603 Schedule -- Spring 2008

Course Schedule Spring 2008
**revised on 3/8/08**
WEEKS / DATE	Readings // Viewings	Due
1:Jan 22	Introductions and Overview of the Course
2: Jan 29	Madison, Critical Ethnography [CE], Ch's 1 & 2 603 Reader [RDR]: Bruner, "Experience and its Expressions," The Anthropology of Experience. Ed Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner. Chicago: U. of Illinois Press, 1986. 3-30. Turner, "Dewey, Dilthey, & Drama," The Anthropology of Experience. Ed Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner. Chicago: U. of Illinois Press, 1986. 33-44. Bruner, "Ethnography as Narrative," The Anthropology of Experience. Ed Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner. Chicago: U. of Illinois Press, 1986. 139-55. online: Dwight Conquergood "Performing as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of the Ethnography of Performance," Literature in Performance 5, (April 1985): 1-13. in class: View That All May be One by Karen Kearns. Guest: Karen Kearns	Discussion Questions [DQs] to be posted weekly by Sunday midnight
3: Feb 5	[CE] chapters 3-5 online: Dwight Conquergood, "Of Caravans and Carnivals: Performance Studies in Motion.” The Drama Review [TDR] 39,4 (Winter 1995): 137-41. Conquergood, “Poetics, Play, Process and Power: The Performative Turn in Anthropology.” Review Essay. Text and Performance Quarterly 1 (1989): 82-95.	DQs
4: Feb. 12	[CE] chapters 6 & 7 Goodall, Writing the New Ethnography [WNE]: Preface, chapters 1 & 2	DQs
5: Feb 19	Research Plan - Presentations and discussion	Research Plan - post and hand in hard copy
6: Feb. 26	[RDR] Madison, "Dwight Conquergood's 'Rethinking Ethnography'," Sage Handbook of PS.ed. D.S. Madison & Judith Hamera. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006. 347-49. online: Conquergood, "Rethinking Ethnography: Towards a Critical Cultural Politics," Communication Monographs 58 (1991): 174-94. [RDR] Rosaldo, "Grief and the Headhunter's Rage," Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989, 1993. 1-21. Rosaldo, "Putting Culture into Motion," Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989, 1993. 91-108. Rosaldo,"Border Crossings," Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989, 1993. 196-217.	DQs
7: March 4	Guest: Marc Rich, Ph.D., CSU Long Beach: Considering the role of ritual in ethnography and performance. [WNE] chapter 3 online: Marc D. Rich, "Memory Circles: The Implications of (Not) Grieving at Cancer Camps," Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 31:5 (2002) 548-81. [RDR] Geertz, "Being There: Anthropology and the Scene of Writing," Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Stanford University Press, 1988. 1-24. Geertz, "Being Here: Whose Life is it Anyway?" Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Stanford University Press, 1988. 129-49.	DQs
8: Mar 11 view Broken Circles	[CE] chapters 8 & 9 [RDR] Olorisa Omi Osun Olomo (Joni L. Jones), "Introduction: Perf. & Ethnography, Performing Ethnography, Performance Ethnography," Sage Handbook of Performance Studies. ed. D.S. Madison & Judith Hamera. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006. 339-45. online: Joni L. Jones, "The Self as Other: Creating the Role of Joni the Ethnographer for Broken Circles," TPQ 16 (April 1996): 131-54. Jones, “Performing Osun Without Bodies: Documenting the Osun Festival in Print.” Text & Performance Quarterly, 17, 1 (Jan1997): 69-94. Jones, Joni L. “Performance Ethnography: The Role of Embodiment in Cultural Authenticity.” Theatre Topics 12, 1 (2002) : 1-15.	DQs
9:	SPRING BREAK -- **revised schedule below	revised:
10: March 25	[WNE] chapters 4 & 5 review [CE] Ch. 8 & 9 also review [WNE] ch. 3 -- use the writing assignment detailed on p.129 to develop your workshop script performance workshop	instead of DQs: post on the newsgroup a brief (2-4 min) script based on your fieldwork (everyone print these out & bring to class) hand in fieldwork journal
11: April 1	staging and performance workshop Dwight Conquergood, "Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Perf., Communication, & Culture," TDR 32,3 (1988) 174-208. Della Pollock,"Memory, Remembering, and Histories of Change: A Performance Praxis," Sage Handbook of Performance Studies, ed. Madison & Hamera. Sage, 2006: 87-105.	bring in apx 1 minute of recorded ambient sound [not from an interview; just the sounds of the site] from your fieldwork also prepare #3 warm-up from [CE] p.218 to develop in class
12: April 8	carefully read through the 1-hour ethnographies posted the 1st week; you can use any of this material for the script &/or the writing experiment [WNE] p. 150-151 - do one of the writing experiments & post it write a 2-4 minute workshop script to develop in class (pull from the 1-hour ethnographies -- any one but yours)	instead of DQ: post your writing experiment post your workshop script; everyone print these out for class
13: April 15	Ethnography Performances	post performance script
14: April 22	Ethnography Performances	post performance script post responses to perf's
15: April 29	[WNE] chapter 6 other readings TBA	post responses to perf's
16: May 6	Presentations of final script	post & hand in hard copy of final ethnographic script
17: May 13 final exam period: 5:30 - 7:30	Presentations of final script cont'd	hand in fieldwork journal

Course Schedule Spring 2008
revised on 3/8/08

WEEKS / DATE

Readings // Viewings

Due

1:Jan 22

Introductions and Overview of the Course

2: Jan 29

Madison, Critical Ethnography [CE], Ch's 1 & 2

603 Reader [RDR]:
Bruner, "Experience and its Expressions," The Anthropology of Experience. Ed Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner. Chicago: U. of Illinois Press, 1986. 3-30.
Turner, "Dewey, Dilthey, & Drama," The Anthropology of Experience. Ed Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner. Chicago: U. of Illinois Press, 1986. 33-44.
Bruner, "Ethnography as Narrative," The Anthropology of Experience. Ed Victor W. Turner and Edward M. Bruner. Chicago: U. of Illinois Press, 1986. 139-55.

online:
Dwight Conquergood "Performing as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of the Ethnography of Performance," Literature in Performance 5, (April 1985): 1-13.

in class: View That All May be One by Karen Kearns. Guest: Karen Kearns

Discussion Questions [DQs] to be posted weekly by Sunday midnight

3: Feb 5

[CE] chapters 3-5

online:
Dwight Conquergood, "Of Caravans and Carnivals: Performance Studies in Motion.” The Drama Review [TDR] 39,4 (Winter 1995): 137-41.
Conquergood, “Poetics, Play, Process and Power: The Performative Turn in Anthropology.” Review Essay. Text and Performance Quarterly 1 (1989): 82-95.

DQs

4: Feb. 12

[CE] chapters 6 & 7

Goodall, Writing the New Ethnography [WNE]: Preface, chapters 1 & 2

DQs

5: Feb 19

Research Plan - Presentations and discussion

Research Plan - post and hand in hard copy

6: Feb. 26

[RDR]
Madison, "Dwight Conquergood's 'Rethinking Ethnography'," Sage Handbook of PS.ed. D.S. Madison & Judith Hamera. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006. 347-49.

online:
Conquergood, "Rethinking Ethnography: Towards a Critical Cultural Politics," Communication Monographs 58 (1991): 174-94.

[RDR]
Rosaldo, "Grief and the Headhunter's Rage," Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989, 1993. 1-21.
Rosaldo, "Putting Culture into Motion," Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989, 1993. 91-108.
Rosaldo,"Border Crossings," Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989, 1993. 196-217.

DQs

7: March 4

Guest:
Marc Rich, Ph.D., CSU Long Beach: Considering the role of ritual in ethnography and performance.

[WNE] chapter 3

online:
Marc D. Rich, "Memory Circles: The Implications of (Not) Grieving at Cancer Camps," Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 31:5 (2002) 548-81.

[RDR]
Geertz, "Being There: Anthropology and the Scene of Writing," Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Stanford University Press, 1988. 1-24.
Geertz, "Being Here: Whose Life is it Anyway?" Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Stanford University Press, 1988. 129-49.

DQs

8: Mar 11

view Broken Circles

[CE] chapters 8 & 9

[RDR]
Olorisa Omi Osun Olomo (Joni L. Jones), "Introduction: Perf. & Ethnography, Performing Ethnography, Performance Ethnography," Sage Handbook of Performance Studies. ed. D.S. Madison & Judith Hamera. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006. 339-45.

online:
Joni L. Jones, "The Self as Other: Creating the Role of Joni the Ethnographer for Broken Circles," TPQ 16 (April 1996): 131-54.

Jones, “Performing Osun Without Bodies: Documenting the Osun Festival in Print.” Text & Performance Quarterly, 17, 1 (Jan1997): 69-94.
Jones, Joni L. “Performance Ethnography: The Role of Embodiment in Cultural Authenticity.” Theatre Topics 12, 1 (2002) : 1-15.

DQs

SPRING BREAK -- **revised schedule below

revised:

10: March 25

[WNE] chapters 4 & 5
review [CE] Ch. 8 & 9
also review [WNE] ch. 3 -- use the writing assignment detailed on p.129 to develop your workshop script

performance workshop

instead of DQs: post on the newsgroup a brief (2-4 min) script based on your fieldwork (everyone print these out & bring to class)

hand in
fieldwork journal

11: April 1

staging and performance workshop

Dwight Conquergood, "Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Perf., Communication, & Culture," TDR 32,3 (1988) 174-208.

Della Pollock,"Memory, Remembering, and Histories of Change: A Performance Praxis," Sage Handbook of Performance Studies, ed. Madison & Hamera. Sage, 2006: 87-105.

bring in apx 1 minute of recorded ambient sound [not from an interview; just the sounds of the site] from your fieldwork

also prepare #3 warm-up from [CE] p.218 to develop in class

12: April 8

carefully read through the 1-hour ethnographies posted the 1st week; you can use any of this material for the script &/or the writing experiment

[WNE] p. 150-151 - do one of the writing experiments & post it

write a 2-4 minute workshop script to develop in class (pull from the 1-hour ethnographies -- any one but yours)

instead of DQ: post your writing experiment

post your workshop script; everyone print these out for class

13: April 15

Ethnography Performances

post performance script

14: April 22

Ethnography Performances

post performance script
post responses to perf's

15: April 29

[WNE] chapter 6

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