Академический Документы
Профессиональный Документы
Культура Документы
Office Hours:
Monday, 1pm-4pm
E-mail:
Phone: 278-6022
Required Texts:
Ginzburg, Carlo (1980). The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a SixteenthCentury Miller. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Anderson, Benedict (1991). Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and
Spread of Nationalism. New York: Verso.
Holmes, Douglas R. (2000). Integral Europe: Fast-Capitalism, Multiculturalism,
Neofascism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
All three texts are available at the Bookstore (278-6446)
In addition, the following two readings will be on reserve at the library Reserve
Book Room:
Bowman, Glen (1994). Xenophobia, Fantasy, and the Nation: The Logic of Ethnic
Violence in Former Yugoslavia. In The Anthropology of Europe: Identities and
Boundaries in Conflict. Goddard, Llobera, and Shore, eds. Providence: Berg.
Jarman, Neil (1995). Intersecting Belfast In Landscape: Politics and Perspectives.
Barbara Bender, ed. Providence: Berg.
Course Requirements:
Class Attendance and Participation: 15%
Take-home Midterm exam: 25%
One 2-3-page writing assignment based on lectures and course readings: 15%
Take-home Final exam: 45%
Final course grades will be based on the following scale:
A=90-100%; B=80-89%; C=70-79%; D=60-69%; F=59 or below
I am available for consultation with students, either during my Office Hours, or by
appointment. If you need to contact be and are unable to do so before or after class,
please just drop me an e-mail (preferable), or, if necessary, voice mail.
Make-Up Policy
Writing assignments must be submitted on the due date, or before. Extensions will only
be given in the event of strong, mitigating circumstances, backed up by written evidence
to that effect. Late assignments will be docked 5% per day.
Course Schedule:
The following is a detailed outline of the lectures and required readings for the course,
based on fifteen weeks of classes. Lectures will be supplemented by a number of
ethnographic films. The readings are essential to understanding the lecture materials, and,
as noted above, must be completed by the date scheduled. Note: These articles are
intended to be read with a critical eye. During the course of the semester, we will
sometimes disagree with the opinions expressed by a particular author. Please feel free to
ask questions, and email me as needed. This schedule is subject to change at my
discretion.
WEEK ONE: Jan 28thJan 30th
Course Introduction: What is Europe? Who are Europeans?
No readings
WEEK TWO: Feb 4th-Feb 6th
Europe in the Colonial Imagination I:
The West and the Rest
No readings
WEEK THREE: Feb 11th-Feb 13th
Europe in the Colonial Imagination II:
The Celtic Fringe and Mediterranean as culture areas
Readings: Ginzburg, Prefaces, Chapters 1-20
WEEK FOUR: Feb 18th-Feb 20th
Genealogies of Community