ANTHROPOLOGY 230

Globalization and the Human Condition

Fall 2007

COURSE SCHEDULE: 

CULTURE, GLOBALIZATION, AND GEOGRAPHY

August 21    Introduction and Course Mechanics

August 23 & 28 Understanding the “New Third World ” and Other Cultures

Readings :

• Bodley, in Cultural Anthropology, “Understanding Other Cultures.” Pages 1-24.   On E-Reserve.
• Melkote and Merriam, in the New Third World , “The Third World : Definitions and New Perspectives on Development.”  Pages 9-12.
• Film:  Kuro Kuro: A Portrait of Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativity

August 30 & Sept. 4          Understanding Globalization

Readings :

• Globalization: The Reader by John Beynon and David Dunkerley pages 1-38. On E-Reserve.

September 6 Contemporary Africa : Physical, political, historical, economic and cultural dynamics

September 11     Contemporary Asia : Physical, political, historical, economic and cultural dynamics.

September 13     Contemporary Latin America : Physical, political, historical, economic and cultural dynamics.

September 18 Contemporary Muslim World: Physical, political, historical, economic and cultural dynamics. 

September 20 Contemporary Pacific Islands : Physical, political, historical, economic and cultural dynamics.

·        Film: Global Interactions

September 27   Sustainable Development, its Agents, and its Agencies

Readings :

• Melkote and Merriam, in The New Third World , “The Third World : Definitions and New Perspectives on Development.”  Pages 12-27.
• Developing World (DW) # 4 “Development as Poison.” Pages 16-20.
• DW # 2 “The Poor Speak Up.” Pages 9-11.
• DW # 6 “Putting a Human Face on Development.” Pages 29-31.  
• DW # 10, Unelected Government.” Pages 51-54. 
• DW # 14, “The Cartel of Good Intentions.” Pages 73-80.
• DW# 34, “NGOs and the New Democracy: The False Saviors of International Development.”  Pages 162-165.

October 2   Sustainable Development Continued: Debt and Trade

  Readings :

• DW # 7 “The Free Trade Fix.” Pages 34-41.
• DW # 8 “Trading for Development.”  Pages 42-45. 
• DW # 11, “The IMF Strikes Back.” Pages 54-59. 
• DW # 15, “The WTO under Fire.” Pages 81-84. 
• DW # 16, “Playing Dirty at the WTO.” Pages 85-87.

October 4   Sustainable Development Continued: Debt, Trade, and Human Dignity

·        Film: Life and Debt in Jamaica .

October 9 & 11     Environment and Natural Resource Management

  Readings :

• Bodley, in Cultural Anthropology, “Beyond 2000: The Future in the Global Greenhouse.” Pages 424-446.  On E-Reserve.
• DW # 36 “Local Difficulties.” Pages 178-184.
• DW # 37 “A Dirty Dilemma: The Hazardous Trade.” Pages 181-184.
• DW # 38 ‘Undoing the Damage We Have Caused.” Pages 185-187.
• Film: Rivers of Fire

October 16 & 18    Poverty: The Great Divide

Readings :

• DW # 1 “The Great Divide in the Global Village.” Pages 2-8.
• DW # 5 “Why People Starve.” Pages 21-28.
• DW # 40 “Empowering Women.” Pages 194-199. 
• Leisinger and Altieri, “Can Biotechnology End Hunger.” On E-Reserve.
• DW # 3 “Institutions Matter, but Not for Everything.” Pages 12-15. 
• De Soto , Chap.1, “The Five Mysteries of Capital,” in The Mystery of Capital
• http://www.ild.org.pe/tmoc/cp1-en.htm
• Film: Struggle for Shelter: A Third World Perspective

• Turn in Internet Exercise on October 25.

October 23 Health in a Global Environment: HIV/AIDS

Readings :

• DW # 39 “Withholding the Cure.” Pages 188-191.
• McGeary, “Death Stalks a Continent.” Pages 173-181.
• Brown, “Violence and the Virus Infecting Women with Aids.” On E-Reserve.

Film: Sowing Seeds of Hunger: The AIDS epidimic in Sub-Saharan Africa (DVD 001 860)

Readings :

• DW # 5 “The Population Implosion.” Pages 168-177.
• Film: The Legacy of Malthus

November 6 & 8       Population Movements: Migrants and Refugees

Readings :

• Martin, in Culture and Global Change, “The New Migrants: Flexible Workers in a Global Economy.” Pages 180-190. On E-Reserve.
• DW # 25, “Blaming the Victim.” Pages 118-121.
• Case Study: The Role of Migration in Social change in Morocco .
• Film: Maid in America

November 13&15   Information and Communication Technologies and  Globalization

Readings :

• Schelling, in Culture and Global Change, “The People’s radio of Vila Nossa Senhora Aparecida” Pages 167-179.
• Tyrrell, “Bollywood versus Hollywood .” Pages 260-273. On E-Reserve in Culture and Global Change.
• Case Study: Globalization, Mobile phones, and Productivity in Morocco .
• Film: Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night (DVD 001 884)

November 27 & 29          Indigenous Peoples

Readings :

• Bodley, in Cultural Anthropology, “Indigenous Peoples.” Pages 394-425.  On E-Reserve.

December 4 & 6   Conflict and Clashes of Cultures/Civilizations

  Readings :

• DW # 43, “The True Clash of Civilizations.” Pages 208-214.
• Huntington , “The Many Faces of the Future.” On E-Reserve.
• Said, “The Clash of Ignorance.” On E-Reserve.

December 6          Wrap Up and Review

December 10-14          Finals Week