TO THE COURSE
Theoretical and empirical studies of the body have become
increasingly popular over the course of the past two decades.
Ranging from phenomenological studies of embodiment to neurological
examinations of the brain; from the social history of medicine to
cyber punk fiction; from Japanese anime to computer simulations of
artificial life; from artistic representations of disabled states to
the anthropology of violence and suffering; from feminist studies of
gender to correlations between individual and national bodies—both
academic and popular realms of discourse have evinced growing
interest in questions concerning embodiment. There is even a new
journal, Body & Society, devoted entirely to critical
writings on the body. This course will survey a mix of classical and
contemporary approaches to body studies, from a variety of
disciplinary perspectives.
The
course is interdisciplinary. Readings are drawn from anthropology,
cultural studies, literary criticism, philosophy, gender studies,
social history, sociology, psychology, medicine, science/technology
studies, and science fiction.
Students will gain most from the course if they take regular
notes on the required (and selected supplementary) readings, as we
progress through the syllabus.
The
course will be conducted as lecture-discussion, probably taking on
more of an atmosphere of a seminar as the semester progresses. There
will be brief semi-collaborative oral/written student reports,
longer written essay assignments, a final term paper, and an
in-class final examination. The required readings should be
completed before class; the supplementary readings will serve to
introduce comparative and supplementary perspectives. Supplementary
readings may also serve as material for student reports, and as
additional background for essay assignments.
While
no specific prior background is presumed in anthropology for this
course, I do expect that all of us will bring a variety of personal
and academic perspectives to this course. Through individual and
group discussion, opportunities will be provided to learn from one
another, so as to foster interdisciplinary exchange of ideas.
Complete all required readings before class; read selected
supplementary readings as interested.
STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
The
course commences with some classic writings and theories on
embodiment, including Merleau-Ponty on the phenomenology of
perception, Mauss and Bordieu on habitus and bodily
techniques, Bakhtin on the grotesque, Elias on the civilizing
process, and Foucault on bodily discipline. These classic theories
are related to more contemporary interventions, such as the feminist
phenomenological approaches of Young and Grosz. We then proceed,
starting with Turner's classic essay on "the social skin," to
consider various types of bodily modification and cosmetic surgery;
racial, ethnic, and gendered bodily subjectivities; and issues of
technology and the body. We shall also consider such imagined forms
as Barbie dolls and Wonder Woman, the recent field of disability
studies, and various states of dead (and living dead) bodies. The
course continues with constructs of cyborg subjectivity, cybernetic
expressions of artificial life, and bodily morphing in Japanese
anime. The final section of the course will examine parallels and
disjunctures between individual and national bodies in the specific
case of South Asia. For a case study especially rich in primary
material on bodily processes, we shall conclude with a joint reading
of Urvashi Butalia's recent book on the individual and social
repercussions of India's partition.
This
course is constructed to foster progressive styles of learning.
General classroom discussions will lead to small group collaborative
student led discussions of the readings, which will in turn provide
ideas and material for the individual essay writing assignments. In
preparing their essays, students may either concentrate on the
extensive list of supplementary, as well as required, readings
already designated in the syllabus, or on additional material
gleaned from their own research. The final term paper should focus
on primary materials of original research, with respect to theories
of embodiment. Students are encouraged to introduce original
ethnographic observations (interviews; participant-observation;
images of embodiment drawn from movies, television shows, or web
sites, etc.) into their research and writing for this course. There
is an excellent collection of non-print audio-visual materials at
the Undergraduate Library that may prove useful in research, for
anyone interested in additional visual examples of
embodiment.
The
course is lecture-discussion. There will be several videos shown
throughout the course.
COURSE DETAILS
Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 2:00 pm. to 2:50 pm., Alumni Bldg.,
Room 207
Class
page: http://www.unc.edu/courses/2002fall/anth/173/001/
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| Instructor: |
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Gary Hausman,
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department,
UNC.
Office: Alumni
Bldg., Room #409C
Mailing Address:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of
Anthropology, 301 Alumni Building, CB# 3115, Chapel Hill, NC
27599-3115
Office Hours:
Monday and Wednesday, 11:00 am. - 12:30 pm; and by
appointment.
Phone:
919-962-3280
E-mail: hausman@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.unc.edu/depts/anthro/faculty/fac_pages/hausmanG.html |
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| Texts/Resources: |
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Course
Materials
Most of the
required readings are in the form of a multi-part Course Pack,
available for purchase at the university bookstore.
Additionally,
there are two required books available for purchase at the
university bookstore.
Urvashi
Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition
of India, Durham: Duke University Press, 2000
William
Gibson, Neuromancer, Ace Books,
1984
Resources
There are
various types of reserve readings for this course.
Readings
not otherwise available electronically have been placed on reserve
at both Alumni Bldg. (third floor file cabinet) and at the
Undergraduate Library Reserves. Many readings are available
electronically, either through Electronic Journals
Online, through JSTOR
Online, or through netLibrary Online.
Most undergraduate reserve readings are also accessible
electronically through Course Reserves.
Alumni Bldg. reserve readings should be signed in and signed out, on
the sign out sheet.
For additional assistance with essay
assignments, students are quite welcome to make use of the
facilities of The Writing
Center.
Student
Responsibilities
All
students are expected to abide by the Honor Code of the University
(see Undergraduate Bulletin, 2002-2003, p. 323).
Late papers will not be accepted. Students may, at the
discretion of the instructor, exercise the option of rewriting any
of the three essay assignments for a higher grade. |
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| Course Calendar: |
| 2002-08-21 |
WEEK
ONE |
| Preparation for this class
| Introductory Bibliographic
Surveys
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Read ANY TWO of the following eight
bibliographic surveys by September 4. Write a one page
response outlining one or two topics that might be of interest
for your final term paper. You will not be
bound to these topics. This is just a means of getting
everyone thinking about the final term paper early in the
course, so as to allow me to provide each of you with an early
response to your ideas.
Carolina Bynum, 'Why All the
Fuss About the Body: A Medievalist's Perspective,'
Critical Inquiry 22(1): 1-33, Autumn 1995
B.
Farnell, 'Moving Bodies, Acting Selves,' Annual Review of
Anthropology 28: 341-373, 1999 [Electronic
Journals Online]
Alexandra Howson and David
Inglis, 'The Body in Sociology: Tensions Inside and Outside
Sociological Thought,' The Sociological Review 49(3):
297-317, August 2001 [Electronic
Journals Online]
Margaret Lock, 'Cultivating the
Body: Anthropology and Epistemologies of Bodily Practice and
Knowledge,' Annual Review of Anthropology 22:
133-155, 1993 [JSTOR
Online]
Emily Martin, 'The End of the Body?,'
American Ethnologist 19(1): 121-140, 1992
Roy
Porter, 'History of the Body Reconsidered,' pp. 233-260 in
Peter Burke (ed.), New Perspectives on Historical
Writing, Second Edition, University Park: Penn State
University Press, 2001
Leslie A. Sharp, 'The
Commodification of the Body and its Parts,' Annual Review
of Anthropology 29: 287-328, 2000 [Electronic
Journals Online]
Bryan S. Turner, 'Introduction to
the Second Edition: The Embodiment of Social Theory,' pp. 1-36
in The Body and Society: Explorations in Social
Theory, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications,
1996
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| 2002-08-23 |
| Preparation for this class
| Phenomenological Approaches to the
Body
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REQUIRED READINGS
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, pp. 67-89 and 136-147 in The
Phenomenology of Perception (translated by Colin Smith),
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Oliver Sacks, 'The Disembodied Lady,' pp. 43-54 in The
Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical
Tales, HarperPerennial, 1985
Katherine Young,
'Disembodiment: Internal Medicine,' pp. 7-45 in Presence
in the Flesh: The Body in Medicine, Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1997
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| 2002-08-26 |
WEEK TWO
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| Preparation for this class
| (Feminist) Phenomenological Approaches to the
Body
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REQUIRED READINGS
Iris Marion Young, 'Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology
of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality,' pp.
141-159 in Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in
Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory, Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1990
Iris Young, '"Throwing
Like a Girl:" Twenty Years Later,' pp. 286-290 in Donn Welton
(ed.), Body and Flesh: A Philosophical Reader,
Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Elizabeth Grosz, 'Lived Bodies: Phenomenology and the
Flesh,' pp. 86-111 in Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal
Feminism, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994
James Morley, 'Inspiration and Expiration: Yoga
Practice through Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of the Body,'
Philosophy East & West 51(1): 73-82, January 2001
[Electronic
Journals Online]
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| 2002-08-28 |
| Preparation for this class
| Bodily Techniques &
Habitus
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REQUIRED READINGS
Marcel Mauss, 'Techniques of the Body,' Economy
and Society 2(1): 70-88, February 1973
Pierre
Bourdieu, 'Structures, Habitus, Practices,' pp. 52-65
in The Logic of Practice (translated by Richard
Nice), Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Pierre Bourdieu, 'Appendix—The Kabyle House or the World
Reversed,' pp. 271-283 in The Logic of Practice
(translated by Richard Nice), Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1980
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| 2002-08-30 |
| Preparation for this class
| From Grotesque to Civilized
Bodies
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REQUIRED READINGS
Mikhail Bakhtin (transl. Helene Iswolsky), 'The Grotesque
Image of the Body and Its Sources,' pp. 315-325 in
Rabelais and his World, Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press,
1968
Norbert Elias (transl. Edmund Jephcott), 'Part
Two: Civilization as a Specific Transformation of Human
Behavior,' pp. 42-67 and 168-178 in The Civilizing
Process: The History of Manners and State Formation and
Civilization, Oxford: Blackwell, 1994 [1939]
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Roy Porter, 'The Body Grotesque
and Monstrous,' pp. 35-62 in Bodies Politic: Disease,
Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900, Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2001
Alain Corbin, 'The Stench of
the Poor,' pp. 142-160 in The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor
and the French Social Imagination, Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1986
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| 2002-09-02 |
WEEK THREE
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| Note
| LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
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NO
CLASS
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| 2002-09-04 |
| Preparation for this class
| Body Doubles: Physical and
Social
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REQUIRED READINGS
Filippo & Caroline Osella, 'Articulation of Physical
and Social Bodies in Kerala,' Contributions to Indian
Sociology (n.s.) 30(1): 37-68, 1996
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Paul Stoller, 'The Sorcerer's Body,' pp. 4-23 in
Sensuous Scholarship, Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1997
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| Due for this
class
| DUE TODAY - Bibliographic Survey
Response
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One page short response papers to any two of the
bibliographic surveys posted on the readings for the first
class (August 21) are due in-class
today.
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| 2002-09-06 |
| Preparation for this class
| Discipline & Biopower
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REQUIRED READINGS
Michel Foucault, 'The Body of the Condemned,' pp. 3-31 in
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, New
York: Vintage Books, 1991 [1975]
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Michel Foucault (transl. Robert Hurley), 'Part Four: The
Deployment of Sexuality—I Objective,' pp. 81-92 in The
History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction,
New York: Vintage Books, 1990
[1978]
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| 2002-09-09 |
WEEK FOUR
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| Preparation for this class
| The Social Skin
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REQUIRED READINGS
Terence S. Turner, 'The Social Skin,' pp. 112-140
in Jeremy Cherfas & Roger Lewin (eds.), Not Work
Alone: A Cross-Cultural View of Activities Superfluous to
Survival, Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1980
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Susan Bordo, '"Material Girl:"
The Effacements of Postmodern Culture,' pp. 245-275 in
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the
Body, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993 [netLibrary
Online]
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| Note
| 1st Essay Guidelines
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Guidelines for the First Essay Assignment will be
posted today; the essay is due in class two weeks from
today.
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| 2002-09-11 |
| Preparation for this class
| Body Modification
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REQUIRED READINGS
Paul Bohannan, 'Beauty and Scarification amongst the Tiv,'
Man 129: 117-121, September 1956 [JSTOR
Online]
Paul Sweetman, 'Only Skin Deep? Tattooing,
Piercing and the Transgressive Body,' pp. 165-187 in Michele
Aaron (ed.), The Body's Perilous Pleasures: Dangerous
Desires and Contemporary Culture, Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 1999
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Anne Balsamo, 'On the Cutting Edge: Cosmetic Surgery and
the Technological Production of the Gendered Body,' Camera
Obscura 28: 206-237, 1992
Kathy Davis, '"My Body
is My Art:" Cosmetic Surgery as Feminist Utopia?' pp. 168-181
in Kathy Davis (ed.), Embodied Practices: Feminist
Perspectives on the Body, London: Sage, 1997
Robert Ayers, 'Serene and Happy and Distant: An
Interview with Orlan,' pp. 171-184 in Mike Featherstone (ed.),
Body Modification, London: Sage Publications,
2000
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| 2002-09-13 |
| Activity during this class
| VIDEO: A Question of Color
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A Question of
Color, Kathe Sandler, 1993 (56 minutes) [UL NonPrint
65-0V4079]
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| 2002-09-16 |
WEEK FIVE
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| Preparation for this class
| Racial Bodies
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REQUIRED READINGS
Walter Johnson, 'Reading Bodies and Marking Race,' pp.
135-161 in Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave
Market, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999
SUPPLEMENTARY
READING
Anne Fausto-Sterling, 'Gender,
Race, and Nation: The Comparative Anatomy of "Hottentot" Women
in Europe, 1815-1817,' pp. 19-48 in Jennifer Terry &
Jacqueline Urla, Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on
Difference in Science and Popular Culture, Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1995 [netLibrary
Online]
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| 2002-09-18 |
| Preparation for this class
| Ethnic Bodies
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REQUIRED READINGS
Sander L. Gilman, 'The Jew's Body: Thoughts on Jewish
Physical Difference,' pp. 60-73 in Norman L. Kleebat (ed.),
Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities, New
York: The Jewish Museum, 1996
Uli Linke, 'Blood, Race,
Nation,' pp. 115-151 in German Bodies: Race and
Representation after Hitler, New York: Routledge, 1999
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Sander L. Gilman, 'The Racial
Nose,' pp. 85-118 in Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural
History of Aesthetic History, Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1999
Elizabeth Haiken, 'The Michael
Jackson Factor: Race, Ethnicity, and Cosmetic Surgery,' pp.
175-227 in Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery,
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press,
1997
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| 2002-09-20 |
| Preparation for this class
| Gender & Masculinities
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REQUIRED READINGS
Joseph Alter, 'The Discipline of the Wrestler's body,' pp.
90-135 in The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in
Northern India, Berkeley: University of California Press,
1992 [University
of California e-editions Online]
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Frits Staal, 'Indian Bodies,' pp. 59-102 in Thomas P.
Kasulia, Roger T. Ames, and Wimal Dissanayake (eds.), Self
as Body in Asian Theory and Practice, Albany: State
University of New York Press,
1993
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| 2002-09-23 |
WEEK
SIX |
| Preparation for this class
| Gender & Feminities
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REQUIRED READINGS
Thomas Laqueur, 'New Science, One Flesh,' pp. 63-113 and
262-275 in Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to
Freud, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Serena Nanda, 'Hjiras as Neither
Man nor Woman,' pp. 13-23 in Neither Man Nor Woman: The
Hjiras of India, Belmont: Wadsworth Publlishing Company,
1990
Londa Schiebinger, 'Skeletons in the Closet: The
First Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in
Eighteenth-Century Anatomy,' Representations, No. 14: 42-82.
The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in
the Nineteenth Century, Spring 1986 [JSTOR
Online]
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| Due for this
class
| 1st Essay Due
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The First Essay Assignment is due today in
class.
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| 2002-09-25 |
| Preparation for this class
| Gendered Subjectivities & Slasher
Films
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REQUIRED READINGS
Carol J. Clover, 'Her Body, Himself: Gender in Slasher
Film,' Representations 20. Special Issue:
Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy, pp. 187-228, Fall
1987 [JSTOR
Online]
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Anne Allison, 'Cutting the
Fringes: Pubic Hair at the Margins of Japanese Censorship
Laws,' pp. 195-217 in Alf Hiltebeitel and Barbara D. Miller,
Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures,
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998 [netLibrary
Online]
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| 2002-09-27 |
| Preparation for this class
| Technology and the Body
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REQUIRED READINGS
Carolyn Thomas de la Peña, 'Designing the Electric Body:
Sexuality, Masculinity and the Electric Belt in America,
1880-1920,' pp. 275-289 in Technology and the Body. A
special issue of Journal of Design History 14(4),
2001
Adrienne Berney, 'Streamlining Breasts: The
Exaltation of Form and Disguise of Function in 1930s' Ideals,'
pp. 327-342 in Technology and the Body. A special
issue of Journal of Design History 14(4), 2001
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Rachel P. Maines, '"Inviting the
Juices Downward,"' pp. 67-110 in The Technology of the
Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual
Satisfaction, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1999
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| 2002-09-30 |
WEEK SEVEN
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| Preparation for this class
| Evolution of Barbie, Mickey Mouse, & Wonder
Woman
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REQUIRED READINGS
M.
G. Lord, 'A Toy is Born,' pp. 18-43 in Forever Barbie: The
Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll, New York: William
Morrow & Company, 1994
Jacqueline Urla and Alan C.
Swedlund, 'The Anthropometry of Barbie: Unsettling Ideals of
the Feminine Body in Popular Culture,' pp. 277-313 in Jennifer
Terry and Jacqueline Urla, Deviant Bodies: Critical
Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular
Culture, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995 [netLibrary
Online]
Stephan Jay Gould, 'A Biological Homage to
Mickey Mouse,' pp. 95-107 in The Panda's Thumb: More
Reflections in Natural History, New York: Norton, 1991
[1980]
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Les Daniels and Chip Kidd, 'The
Doctor' and 'The Amazon,' pp. 10-89 in Wonder Woman: The
Life and Times of the Amazon Princess: The Complete
History, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000
[Undergratuate Library Book
Reserves]
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| 2002-10-02 |
| Activity during this class
| VIDEO: Freaks
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Freaks,
Tod Browning, 1986 [1932], 66 minutes [UL NonPrint
65-V1253]
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| 2002-10-04 |
| Preparation for this class
| Disability Studies &
Embodiment
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REQUIRED READINGS
Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell, 'Re-engaging the
Body: Disability Studies and the Resistance to Embodiment,'
Public Culture 13(3): 367-389, 2001 [Electronic
Journals Online]
Veena Das and Renu Addlakha,
'Disability and Domestic Citizenship: Voice, Gender, and the
Making of the Subject,' Public Culture 13(3):
511-531, 2001 [Electronic
Journals Online]
Alexa Wright, 'I,' Public
Culture 13(3): 506-510, 2001 [Electronic
Journals Online]
Wu Hung, 'Photographing
Deformity: Liu Zheng and His Photo Series "My Countrymen,"'
Public Culture 13(3): 399-427, 2001 [Electronic
Journals Online]
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Carol A. Breckenridge and Candace
Vogler, 'The Critical Limits of Embodiment: Disability's
Criticism,' Public Culture 13(3): 349-357, 2001 [Electronic
Journals Online]
George Taleporos and Marita
McCabe, 'Body Image and Physical Disability—Personal
Perspectives,' Social Science and Medicine 54(6):
971-980, 2001 [Electronic
Journals Online]
C. Nadia Seremetakis, 'Toxic
Beauties: Medicine, Information, and Body Consumption in
Transnational Europe,' Social Text 68, Vol. 19, No.
3: 115-129, Fall 2001 [Electronic
Journals Online]
Lisa Diedrich, 'Breaking Down: A
Phenomenology of Disability,' Literature and Medicine
20(2): 209-230, Fall 2001 [Electronic
Journals Online]
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| 2002-10-07 |
WEEK EIGHT
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| Preparation for this class
| Tortured Bodies
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REQUIRED READINGS
Alphonso Lingis, 'A Doctor in Havana,' pp. 33-40 in
Abuses, Berkeley: University of California Press,
1994 [netLibrary
Online]
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Renato Martinez, 'On the
Semiotics of Torture: The Case of the Disappeared in Chile,'
pp. 85-103 in Catherine B. Burroughs and Jeffrey David
Ehrenreich (eds.), Reading the Social Body, Iowa
City: University of Iowa Press, 1993 [netLibrary
Online]
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| 2002-10-09 |
| Preparation for this class
| Dead Bodies
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REQUIRED READINGS
Jonathan Parry, 'The End of the Body,' pp. 490-517 in
Michel Feher, Ramona Naddaff, & Nadia Tazi (eds.),
Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part Two,
New York: Zone, 1989
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Jonathan Parry, 'The Last Sacrifice' & 'Ghosts into
Ancestors,' pp. 151-194 and 211-215 in Death in
Banaras, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1994
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| 2002-10-11 |
| Preparation for this class
| Living-Dead Bodies
|
REQUIRED READINGS
Paul Rabinow, 'Severing the Ties: Fragmentation and
Dignity in Late Modernity,' pp. 129-152 in Essays on the
Anthropology of Reason, Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1996
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Paul Rabinow, 'Artificiality and
Enlightenment: From Sociobiology to Biosociality,' pp. 91-111
in Essays on the Anthropology of Reason, Princeton:
Princeton University Press,
1996
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| 2002-10-14 |
WEEK NINE
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| Preparation for this class
| Charming Cadavers
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REQUIRED READINGS
Liz Wilson, '"Like a Boil with Nine Openings:" Buddhist
Constructions of the Body and Their South Asian Milieu,' pp.
41-76 in Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the
Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature,
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Liz Wilson, 'Introduction,' pp. 1-14 in Charming
Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian
Buddhist Hagiographic Literature, Chicago: The University
of Chicago Press, 1996
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| 2002-10-16 |
| Preparation for this class
| Circulating Bodies
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REQUIRED READINGS
Richard Sennett, 'Moving Bodies,' pp. 255-281 in Flesh
and Stone: The Body and The City in Western Civilization,
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Dennis B. McGilvray, Symbolic
Heat: Gender, Health & Worship among the Tamils of South
India and Sri Lanka, Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing Pvt.
Ltd. in association with Boulder: University of Colorado
Museum, 1998 [Undergraduate Library Book
Reserve]
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| 2002-10-18 |
| Note
| FALL BREAK
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NO
CLASS.
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| 2002-10-21 |
WEEK TEN
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| Preparation for this class
| Cyborg Bodies
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REQUIRED READINGS
Donna Haraway, 'A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology,
and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,' pp.
149-181 in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of
Nature, New York: Routledge, 1991 http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Ingrid Bartsch, Carolyn DiPalma,
and Laura Sells, 'Witnessing the Postmodern Jeremiad:
(Mis)Understanding Donna Haraway's Method of Inquiry,'
Configurations 9(1): 127-164, Winter 2001 [Electronic
Journals Online]
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| Due for this
class
| Draft of Final Term Paper
|
A preliminary draft of the Final Term Paper is due in
class today.
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| 2002-10-23 |
| Preparation for this class
| Artificial Life
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REQUIRED READINGS
Stefan Helmreich, 'Inside and Outside the Looking-Glass
Worlds of Artificial Life,' pp. 106-179 in Silicon Second
Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World,
University of California Press, 1998
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
Stefan Helmreich, 'Introduction,' pp. 3-27 in Silicon
Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital
World, University of California Press, 1998
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| Activity during this class
| 2nd Essay Guidelines
|
Guidelines on writing the Second Essay Assignment, due
in two weeks, will be posted
today.
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| 2002-10-25 |
| Preparation for this class
| Neuromancer (1)
|
REQUIRED READINGS
William
Gibson, pp. 1-39 in Neuromancer, New York: Ace Books,
1984
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Donna Haraway, 'The Promises of
Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others,'
pp. 295-337 in Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson & Paula A.
Treichler (eds.), Cultural Studies, New York:
Routledge, 1992 http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/monsters.html
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| 2002-10-28 |
WEEK ELEVEN
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| Preparation for this class
| Neuromancer (2)
|
REQUIRED READINGS
William
Gibson, pp. 41-98 in Neuromancer, New York: Ace
Books, 1984
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Mike Featherstone and Roger
Burrows, 'Cultures of Technological Embodiment: An
Introduction,' pp. 1-19 in Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows
(eds.), Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of
Technological Embodiment, London: Sage Publications,
1995
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| 2002-10-30 |
| Preparation for this class
| Neuromancer (3)
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REQUIRED READINGS
William
Gibson, pp. 99-156 in Neuromancer, New York: Act
Books, 1984
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Nigel Clark, 'Rear-View
Mirrorshades: The Recursive Generation of the Cyberbody,' pp.
113-133 in Mike Featherstone and Roger Burrows (eds.),
Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of
Technological Embodiment, London: Sage Publications,
1995
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| 2002-11-01 |
| Preparation for this class
| Neuromancer (4)
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REQUIRED READINGS
William
Gibson, pp. 157-199 in Neuromancer, New York: Ace
Books, 1984
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Michael Jackson, 'Familiar and
Foreign Bodies: A Phenomenological Exploration of the
Human-Technology Interface,' Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute (new series) 8(2): 333-346,
June 2002 [Electronic
Journals Online]
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| 2002-11-04 |
WEEK TWELVE
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| Preparation for this class
| Neuromancer (5)
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REQUIRED READINGS
William
Gibson, pp. 201-240 in Neuromancer, New York: Ace
Books, 1984
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Ron Eglash, 'Race, Sex, and
Nerds: From Black Geeks to Asian American Hipsters,'
Social Text 71, Vol. 20, No. 2: 49-64, Summer 2002
[Electronic
Journals Online]
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| 2002-11-06 |
| Preparation for this class
| Neuromancer (6)
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REQUIRED READINGS
William
Gibson, pp. 241-271 in Neuromancer, New York: Ace
Books, 1984
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Tony Myers, 'The Postmodern
Imaginary in William Gibson's Neuromancer,' Modern Fiction
Studies 47(4): 887-909, Winter 2001 [Electronic
Journals Online]
E. L. McCallum, 'Mapping the Real
in Cyberfiction,' Poetics Today 21(2): 349-377,
Summer 2000 [Electronic
Journals Online]
Dominic Idier, 'Science Fiction
and Technology Scenarios: Comparing Asimov's Robots and
Gibson's Cyberspace,' Technology in Society 22(2):
255-272, April 2000 [Electronic
Journals Online]
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| Due for this
class
| 2nd Essay Assignment
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The Second Essay Assignment is due today in
class.
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| 2002-11-08 |
| Preparation for this class
| Japanese Anime & the Monstrous
Adolescent
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REQUIRED READINGS
Susan J.
Napier, 'Akira and Ranma 1/2: The Monstrous Adolescent,' pp.
39-62 in Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke:
Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, Palgrave,
2001
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| Activity during this class
| VIDEO SELECTIONS: Akira & Ranma
1/2
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Akira and Ranma 1/2 [selected
clips].
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| 2002-11-11 |
WEEK
THIRTEEN |
| Preparation for this class
| Bodies & Nations: Gandhi's
Body
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REQUIRED READINGS
Joseph
Alter, 'Gandhi's Body, Gandhi's Truth,' pp. 3-27 in
Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics of
Nationalism, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2000
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Joseph Alter, 'Somatic
Nationalism: Gama the Great, Another Heroic Indian,' pp.
113-145 in Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics of
Nationalism, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2000
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| 2002-11-13 |
| Preparation for this class
| Bodies & Nations: Mother
Tamil
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REQUIRED READINGS
'Sumathi
Ramaswamy, 'Chapter One - 'Introduction: Language in History
and Modernity,' pp. 1-9; Figures 1 through 12; 'Chapter Three
- Feminizing Language: Tamil as Goddess, Mother, and Maiden,'
pp. 79-134 in Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in
Tamil India, 1891-1970, Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1997 [netLibrary
Online; also available through University
of California E-Editions]
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
'Sumathi Ramaswamy, 'Chapter Two - One Language, Many
Imaginings,' pp. 22-78 in Passions of the Tongue: Language
Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970, Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1997 [netLibrary
Online; also available through University
of California e-Editions]
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| 2002-11-15 |
| Preparation for this class
| Bodies & Nations: Cinematic
Bodies
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REQUIRED READINGS
Preminda Jacob, 'From Co-star to Deity: Popular
Representations of Jayalalitha Jayaram,' pp. 140-165 in Vidya
Dehejia, Representing the Body: Gender Issues in Indian
Art, New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1997
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
M. S. S. Pandian, The Image
Trap: M G Ramachandran in Film and Politics, New Delhi:
Sage Publications, 1992 [Undergraduate Library Book
Reserve]
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| Activity during this class
| VIDEO: Kasthuri
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Kasthuri: A Documentary, Richard Breyer, 1993
[UL NonPrint 65-V7971]
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| 2002-11-18 |
WEEK
FOURTEEN |
| Preparation for this class
| Individual & National Bodies
(1)
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REQUIRED READINGS
Urvashi
Butalia, pp. 1-51 in The Other Side of Silence: Voices
from the Partition of India, Durham: Duke University
Press, 2000
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, 'Her
Body and Her Being: Of Widows and Abducted Women in
Post-Partition India,' pp. 58-81 in Margaret Jolly and Kalpana
Ram (eds.), Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility, and
Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 2001
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| 2002-11-20 |
| Preparation for this class
| Individual & National Bodies
(2)
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REQUIRED READINGS
Butalia,
pp. 53-83 in The Other Side of Silence
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Saadat Hasan Manto, 'Toba Tek
Singh,' pp. 25-31 in Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West (eds.),
Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing 1947-1997, New
York: Henry Holt & Company,
1997
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| 2002-11-22 |
| Preparation for this class
| Individual & National Bodies
(3)
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REQUIRED READINGS
Butalia,
pp. 85-136 in The Other Side of Silence
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Rajinder Singh Bedi, 'Lajwanti,'
pp. 177-189 in Mushirul Hasan (ed.), India Partitioned:
The Other Face of Freedom, Volume I, New Delhi: Roli
Books, 1995
Mumtaz Mufti, 'An Impenetrable Darkness,'
pp. 200-214 in Mushirul Hasan (ed.), India Partitioned:
The Other Face of Freedom, Volume I, New Delhi: Roli
Books, 1995
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| 2002-11-25 |
WEEK
FIFTEEN |
| Preparation for this class
| Individual & National Bodies
(4)
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REQUIRED READINGS
Butalia,
pp. 137-194 in The Other Side of Silence
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Gyanendra Pandey, 'The
Requirements of a History of Partition,' pp. 58-65 in
Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History
in India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2001
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| 2002-11-27 |
| Note
| THANKSGIVING RECESS
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NO
CLASS.
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| 2002-12-02 |
WEEK
SIXTEEN |
| Preparation for this class
| Individual & National Bodies
(5)
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REQUIRED READINGS
Butalia,
pp. 195-232 in The Other Side of Silence
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Babsi Sidhwa,
Ice-Candy-Man, London: Heinemann,
1988
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| 2002-12-04 |
| Preparation for this class
| Individual & National Bodies
(6)
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REQUIRED READINGS
Butalia,
pp. 233-293 in The Other Side of Silence
SUPPLEMENTARY
READINGS
Shauna Singh Baldwin, What
the Body Remembers, New York: Doubleday,
1999
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| 2002-12-06 |
| Note
| Final Term Paper Due
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The Final Term
Paper for the course is due today, at my office, 409C, Alumni
Building. In my absence, the paper can be left in in the
Anthropology Department office, 301 Alumni
Building.
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| 2002-12-16 |
WEEKS
SEVENTEEN & EIGHTEEN |
| Activity during this class
| FINAL EXAMINATION
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The Final
Examination for ANTH 173 will take place Monday, December 16,
at 2:00
pm.
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| Course Assignments: |
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Class
participation: 25%
1st short essay: 15%
2nd short essay: 15%
Final term paper: 30%
Final examination: 15%
- Class Participation
In addition
to general participation on a daily basis, each student is
responsible for serving as one of several discussion leaders for
any four non-consecutive weeks of the course. A 'week,' for this
purpose, will be defined as three classes extending from Monday to
Friday. Discussion leaders for a particular week should sign up in
class by Friday of the preceding week. Discussion leaders are
encouraged to confer with one another, either in person or through
e-mail, about the respective week's readings. They should present
a brief collaborative five to (at most) ten minute summary of the
required (and perhaps, some supplementary) readings at the start
of each class. Each discussion leader should submit to me an
individual summary (one to two pages) of the themes covered in the
readings for that week, and their relation to the broader context
of the course. Additionally, every student should present to me,
by September 4, a one to two page reaction to any two of
the eight bibliographic surveys listed on the readings for the
first class. Use these brief writing assignments as opportunities
to experiment with possible topics for the short essay, and longer
term paper, writing assignments. Be as specific as possible in
setting forth themes that can be developed into essay topics.
These brief summaries will not be graded, but will be evaluated
with respect to the feasibility of developing them into broader
essay topics. Class participation will comprise 25% of the grade
for the course.
- 1st Short
Essay Assignment
Guidelines for the first short essay will
be posted on September 9; the essay will be due in class two weeks
later, on September 23. The essay is to be 4-5 pages in length,
and will comprise 15% of the grade for the course.
- 2nd Short
Essay Assignment
Guidelines for the second short essay
will be posted on October 23; the essay will be due in class two
weeks later, on November 6. The essay is to be 5-6 pages in
length, and will comprise 15% of the grade for the course.
- Final Term
Paper
The final term paper should relate primary sources
to some of the dominant themes discussed in the course, on
constructs of embodiment. It should be 12-20 pages in length, and
will comprise 30% of the grade for the course. A preliminary
outline of the final term paper—4-5 pages in length—must be
submitted to me by October 21st. The preliminary outline will not
be graded, but a grade will be deducted for failure to turn in an
outline by this date. These preliminary drafts will provide the
basis for group and individual discussion of the various research
projects being carried out by participants in this course. The
final draft of the term paper should be submitted to my office by
December 6.
- Final
Examination
The final examination will be open book/open
notes and will take place on Monday, December 16 at 2:00 pm. It
will comprise 15% of the grade for the course.
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