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Required Texts


Amazon logo Brodwin, Paul. Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521570299.

Amazon logo Butchart, Alexander. The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998. ISBN: 9781856495400.

Amazon logo Butler, Octavia E. Wild Seed. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780446606721.

Amazon logo Fabian, Johannes. Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780520221239.

Amazon logo Geurts, Kathryn Linn. Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780520234567.

Amazon logo Gilman, Sander L. Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780801493324.

Amazon logo Janzen, John M. The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780520046337.

Amazon logo Stoller, Paul. The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780812212921.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity. A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. 2001.



Recommended Texts


Amazon logo Hunt, Nancy Rose. A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780822323662.

Amazon logo Peard, Julyan. Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780822323976.



Films


Directed by Zola Maseko. The Life and Times of Sara Baartman - The Hottentot Venus. 1998, 53 minutes.

Directed by Fred Zinnemann. The Nun's Story. 1959, 149 minutes.

Strange Beliefs: Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard. Film for the Humanities and Sciences, Inc. 1990, 52 minutes.

Directed by Maya Deren. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. 1985, 52 minutes.

Directed by Anne Lescot and Laurence Magloire. Of Men and Gods. 2002, 52 minutes.

Directed by Zola Maseko. The Return of Sara Baartman. 2003, 55 minutes.



Readings by Session



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Part One: The Colonial Imaginary and Disciplinary Practices
1-4Section One: Biopolitics, the Fetish, and the Colonial Imaginary

Lecture 1: Course Overview and Introduction
Lecture 1

Amazon logo Foucault, Michel. "The Politics of Health in the Eighteenth Century." In Power. Edited by James Faubion. Translated by Robert Hurley, et. al. London, UK: Penguin Books, 2002, pp. 90-105. ISBN: 9780140259575.

Amazon logo ———. "The Birth of Biopolitics." In Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth. Edited by Paul Rabinow. Translated by Robert Hurley, et. al. London, UK: Penguin Books, 2000, pp. 73-79. ISBN: 9780140259544.

Lecture 2

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Lock, Margaret, and Nancy Scheper Hughes. "A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent." In Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method. Revised ed. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996, pp. 41-70. ISBN: 9780275952655.

Lecture 3

Pietz, William. "The Problem of the Fetish." Parts 1, 2, 3a, Res 9 (Spring 1985): 5-17, Res 13 (Spring 1987): 23-45, Res 16 (Autumn 1988): 105-123.

Lecture 4

James, Erica. "Bio-Politics and the Struggle for Recognition." Chapter 2 in The Violence of Misery: "Insecurity" in Haiti in the "Democratic" Era. Doctoral Thesis, 2003, 34 pages.
5-6Section Two: Ecstasis and the Shock of Culture ContactLecture 5

Amazon logo Fabian, Johannes. Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000, chapters 3-5, pp. 52-127. ISBN: 9780520221239.

Lecture 6

Amazon logo ———. Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000, chapters 8-9, pp. 180-239. ISBN: 9780520221239.
7-8Section Three: Historical Ideologies of Sexuality, Race, and MadnessLecture 7

Amazon logo Gilman, Sander L. Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985, introduction and chapter 3, pp. 15-35, 76-108. ISBN: 9780801493324.

Directed by Zola Maseko. The Life and Times of Sara Baartman - The Hottentot Venus. 1998, 53 minutes.

Lecture 8

Amazon logo Gilman, Sander L. Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985, pp. 109-149. ISBN: 9780801493324.

Amazon logo Littlewood, Roland, and Maurice Lipsedge. "Medicine and Racism." Chapter 2 in Aliens and Alienists: Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1982, pp. 26-60. ISBN: 9780140221282.
Part Two: Colonial Contexts of Medicine, Religion and Politics
9-10Section Four: Colonial Medicine in South AfricaLecture 9

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Butchart, Alexander. The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998, chapters 1, 5, 7, pp. 1-12, 74-91, 111-127. ISBN: 9781856495400.

Lecture 10

Amazon logo ———. The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998, chapters 8-9, pp. 128-172. ISBN: 9781856495400.
11-13Section Five: Race, Gender, Colonial Medicine, and the Construction of DiseaseLecture 11

Amazon logo Peard, Julyan. Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000, chapters 3-4, pp. 81-137. ISBN: 9780822323976.

Lecture 12

Amazon logo Hunt, Nancy Rose. A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999, chapter 5, pp. 196-236. ISBN: 9780822323662.

Directed by Fred Zinnemann. The Nun's Story. 1959, 149 minutes.

Lecture 13

Amazon logo ———. A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999, chapter 6, pp. 237-280. ISBN: 9780822323662.

Directed by Fred Zinnemann. The Nun's Story. 1959, 149 minutes.
Part Three: Anthropological (Re)Constructions of "African" Religion, Healing and Embodiment
14-16Section Six: Medical Pluralism in the Former ZaireLecture 14

Amazon logo Skim prior to class: Evans-Pritchard, E. E. Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1976, 1972 (c1937), pp. 1-119. ISBN: 9780198740292.

Amazon logo Janzen, John M. The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982, chapters 1-2, pp. 3-62. ISBN: 9780520046337.

Strange Beliefs: Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard. Film for the Humanities and Sciences, Inc. 1990, 52 minutes.

Lecture 15

Amazon logo Janzen, John M. The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982, chapters 3-5, and 8, pp. 67-89, 114-125. ISBN: 9780520046337.

Lecture 16

Amazon logo ———. The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982, chapters 9-10, pp. 127-192. ISBN: 9780520046337.

Guest lecturer Kathleen O'Connor, "O Outro lado: Candomblé, Psychiatry and Discourse in Bahia, Brazil."
17-19Section Seven: Culture, Morality, and the Senses in GhanaLecture 17

Amazon logo Geurts, Kathryn Linn. Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, chapters 1-3, pp. 3-69. ISBN: 9780520234567.

Lecture 18

Amazon logo ———. Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, chapters 4-7, pp. 73- 165. ISBN: 9780520234567.

Lecture 19

Amazon logo ———. Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, chapters 8-9, pp. 169-223. ISBN: 9780520234567.
20Section Eight: Sensory Ethnography in NigerAmazon logo Stoller, Paul. The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780812212921. (Entire book.)

Directed by Maya Deren. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. 1985, 52 minutes.
Part Four: Cosmopolitan Medicine, Race, Gender, and Inequalities
21-22Section Nine: Religion, Medicine, and the Medical Pluralism in HaitiLecture 21

Amazon logo Brodwin, Paul. Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996, introduction and chapters 1-2, pp. 1-55. ISBN: 9780521570299.

Directed by Anne Lescot and Laurence Magloire. Of Men and Gods. 2002, 52 minutes.

Lecture 22

Amazon logo Brodwin, Paul. Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996, chapters 4-6, pp. 76-151. ISBN: 9780521570299.
23-24Section Ten: Contemporary Psychiatry: Race, Gender, and the MindLecture 23

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. Skim chapters 1-2, read chapter 3, pp. 53-76.

Amazon logo Littlewood, Roland, and Maurice Lipsedge. Aliens and Alienists: Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1982, chapter 3, pp. 61-82. ISBN: 9780140221282.

Lecture 24

Amazon logo Swartz, Leslie. Culture and Mental Health: A Southern African View. Cape Town, South Africa: Oxford University Press, 1999, chapters 8-10, pp. 167-240. ISBN: 9780195709810.

Directed by Zola Maseko. The Return of Sara Baartman. 2003, 55 minutes.
25-26Section Eleven: Fictions of Race, Gender, and IllnessLecture 25

Amazon logo Butler, Octavia E. Wild Seed. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780446606721. Book 1.

Lecture 26

Amazon logo ———. Wild Seed. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780446606721. Book 2.

 








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