Anthro 423 Social and Cultural Change (Theory) 3 credits
UH Fall 1995
1:30-4:00 Tuesdays Business Administration D105
Les Sponsel Office hours: 1:00-3:00 Thursdays 956-8507
ORIENTATION
This semester the course will survey social and cultural change with an emphasis on human rights violations in the context of colonialism and neocolonialism. The class will critically analyze concepts and phenomena such as colonialism, economic development, acculturation, genocide, ethnocide, environmental racism, self-determination, and human rights (individual and group), and then illustrate these in historical and cross-cultural perspective through a selected set of case studies. The class will also consider the politics and ethics of anthropology as well as applied, action, advocacy, radical, and liberation anthropology. A special segment will focus on Hawaiian sovereignty with guest speakers and panels. Other case studies to be discussed on panels include the Chippewa, Maya, and Yanomami.
FORMAT
These topics will be examined through lectures by the instructor and guests, general class discussion, individual and panel discussions, and videos.
GRADE
The grade will be based on panel discussions, a take-home final essay examination (following the revision and further development of a mid-term draft), and class attendance and participation.
READINGS
Each student is required to read all of:
Bodley, J.H., 1990, Victims of Progress.
Bodley, J.H., ed., 1989, Tribal Peoples and Development Issues.
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Also each student is required to read and discuss on a panel one of the following:
Johnston, B.R., ed., 1994, Who Pays the Price?: The
Sociocultural Context of Environmental Crisis.
Gedicks, A., 1993, The New Resource Wars: Native and
Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations.
Ramos, A.R., 1995, Sanuma Memories: Yanomami Ethnography in
Times of Crisis.
Montejo, Victor, 1990, Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village.
Danner, Mark, 1993, The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War.
Robie, David, eds., 1989, Blood on their Banner: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific.
Hasager, Ulla, and Jonathan Friedman, eds., 1994. Hawai'i: Return to Nationhood.
All books listed above as well as any assigned articles are available from the Reserve Room of Sinclair Library on two-day loan. Copies of these books are also available in the UH Bookstore for those who may wish to purchase some of them.
An extensive bibliography will also be on reserve for those who may wish to pursue further readings during the semester or beyond.
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SCHEDULE
Date Topic Reading
PART I - OVERVIEW
August
22 Orientation: Change,
anthropology, rights and wrongs
VIDEO: Anthropology on Trial
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PART II - PATTERNS AND PROCESSES OF CHANGE
29 Tribals, progress, and Victims... Chs. 1
quality of life Tribal... Chs. 1-3
VIDEO: Culture Change
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5 Frontier, contact, shock V 2-3
and resistance T 4-9
VIDEO: The Last Tasmanians
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12 State, resources, acculturation, V 4-6
and philosophy of intervention T 10-15
VIDEO: First Contact
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19 Economic development and the V 7-8
price of progress T 16-23
VIDEO: The Price of Progress
(World Bank)
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26 Politics, development agencies, T 24-32
environmentalists
VIDEO: The Kayapo: Out of
the Forest
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October
3 Indigenous rights, V 9-10
self-determination, alternatives T 33-39
VIDEO: Randy Borman:
White Chief of the Kofan
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PART III - CASES IN THE AMERICAS
10 Environmental problems Johnston PANEL
and rights
VIDEO: To Protect Mother Earth
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17 Multinationals and mining Gedicks PANEL
VIDEOS: Contact: Yanomami
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24 Yanomami and anthropology Ramos PANEL
in crisis
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31 State military massacres Danner PANEL
and other the human rights Montejo PANEL
violations against the Maya
and others in Central America
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November
7 Contemporary struggles for Robie PANEL
self-determination in the Pacific
VIDEO: Man Blong Custom
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PART IV - SPECIAL VIDEO SEGMENT:
THE PACIFIC AS A MILITARY AND NUCLEAR PLAYGROUND
14 VIDEOS: Angels of War
Marshall Islands: Living with the Bomb
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21 VIDEOS: Tahitian Witness
Half-Life
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PART V - INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN HAWAI'I
28 Hawaiian sovereignty Hasager PANEL
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December
5 Continue with guests
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12 Open discussion
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14 Final examination noon-2:00
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