AN 3220.01
ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE
SPRING 2011
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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