Douglas Caulkins
Office Hours: Office Hours: TTh 10:30-12:00 & MWF 10:30-11:30
ANT 247 Contemporary Western Europe, Fall, 2002
Course Objectives: An exploration of anthropological topics in the study of Europe. Traditionally, anthropology has been defined as the study of non-EuroAmerican “others”. The first anthropological studies in Europe thus focused on “traditional” and “peripheral” peoples. Anthropological studies in Europe now cover a wider range of topics: centers as well as peripheries; class; politics of gender and identity; politics, social capital and power; regional development, migration, guest-workers, diasporic communities, ethnicity, and the production nationalism, nationalist movements, and national identity, transnationalism and transnational institutions such as the European Community, and the politics of heritage. The title of this course is an artifact of the geopolitical circumstances before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Part of the goal of this course is to dissolve the category of “Western” Europe.
Required Books
Michael Herzfeld, 1985 (reprinted 1988). Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village. Princeton University Press
Ward, Martha C. 1993 The Hidden Life of Tirol. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press
Berdahl, Daphne 1999 Where the World Ended:Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland. Berkeley: University of California Press
Rapport, Nigel (editor), 2002 British Subjects : An Anthropology of Britain. Oxford: Berg.
Course Requirements
1. Discussion leading, with one page “response note” on the set of readings for the day by discussion leader(s). (20 points) Discussion leading will rotate through the class several times.
2. Synthesis paper of 7-10 pages after midterm. Due October 30. (25 points)
3. Research Paper, preferably involving field data if you have experience living in Europe, or dealing with some issue covered in this course. See the list of topics above for a start. Additional topics can be arranged with permission of the instructor.. (35 points for paper; 10 points for presentation in class.) Because the common readings for the course are relatively light, extensive reading--at least 300 pages--is expected in the preparation for the research paper. A bibliography should be submitted before fall break, with an outline due before Thanksgiving break.
4. Participation in class discussion (10 points)
Reading Assignments:
M 9/ 2: Anthropology Comes Part-Way Home: Community Studies in Europe
John W. Cole
Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 6. (1977), pp. 349-378.
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0084-6570%281977%292%3A6%3C349%3AACPHCS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
W 9/3 Douglas Caulkins, Norwegians: Cooperative Individualists.
Historic Peasantries and Contemporary Cultural Adaptation to Tourism
F 9/6 Martha Ward, The Hidden Life of Tirol, Introduction & Chapter 1
M 9/9 Martha Ward, The Hidden Life of Tirol, Chapter 2
W 9/11 Martha Ward, The Hidden Life of Tirol, Chapter 3
Film Hoffman, Kyseli: A Divided Reality
F 9/13 Martha Ward, The Hidden Life of Tirol, Chapter 3 (continued)
Film Hoffman, Kyseli: A Divided Reality (continued)
M 9/16 Martha Ward, The Hidden Life of Tirol, Chapter 4 & 5
W 9/18 Martha Ward, The Hidden Life of Tirol, Chapter 6 & 7
F 9/20 Martha Ward, The Hidden Life of Tirol, Chapter 8 and
The Current Tide in American Europeanist Anthropology: From Margin to Centre?
Robert C. Ulin
Anthropology Today, Vol. 7, No. 6. (Dec., 1991), pp. 8-12.
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0268-540X%28199112%297%3A6%3C8%3ATCTIAE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
Local Resistance and Poetics of Gender
M 9/23 Michael Herzfeld, Poetics of Manhood: Preface and Chapter 1
W 9/25 Michael Herzfeld, Poetics of Manhood: Chapter 2
F 9/27 Michael Herzfeld, Poetics of Manhood: Chapter 4
M 9/30 Michael Herzfeld, Poetics of Manhood: Chapter 5
W 10/2 Michael Herzfeld, Poetics of Manhood: Chapter 6
F 10/4 Michael Herzfeld, Poetics of Manhood: Chapter 7-8
Nationalism, Regionalism, Ethnicity, and Rituals of State
M 10/7 Nigel Rapport: British Subjects: Introduction, Chapters 1 & 3
W 10/9 Nigel Rapport: British Subjects: Chapter 2
Drama and Politics in the Development of a London Carnival
Abner Cohen Man, New Series, Vol. 15, No. 1. (Mar., 1980), pp. 65-87.
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F 10/11 Nigel Rapport: British Subjects: Introduction to Part III, Chapters 4 &5
M 10/14 1999 Anna Painter and Douglas Caulkins, "Work and Success in a De-industrialized Region of England."Anthropology of Work Review. Vol XIX, No. 4 (23-28) and
2000 Douglas Caulkins, Anna Painter, and Tanya Hedges “Regional Identity and the Prospect of Devolution in Northeast England: A Method for Cross-Regional Comparison.” For World Cultures: Journal of Comparative and Cross-Cultural Research. 11 (2):121-137.
W 10/15 1999 D.Douglas Caulkins and Elaine S.Weiner, “Enterprise and Resistance in the Celtic Fringe: High Growth, Low Growth and No Growth Firms,” In Local Enterprise on the North Atlantic Margin : Selected Contributions to the Fourteenth International Seminar on Marginal Regions, Reginald Byron and John Hutson, editors. Ashgate Aldershot. U.K. (191-204).
F 10/18 Nigel Rapport: British Subjects Chapter 12
Fall Break: Have a great time!
M 10/28 Nigel Rapport: British Subjects, Chapters 7 & 9
W 10/30 Nigel Rapport: British Subjects, Introduction to VI, Chapter 13
F 11/1 Nigel Rapport: British Subjects, Chapters 14, 15, Epilogue
M 11/4 Talking Culture: New Boundaries, New Rhetorics of Exclusion in Europe
Verena Stolcke
Current Anthropology, Vol. 36, No. 1, Special Issue: Ethnographic Authority and Cultural Explanation. (Feb., 1995), pp. 1-24.
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W 11/6 2001 Douglas Caulkins “Consensus, Clines, and Edges in Celtic Cultures.” Cross-Cultural Research.35 (2):109-126.
Celtic Ethnic Kinship and the Problem of Being English
Maryon McDonald
Current Anthropology, Vol. 27, No. 4. (Aug. - Oct., 1986), pp. 333-347.
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Assimilation Theory and Celtic Ethnicity (in Research Conclusions)
John O'Brien
Current Anthropology, Vol. 23, No. 2. (Apr., 1982), p. 196.
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0011-3204%28198204%2923%3A2%3C196%3AATACE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R
F 11/8 Historical Perspectives on Scandinavian Peasantries
Orvar Lofgren
Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 9. (1980), pp. 187-215.
Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0084-6570%281980%292%3A9%3C187%3AHPOSP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E
From Obedience to Negotiation: Dilemmas in the Transmission of Values Between Generations in Norway.
Marianne Gullestad
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 2, No. 1. (Mar., 1996), pp. 25-42.
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M 11/11 Daphne Berdahl: Where the World Ended, Introduction, Chapter 1
W 11/13 Daphne Berdahl: Where the World Ended, Chapter 2
F 11/15 Daphne Berdahl: Where the World Ended, Chapter 3
M 11/18 Daphne Berdahl: Where the World Ended, Chapter 4
W 11/20 Daphne Berdahl: Where the World Ended, Chapter 5
F 11/22 Daphne Berdahl: Where the World Ended, Chapter 6
M 11/25 Daphne Berdahl: Where the World Ended, Chapter 7 & Epilogue
W 11/27 Inventing the 'People's Europe': Critical Approaches to European Community 'Cultural Policy'
Cris Shore
Man, New Series, Vol. 28, No. 4. (Dec., 1993), pp. 779-800.
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The European Communities: And the Construction of Europe
Cris Shore, Annabel Black
Anthropology Today, Vol. 8, No. 3. (Jun., 1992), pp. 10-11.
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M 12/2 Claims to Macedonian Identity: The Macedonian Question and the Breakup of Yugoslavia
Loring M. Danforth
Anthropology Today, Vol. 9, No. 4. (Aug., 1993), pp. 3-10.
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W 12/4 Student presentations
F 12/6 Student presentations
M 12/9 Student presentations
W 12/11 Student presentations
F 12/13 Summary