Thursday 27-Aug-98 Introduction to the course
- Lawrence Wright, "One Drop of Blood", New Yorker, July 25, 1994.
Week of Tuesday 01-Sep-1996 Introduction to the main themes of the course. Setting within world pre/history; General path of emerging complexity. New World and Old World societies generally, following separate but similar trajectories of political development. Europe and Others 400-1500; Collapse of Roman Empire; Germanic Tribes; Islam/Near East; Byzantine Empire; Interactions with Africa and Asia
- Fernand Braudel "Europe: Geography and Freedom", in A History of Civilizations, 1994: pp. 304-322.
- Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers, New York: Vintage Books, 1983: 116-128.
Week of 8 Sep Europe and Others; Major Trends in Europe, post-1000 A.D.; Population growth and epidemics; Emerging trading class; Emerging city-states; Competing principalities; Attempts at unification; Religious expansion / Proselytization; "proto-colonization" of Greenland, Ireland, etc.; Reconquista in Iberia. Impetus for Exploration; Trade with the East; Marco Polo; Venice, etc. and powerful merchant families; African discoveries;
- J. M. Roberts, History of the World, London: Penguin 1987: 471-488.
- N. Scott Momaday: The Becoming of the Native: Man in America Before Columbus. In America in 1492, edited by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., New York: Knopf, 1992: 13-19.
- Clara Sue Kidwell, "Systems of Knowledge," In America in 1492, pp. 369-403.
Week of 15-Sep The Americas before conquest; New World Politics; Economies; Dealings with others; Long term Cycles of Expansion - Collapse in the New World
- T. D. Price and G. Feinman, Images of the Past, Mayfield Pub. Corp., 1993: 242-245.
- Karl W. Butzer, "This is Indian Country." Geographical Magazine V.52, 1979: 140-48.
- Miguel León-Portilla, "Men of Maize" In America in 1492, pp. 147-175.
Week of 22-Sep The Onset of Western Exploration; Italian City-states' dilemma; Columbian Voyages; Conquest, of the Caribbean
- S. Wilson, Hispaniola, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990: 35-73.
Week of 29 Sep. Entradas and tools of conquest. Explorations of Cortés, Pizarro, Coronado, De Soto, etc.) Impact of Disease on America's population, Early conquest period.
- Charles Gibson, "Spanish Indian Policies", Handbook of North American Indians Vol. 4: History of Indian-White Relations, 1988: 96-103.
- S. Wilson, "Columbus's Competition", Natural History, January 1992.
- Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 1956: 197-225.
[First Exam October 1]
Week of 06-Oct Overall Colonial Strategies / Patterns of Exploitation; Spanish; French; Case Study: the prehistory and history of the Caddo People.
- Brian M. Fagan, "Epidemics, European contact, and American Indians", a review of Ann F. Ramenofsky's Vectors of Death: The Archaeology of European Contact. Quarterly Review of Anthropology Summer 1988.
- Leslie A. Fiedler, "The Indian in Literature in English" Handbook of North American Indians Vol. 4: History of Indian-White Relations, 1988: 573-581.
- S. Wilson, "Pandora's Bite", Natural History, July 1991.
Week of 13-Oct Colonial strategies of the English and French in North America and elsewhere; Portuguese; Dutch; Swedish; German, and others;
- Meinig, D. W., The Shaping of America New Haven: Yale U. Press. 1986: 55-76.
- William Cronon and R. White, "Ecological Change and Indian-White Relations" Handbook: 417-428.
Week of 20-Oct North America from 1600-1800, French vs. English strategies; Iroquois as power brokers; Native Americans and the Revolutionary War; Native American Resistance; King Phillip's War, Pueblo Rebellion
- W. Jacobs, "British Indian Policies to 1783," in Handbook of North American Indians Vol. 4: History of Indian-White Relations, 1988: 5-12.
- M. Wade, "French Indian Policies," in Handbook: 163-184.
- D. Leach, "Colonial Indian Wars", Handbook: 128-43.
Week of 27-Oct African Diaspora in the Americas; African-American and Native-American interactions. Thomas Jefferson on non-Europeans and assimilation.
- L. Ferguson, excerpt from Uncommon Ground: Archaeology and Early African America, 1650-1800, pp. xxi-xlv.
- J. C. Miller, The Wolf by the Ears: Thomas Jefferson and Slavery, Univ. Press of Virginia, 1991:60-78.
- V. Vogel, ed., This Country Was Ours, New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1974: 82-84 (Thomas Jefferson quotes).
Week of 03-Nov Emerging U.S. policies concerning others in the 19th Century; Northwest Ordinance; Removal Era; African-Americans and Mexican-Americans, The Republic of Texas.
- Nabokov, P. "Exiles in their own land" and other excerpts from Native American Testimony: 145-157.
- F. P. Prucha, "United States Indian Policies, 1815-1860", Handbook: 40-50.
- "Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 1831", in V. Vogel, ed., This Country Was Ours, New
York: Harper Torchbooks, 1974: 114-124.
[Second Midterm Exam, Tuesday, November 3rd]
Week of 10-Nov Indian Societies in Change; Civil War; Conquest of the Plains; Texas and southwestern policy concerning Native Americans and Mexican Americans; Emergence of the "reservation" plan. Enforced Assimilation; Native American Nadir (1920); Albert Fall.
- E. H. Spicer, "The Mexican Program" and "The Anglo-American Program" from Cycles of Conquest.
- W. T. Hagen, "United States Indian Policies, 1860-1900", Handbook: 50-65.
"Massacre of Cheyennes and Blackfeet", in V. Vogel, ed., This Country Was Ours, New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1974: 154-159.
Week of 17-Nov Changing dynamics of US Indian policy in the 20th Century; Indian New Deal; Termination
- Philleo Nash, 20th Century U. S. Government Agencies. Handbook: 264-275.
- L. C. Kelly, "United States Indian Policies, 1900-1980", Handbook: 66-80.
- "Criticism of the Indian Land Allotment Policy (Dawes Act), from the Meriam Report, 1928", and documents pertaining to the "Indian New Deal" in V. Vogel, ed., This Country Was Ours: 195-206.
Week of 24-Nov Pilgrims' Paradox: Thanksgiving lecture
(Thursday: Thanksgiving break)
- S. Wilson, "Pilgrim's Paradox", Natural History, Nov. 1991.
- L. Baca, "The Legal Status of American Indians", Handbook of North American Indians Vol. 4: History of Indian-White Relations, 1988: 230-237.
Week of 01-Dec The Emerging Milieu of Ethnic Pluralism; Hybridity and ways of defining oneself; Gambling, tribal corporatism, education; Current Issues / review. Legal Status of Native Americans; Civil Rights; Retribalization, etc.
- New York Times, "Indians become foes in bid for tribal rights", Sept. 6, 1992.
- K. O'Reilly, "American Indian Policy" USA TODAY, Jan. 1989.
- Vine Deloria, "Afterword" in America in 1492, pp. 429-443..
- P. Nabokov, ed., Native American Testimony, "What Am I" and "Gone Forever" New York: Penguin, 1992: 411-413.
Requirements: Grades will be assigned on the basis of class participation, three exams, and twelve short assignments. There are two midterm exams and a final exam. Each of the exams will count for 20% of your final grade. All of the exams will include multiple choice, identification, map, and essay questions covering material from the readings, lectures, and class discussions. The final exam will not be comprehensive. Together the short assignments count for 30% of your grade. Typically these assignments will be handed out or discussed (several of them will be web-based) on Thursdays and due the following Thursday. Your grade will be based on the ten assignments with the highest grades; the lowest two assignment grades will be dropped (so if you miss two of these assignments, you will not be penalized).
short assignments 30% first exam 20% second exam 20% attendance and class participation 10% final exam 20% total 100%
The remaining 10% of your grade will be given for attendance and class participation. This includes class attendance and your handing in short answers to questions raised by the reading. These will be handed in most Tuesdays. The questions will be handed out the previous Thursday, so you will have to do the week's reading by Tuesday.
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Students who miss exams without notifying the professor (471-0057), or the Office of the Department of Anthropology (471-4206) in advance will, under most circumstances, not be allowed to take the exam and will forfeit that portion of their grade. If you do not hand in a short assignment on the day it is due, you may hand it in the next class period. After that, the assignment will not be accepted without an adequate written explanation. Attendance and class participation make up part of your final grade, and so you would do well to consider it extremely important: roll will be taken and the exams will cover both the reading material and our discussions in class.
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Created 8/21/98, modified by SMW 8/25/98