Cultural Anthropology: Landscape and Memory Professor Michael Harkin University of Wyoming Schedule May 15 Theoretical Underpinnings

Readings: Levi-Strauss, Claude, The Science of the Concrete (ch. 1). In The Savage Mind, pp. 1-34. University of Chicago Press. Tilley, Christopher, 1994, Space, Place, Landscape and Perception: Phenomenological Perspectives (ch. 1). In A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths, and Monuments, pp. 1-34. Berg. May 17 Space and Place in Ethnographic Context

Readings: Kahn, Miriam, 2000. Tahiti Intertwined: Ancestral Land, Tourist Postcard, and Nuclear Test Site. American Anthropologist 102:7-26. Basso, Keith, Wisdom Sits In Places: Notes on a Western Apache Landscape. In Senses of Place, Feld and Basso, eds., pp. 53-90. SAR Press. May 22 Temporality

Readings: Bender, Barbara, 2002, Time and Landscape. Current Anthropology 43(supplement):S103-S112. Ingold, Tim, 2000, The Temporality of the Landscape (ch. 11). In The Perception of the Landscape: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, pp. 189-208. Routledge. May 24 Readings: Morphy, Howard, 1995. Landscape and the Reproduction of the Ancestral Past. In The Anthropology of Landscape, Erich Hirsch and Michael OHanlon, eds., pp. 184-209. Clarendon. Cruikshank, Julie, and Tatiana Argounova, 2000, Reinscribing Meaning: Memory and Indigenous Identity in Skaha Republic (Yakutia). Arctic Anthropology 37(1):96-119. May 29 Inscribing the Past (2) Inscribing the Past (1)

Readings: Cruikshank, Julie, 2005, Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, And Social Imagination, chs. 2,3. University of Washington Press.

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Imperial Landscapes

Readings: Mitchell, W.J.T., 2002, Imperial Landscape (ch. 1). In Landscape and Power, Mitchell, ed., pp. 5-34. University of Chicago Press. Scott, James C., 1998, Nature and Space (ch. 1). In Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, pp. 11-52. Yale Press. June 5 Postmodern Landscapes

Readings: DeCerteau, Michel, 1984, Walking in the City (ch 7). In The Practice of Everyday Life, pp. 91-110. University of California Press. Harkin, Michael, 2004, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Landscape. In Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions, Mauze, Harkin, and Kan, eds. pp. 385-406. University of Nebraska Press. June 7 The American West as Landscape

Readings: Dorst, John, 1999, Short Excursions: Some Moments of Western Looking (ch. 1). In Looking West, pp. 13-39. University of Pennsylvania Press. Snyder, Joel, 2002, Territorial Photography (ch. 6). In Landscape and Power, Mitchell, ed., pp. 175-201. University of Chicago Press. Sundstrom, Linea, 2003, Sacred Islands: An Exploration of Religion and Landscape in the Northern Great Plains. In Islands on the Plains: Ecological, Social, and Ritual Use of Landscape, Marcel Kornfeld and Alan J. Osborn, eds., pp. 258-300. University of Utah Press.