Social Sciences & Humanities Division, Daniel Webster College
Anthropology and Literature (HU
318), offered Spring 2008
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Professor: Donald
Wellman
Office Location: L 201
Voice mail: (603) 577-6654
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Resource Page:
Course syllabus
Interactive calendar
Required texts:
Death and the King's
Horseman, Wole Soyinka. Norton
0-393-32299-8
The Forest People.
Forest M. Turnbull. NY: Touchstone,
1987 0671640992
(other editions acceptable).
In an Antique Land.
Amitav Ghosh. NY: Vintage, 1994. 0679727833.
The Magic of the State,
Michael Taussig. Routledge
0-415-91791-3
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News
and facts:
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United Nations,
Cartographic Section, Maps
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The World Fact
Book, compiled by the CIA
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BBC News
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All Africa,
current events and links to background.
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Independent on Line:
African coverage of African news
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Ummahnews.com,
Independent Islamic Press Resource.
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Muslims, PBS, Frontline
Documentary
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Human Rights Watch
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Area
Focus: Kenya
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Kenyan History at
Kenyaweb.com
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Area Focus: Sudan
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Country Profile Sudan, BBC News
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Crimes of War Project, Sudan: Africa's
Endless War. |
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E. E. Evans Pritchard,
The Nuer (Excerpt)
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Subject: Divination and
ritual:
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Yoruba Culture (Nicole Mullen, U. Cal.,
Berkeley) |
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Divination in Sub-Saharan Africa, John Pemberton
III |
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Esu (Kristen Hileman's "Transformations
of Esu") |
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Gelede, Yoruba Women's Rituals
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Cutting to the Essence:
Yoruba History, Religion, and Art
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Postcolonial theory
(courtesy Deepika Bahri).
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Art
& Literature Resources:
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Internet Assignments:
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Contemporary
Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature in
English.
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What
is culture?
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African
Poets Collection, University
of Florida
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Excerpt from The Ritual Process.
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Slide
Gallery, African Studies, Oxford
University
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Class Library Reserve
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Mandela: The Authorized
Biography, Anthony Sampson.
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Guidelines for folders, projects and term paper.
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African Studies
Center, University of Pennsylvania
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African Archives at University of Wisconsin
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Wole Soyinka Page at Stanford University
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Postcolonial Studies
at Emory University
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Globalization
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Voudun
at ReligousTolerance.org
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Review of Orishas, A
lo cubano at Pound Magazine
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Some cuts from A lo cubano
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Masks
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Aimé Césaire From
Notebook of a Return to a Native
Land
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