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Anthrcul 458(03), AmCult 496(02) Navigating
Culture and History in the Pacific WINTER ‘05 Tuesday / Thursday 1:00-2:30 p.m. 1359 Mason Hall, University of Michigan
This
seminar examines how culture, identity, and history in the Pacific are produced
by movement through space and relationships to place. It emphasizes the practices of mapping, navigation, and
wayfinding. Topics include the
techniques and methods of navigation and seafaring in Micronesia and Polynesia,
mythological landscapes and European travelogues about Aboriginal Australia,
and spatial forms of history and memory in Papua New Guinea. We will visit the planetarium on campus to
learn how Micronesians navigate by the stars, visit the Museum of Anthropology
to learn how Pacific artifacts have circulated around the world, and study
videos documenting the revitalization of seafaring traditions in
Polynesia. The course encourages
students to think about travel and place-making as complementary forms of
knowledge production. We will also
consider the implications of these processes for Pacific experiences of empire,
globalization, and diaspora. Taught by
a cultural historian and an anthropologist, this interdisciplinary course will
demonstrate how Pacific ideas about places and routes can contribute to our
understandings of history and culture. Course requirements: Readings include several
monographs, a travelogue, a short text on maps, and electronic course
reserves. Regular
class attendance, informed participation, and four short papers (three of the
four topics papers are required, plus one paper based on independent research).
Late papers will be penalized. Papers submitted as email attachments will not be accepted. READINGS: Available at Shaman Drum
Bookstore (311
S. State St.) and on reserve in Shapiro
Library: ·
Chatwin,
Bruce 1987. The Songlines. New York:
Viking. ·
Finney, Ben R. 2003. Sailing
in the Wake of the Ancestors. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press. ·
Lewis,
David 1994. We, the Navigators: The
Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific. Second Edition. Honolulu:
University of Hawai’i Press. ·
Turnbull,
David 1993. Maps are Territories; Science
is an Atlas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Available online: ·
Rose,
Deborah Bird 1996. Nourishing Terrains:
Australian Aboriginal Views of Wilderness. Canberra: Australian Heritage
Commission. http://www.ahc.gov.au/publications/generalpubs/nourishing/index.html Will be made available at a local copy shop: ·
Kirsch, Stuart n.d. Indigenous
Analysis in Contemporary New Guinea. Unpublished book manuscript. Other
articles are available through electronic course reserves and CTools.
6 Jan: Introductions
·
Lim, Robin 2000. Mai. Reprinted in Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History, pp. vi. Robert Borofsky, ed. Honolulu:
University of Hawai’i Press. ·
Balaz, Joseph 2002. Moe’uhane. Reprinted in Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation
to Remake History, pp. 361. Robert
Borofsky, ed. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. 11
Jan: Mapping
the Pacific
·
Maps are Territories, pp. 1-27 ·
Ward, R. Gerard 1999. Widening
Worlds, Shrinking Worlds? The Reshaping of
Oceania. Canberra: The Australian National University. 13 Jan: Mapping
the Pacific ·
Maps are Territories, pp. 28-47. ·
Ingold,
Tim 2002. To Journey along a Way of Life: Maps, Wayfinding and Navigation. The Perception of the Environment: Essays in
Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, pp. 219-242. New York: Routledge. Optional/Grads:
·
Silverman, Eric Kline 1998. Traditional Cartography in Papua
New Guinea. In David Woodward and Malcom Lewis, eds. The History of Cartography, Vol 2, Book 3. Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Australian, and
Pacific Societies, pp. 423-442. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 18
Jan: Mapping
the Pacific
·
Maps are Territories, pp. 48-62. ·
Clifford,
James 1997. Special Practices: Fieldwork Travel, and the Disciplining of
Anthropology. Routes: Travel and
Translation in the Late Twentieth Century, pp. 52-91. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press. Optional/Grads
·
Leví-Strauss,
Claude 1977. Tristes Tropiques.
John and Dorreen Weightman, trs. New York: Pocket Books. Part Nine: The Return
(Chapters 37-40), pp. 427-474. 20 Jan: Peopling
the Pacific ·
Denoon,
Donald 1997. Chapter 2: Human Settlement. The
Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders, pp. 37-79. Donald Denoon, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
·
Kiste,
Robert C. 1994. Chapter 1: Pre-Colonial Times. The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century, pp. 3-28. K. R. Howe, et al., eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. 25
Jan: Pacific
Navigation
·
Brower, Kenneth 1983. “A Song for Satawal” in A Song for Satawal, pp. 67-155. New
York: Penguin Books. ·
Flood, William 2002. “Carolinian-Marinas
Voyaging: Continuing the Tradition.” Micronesian
Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 1(1): 48-56. Optional/Grads
·
Feinberg,
Richard 1995. Introduction: Theme and Variation in Pacific Island Seafaring. Seafaring in the Contemporary Pacific
Islands, pp. 3-13. Richard Feinberg, ed. Dekalb: Northern Illinois
University. ·
Goodenough,
Ward and Richard Feinberg 1995. Epilogue. Seafaring
in the Contemporary Pacific Islands, pp. 219-228. Richard Feinberg, ed.
Dekalb: Northern Illinois University. 27 Jan: Micronesian
Navigation
film:
The Navigators · We, the Navigators, Introduction; Chapters 1-3. 1 Feb: Micronesian
Navigation ·
We, the
Navigators, Chapters 4-5. 3 Feb: Micronesian Naviagation
Visit to the Planetarium, Ruthven Museum
Building (1109 Geddes Ave.)
·
We, the
Navigators, Chapters 6-9 8 Feb: Micronesian Navigation
·
We, the
Navigators, Chapters 10-11. Optional/Grads:
·
Frake, Charles O. 1985. “Cognitive maps of Time and Tides
among Medieval Seafarers.” Man 20(2):
254-270. ·
Gell, Alfred 1985. “How to Read a Map: Remarks on the
Practical Logic of Navigation.” Man 20(2):
271-286. 10 Feb: Dreaming
Australian Landscapes ·
Songlines, pp.
1-89. ·
Rose,
Deborah Bird 1996. Nourishing Terrains: Australian Aboriginal Views of
Wilderness. Canberra: Australian Heritage Commission. Introduction and Chapters
1-3, pp. 1-33. Available online: http://www.ahc.gov.au/publications/generalpubs/nourishing/index.html 15 Feb: Dreaming Australian
Landscapes Paper on Micronesian
navigation due
·
Songlines, pp.
90-162. ·
Nourishing
Terrain, Chapters 4-5, pp. 35-61
17 Feb: Dreaming
Australian Landscapes
film: Bush Mechanics (2001 series, David Batty, see www.bushmechanics.com
). “In this blend of documentary and drama, the bush mechanics from the remote
Aboriginal Walbiri community of Yuendumu are presented with a new set of
challenges in each episode--catching a car thief, getting a nephew out of jail,
racing to an outback rock concert and traveling thousands of miles to gather
pearl shells for a rainmaking ceremony. As they traverse the desert in their
dilapidated vehicles, they solve multiple car problems with wacky and inventive
bush repair techniques.” ·
Songlines, pp.
163-223. Optional/Grads: ·
Ginsburg,
Faye (1997). “ ‘From Little Things, Big Things Grow’: Indigenous Media and
Cultural Activism” in Richard G. Fox and Orin Starn, Between Resistance and Revolution: Cultural Politics and Social Protest,
pp. 118-44. New Brunswick: Rutgers
University Press. 22 Feb: Dreaming
Australian Landscapes
·
Songlines, pp. 224-294. ·
Nourishing
Terrain, Chapters 6-8, pp. 63-87
Optional/Grads:
·
Morphy, Howard 1993.
Colonialism, History and the Construction of Place: The Politics of Landscape
in Northern Australia. In Landscape: Politics and Perspectives, pp.
205-243. Barbara Bender, ed. Oxford: Berg. 24 Feb: Dreaming
Australian Landscapes Visit to the Anthropology Museum, Ruthven Museum (1109 Geddes Ave). ·
Durkheim, Émile 1912. The
Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, excerpted in Reader in Comparative Religion, pp. 31-35. William A. Lessa and
Evon Z. Vogt, eds. Fourth Edition. New York: Harper and Row. ·
Thomas, Nicholas 1991. The European Appropriation of
Indigenous Things. In Entangled Objects:
Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific, pp. 125-184.
Cambridge: University of Harvard Press. 1-3 Mar: No class:
Winter Break 8 Mar: Rediscovering
Polynesia
·
Finney, Sailing in the Wake of the Ancestors,
pp. TBA 10
Mar: Rediscovering
Polynesia ; Australian ‘Dreaming’ paper due
film: Wayfinders
of the Pacific
·
Finney,
Sailing in the Wake of the Ancestors,
pp. TBA 15 Mar: Rediscovering
Polynesia
·
Finney, Sailing in the Wake of the Ancestors,
pp. TBA 17 Mar: Rediscovering
Polynesia; Proposal for independent research paper due film:
The Voyage Home ·
Finney,
Sailing in the Wake of the Ancestors, pp. TBA 22 Mar: Pacific
Diasporas
film: Sacred Vessels: Navigating Tradition and Identity in
Micronesia
·
Diaz, Vicente M. n.d.
Sacred Vessels: Carolinian Navigation as Critique and Aesthetic. Optional/grad students: ·
Teaiwa, Teresia. 1997. Yaqona/Yagona: Roots and Routes of
a Displaced Native. Dreadlocks in Oceania
1: 7-13. S. Mishra and E. Guy, eds. Suva: Department of Literature and Language,
University of the South Pacific.
24 Mar: Pacific Diasporas ·
Diaz, Vicente M. 2001. Fight Boys. Pacific Diaspora: Island Peoples in the United States and across the Pacific,
pp. 169-195. Paul Spickard, Joanne Rondilla and Deborah Hippolite-Wright,
eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
29 Mar: Culture
and History in Melanesia Paper
on Polynesian rediscovery due ·
Kirsch, Indigenous
Analysis, Introduction and Chapter 1: Historical Encounters 31 Mar: Culture
and History in Melanesia
·
Kirsch, Indigenous
Analysis, Chapter 2: The
Enchantment of Place ·
Thoreau,
Henry David 1943. Walden. The Ponds,
pp. 153-176. New York: E.P. Duttone & Co. 5 April: Culture
and History in Melanesia ·
Kirsch, Indigenous
Analysis, Chapter 3: Unrequited
Reciprocity and Chapter 4: Sorcery
and the Mine 7 April: Culture
and History in Melanesia Independent research paper due ·
Kirsch, Indigenous
Analysis, Chapter 5: Mythical
Encounters Optional/grad students: · Van Heekeren, Deborah 2004
‘Don’t Tell the Crocodile’ An Existentialist View of Melanesian Myth. Critique of Anthropology 24(4): 430-454. 12 April: Culture
and History in Melanesia · Kirsch, Indigenous Analysis, Chapter 6: Divining Violence 14
April: Culture
and History in Melanesia
·
Kirsch,
Indigenous Analysis, Chapter 7: Loss and the Future Imagined 19 April: Conclusions; Paper on Melanesian culture and history due ·
Hau’ofa, Epeli 1994. Our Sea of Islands. The Contemporary Pacific 6(1): 147-61. ·
Sahlins, Marshall 1993. Goodbye to Triste Tropes: Ethnography in the Context of Modern World History. Journal of Modern History 65: 1-25. Upload: 1/12/2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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