contact 2008 schedule

	Cultures in Contact ANT 326L (30410) Spring, 2008 Samuel M. Wilson
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week of 14 Jan.	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 Lawrence Wright, "One Drop of Blood", New Yorker, July 25, 1994 Fernand Braudel "Europe: Geography and Freedom", in A History of Civilizations, 1994: pp. 304-322.
21 Jan.	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	Activity 1 film: Surviving Columbus
28 Jan.	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: 140-4 Miguel León-Portilla, "Men of Maize" In America in 1492, pp. 147-175	Activity 2
4 Feb.	The Onset of Western Exploration; Italian City-states' dilemma; Columbian Voyages; Conquest of the Caribbean Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers, New York: Vintage Books, 1983: 116-128 S. Wilson, Hispaniola, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990: 35-73.	Activity 3 film: Crusades
11 Feb.	Entradas and tools of conquest. Explorations of Cortés, Pizarro, Coronado, De Soto. 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. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1956: 197-225
18 Feb.	Overall Colonial Strategies / Patterns of Exploitation; Spanish; French; Case Study: the prehistory and history of the Caddo People. 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	Exam 1 (Thurs) Activity 4 (Tues)
25 Feb.	Colonial strategies of the English and French in North America and elsewhere; Portuguese; Dutch; Swedish; German, and others 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.	Activity 5 film: Imagining Indians
3 Mar.	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 D. Leach, "Colonial Indian Wars", Handbook: 128-43 Nabokov, Chapter 5	Activity 6
10 Mar.	Spring Break
17 Mar.	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).	Activity 7
24 Mar.	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. Chapter 7 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	Activity 8 film: Black Indians
31 Mar	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. Nabokov Chapters 9 and 10	Activity 9 Exam 2 (Thurs)
7 Apr.	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. Nabokov chapters 15 and 16	Activity 10
14 Apr.	The Emerging Milieu of Ethnic Pluralism; Ways of defining identity; Gambling, tribal corporatism, education; Current Issues / review. Legal Status of Native Americans; Civil Rights; Retribalization, etc. Nabokov Chapters 18 and 19	Activity 11 film: Return of Navajo Boy
21 Apr.	Current situation Baca, The Legal Status of American Indians Vine Deloria, "Afterword" in America in 1492, pp. 429-443..	Activity 12
28 Apr.	Last week Wilcomb Washburn, 1996, "The Native American Renaissance, 1960-1995" in The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Nabokov Chapter 20.
wilson anthro UT 1/08		Final Exam -

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