AN 3220.01 ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE SPRING 2011 Copyright - www.anadigics.com http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/eu.htm DR. KATHERINE C. DONAHUE Rounds 223 T 3:30-6:00 pm OFFICE: ROUNDS 317; TEL: 535-2424 Email: kdonahue@plymouth.edu OFFICE HOURS: MWF: 10:00-11:00, TUESDAY: 2-3 OR BY APPOINTMENT Examines the diverse cultures of Mediterranean, Eastern, and Western Europe. The varied ecologies and the economic, social, political, and religious orientations of European ethnic groups will be explored in depth. Historical and current processes of European disintegration and integration will be covered. REQUIRED TEXTS: Bowen, John. 2008. Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pitkin, Donald. 1999. The House that Giacomo Built. Binghamton, NY: Global Academic Publishing (or Dowling College edition). Please Note: I will loan you copies of this book. Wilson, Thomas, and Hastings Donnan. 2006. The Anthropology of Ireland. Oxford: Berg. Articles: Booth, Sally and Jeffrey E. Booth. 2004. “Nigerian Sex Workers in Palermo”, paper presented at the 14th Biennial Conference of Europeanists; Council for European Studies. (on Moodle or via the net) Dawson, Ashley. 2005. “Hannibal’s Children: Immigration and Antiracism Youth SubCultures in Italy. Cultural Critique. 59:165-186. (on Moodle or via the net) James, Jason. 1996. Coming to terms through Cinema: The Lives of Others in Germany's Cultural Landscape of Memory. Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, Volume 10, Issue 2 (May 1996). Pages 29-40. Parman, Susan. 1998. Introduction to Europe in the Anthropological Imagination. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. (handout) Film: The Lives of Others (East Germany) This is England (UK) Bloody Sunday (Ireland) The House that Giacomo Built (Italy) Crossing the Bridge (Germany) Run, Lola, Run (Germany) Green Street Hooligans (UK) Supplementary films and Powerpoint will be used. Notes should be taken during all of these since they are illustrative of material discussed in the texts and in lectures, and these notes will be useful in the essays you will be assigned. Class periods will consist of a combination of lectures and class discussion. I expect that you will have read the assigned chapters ahead of time. PLEASE NOTE: Plymouth State University is committed to providing students with documented disabilities equal access to all university programs and facilities. If you think you have a disability requiring accommodations, you should immediately contact the PASS Office in Lamson Library (535-2270) to determine whether you are eligible for such accommodations. Academic accommodations will only be considered for students who have registered with the PASS Office. If you have a Letter of Accommodation for this course from the PASS Office, please provide the instructor with that information privately so that you and the instructor can review those accommodations. COURSE OUTLINE WEEK 1: 1/31 TOPIC Europe in the Anthropological Imagination: What topics do anthropologists cover? How have they done their research? READING Parman, Introduction to Europe in the Anthropological Imagination (handout) 2: 2/7 Anthropologists in France What are the issues they study? Bowen, Ch. 1; 1-10 Ch. 2: Remembering Laïcité 1133 Ch. 3: Regulating Islam 34-64 Part 2 Publicity and Politics, 1989-2005 63 Ch. 4: Scarves and Schools 65-97 3: 2/14 Anthropology in France What can be learned? Bowen: Ch. 5: Moving toward a Law 98-127 Ch. 6: Repercussions 128-154 Part 3 Philosophy, Media, Anxiety 153 Ch. 7: Communalism 155-181 Ch. 8: Islamism 182-207 Ch. 9: Sexism 208-241 Ch. 10: Conclusions 242 Introductory essay due 2/15 4: 2/21 Anthropology in Italy Begin Pitkin, The House that Giacomo Built Selected films, including “The House that Giacomo Built” Pitkin, The House that Giacomo Built 5: 2/28 How is Europe depicted in film? 6: 3/7 How is Italy, and Europe, “represented” in Dawson, “Hannibal’s Children”, music? on Blackboard Pitkin, The House that Giacomo Built, continued EXAM I Anthropology of Ireland Wilson and Donnan: The Anthropology of Ireland * Anthropology Ireland: Identity, Voice and Invention * Locating the Anthropology of Ireland * Controlling Bodies * Ireland's 'Other(ing)' Economies * Re-presenting 'Irishness' Film: “Bloody Sunday” 7: 3/14 8: 3/21 No Class: Spring Break 9: 3/28 Issues in assimilation/acculturation Wilson and Donnan: * Frontier Tales and the Politics of Emplacement * Transnational and Global Ireland * Ethnographic Experience and Engagement in the Anthropology of Ireland 10: 4/4 Emigration/Immigration and issues of class and economics Cole and Booth (article) Film: “This is England” Essay on argument of your paper 4/5 11: 4/11 East Germany and Eastern Europe, Before and after the wall came down Film: “The Lives of Others” James, article. 12: 4/18 The European Union and Europeanization 13:4/25 What does Europe “mean”? Class discussion Paper due 5/3 14: 5/2 Student Presentations 15: 5/5 Student Presentations and Review FINAL EXAM: Tuesday, May 17 2:30-5:00pm ASSIGNMENTS, EXAMS, etc. There will be two exams and one research paper. Since this course will be run as a seminar, you will be asked to prepare material for discussion in class concerning your paper topic, and will, of course, be expected to join in class discussions about the assigned readings. You will be asked to prepare two essays which will contribute to the compilation of your final paper. You will be expected to give a presentation on that paper topic. Exam I 20% Final Exam 20% Paper 20% Introductory essay 10% Discussion of your argument 10% Presentation 10% Participation, attendance 10% Total 100% POLICIES, etc. There is an attendance policy. You are expected to be in class. If you have more than three absences, I will take off up to ten points off your final grade. Class participation is important, and makes the class go much faster for you. Come to class prepared, and with questions. You will need to make plans before an exam if you for some reason cannot take it. Your papers are expected to be turned in on time. For each day late, I reserve the right to take ten points off the grade on that paper. Suggestions for Further Reading: Abélès Marc. 1999. How the anthropology of France has changed anthropology in France: assessing new directions in the field. Cultural Anthropology 14:404 8 . Abélès, Marc. 1988. “Ethnography of an Inauguration and a Pilgrimage by President Mitterand”, in Current Anthropology Vol. 29(3):391-399. Arensberg, Conrad. 1937/1988. The Irish Countryman. Prospect Hts, IL: Waveland. Borneman, John and Nick Fowler. 1997. “Europeanization”, Annual Review of Anthropology. Vol. 26:487-514. Buruma, Ian. 2006. Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance. NY: Penguin Press. Caglar, Ayse. 2005. "Mediascapes, Advertisement Industries, and Cosmopolitan Transformations: German Turks in Turkey." New German Critique 92:32-62. Donahue, Katherine C. 1997. "The Language of Violence: Race, Racism, and Culture in France" in Violence: Nationalism, Racism, Xenophobia. Dieckmann, Bernhard, Christoph Wulf, and Michael Wimmer, eds. European Studies in Education, Vol. 5, pp. 187-203, New York: Waxmann. Donahue, Katherine C. 2005. “Nomad Souls in Time and Space: West African Musicians as Ethnographers.” Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe Vol. 5(2):2-12. Dubisch, Jill. 1995. In a Different Place: Pilgrimage, Gender and Politics at a Greek Island Shrine. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Gross, Joan, David McMurray, and Ted Swedenburg. 1996. “Arab Noise and Ramadan Nights: Rai, Rap, and Franco-Maghrebi Identities” in Displacement, Diaspora and Geographies of Identity, ed. Smadar Lavie and Ted Swedenburg, pp. 119-155. Durham, NH: Duke University Press. Hirsi Ali, Ayaan. 2008. Infidel. NY: Free Press. Rogers, Susan Carol. 2001. Anthropology in France. Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 30: 481-504 http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev.anthro.30.1.481 Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1979. Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland. Berkeley: University of California Press. Sluka, Jeffrey. 2000. Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Soysal, Levent. 2004. "Rap, Hiphop, Kruezberg: Scripts of/for Migrant Youth Culture in the World City Berlin.” New German Critique 92 (Spring/Summer). Terrio, Susan. 2000. Crafting the Culture and History of French Chocolate. Berkeley: University of California Press. Terrio, Susan. 2009. Judging Mohammed: Juvenile Delinquency, Immigration, and Exclusion at the Paris Palace of Justice. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Zabusky, Stacia. 1995. Launching Europe: An Ethnography of European Cooperation in Space Science. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Useful web sites: University of Texas Perry-Casteñada Map Collection: Maps of Europe: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/europe.html Gateway to the European Union. http://europa.eu/index_en.htm