NOTE: PowerPoint lecture is posted by date on the "Reading Assignment" page
| Week 1 |
"Introduction" in Textbook (Introductions - form for use in first section meeting) |
| Week 2 |
On the Merits of Racial Identity. Tomas Sandoval (if this link doesn't work, link to this one on the course website "People in Me," Robin D. G. Kelley, Utne Reader 95 (Sept/Oct) 1999, pp. 79-81. (brief biography) |
| Week 3 |
"Racializing Latinos in the United States: Toward a New Research Paradigm," Suzanne Oboler. In Identities on the Move: Transnational Processes in North America and the Caribbean Basin, edited by Liliana R. Goldin. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, University at Albany, New York, dist. by University of Texas Press, 1999, pp. 45-68. "Race: Mississippi Summer 2000." Text to accompany filmed "field notes," Jane Adams. See link for video, transcript of video, text, and additional information. |
WEEKS 4-6. FAMILY
| Week 4 |
"Introduction - Family" in Textbook "Speaking of Indians," Chapter 1. Ella Deloria, University of Nebraska Press, 1998, Reprint of 1944 edition. |
I. Different kinds of kinship
| Week 5 |
"African American Families," by Beverly Greene, National Forum, Phi Kappa Phi Journal, Su 1995 v. 75 i. 3, pp. 29- "For many blacks, family tree long splintered," by Margaret L. Usdansky. USA Today, Jan. 17, 1994,p. 7A |
II. Families in the public sphere
| Week 6 |
"Infighting in San Francisco: Anthropology in Family Court," Barbara Joans. Practicing Anthropology 19:4, 1997:10-13. Three arguments regarding same-sex marriage, with Introduction: "Why Not Gay Marriage?" Charles Coleson, Christianity Today, 40(12,1996):104 "Most Compelling Reasons for Legal Marriage", Demian, 1997, www.buddybuddy.com/toc.html "Wedding blitz," J.D. Tuccille, July 9, 2000, www.free-market.net/spotlight/same-sex/ |
| MIDTERM EXAM |
WEEKS 7-9. MAKING A LIVING - LIFE CHANCES
| Week 7 |
Instructions on using EBSCO and Lexis-Nexis (for Project) |
| Week 8 |
"Confederate Lane" Jane Adams and D. Gorton. "Trail of Broken Dreams," by Laura Putre. Cleveland Scene November 23, 2000. www.clevescene.com/issues/2000-11-23/feature.html/printable_pages |
| Week 9 | SPRING BREAK [spring semester] |
| Week 9 (fall) WEEK 10 (Spring) |
"¿El Señor la Señora? Gender and Participation in
|
WEEKS 11-13. HEALTH CARE
Model report for project
| Week 10 (fall) Week 11 (spring) |
Introduction to Health Unit Reducing Diabetes in Indian Country: Lessons from the Three Domains Influencing Pima Diabetes by Carolyn M Smith-Morris, Human Organization 63, no. 1 (Spring 2004):34-46 Movie: "Fat." (Library cannot hold my edited copy of the film on Reserve due to copyright laws). For the transcript, go to this web site. Video home page is here. "Traditional Environment Protects Against Diabetes in Pima Indians." Leslie O. Schulz "Mirror, Mirror: A summary of research findings on body image." Social Issues Research Centre, Oxford, England. www.sirc.org/publik/mirror.html |
| Week 11 (fall) Week 12 (spring) |
"Christian Science Healing of Minor Children: Spiritual Exemption Statutes, First Amendment Rights and Fair Notice." Janna C. Merrick. "I Refuse to Doubt: An Inuit Healer Finds a Listener," by Edith Turner. In Bridges to Humanity: Narratives on Anthropology and Friendship, edited by Bruce Grindal and Frank Salamone. Waveland Press, 1995, pp. 231-251. |
| Week 12 (fall) Week 13 (spring) |
"Hmong Refugees and the US Health System."" Mary Jo Beghtol. Cultural Survival Quarterly 1988, 12(1):11-14. More on the Hmong Video: Between Two Worlds: Hmong Shaman in America. Directed and Edited by Taggart Siegel ; produced by Taggart Siegel and Dwight Conquergood. On reserve in Library |
WEEKS 14-16. RELIGION
| Week 13 (fall) Week 14 (spring) |
Introduction to the Unit in Text "America's Many Religions," Chronicle of Higher Education, June 9, 1995. “The Race of the Saints: An Italian Religious Festival in Jesup, Pennsylvania.” Donald E. Byrne, Jr. |
Week 14 is Thanksgiving Break fall semester
| Week 15 |
"Out of Africa-Into the Mississippi Delta: African Missionaries to the Mississppi Delta" video and interpretations Tanya M. Luhrmann, Metakinesis: How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary |
| Week 16 |
C. Jeffrey Jacobson, Jr., “¿Espiritus? No. Pero la Maldad Existe”: Supernaturalism, Religious Change, and the Problems of Evil in Puerto Rican Folk Religion. Ethos 31(3, 2003):434-467. Wrap up |
WEEK 17. FINAL EXAM.
CHECK THE FINAL EXAM WEB SITE TO OBTAIN EXAM TIMES: http://registrar.siu.edu/records/exam.htm
| Secs. 1-6 | |
| Secs. 7-10 | |
| Secs. 11-12 (Meet 6:00-6:50 TR) |
© Jane Adams 2008
