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FRESHMAN
SEMINARS & GENERAL EDUCATION
*Freshman
Seminar 32j. Who Is a Jew? Jewish Identity and Identifiability in the
Modern World
Catalog Number: 6991 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Shaye J.D. Cohen
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
*Freshman
Seminar 32x. Topics in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
Catalog Number: 2937 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp
Half course (fall term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
*Freshman
Seminar 33j. Greece and the East
Catalog Number: 0573 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
James R. Russell
Half course (fall term). W., 2–5.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
*Freshman
Seminar 33y. France’s Racial Minorities of African Descent
Catalog Number: 9145 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Samba Diop
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
*Freshman
Seminar 35j. Filiality in Traditional Chinese Literature
Catalog Number: 8420 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Wilt Lukas Idema
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
*Freshman
Seminar 35k. The Story of the Stone
Catalog Number: 8002 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Wai-yee Li
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
*Freshman
Seminar 35p. Western Images of China
Catalog Number: 7868 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Leo Ou-Fan Lee
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
*Freshman
Seminar 36s. Provocative Truths: The Role of the Fool in European Drama
Catalog
Number: 2562 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Gloria Pastorino
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–5.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
*Freshman
Seminar 36t. Chivalry: Myth and Reality from the Middle Ages to the Present
Catalog Number: 9634 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Andrew P. Scheil
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–4.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
*Freshman
Seminar 36w. Tribal Memories: Myth, Epic, and History
Catalog Number: 7842 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
P. Oktor Skjaervo
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
*Freshman
Seminar 36y. Founding Fictions: The American Novel in the Age of Revolution
Catalog Number: 5987 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Penny T. Tucker
Half course (fall term). Th., 3–5.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
*Freshman
Seminar 37j. Myth and Myth Making in the Ancient Near East
Catalog Number: 8675 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
John L. Ellison
Half course (spring term). Th., 3–5.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
*Freshman
Seminar 37k. China’s Confucian Classics: A Close Reading of the Four
Books
Catalog Number: 5310 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Wei-Ming Tu
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
*Freshman
Seminar 44j. The Aztecs and Maya
Catalog Number: 7826 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Davíd L. Carrasco and William L. Fash
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
*Freshman
Seminar 44p. Contemporary India: Fact and Fiction
Catalog Number: 0019 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Rena Fonseca
Half course (fall term). M., 1–3.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
*Freshman
Seminar 45s. The Orient of the Occident: China and India in the Mirror
of the West
Catalog Number: 7372 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
W. Nathan Alexander
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–5.
Note: Open to Freshmen only.
General
Education 175. Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation-Building I
Catalog Number: 5587
Joseph P. Kalt (Kennedy School) and guest lecturers
Half course (fall term). M., W., 2:40–4. EXAM GROUP: 5, 6
Uses a hands-on, interdisciplinary approach to examine major issues faced
by today’s Native American bands, tribes, and nations. Included:
sovereignty, economic development, constitutional reform, cultural and
language continuity, land and water rights, religious freedom, health
and social welfare, and education. Concepts of “nation-building,”
identity, and leadership, taken from tribal viewpoints, form central themes
of the course. All aspects of course placed in a cross-cultural context.
Guest presentations are made by Native American students, visiting scholars,
and Native American leaders.
Note: Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as PED-501, and with the
Graduate School of Education as A-101.
AFRO-AMERICAN
STUDIES
Afro-American
Studies 153. Hip Hop America: Power, Politics and the Word
Catalog Number: 3152
Marcyliena Morgan
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
This course examines the development of hip hop in the US as a cultural,
political and artistic resource. In particular, we will examine hip hop
literacy, language and learning, art, performance and dress. Topics include:
culture, community, crime and injustice, economics, education, family,
history, identity, language, politics, sports, race and racism, sex and
sexism. Emphasis will be placed on hip hop in a variety of contexts including
schools, religious organizations and political movements.
Afro-American
Studies 182. Rhythm and Blues, Soul and Funk
Catalog Number: 4282
Ingrid Monson
Half course (spring term). W., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Focuses on the history of African American popular music from R&B,
to Funk, with particular attention to the interplay among music and African
American cultural and political consciousness. A variety of critical approaches
to the study of popular music are also introduced.
Afro-American
Studies 184. Women Who Testify: Religion in the Life of African American
Women
Catalog Number: 1857
Marla F. Frederick
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Explores the spiritual lives of Black women in the US. Based upon women’s
testimonies (through autobiography, ethnography and documentary film),
we examine the influence of religion in creating everyday experiences
that both empower and disempower. Special emphasis is placed on the intersection
of religion and culture, and the ways in which religion maintains and/or
disrupts women’s traditional social assignments.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Anthropology
104. Language and Culture
Catalog Number: 5844
Steven C. Caton
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 1 and a section to be arranged.
EXAM GROUP: 15
Examines the ways forms of speaking can constitute cultural life and vice
versa. A comprehensive overview of linguistic theories of structuralism
and their criticism will form the basis on which to proceed to an ethnography
of speaking in different societies. Topics will include: the structuralism
of Ferdinand de Saussure; the Sapir-Whorf Relativity Hypothesis and its
modern evocations; pragmatics; performativity; Bakhtinian dialogicality;
and poetry and poetics.
Note: No previous knowledge of linguistics or of anthropology is required.
Graduate section optional.
Anthropology
109. Latin American Popular Culture: The Politics of Fun
Catalog Number: 6279
Richard B. Penglase
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 1. EXAM GROUP: 6
Course examines a range of Latin American popular cultural forms: from
’traditional’ dances such as tango and samba, to soap operas,
Carnival, and other festivals, soccer, cooking, and Cuban and Brazilian
rap music. These everyday cultural productions will be examined as a key
site where Latin American national, racial, gender, and class identities
are constructed, commodified, contested, and globally circulated. In addition
to reading assignments, listening, and viewing will also be required.
Anthropology
132. Anthropology of Religion
Catalog Number: 9598
Smita Lahiri
Half course (fall term). M., W., F., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
From its inception as a discipline addressing non-Western cultures, anthropology
has examined the religious beliefs and practices of people who are “not
us.” Yet the cross-cultural study of phenomena such as “ritual,”
“sacrifice,” and the “sacred” also renders absolute
distinctions between “us” and “them” untenable. At
a time when religion is in resurgence from the Americas to Asia, Africa
and the Middle East, this course surveys the contribution of anthropology
to understanding its complexity and resilience.
Anthropology
156. Religions of Mesoamerica
Catalog Number: 3698
David S. Stuart
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 2. EXAM GROUP: 7
Examines the religious traditions of ancient and modern Mesoamerican peoples
(including the Aztec, Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya, Teotihuacan and Olmec), integrating
archaeological, artistic, documentary, and ethnographic source materials.
Topics to be investigated include cosmology and world-view, sacred landscapes,
divine rulership, shamanism, ancestor worship, public rituals and festivals,
healing, among others, and how these topics were discussed and represented
in ancient arts and literatures. The course will also study the religious
consequences of Spanish domination as seen up to the present day.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3705.
Anthropology
157. Muslims in Multicultural America
Catalog Number: 9822
Jocelyne Cesari (University of Aix-en-Province, France)
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
Describes the ethnic and religious variety of Islamic communities in America,
immigrant and indigenous. Provide analyses of the ways in which both migrants
and African American Muslims are maintaining or reactivating their cultural,
ethnic and religious identity in a society in which prejudice and misunderstanding
to Islam are widespread and longstanding.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3637.
Anthropology
174. The Inkas
Catalog Number: 5311
Gary Urton
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 11:30–1. EXAM GROUP: 13, 14
An introduction to the archaeology of the Inkas beginning with an overview
of pre-Inka civilizations of Andean South America. Attempts to understand
how the Inka integrated the varied peoples and resources of the Andes
into a unified empire. Ends with an overview of the destruction and transformation
of Inka society and culture under Spanish colonialism. Studies Inka materials
in the Peabody Museum collection.
Anthropology
178. Consuming Passions: Cultures of Materialism in Asia
Catalog Number: 1201
Smita Lahiri
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
How do objects tell the story of people’s lives? How do historical
relations of exchange constitute inter-community boundaries and communal
identities? What can we read into the explosion of new consumer desires,
opportunities and fantasies currently seen in the Asia-Pacific region?
Anthropological ideas about “material culture” used to work
through contemporary formations of national, gender, sexual, and ethnic
identity, primarily but not exclusively in South and Southeast Asia.
Anthropology
184. Ethnicity in the Americas: The Indian Question
Catalog Number: 6872
David H. P. Maybury-Lewis
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
Uses political anthropology to consider historical developments and regional
circumstances that influenced relations between indigenous peoples and
others in the Americas. Considers indigenous battles to resist assimilation
and achieve limited autonomy in Mexico, Peru, Brazil, and the US. Concludes
by showing how these issues are affected by the national agendas of American
states and how the indigenous experience in the Americas relates to the
problems and prospects of multiethnic societies worldwide.
CELTIC
LANGUAGES & LITERATURES
Celtic
107. Early Irish History
Catalog Number: 7976
Gene C. Haley
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
An introduction to the sources for the history of Ireland before 1167
AD. Through native annals, regnal lists, genealogies, laws, martyrologies,
related literary and hagiographic works, pseudu-historical documents,
and archaeological evidence, this course examines the major social, political,
military, religious, and cultural developments from roughly the third
century AD to the eve of the Norman Invasion.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2004–05. No knowledge of Irish required;
all texts are read in English translation.
Celtic 113.
Gaelic Women’s Poetry
Catalog Number: 7517
Barbara L. Hillers
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Explores the ways gender, genre, and tradition intersect in the poetic
tradition of Gaelic Ireland and Scotland from the Middle Ages to today.
After an excursion into early medieval literature, we focus on the work
of women aristocrats, female genres of oral folk tradition, and contemporary
poetry.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2004–05. This course is of particular
interest to students with a background in Irish or Scottish Gaelic, but
no knowledge of either language is necessary. All texts are read in English
translation.
Celtic 114.
Early Irish Historical Tales
Catalog Number: 0781
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 12. EXAM GROUP: 5
Introduction to early Irish story-material about legendary and historical
persons and events. Attitudes to kingship and views of history in the
tales are explored.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2004–05. All texts are read in English
translation.
Celtic
138r. The Mabinogi
Catalog Number: 6480
T. G. Hunter
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 13
A study of the prose literature of medieval Wales, focusing on the Four
Branches, the early Arthurian tales, and associated works. Topics include
the relationship between manuscript culture and oral tradition and the
social status of vernacular prose in medieval Wales.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2004–05. All texts are read in English
translation.
THE
CLASSICS
Classics
191. Comparative Mythology
Catalog Number: 7718
Jeremy Rau
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
An introduction to the culture, myth and religion of the main ancient
Indo-European traditions with special emphasis on Greek, Hittite and Indo-Iranian
myth (and ritual) and its Indo-European background.
Note: All readings in English.
Medieval
Latin 117. Fairy Tales and Their Tellers in the Middle Ages
Catalog Number: 3179
Jan Ziolkowski
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 1. EXAM GROUP: 15
Examines folktales preserved in Medieval Latin and compares them with
versions in Grimm, Andersen, and other 19th-century collections. Considers
storytellers (old women, peasants, travelers, and professionals), their
audiences, and their messages.
Prerequisite: Completion of Latin 4 or other preparation in Latin satisfactory
to the instructor.
CORE
CURRICULUM
Foreign
Cultures 34. Mesoamerican Civilizations
Catalog Number: 3196
William L. Fash and Davíd L. Carrasco
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 1, and a weekly section to be arranged.
EXAM GROUP: 15
This course highlights the distinctive features of the evolving cultural
traditions of Mesoamerica, one of the oldest living civilizations in the
world. Precolumbian religion, arts, cultural ecology, and construction
of power and social identity through myth, ritual, and official history
are explored first. Continuities and changes in those traditions resulting
from the Spanish conquest, colonial rule, and subsequent global change
in the 20th century are then analyzed. In Mexico and Central America,
the past continues to shape the present, and living cultures help illuminate
processes, events, and worldview in the archaeological past.
Foreign
Cultures 46. Caribbean Societies: Socioeconomic Change and Cultural Adaptations
Catalog Number: 6357
Orlando Patterson
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11, and a weekly section to be arranged.
EXAM GROUP: 13
Caribbean societies are largely the economic and political creations of
Western imperial powers. Though in the West, they are only partly of it,
and their popular cultures are highly original blends of African and European
forms. The course examines the area as a system emerging from a situation
of great social and cultural diversity to the present tendency toward
social and cultural convergence. Patterns of underdevelopment are explored
through case studies of Latin and Afro-Caribbean states, as are cultural
adaptations through studies of Afro-Caribbean religions, fiction, and
music.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2004–05.
Foreign
Cultures 56. Jewish Life in Eastern Europe
Catalog Number: 1271
Jay M. Harris
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 11, and a weekly section to
be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 4
An examination of the variegated cultural achievements of Eastern European
Jewish society, including its religious and ethical worldviews, its educational
institutions, its literature, its politics. Primary focus on the 19th
century, the development and continuity of traditional life, and the confrontation
between traditional and newer cultural patterns.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2004–05.
Foreign
Cultures 60. Individual, Community, and Nation in Vietnam
Catalog Number: 1976
Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10, and a weekly section to be
arranged. EXAM GROUP: 12
An introduction to the enduring bases of Vietnamese society and culture.
Focuses on the impact of change on the individual, the family, the community,
and the nation through the ages. The condition of women from primitive
times to the socialist present, the relationship between religion and
politics, the continuing struggle over land, and the dilemmas of leadership
and national integration are examined through a combination of literary
and historical documents as well as more analytical materials.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2004–05.
Foreign
Cultures 74. Cultures of Southern Europe
Catalog Number: 0603
Michael Herzfeld
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 9, and a weekly section to
be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 2
This is a survey of the modern cultures of Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta,
Portugal, and Spain. Southern Europe has been viewed as both the fount
of “Western civilization” and as a poor and crime-ridden backwater;
it has been home to imperial powers and humiliated client-states alike.
Through the reading of anthropological field studies (urban and rural),
literary and historical portrayals, and artistic representations (including
film and opera), this course focuses on what such contradictions mean
for people in those countries at the level of everyday life, and provides
an account of differences as well as similarities among the countries
discussed.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2004–05.
Foreign
Cultures 80. Korean Cultural Identities
Catalog Number: 8798
David McCann
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 10, and a weekly section to be arranged..
EXAM GROUP: 3
Surveys articulations of Korean cultural identity in literature, art,
and the writing of history from the Unified Silla Kingdom in the 7th century,
through the succeeding Koryô and Chosôn dynasties, and into
the first half of the 20th century. Then examines event and aftermath
of the Japanese colonial occupation, 1910–1945; liberation, division,
and the Korean War, 1945–1953; and the separating cultural spheres
in north and south. Considers the re-production of identity issues in
the context and course of the first century of Korean-American history,
1903-2003.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2004–05.
Literature
and Arts A-18. Fairy Tales, Children’s Literature, and the Construction
of Childhood
Catalog Number: 7478
Maria Tatar
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 10, and a weekly section to be arranged.
EXAM GROUP: 3
Analyzes cultural production for children in the larger context of childrearing
practices, educational theories, and adult constructions of childhood.
Addresses such issues as the representation of the child, the cult of
childhood innocence, discipline and education, evil children, the cultivation
of fantasy and imagination, canon formation, and the impossibility of
children’s literature. Authors include Charles Perrault, the Brothers
Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde, John Locke, Rousseau, Charlotte
Brontë, Lewis Carroll, J. M. Barrie, Roald Dahl, Maurice Sendak,
William Golding, Vladimir Nabokov, and others.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2004–05.
Literature
and Arts A-78. The Vikings and the Nordic Heroic Tradition
Catalog Number: 7919
Stephen A. Mitchell
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10, and a weekly section to be arranged.
EXAM GROUP: 12
Examines the heroic legacy resulting from the historical events in northern
Europe AD 800–1100, concentrating on the medieval Icelandic sagas.
The course focuses on how these texts present their heroes as warriors,
kings, poets, outlaws, and adventurers. We consider several specific heroic
traditions over time and review how the viking image is received and shaped
in later periods (e.g., 19th-century Danish poetry, Victorian art, contemporary
scholarship and pseudo-scholarship). The elusive question of the North
American colony of “Vinland” as a meaningful component of this
legacy is examined in both its scientific and imaginative contexts.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2004–05.
Literature
and Arts B-21. The Images of Alexander the Great
Catalog Number: 2267
David G. Mitten
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 12, and a weekly section to
be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 5
The images of Alexander the Great are examined within various cultural
contexts ranging from 4th-century BCE Greece to 20th-century America.
Various art forms (including sculpture, coins, and paintings) illuminate
Alexander’s personality and career and the development of his legend.
Course explores how images reveal the complex relationship between a strong
individual personality and artistic conventions. Special attention is
paid to the importance of political imagery and how the images of Alexander
reflect changing ideas of rulership. Where, if anywhere, is the “truth”
in these images? Original objects in the Sackler collection and Boston
Museum of Fine Arts are emphasized.
Literature
and Arts B-28. The Arts of Pre-Columbian America: Media and Themes
Catalog Number: 7397
Thomas B. F. Cummins
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 1, and a weekly section to be arranged.
EXAM GROUP: 6
This course will study Pre-Columbian visual arts with an aim to understanding
their forms, materials, and themes. Covering a time period from 1000 BC
to the beginning of the 16th century, we will investigate the art and
architecture of the Aztec, Inca, and many earlier cultures in Peru, Mexico,
Ecuador, and Columbia. The meaning and appreciation of Pre-Columbian art
will be studied both in terms of how things were made and the different
forms of expression that sculpture, textiles, and painting took, ranging
from life-like portraiture to geometric abstraction and everything in
between.
Literature
and Arts C-14. Concepts of the Hero in Greek Civilization
Catalog Number: 3915
Gregory Nagy
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 1, and a weekly section to be arranged.
EXAM GROUP: 6
The true “hero” of this course is the logos or “word”
of logical reasoning, as activated by Socratic dialogue. The logos of
dialogue requires careful thinking, realized in close reading and reflective
writing. The last “word” in the course will come from Plato’s
memories of Socrates’ last days. These memories depend on a thorough
understanding of heroic concepts in all their historical varieties throughout
Greek civilization. This course leads to such an understanding through
dialogues, guiding the attentive reader through many ancient Greek Classics,
including works by Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Alcman, Pindar, Theognis, Aeschylus,
Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, and Plato.
Literature
and Arts C-20. The Hero of Irish Myth and Saga
Catalog Number: 7817
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 12, and a weekly section to be arranged.
EXAM GROUP: 5
A study of the ways in which the hero is represented in early Irish sources,
especially in the saga literature. The texts reflect the ideology and
concerns of a society which had been converted to Christianity, but continued
to draw on its Indo-European and Celtic heritage. The biographies of the
Ulster hero, Cú Chulainn, of his divine father, Lug, and of certain
king-heroes are studied in depth. The wisdom literature, and archaeological
and historical evidence will be taken into account.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2004–05.
Literature
and Arts C-22. European Culture in the Middle Ages
Catalog Number: 2020
Jan Ziolkowski
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 1, and a weekly section to be
arranged. EXAM GROUP: 15
Studies the culture—literary, artistic, and musical—that was
produced and disseminated in the Middle Ages through the fusion of classical
education with Christian scriptures and liturgy. Examines major authors
and texts in which this culture took shape and expressed itself (such
as Augustine, Song of Roland, Chrétien de Troyes, Tristan, and
Dante’s Inferno). Relates texts to art, especially manuscript illumination.
Literature
and Arts C-25. The Medieval Stage
Catalog Number: 5114
Eckehard Simon
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 10, and a weekly section to
be arranged. EXAM GROUP: 3
Case studies of major plays from medieval Europe (mainly France and England)
and how they were staged in their original settings (churches, marketplaces,
streets). Examines theater as worship and revelry in monasteries and cathedrals,
as an expression of emerging town culture, and as a mass medium of religious
instruction. Explores the architecture of theater spaces, different stage
types, the “theater” of medieval art, and the role of music.
Illustrated lectures.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2004–05.
Literature
and Arts C-42. Constructing the Samurai
Catalog Number: 3743
Harold Bolitho
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 11, and a weekly section to be arranged.
EXAM GROUP: 4
Examines the rise and fall of Japan’s warrior class and of the bushido
ethos. Concentrates on two interrelated themes: the historical reality
and the construction of a mythology—both positive and negative—in
Japanese popular culture and the Western imagination. Themes will include
warfare, training, religion, values, art, literature, and family life.
Visual materials will be used extensively.
Note: For students under the Core requirement, counts as either Literature
and Arts C or Historical Study B, but not both.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Comparative
Literature 111. From Type to Self in the Middle Ages
Catalog Number: 9245
Luis M. Girón Negrón
Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Examines self-representation and the emergence of the individual in selected
first-person narratives and poems from medieval/early modern Europe. Examples
drawn from spiritual autobiographies (Augustine, Margery Kempe, Teresa
of Avila), letter collections (Heloise and Abelard), maqama literature,
troubadour lyric, Hispano-Jewish poetry (Solomon ibn Gabirol, Judah Halevi),
pilgrimage narratives, medieval allegories, Dante, Spanish colonial historiography,
and the picaresque novel.
Note: All readings in English translation.
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES & CIVILIZATIONS
East
Asian Studies 120. Visual Culture in 20th Century China: Popular Genres
and the Ideal
of Popular Art
Catalog Number: 6415
Felicity A. Lufkin
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 11:30–1. EXAM GROUP: 13, 14
This course will look at three popular, commercially successful visual
genres, all of which have figured in ongoing debates over the nature and
potential of popular art in 20th century China—woodcut-printed “New
Year pictures,” mechanically-produced “calendar pictures,”
and the comic-like “serial picture books”—as well as the
self-consciously modern New Print Movement. The course will trace the
debates that connected these art forms from the first half of the century
through the first decades of the P.R.C.
East Asian
Studies 125. Chinese Visual Culture: The Woodcut Popular Print
Catalog Number: 5829
Felicity A. Lufkin
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 11:30–1. EXAM GROUP: 13, 14
Woodcut printed pictures were a tremendously popular art form in 19th-century
China. They were enjoyed as decoration and entertainment within the home,
and also figured in popular religious observance. This class will look
the ways that scholars have approached popular prints as an artistic and
cultural form, and examine the symbolic values, narrative structures,
and religious functions of Chinese popular prints.
East Asian
Buddhist Studies 116a. Buddhism in East Asia: I-VII Century
Catalog Number: 9937
Robert M. Gimello
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., 10–11:30. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13
A survey of the history of Buddhist thought and practice in East Asia
from its advent in Han China to the emergence of distinctly East Asian
traditions of Buddhist thought and practice in the early Tang, with attention
also to the early transmission of Buddhism to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3521.
East Asian
Buddhist Studies 116b. Buddhism in East Asia: VIII-XVI Century
Catalog
Number: 9214
Robert M. Gimello
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 10–11:30. EXAM GROUP: 12, 13
A survey of the history of Buddhist thought and practice in mid-Tang through
Ming China, with attention also to developments during the same period
in Korea, Vietnam, and Japan.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3526.
East
Asian Buddhist Studies 260. Tibetan Religions
Catalog Number: 9469
Janet Gyatso (Divinity School)
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
A study of Tibetan Buddhism and other religious groups in social and historical
contexts. Examines Tibetan traditions of ritual practice; poetic and autobiographical
writing; personal cultivation, and meditation; various kinds of religious
communities; and the religious dimensions of Tibetan political institutions.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3563.
Chinese
Literature 130. Screening Modern China: Chinese Film and Culture
Catalog Number: 7241
Eileen Cheng-yin Chow
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11, and a weekly film screening
Tu., 7-10 pm. EXAM GROUP: 13
How do Chinese films between the two fin-de-siècles create the
spectacle of “China” at home and abroad? Course topics include:
the cinematic histories of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; the origins of
early Chinese cinema; film’s relationship to literary and pop culture
discourses; aesthetic responses to historical crises; “spectacular”
violence and the martial arts genre. Please see website for a more detailed
course description.
Note: Lectures and readings in English, plus weekly film screenings. No
prior background in subject matter required. This course, when taken for
a letter grade, meets the Core area requirement for Foreign Cultures.
Chinese
Literature 132. Chinatowns
Catalog Number: 8316
Eileen Cheng-yin Chow
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Explores ways that “Chinatown” has circulated as ‘memory,
fantasy, narrative, myth’ in the dominant cultural imagination the
last century and a half, and how realities of overseas communities, Asian
American history, and conceptions of ‘Chineseness’ have engaged
with real and phantom Chinatowns. Though emphasis is on cultural and theoretical
issues rather than socio-historical study of the “Chinatown”
phenomenon, participants are encouraged to pursue multi-disciplinary approaches,
such as studies in urban history, economics, or creative projects.
Note: Primarily for undergraduates; graduate students may enroll with
permission of instructor.
ENGLISH
& AMERICAN LITERATURE & LANGUAGE
*English
90cf. Caribbean Fictions
Catalog Number: 8964
Sharmila Sen
Half course (spring term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
The Caribbean is a place for tourists, a paradise; it is an area of contemporary
poverty, a realm of natural disasters; it is the promise of sugared profit
and the site of unspeakable taboo acts; it is Caliban’s fate. And
perhaps it is none of these things. We focus on some of the current questions
in Caribbean fictions, paying attention to the genealogies of such concerns
and debates. Authors include Behn, Rhys, Naipaul, Lamming, Harris, Phillips,
Condé, Cliff, and Powell among others.
*English
90cl. Comic Literature through the Middle Ages
Catalog Number: 8321
Daniel G. Donoghue
Half course (fall term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
An introduction to various kinds of literature broadly construed as comic,
including drama, fabliaux, Latin lyrics, Chaucer, Middle Scots poetry
and other genres up to Rabelais and Shakespeare. Non-English works will
be read in a facing-page translation. With the help of Huizinga, Bakhtin,
and later critics, we will develop an understanding of what constitutes
humor from this period, as well as the serious “institutions”
that invite a comic reflex.
*English
90tx. Literatures of Travel in the 18th Century
Catalog Number: 5301
Lynn Mary Festa
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
18th-century travel writings, from fictional adventures and scientific
voyages to philosophical utopias and fantastical “true histories.”
Topics include: empire and domesticity; tourism and national identity;
narrative continuity and the picaresque; natural history and scientific
imperialism. Writings by Defoe, Swift, Boswell, Equiano, Sterne, Mary
Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters , and Mungo Parks’
Travels to the Interior of Africa.
Note: This course satisfies the English Department’s pre-1800 requirement.
*English
90ui. The Indian Novel in English
Catalog Number: 4187
Sharmila Sen
Half course (fall term). M., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
The Indian novel in English has been castigated for Babu English, for
elite preoccupations, and for purveying spicy postcolonial chic. It also
appears with dizzying frequency in bookstore windows, on syllabi, and
at the top of literary prize lists. While charting the evolution of the
Indian English novel from nineteenth-century “false starts”
to the late twentieth-century boom period, we shall read such authors
as Ali, Chatterjee, Chaudhuri, Desai, Ghosh, Narayan, Roy, Rushdie, and
Syal.
*English
90up. Ethnicity, Violence, and “National” Literatures
Catalog Number: 0996
Amitav Ghosh
Half course (spring term). Hours to be arranged.
The relation between prose fiction and ethnography, especially the synthesis
of ethnographic and orientalist material in major Asian and Middle Eastern
writers and thinkers, and the representation of religious and ethnic violence
in fictional, autobiographical, journalistic, and ethnographic texts.
English
102e. Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture: Introduction to Poetry
Catalog Number: 1128
Joseph C. Harris
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 10. EXAM GROUP: 3
Introduction to the language and culture of England before 1066, with
special attention to poetry and poetics that have influenced modern poets
such as Pound and Auden. By the end of the term we will have read, in
the original, a handful of the greatest short poems in the English language,
among them The Wanderer and The Seafarer.
Note: Fulfills the College language requirement and the English Department’s
Foreign Literature requirement if its continuation, English 103g, is also
completed.
English
103g. Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture: Beowulf and Elegy
Catalog Number: 6728
Joseph C. Harris
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., 1–2:30. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Tolkien regarded Beowulf as much “elegy” as “epic,”
and current readers treat the poem as a cultural elegy for a passed or
passing world. Close reading of about one-half of the poem in the original,
the rest in the Heaney translation, leading to criticism and scholarship
on Beowulf and elegy in Old English and related literatures. Builds on
English 102e, continuing the language study and cultural survey with focus
on the central poetic monuments of Anglo-Saxon England.
Note: Fulfills the College language requirement and the English Department’s
Foreign Literature requirement.
Prerequisite: English 102e or equivalent.
English
115b. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
Catalog Number: 2945
Nicholas Watson
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
A study of the most famous work of English literature before Shakespeare,
both as a work of art and as a product of its place (London) and time
(the 1390’s).
English
146. Sex and Sensibility in the Enlightenment
Catalog Number: 9957
Lynn Mary Festa
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
How Enlightenment theories of moral sensibility and physical susceptibility
shaped categories of sex and gender. Topics include theories of sexual
difference and sexual identity; the rise of the conjugal couple; libertine
writings and the “invention of pornography.” Readings range
from the scandalous Eliza Haywood to the respectable Samuel Richardson,
from Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure to Austen’s Sense
and Sensibility, including conduct books, medical treatises and trial
records.
Note: This course satisfies the English Department’s pre-1800 requirement.
English
199t. Animals That Talk
Catalog Number: 7511 Enrollment: Limited to 18.
Marc Shell
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Who speaks for those who do not speak? This seminar on animal ventriloquism
focuses on literary works where animals talk like human beings (Brer Rabbit,
Porky Pig) or speak with humans (Poe’s raven, Balaam’s ass).
We consider works where human beings talk like animals or speak with animals
(Dr. Doolittle, King Solomon) or think that’s what they do. Texts
include cartoons (Bugs Bunny), plays with animal disguises (Midsummer
Night’s Dream), folktales with animal metamorphoses, and Lewis Carroll’s
Alice in Wonderland.
GERMANIC
LANGUAGES & LITERATURES
Scandinavian
160a. Old Norse Language, Literature, and Culture: The Viking Legacy
Catalog Number: 1139
Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Stephen A. Mitchell
Half course (fall term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Introduction to the language and literary culture of medieval Scandinavia,
emphasizing works treating the Viking Age and their valorization of an
heroic ideal. In addition to basic language skills, students acquire familiarity
with key critical tools of the field. Readings include scaldic poetry,
selections from Egils saga and the Vinland sagas, and various runic monuments.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2004–05. May be counted toward the
Folklore & Mythology 90 requirement.
Scandinavian
160b. Old Norse Language, Literature, and Culture: Mythology
Catalog Number: 7588 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Stephen A. Mitchell
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Builds on Scandinavian 160a, continuing the language study and cultural
survey of the first term, but now considers mythological texts relating
to Viking religious life, mainly selections from the prose and poetic
Eddas. Special attention is paid to scholarly tools and debates concerned
with the interpretation of these cultural monuments.
Note: Expected to be omitted in 2004–05. May be counted toward the
Folklore & Mythology 90 requirement.
Prerequisite: Scandinavian 160a or equivalent.
HISTORY
History
1166. Family, Sex, and Marriage in Western Europe, East and West in the
Medieval and Early Modern Period: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 2725
Steven Ozment and Angeliki E. Laiou
Half course (spring term). Tu., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Reading and discussion of major sources and studies illustrative of the
development of family life in the Byzantine Empire and in medieval and
early modern Western Europe, in a comparative perspective. Attention will
be given to important historiographical controversies and to a variety
of national traditions.
History
1214. History of the Soul: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 5436
James Hankins
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
The history of Western ideas about the soul, from the ancient Greeks to
the 17th century. Special attention to the connections between psychological
theory and ethics, politics, natural philosophy and theology, as well
as to the shift from the premodern soul/body dichotomy to the modern mind/body
dichotomy. Readings in Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Plotinus, Augustine,
Aquinas, Ficino, Pomponazzi, Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, and Locke.
*History
1491 (formerly *History 1472). Religion and Popular Culture in 19th-Century
Europe: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 6681 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
David Blackbourn
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Explores the relationship between social and political change and popular
religious practice from the French Revolution to World War I. Considers
methodological problems in the study of religion and popular culture;
religious revivals and popular politics; pilgrimages and prophetic movements;
the relationships between class, gender, and religious culture; the feminization
of religion, and the origins and resistance to the secularization of state
and society. Readings include primary documents and secondary texts.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2265.
History
1612. African Diaspora in the Americas
Catalog Number: 9564
Vincent Brown
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
How can we best understand the diverse cultural practices of black people
in the Americas, from where did those practices derive, and how are they
related to each other? This course explores a history of attempts to answer
those questions, and examines ways that interpretations of the “African
diaspora” have been conceived by scholars to better appreciate the
complex histories of African-American cultural practices.
History
1613. Readings in North American Borderlands: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 4917
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Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Explores comparatively several North American regions where Indians, Europeans,
and occasionally Africans came together and forged creative relationships
with each other, from the 16th through the 19th centuries.
History
1628. Novelty, Conflict, and Adaptation in the Southwest
Catalog Number: 3098
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Half course (spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
A survey of the history of the American southwest, with an emphasis on
interactions between its diverse peoples, from agricultural beginnings
to c. 1900.
History
1659. US Cultural History, Turn of the Century to Present
Catalog Number: 8905
Ruth Feldstein
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 1, plus hour to be arranged for
sections. EXAM GROUP: 15
We consider questions of who owns, defines and consumes “culture”
in 20th-century US history. Topics include the consumption of film, literature,
television, and music.
History
1742. Religion and Social Change in Latin America: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 2256 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Jane E. Mangan
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
This course studies the role of religious belief and practice in the history
of the Andes, Brazil, Mexico, and the Caribbean with a focus on the nexus
between religion and social change.
History
1745. Major Problems of Columbian History, 1526-2004: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 0100
John Womack, Jr.
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Focus on Latin America’s most diversely divided country, from the
first native establishments to the current civil wars. Topics include
historical geography, empire, class and cultural conflicts, progress and
control, imperialism, god(s), the devil(s), guns, drugs, cash, and revolution.
Prerequisite: At least one non-tutorial course on Latin America by a member
of the Department.
History
1845. Australian Indigenous Autobiography: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 1299
Timothy M. Rowse (Australian National University)
Half course (spring term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
Explores Indigenous perspectives on Australian history, focusing on the
problem of “subaltern history.” References films in which Indigenous
discourse is prominent, and paintings and songs that can be read as expressing
Indigenous historical consciousness. Comparisons will be made with other
settler colonial societies, particularly Anglophone ones.
HISTORY
OF ART & ARCHITECTURE
History
of Art and Architecture 168. Palaces and Identity in Early Modern Europe,
1450—1775
Catalog Number: 5500
Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Alice G. Jarrard
Half course (spring term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
Explores the residence as a site of familial, institutional, and cultural
identity formation. Using primary and modern texts, we analyze the form
and function of urban dwellings at specific moments in European history.
Starting with the palazzi of Florentine merchants in the Renaissance and
ending with the hôtels of eighteenth-century Paris, we consider
the impact of antiquity, vernacular tradition, gender and social roles,
political status, ceremonial uses, and the display of collections.
History
of Art and Architecture 175w. Pop Art
Catalog Number: 2172 Enrollment: Limited to 12.
Jennifer L. Roberts
Half course (spring term). M., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
An investigation of key themes surrounding the emergence of Pop in the
1950s and 1960s, focusing on developments in the United States but also
considering international examples. Interprets the movement in terms of
the formal challenges that it posed to painting, sculpture, and photography,
as well as its multifaceted philosophical engagements with the broader
postwar spectacle of consumption and advertising.
HISTORY OF SCIENCE
*History
of Science 140. Sickness and Healing in America
Catalog Number: 4471
Charles E. Rosenberg
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
This course will focus on disease as well as efforts to understand, prevent,
and heal it. We will discuss the changing incidence of morbidity and mortality
as well as the social and ecological factors that relate to these vital
realities of sickness and death. Therapeutic practice and efficacy provides
another theme: how were the sick treated? Where were they treated? And
by whom?. (DF:M2)
NEAR-EASTERN
LANGUAGES & CIVILIZATIONS
Ancient
Near East 100. History of the Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia
Catalog Number: 0702
Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Half course (spring term). Tu., at 1, Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Surveys the political and cultural history of Mesopotamia from c. 4000
B.C.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 1115.
Ancient
Near East 141. Akkadian Myths and Epics
Catalog Number: 7618
Peter Machinist
Half course (fall term). W., 3–5:15. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
Examination of selected Assyrian and Babylonian epics from the latter
second and first millennia B.C.
Prerequisite: Solid knowledge of Akkadian language required.
Early
Iranian Civilizations 102. Old Iranian Religion
Catalog Number: 5408
P. Oktor Skjaervo
Half course (spring term). F., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
Introduction to and readings in Mazdaism/Zoroastrianism (on the basis
of translated texts).
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3663a.
THE
STUDY OF RELIGION
Religion
1001. Ethnographic Imaginations
Catalog Number: 0156
Brian C. W. Palmer
Half course (fall term). Tu., 3–5 and an hour to be arranged. EXAM
GROUP: 17, 18
Offers a multi-media introduction to the creation of accounts of other
people’s lives. Texts include Robert Coles’ “Doing Documentary
Work” as well as studies of South Bronx children, Alabama tenant
farmers, California seniors, a Greek intellectual, and a Moroccan laborer.
Lectures, films, and in-class interviews with innovative ethnographers
prepare students to undertake collaborative fieldwork projects in the
local area. Writing exercises encourage experimentation in diverse ethnographic
genres as well as the development of a dependable personal voice.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 4705.
Religion
1003. The Study of Lived Religion: Seminar
Catalog Number: 3325 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
Robert A. Orsi (Divinity School)
Half course (spring term). W., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 8, 9
A critical examination of efforts among scholars of history, culture and
religion over the past century to study religious practices, understandings,
and imaginings as they emerge within and engage the circumstances of everyday
life in particular times and places. Attention paid both to classical
works in this developing tradition and contemporary research.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2307.
Religion
1007. Religion in Multicultural America
Catalog Number: 8833 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Diana L. Eck
Half course (fall term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
An exploration of the dynamic multi-religious landscape of the United
States. Special focus on the Muslim tradition and on Asian American traditions—Hindu,
Buddhist, Sikh, and Jain. How are these traditions changing in the American
environment and how is America changing as we struggle with civic, constitutional,
and theological issues, especially in the post-9/11 period?
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3847.
Religion
1010. The Deep: Purity, Danger, and Metamorphosis
Catalog Number: 9495 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Kimberley C. Patton (Divinity School)
Half course (spring term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Reflecting upon the supernatural constructions of natural elements in
lived religion, this comparative course examines metaphysical, mythical,
and ritual responses to the sea, including its multiple and conflicting
roles as arena of pilgrimage, catharsis, primordial generation, rebirth,
desolation, or apocalypse.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3817.
Religion
1024. Tomb, Relic, and Transcendence: Seminar
Catalog Number: 6792 Enrollment: Limited to 15.
Kimberley C. Patton (Divinity School)
Half course (fall term). Th., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
This seminar deals with the paradoxical tension in some religious traditions
(ancient Greek, Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist) between doctrines of
transcendence and practices of incarnation through the “powerful
dead.” Through the lens of current theory and historical research,
we examine the veneration of sacred remains: the bodies or relics of dead
heroes, saints, and holy men and women, and the associated religious efficacy
of their shrines and tombs.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3814.
Religion
1035. Religion and Latin American Imaginations
Catalog Number: 7784
Davíd L. Carrasco
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 11 and an hour to be arranged. EXAM
GROUP: 13
We examine diverse religious experiences and expressions of Latin American
and Latino/a cultures focused by the categories of sacred space, ritual
performance, charisma and transculturation. A tour of Mesoamerican pyramids,
Aztlan, Andean huacas, Catholic missions, Santeria, Candomblé,
revolutionary heroes, Caribbean poetry, Marian devotions, Niño
Fidencio, mestizaje, and political movements through visual arts, writings
and music. Readings, art and music include Gabriel García Márquez,
Gloria Anzaldúa, Alma Guillermoprieto, Doris Sommer, Lezama Lima,
Dr. Loco, Fridha Kahlo, John Santos.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3161.
Religion
1468 (formerly Religion 1504). Religion in America: From the Coming of
the Europeans to the 1870s
Catalog Number: 2509
David D. Hall (Divinity School)
Half course (fall term). Tu., Th., at 10 and an hour to be arranged. EXAM
GROUP: 12
Encompassing both “mainstream” and insurgent, “popular”
or “new” forms of religion (e.g., the Society of Friends, Mormonism,
African-American Protestantism), this survey course deals with the history
of Christian thought; changing patterns of religious practice in relation,
especially to gender; and religion and society in the context of the regulating
and/or liberating “reform” movements of the 19th century.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 2303.
*Religion
1585. Islam in South Asia: Religion, Culture and Identity in South Asian
Muslim Societies
Catalog Number: 2741 Enrollment: Limited to 20.
Ali S. Asani
Half course (fall term). Th., 3–5. EXAM GROUP: 17, 18
A survey of Islamic civilization in the Indian subcontinent focusing on
an exploration of Islamic identity. Issues and themes salient to Islamic
identity considered within religious and political contexts, as well as
the broader context of South Asian culture as expressed in language, literature,
and the arts. Also examines the uses of the term “Islamic” in
various pre-modern and modern discourses in South Asia.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3625.
Prerequisite: Introductory course in Islam or equivalent.
Religion
1631. Hindu Traditions of Devotion
Catalog Number: 9423
Anne Elizabeth Monius (Divinity School)
Half course (fall term). M., W., at 11 and an hour to be arranged. EXAM
GROUP: 4
An examination of Hindu bhakti (devotional traditions), focusing on three
specific geographic/cultural regions within the Indian subcontinent. Keeping
in mind both continuities and differences in the bhakti traditions of
these three distinct cultural areas, this course explores a variety of
devotional literatures in English translation and considers the enduring
significance and use of that deeply emotional poetry in the lives of Hindus
today.
Note: Offered jointly with the Divinity School as 3406.
SLAVIC
LANGUAGES & LITERATURES
Slavic
130a. Culture and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Bohemia
Catalog Number: 1484
Peter A. Zusi
Half course (fall term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Explores the culture of Medieval and early-modern Bohemia as a crossroad
of Western and Eastern European cultural tendencies. Examines changing
functions of literature in Bohemia as power center and as province. Readings
from the OCS Life of Constantine, OCS and Latin legends of St. Wenceslaus,
Kosmos, the so-called Dalimil chronicle, the Life of St. Catherine, Hussite
chronicles, P. Chelcick‡, J. A. Komensk‡.
Note: All readings in English.
SOCIAL
STUDIES
*Social
Studies 98fi. Religion and Society in South Asia
Catalog Number: 4729
Ajantha Subramanian
Half course (fall term). Th., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 16, 17
The politics of religion in the modern world is commonly understood as
a reactionary influence that reverses processes of modernization and democratization.
The history of religion in South Asia challenges this orthodox perspective.
This course considers the making of religious identity in colonial and
postcolonial South Asia as a process that informed and was informed by
modern state formation, capitalist development, nationalism, and the constitution
of the public sphere and civil liberties.
*Social
Studies 98eo. Culture and Society
Catalog Number: 2114
Kiku Adatto
Half course (spring term). M., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 6, 7
In what sense is art a mirror of society? How do literature, advertisements,
and film document cultural change? How is culture tied to power, domination,
and resistance? Using a wide range of sources and case studies, this seminar
examines the interplay of culture and society (drawing on anthropology,
history, sociology, literature, and philosophy). Among the topics explored
are manners and civility, the culture of everyday life, popular culture,
and culture and globalization.
*Social
Studies 98fj. Asians in the United States
Catalog Number: 7947
Ajantha Subramanian
Half course (spring term). W., 2–4. EXAM GROUP: 7, 8
Examines the dynamics of Asian migration to the US against the backdrop
of the social and political transformations in American society from the
mid-19th century to the present. Considers how Asian-Americans have been
constituted by world-historical processes and have constituted themselves
as social and political actors. Attends to how race, class, gender, ethnicity,
and generational difference mediate relationships among Asian-Americans,
and with Anglo-Americans and other US minorities.
SOCIOLOGY
Sociology
149. Ethnicity: Comparative and Historical Perspectives: Conference Course
Catalog Number: 8242
Orlando Patterson
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Ethnicity has emerged as one of the most important forces in the modern
world. It is the source of collective identity, communal solidarity, and
nation building as well as the inspiration for resistance to colonial
domination and dictatorial regimes. It has also been a major source of
political, social, and economic conflicts throughout the world, in some
cases resulting in genocidal wars between groups. The course explores
the nature of ethnicity, the main theoretical approaches to the subject,
and case studies of ethnic formation and conflict around the world, paying
special attention to the relationship between ethnicity and religion,
language, racism, and modernization.
Sociology
178. American Indians in Contemporary Society
Catalog Number: 1332
C. Matthew Snipp (Stanford University)
Half course (spring term). M., W., (F.), at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Surveys the social position of American Indians in modern American society,
1890 to the present. Topics to be covered include the demographic resurgence
of American Indians, changes in social and economic status, ethnic identification
and political mobilization, and institutions such as tribal governments
and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
VISUAL
& ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
*Visual
and Environmental Studies 167. Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036:
Seminar
Catalog Number: 4902
John R. Stilgoe
Half course (spring term). Tu., 1–3. EXAM GROUP: 15, 16
Visual constituents of high adventure since the late Victorian era, emphasizing
wandering woods, rogues, tomboys, women adventurers, faerie antecedents,
halflings, crypto-cartography, Third-Path turning, martial arts, and post-1937
fantasy writing as integrated into contemporary advertising, video, computer-generated
simulation, and private and public policy.
Note: Offered jointly with the Graduate School of Design as 4305.
Prerequisite: VES 107, VES 160, and VES 166, or permission of the instructor.
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