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Readings by class session.

Required Books

Wade, Peter. Race, Nature, and Culture. London, UK: Pluto Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780745314549.

Gladney, Dru. Ethnic Identity in China. The Making of a Muslim Minority Nationality. Wadsworth Publishing; 1 edition, 1997. ISBN: 9780155019706.

Nagel, Joane. American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780195080537.

Supplementary Reading

Supplementary Reading: Tibet

French, Howard W. "Shangri-La no more: the dragons have settled in." New York Times, December 8, 2004.

Eckholm, Erik. "From a Chinese cell, a lama's influence remains undimmed." New York Times, February 23, 2003.

Supplementary Reading: China

Smith, Craig S. "Risking limbs for height, and success, in China." New York Times, May 5, 2002.

Yardley, Jim. "China frees Muslim woman days ahead of Rice's visit." New York Times, March 18, 2005, A5.

Supplementary Reading: Japan

Onishi, Norimitsu. "Born to be a foreigner in her motherland." New York Times, April 2, 2005.

Supplementary Reading: Mexico

Thompson, Ginger. "Uneasily, a Latin land looks at its own complexion." New York Times, May 19, 2005.

Supplementary Reading: Quebec Separatism

Krauss, Clifford. "Quebec seeking to end its old cultural divide." New York Times, April 13, 2003, A6.

Supplementary Reading: Kurds

Zoepf, Katherine. "After decades as nonpersons, Syrian Kurds may soon be recognized." New York Times, April 28, 2005.

Supplementary Reading: Gypsies

Spritzer, Dinah A. "Often shunted into special schools, Gypsies are fighting back in Czech court." New York Times, April 27, 2005, A19.

Wood, Nicholas. "Germany sending Gypsy refugees back to Kosovo." New York Times, May 19, 2005.

Supplementary Reading: Native Americans

Various. "For this cooin, it's three heads and one tail." New York Times, March 6, 2005, A26.

Klinkenborg, Verlyn. "The (old) buffalo nickel." New York Times, March 6, 2005, A12.

Supplementary Reading: Gender/Ethno-racial Identity/Nationalism

Nelson, Diane. "Perpetual creation and decomposition: bodies, gender and desire in assumptions mestizaje." Journal of Latin American Anthropology 4, no. 1 (1998): 74-111.

Cadena, Marisol de la. "Ambiguity and Contradiction in the Analysis of Race and the State." Journal of Latin American Anthropology 6, no. 2 (2001): 252-266.

Supplementary Reading: The Question of Biologically Defined Race

Leroi, Armand Marie. "A family tree in every gene." New York Times, March 14, 2005.

Daly, Emma. "DNA test gives students ethnic shocks." New York Times, May 13, 2005, A18.

Supplementary Reading Ethno-Racial Profiling

Murphy, Dean E. "Case stirs fight on Jews, juries and execution." New York Times, March 16, 2005, A1.

Supplementary Reading: White Supremacy Groups U.S.

Johnson, Kirk. "New Tactics, Tools and Goals are Emerging for White Power Organizations." New York Times, April 6, 2005, A13.

Supplementary Reading: Ethnic Conflict and Violence

Eakin, Emily. "On the dark side of democracy: often, free markets and elections lead to ethnic violence." New York Times, January 31, 2004.

Supplementary Reading: Cultural Recovery Movements

Merry, Sally. "Law, Culture, and Cultural Appropriation." Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 10, no. 2 (1998): 575-603.

Supplementary Reading: Ethnic Tourism

Bruner, Edward. "The Maasai and the Lion King." American Ethnologist 28, no. 4 (November 2001): 881-908.

Supplementary Reading: Neoliberalism

Krugman, Paul. "The Ugly American Bank." New York Times, March 18, 2005.

Readings by Class Session

Course readings.
Lec #	Topics	Readings
1	Introduction to the Study of Ethnic and National Identity: The Stakes, and Why the Stakes are So High
2	Ethnic Identity I	Begin: Gladney. pp. 1-23. Nagel. pp. 3-13. Eriksen, Thomas. "What is ethnicity?" In Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives. London, UK: Pluto Press, 1993, pp. 1-17. ISBN: 9780745307015.
3	Ethnic Identity II	Gladney. pp. 25-54. Nagel. pp. 19-33.
4	Ethnic Identity III: The Hui	Gladney. pp. 57-132.
5	Nation and Nationalism I	Hobsbawm, Eric. "Introduction: Nation as Novelty." In Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 1- 45. ISBN: 9780521406789.
6	Nation and Nationalism II	Gladney. pp. 135-176. Clay, Jason. "What's a nation? latest thinking." In Talking About People: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Anthropology. Edited by William A. Haviland, and Robert J. Gordon. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1993, pp. 221-222. ISBN: 9781559341417. [Originally published in Mother Jones 15, no. 7, 28-30]
7	Ethnicity, State, Nation	Eriksen. "Nationalism." In Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives. London, UK: Pluto Press, 1993, pp. 97-120. ISBN: 9780745307015. Segal, Daniel, and Richard Handler. "How European is nationalism?" Social Analysis 32 (1992): 1-15.
8	State, Nation, Culture	Schein, Louisa. "The consumption of color and the politics of white skin in post-Mao China." In The Gender/Sexuality Reader. Edited by Roger Lancaster, and Micaela Di Leonardo. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, 473-486. ISBN: 9780415910057. Gupta, Akhil, and James Ferguson. "Beyond 'culture': space, identity and the politics of difference." Cultural Anthropology 7, no. 1 (1992): 6-23. Urla, Jacqueline. "Contesting modernities: Language standardization and the production of an ancient modern Basque culture." Critique of Anthropology 13, no. 2 (1993): 101-118.
9	Culture: Definitions	Wilson, Ara. "American catalogues of Asian brides." In Anthropology for the Nineties, Introductory Readings. Edited by Johnnetta B. Cole. New York, NY: Free Press, 1988, pp. 114-124 (written for this volume). ISBN: 9780029064412. Harrison, Simon. "Identity as a scarce resource." Social Anthropology 7, no. 3 (1999): 239-251. Nagel. "Constructing culture," and "Deconstructing ethnicity." pp. 43-54, and 60-72.
10	Ethnic/State Conflict	Video: Aghion, Anne. Gacaca, 2002. (55 minutes) Fadiman, Anne. "War." In The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures. 1st ed. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, pp. 119-139. ISBN: 9780374525644. Eller, Jack. "Rwanda and Burundi: When Two Tribes Go to War?" In From Culture to Ethnicity to Conflict: An Anthropological Perspective on International Ethnic Conflict. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1999, pp. 195-241. ISBN: 9780472085385.
11	Ethnic/State Conflict II	Video: Genocide: The Ultimate Terrorism. Stephen, Lynn. "The construction of indigenous 'suspects': militarization and the gendered and ethnic dimensions of human rights abuses in Southern Mexico." American Ethnologist 26, no. 4 (2000): 822-842. Levi, Jerrold. "Hidden transcripts among the Rarámuri: culture, resistance, and interethnic relations in northern Mexico." American Ethnologist 26, no. 1 (1999): 90-113.
12	Race I	Wade. "Defining race," "Existing approaches to race," and "Historicising racialized natures." pp. 1-15, 16-36, and 37-68.
13	Race II	Wade. "Genetics and kinship: the interpenetration of nature and culture," "Race, nature and culture," and "Embodying racialised natures." pp. 69-96, 97-111, and 112-122.
14	Ethnic Identity, Nationalism and Gender	Cadena, Marisol de la. "Women are more Indian: Ethnicity and gender in a community near Cuzco." In Ethnicity, Markets and Migration in the Andes: At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology. Edited by Brooke Larson, Olivia Harris, and Enrique Tandeter. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995, pp. 329-348. ISBN: 9780822316473. Smith, Carol. "Race, class, gender ideology in Guatemala: modern and anti-modern forms." In Women Out of Place: The Gender of Agency and the Race of Nationality. Edited by Brackette Williams. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996, pp. 50-78. ISBN: 9780415914970.
15	Ethnic Identity, State, and Sexuality	Nagel, Joane. "Sex and nationalism: sexually imagined communities." In Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality: Intimate Intersections, Forbidden Frontiers. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 140-176. ISBN: 9780195127478. Stoler, Ann. "Carnal knowledge and imperial power, gender, race and morality in colonial Asia." In Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era. Edited by Micaela Di Leonardo. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991, pp. 13-31. ISBN: 9780520070936. Heng, Geraldine, and Janadas Devan. "State fatherhood: the politics of nationalism, sexuality, and race in Singapore." In The Gender/Sexuality Reader. Edited by Roger Lancaster, and Micaela Di Leonardo. New York, NY: Routledge, 1995, pp. 107-121. ISBN: 9780415910057.
16	Religion, Ethnicity, The Nation	Ong, Aihwa. "State versus Islam: Malay families, women's bodies, and the body politic in Malaysia." American Ethnologist 17, no. 2 (1990): 258-276. Malarney, Shaun Kingsley. "The limits of 'state functionalism' and the reconstruction of funerary ritual in contemporary northern Vietnam." American Ethnologist 23, no. 3 (1996): 540-561.
17	Language, Culture, Ethnicity	Stavenhagen, Rodolfo. "Language and social identity." In Talking About People: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Anthropology. Edited by William A. Haviland, and Robert J. Gordon. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1993. 41-43. ISBN: 9781559341417. [Originally published in United Nations. Work in Progress 13, no. 2 (December 1990)] Whiteley, Peter. "Do 'language rights' serve indigenous interests? Some Hopi and other queries." American Anthropologist 105, no. 4 (2003): 712-722. Hill, Jane. "Language, race, and white public space." American Anthropologist 100, no. 3 (1999): 680-689.
18	State, Culture, Nation	Handler, Richard. "On having a culture: nationalism and the preservation of Quebec's patrimoine." In Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture. Edited by George W. Stocking, Jr. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985, pp. 192-215. ISBN: 9780299103200. Malkki, Liisa. "National geographic: the rooting of peoples and the territorialization of national identity among scholars and refugees." Cultural Anthropology 7, no. 1 (1992): 24-44.
19	Culture Recovery	Nagel. "American Indian population growth: changing patterns of Indian ethnic identification," and "The politics of American Indian ethnicity: solving the puzzle of Indian ethnic resurgence." pp. 83-105, and 113-141.
20	Culture: Appropriations, Heritage, "Selling Culture"	Video: White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men. Nagel. "Red Power: reforging identity and culture," and "Renewing culture and community." pp. 158-178, and 187-205.
21	Human Rights, Collective Rights	Messer, Ellen. "Anthropologists in a world with and without human rights." In Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines. Edited by Jeremy MacClancy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp. 319-334. ISBN: 9780226500133. Schirmer, Jennifer. "The looting of democratic discourse by the Guatemalan military: implications for human rights." In Constructing Democracy: Human Rights, Citizenship, and Society in Latin America. Edited by Elizabeth Jelin, and Eric Hershberg. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, pp. 85-97. ISBN: 9780813324395. Nagel. "Reconstructing federal Indian policy: from termination to self-determination," and "The problematics of American Indian ethnicity." pp. 213-228, and 234-248.
22	New Social Movements: The Indigenous Movement	Video: Stolen Generations: Genocide and the Aborigines. Warren, Kay, and Jean Jackson, eds. "Introduction: studying indigenous activism in Latin America." In Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2003, pp. 1-46. ISBN: 9780292791411.
23	Transnationalism, Globalization and Culture	Appadurai, Arjun. "Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy." Public Culture 2, no. 2 (1991): 1-24. Verdery, Katherine. "Transnationalism, nationalism, citizenship, and property: Eastern Europe since 1989." American Ethnologist 25, no. 2 (1998): 291-306.
24	Summing Up	Video: The Master Race. Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. "Anthropology and the savage slot." In Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present. Edited by Richard Fox. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1991, pp. 17-44. ISBN: 9780933452787. Tania, Li. "Articulating indigenous identity in Indonesia: resource politics and the tribal slot." Comparative Study of Society and History 42, no. 1 (2000): 149-179.
25	Student Reports	Lewis, Herbert. "Jewish ethnicity in Israel: ideologies, policies, and outcomes." In Ethnicity and the State. Edited by Judith Toland. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1992, pp. 201-29. ISBN: 9781560006176. El-Haj, Abu. "Translating truths: Nationalism, the practice of archaeology, and the remaking of past and present in contemporary Jerusalem." American Ethnologist 25, no. 2 (1998): 166-188.
26	Student Reports (cont.)	Video: Without Due Process: Japanese Americans and World War II.