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Regional Studies (Ethnography): the Caribbean Sea Region
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:26:07
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_038 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sociology; Social Anthropology | Target Audience: | Sociology | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Dita Auziņa | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 18 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 36 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 48 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Previous basic knowledge in anthropology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The objectives of the course are: 1. The course will allow the student to become more familiar with the geography of the region, the main currents of Caribbean studies, and some of the analytical frameworks that have been used to understand its social and cultural life. 2. To critically assess different media and disciplinary approaches (ie, film, fiction literature, music, life-history, ethnography, geography, etc.) dedicated to the study of Caribbean societies, from an anthropological perspective. 3. To explore, in a preliminary way, the role the Caribbean played in the processes of Western modernity. The course seeks to provide a framework within which to better understand the Caribbean's diversity and the cultural and social distinctiveness of this region of transplanted peoples on its own terms | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Delimiting the Caribbean & Theories of Pre-European Life & European Contact | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Nation Building and popular culture | Classes | 6.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Religion & society | Lectures | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 6.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Migration, transnationalism and Diaspora | Classes | 6.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Preparing the literature for each class/topic, preparing one presentation about a topic (given by the lecturer). In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Will be discussed with the students at the first meeting. Independent works; exam. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | After completing the course, the student will gain autonomous knowledge about an unknown or little-known subject (= social anthropology in the Caribbean, Caribbean culture and society). Knows their ethnography. | ||||||||
| Skills: | After completing the course, you will be able to independently navigate and understand the academic literature on the specific region, will be able to analyze it; will be able to understand and reason about theoretical concepts and empirical research; will be able to conceptualize and develop academic presentations on the given topic, draw (own) conclusions. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Will acquire competences in independent acquisition of knowledge about the specific region, will be able to apply critical thinking, will understand and be able to apply scientific activities (text reading, analysis, comparison and discussion). | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Perry Henzell. (1972). “The Harder they Come”. | ||||||||
| 2 | Benítez-Rojo, Antonio. (1996). Fernando Ortiz: the Caribbean and postmodernity. The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective. Durham: Duke University Press. | ||||||||
| 3 | Besson, Jean & Chevannes, Barry. (1996). The continuity-creativity debate: The case of Revival. The New West Indian Guide. 70.3 & 4: 209-228 | ||||||||
| 4 | Fog Olwig, Karen. (2001). Researching Global Socio-Cultural Fields. Paper presented at Workshop on "Transnational Migration: Comparative Perspectives". Princeton University. | ||||||||
| 5 | Glissant, Édouard. (1997). Paths. Poetics of Relation. Michigan: University of Michigan Press. | ||||||||
| 6 | Hall, Stuart. (1995). Negotiating Caribbean identities. New Left Review: 3-14 | ||||||||
| 7 | Heuman, Gad. (1997).The Social Structure of the Slave Societies in the Caribbean, in Knight, 8. Franklin W. (editor) General History of the Caribbean Volume III: The Slave Societies of the Caribbean. Oxford: Palgrave MacMillan Press. | ||||||||
| 8 | Hulme, Peter and Whitehead, Neil L. (eds.) (1992). Wild majesty : encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the present day : an anthology. Oxford : Clarendon Press. | ||||||||
| 9 | Irving Rouse. (1953). The Circum-Caribbean Theory, an Archeological Test. American Anthropologist. 55. 2: 188-200 | ||||||||
| 10 | Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphaël Confiant and Mohamed B. Taleb Khyar. (1990). In Praise of Creoleness. Callaloo. 13. 4: 886-909. | ||||||||
| 11 | Knight, Franklin W. (1997). The disintegration of the Caribbean slave systems, 1772-1886, in Knight, Franklin W. (editor) General History of the Caribbean Volume III: The Slave Societies of the Caribbean. Oxford: Palgrave MacMillan Press. | ||||||||
| 12 | Lefever, Harry G. (1996). When the Saints go Riding in: Santería in Cuba and the United States. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 35.3: 318 – 330. | ||||||||
| 13 | Maingot, Anthony P. (1987). Haiti: Problems of a Transition to Democracy in an Authoritarian Soft State. Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs. 28.4: 75-102 | ||||||||
| 14 | Manning, Frank E. (1981). Celebrating Cricket: The Symbolic Construction of Caribbean Politics. American Ethnologist. 8. 3: 616-632 | ||||||||
| 15 | Manuel, Peter. (1994). Puerto Rican Music and Cultural Identity: Creative Appropriation of Cuban Sources from Danza to Salsa. Ethnomusicology, 38.2: 249-280 | ||||||||
| 16 | Millette, James. (2004). Decolonization, populist movements and the formation of new nations, 1945-70, in Brereton, Bridget (editor) General History of the Caribbean Volume V: The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century | ||||||||
| 17 | Pérez-Stable, Marifeli. (2004). The Cuban Revolution and its impact on the Caribbean, in Brereton, Bridget (editor) General History of the Caribbean Volume V: The Caribbean in the Twentieth Century | ||||||||
| 18 | Moscoso, Francisco. (2003). Chiefdoms in the islands and mainland: a comparison. in Jalil Sued-Badillo (editor) General History of the Caribbean Volume I: Autochthonous Societies. Oxford: Palgrave MacMillan Press. | ||||||||
| 19 | Price, Richard and Price, Sally. (1997). Shadowboxing in the Mangrove. Cultural Anthropology. | ||||||||
| 20 | Rivera-Pagán, Luis. (2003). Freedom and servitude: indigenous slavery and the Spanish Conquest of the Caribbean, in Jalil Sued-Badillo (editor) General History of the Caribbean Volume I: Autochthonous Societies. Oxford: Palgrave MacMillan Press. | ||||||||
| 21 | Sanabria, Harry. (2007). The Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean. Boston: Pearson Allyn and Bacon. | ||||||||
| 22 | Sarah Gammage. (2004). Exercising Exit, Voice and Loyalty: A Gender Perspective on Transnationalism in Haiti. Development and Change 35(4): 743–771 | ||||||||
| 23 | Sidney W. Mintz, Sidney W. (1996) .Enduring Substances, Trying Theories: The Caribbean Region as Oikoumene. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2.2: 289-311. | ||||||||
| 24 | Silvia W. de Groot, Silvia W. et al. (1997). Maroon communities in the Circum-Caribbean, in Knight, Franklin W. (editor) General History of the Caribbean Volume III: The Slave Societies of the Caribbean. Oxford: Palgrave MacMillan Press. | ||||||||
| 25 | Simpson, George Eaton. (1985). Religion and Justice: Some Reflections on the Rastafarian Movement. Phylon. 46.4: 286 – 291. | ||||||||
| 26 | Sued-Badillo, Jalil. (2003). The indigenous societies at the time of Conquest in Jalil Sued-Badillo (editor) General History of the Caribbean Volume I: Autochthonous Societies. Oxford: Palgrave MacMillan Press. | ||||||||
| 27 | Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. (1992). The Caribbean Region: An Open Frontier in Anthropological Theory. Annual Review of Anthropology. 21: 19-42. | ||||||||
| 28 | Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. (2002). Culture on the Edges: Creolization in the Plantation Context, in Keith Axel, Brian (editor). From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and Its Futures. Duke University Press. | ||||||||
| 29 | Various Editors. (1999 – 2007). General History of the Caribbean Volume 1-6. Oxford: Palgrave MacMillan Press. | ||||||||
