【讨论】Charles Briggs(邓迪斯教授继任者) 民俗学理论与技术（课程介绍）

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介绍邓迪斯教授的继任者Charles Briggs、并提供他的上课大纲及书目：「民俗学理论与技术」，从中可以略窥美国民俗学的重要经典与当代课题。也希望可藉此引发大家讨论当代中国民俗学与西方民俗学有何异同，我们可以从美国民俗学研究中得到什么启发。


伯克力加州大学(UC Berkeley)邓迪斯教授(Alan Dundes)不幸过世后，其教职由Charles Briggs教授接任。他是由邓迪斯教授亲自从圣地亚哥加州大学(UC San Diego)挖角礼聘至伯克力任教。据Briggs教授亲口说：当初邓迪斯教授邀请他时，保证自己还不会立刻退休，希望一起为民俗学研究努力。谁知世事难料，邓迪斯教授忽然撒手人寰，Briggs来到伯克力的第一件事就是接替邓迪斯教授未能讲授的课程，并且成立Alan Dundes纪念讲座，邀请当今民俗学界最杰出的学者来到学校发表演讲，并且另辟时间特别与研究生座谈。

Briggs 教授的简介：
目前任教于加州大学伯克力分校人类学系兼民俗学系，职衔为「纪念邓迪斯教授杰出讲座教授」，专长为民俗学与人类学，在民俗学方面，对于笑话、谚语、仪式、民间艺术等尤感兴趣；人类学研究中，对于语言人类学、医疗人类学、社会理论、现代性、公民资格与国家种族和暴力的关性等课题有深入的探讨。研究区域为在美国西南部及拉丁美洲的拉丁美洲人群(Latino/a)、加州、古巴及委内瑞拉
Research Interests
Charles L. Briggs is the Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor in Folklore. He has studied jokes, proverbs, ritual, folk art, and several narrative genres. In anthropology, he focuses on linguistic and medical anthropology, social theory, modernity, citizenship and the state, race, and violence. He has conducted research with Latino/a populations in the Southwestern US and in Latin America; he is currently working in California, Cuba, and Venezuela.

学经历：
芝加哥大学人类学硕士(1978)、博士(1981)
加州大学伯克力分校人类学、民俗学教授(2005秋~)
加州大学圣地亚哥分校族群研究教授(Department of Ethnic Studies)
纽约大学表演艺术研究学系访问教授(Department of Performance Studies)
宾州大学民俗学系讲师
哈佛大学Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities, Folklore and Mythology

美国民俗学会(American Folklore Society)President of AFS Fellows
（AFS Fellow是美国民俗学会选出对于民俗学具有重大贡献的学者的荣誉职）

以下附上课程大纲与书目，包括上下两学期，Folklore 250A为经典回顾及对当代研究的启发，Folklore 250B则是当代民俗学重要课题探讨。
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Folklore Theory and Techniques
University of California, Berkeley Fall Semester 2005
Department of Anthropology Charles L. Briggs
Anthropology 250A

This seminar explores the emergence of notions of tradition and modernity and their continual reproduction in dominant epistemologies and political formations. It uses a range of contemporary scholarship (Anderson, Chakrabarty, Foucault, Latour, Mignolo, Pateman, Poovey, and others) to critically reread how foundational works published between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries in folklore and anthropology, and the philosophical texts with which they are in dialogue, are imbricated within and help produce traditionalities and modernities. The second semester brings the project up to the present.
Graduate students from all departments are welcome. Students who previously
took Folklore 250A and/or B can retake the course for credit.
Requirements
1. Faithful preparation of readings for class and participation in seminar.
2. A 1-2 page prospectus for the research paper, due 3 October.
3. An oral presentation, during the class session of 7 December, of the research project.
4. A research project, resulting in an approx. 25 pp. (double-spaced) research paper, due on 12 December, that a) develops a critical approach and b) applies it to the critical evaluation of a body of scholarship related to the topic of the seminar.
Required Texts:
Anderson, Benedict 1991[1983]. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. (Revised edition). London: Verso.
Bauman, Richard, and Charles L. Briggs. 2003. Voices of Modernity: Language
Ideologies and Social Inequality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bendix, Regina. 1997. In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies.         Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
García Canclini, Nestor. 1995[1990] Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and         Exiting Modernity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Latour, Bruno (1987). Science in action: how to follow scientists and engineers through society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Themes and Readings
1. Introduction: The Communicability of Tradition and Modernity
2. Tools for Creating a Critical Project
Chakrabarty, Dipesh, Provincializing Europe. 2000. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University         Press. Intro and Chap 1.
Latour, Bruno (1987). Science in action: how to follow scientists and engineers through         society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 1-62, 103-44.
Clifford, James. 1988. The Predicament of Culture: twentieth-century Ethnography,         Literature, and Art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 21-54.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 1981. Can the Subaltern Speak? In Marxism and the         Interpretation of Culture, ed. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, pp. 271-313.
Recommended readings:
Latour, Bruno. 1993[1991]. We Have Never Been Modern. Catherine Porter, trans.         Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, chap. 1-2.
White, Hayden. 1978. Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism. Baltimore:         Johns Hopkins Press, pp. 51-80.
3. Creating Modern/Traditional Communicabilities and Subjectivities
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, in The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding,         Vol IV, pp. 13-33, 119-127, 292-299, 407-413
John Aubrey, Three Prose Works, 3-9, 129-133, 203-205, 254-255, 289-90, 307-317,         444-445
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Chap. I; Book III,         Chap. IX-XI; Book IV, Chap. V, XXI
Abrahams, Roger D. 1993. Phantoms of Romantic Nationalism in Folkloristics. Journal         of American Folklore 106:3-37.
Bauman and Briggs, Voices, chap. 1-2.
Richard Dorson. 1968. The British Folklorists: A History. Chicago: University of         Chicago Press, chap. 1.
Recommended Readings:
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, pp. 169-73, 307-61, 374-99
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, pp. 3-124
Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, pp. 1-90
Mignolo, Walter. 2000. Local histories/global designs: Coloniality, subaltern knowledges,         and border thinking. Princeton: Princeton Uiversity Press.
Pateman, Carole, The Sexual Contract , esp. chap. 4.
Stoler, Ann, Race and the Education of Desire, esp. pp. 19-54.
4. Imagining Tradition and Modernity (and Culture) in Time and Space
Bakhtin, M. M. 1981. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, tr., Caryl Emerson and         Michael Holquist, ed. Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press. Pp.         84-85, 250-58.
Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. 1999. Sorting Things Out: Classification         and Its Consequences. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Intro and chap. 1.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1950[1755]). A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, In The         Social Contract and Discourses, trans by G. D. H. Cole. New York: E. P. Dutton, pp.         196-244
Moran, John H., and Alexander Gode, eds. 1966. Essay on the Origin of Language. In On         the Origin of Language: Jean Jacques Rousseau, Essay on the Origin of Languages         and Johann Gottfried Herder, Essay on the Origin of Language, tr. John H. Moran         and Alexander Gode. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Tylor, Edward B. 1889[1871]. Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of         Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art and Custom. New York: Henry         Holt. Prefaces, vol. 1: chap. 1, 2, 5 (pp.160-70, 198-99), 6 (pp. 200-203, 231-39), 8         (pp. 273-85, 298-306, 314-5), 9 (pp. 316-21, 366-7), 10 (pp. 368-74, 413-16), 11 (pp.         417- 18); vol 2: chap. 17 (pp. 355-61), 19.
Boas, Franz. 1940[1920]. The Methods of Ethnology. In Race, Language and Culture. Pp.         281-89. New York: Free Press.
_____. 1940 [1914]. Mythology and Folk-Tales of the North American Indians. In Race,         Language and Culture. Pp. 451-490. New York: Free Press.
_____. 1940 [1916]. The Development of Folk-Tales and Myths. In Race, Language and         Culture. Pp. 397-406. New York: Free Press.
_____. 1974. A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911,         George W. Stocking, Jr., ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 67-71,         135-48
Krohn, Kaarle. 1971[1926]. Folklore Methodology, transl. by Rober L. Welsch. Austin:         University of Texas Press, pp. 17-63, 99-107, 119-127, 135-39, 174-77.
von Sydow, C. W. 1965[1948]. Folktale Studies and Philology: Some Points of View. In Alan Dundes, ed., The Study of Folklore, pp. 219-42. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:         Prentice-Hall.
Aarne, Antti, and Stith Thompson. 1964. The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and         Bibliography. (Second edition). FF Communications 184. Helsinki: Suomalainen         Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientarium Fennica, pp. 5-9, 19-27.
Thompson, Stith. 1932. Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. Helsinki: Suomalainen         Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientarium Fennica. Vol 1, pp. 1-30, 53-67.
Thompson, Stith. 1965. The Star Husband Tale. In Alan Dundes, ed., The Study of         Folklore, pp. 414-74. Engelwood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Dorson, Richard M. 1955. The Eclipse of Solar Mythology. Journal of American
        Folklore 68:393-416. (Reprinted in Alan Dundes, ed., The Study of Folklore, pp.         57-83).
Recommended:
(Review Chakrabarty, Introduction)
Burrow, J.W. 1966. Evolution and Society: A Study in Victorian Social Theory.         Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Condorcet, Antoine-Nicolas de (1955[1795]). Sketch for a Historical Picture of the         Progress of the Human Mind. June Barraclough, trans. New York: Noonday Press,         pp. 163-202.
Fabian, Johannes (1983). Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object. New         York: Columbia University Press.
Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things
Grimm, Jacob. 1984 [1851]. On the origin of language, tr. by Raymond A. Wiley. Leiden:         E. Brill.
Hacking, Ian (1990). The Taming of Chance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.         1-46, 105-124.
Porter, Theodore (1995). Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and         Public Life. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Stocking, George W., Jr. 1968. Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of         Anthropology. New York: Free Press.
5. Creating an Authentic National Subject, Inventing Tradition
Anderson, Imagined Communities, chap. 1-6, 10-11
Herder, Johann Gottfried (1969). Johann Gottfried Herder on Social and Political         Culture, ed. by F. M. Barnard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 296-301,         314-26
Herder, Johann Gottfried (1966[1787]). Essay on the Origin of Language. In On the         Origin of Language: Jean Jacques Rousseau, Essay on the Origin of Languages and         Johann Gottfried Herder, Essay on the Origin of Language, tr. John H. Moran and         Alexander Gode. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 85-99.
Grimm, Jacob, and Wilhelm Grimm. 1981[1816]. Foreword. In The German Legends of         the Brothers Grimm, ed. and trans. Donald Ward, vol. 1, pp. 1-11. Philadelphia:         Institute for the Study of Human Issues.
_____. 1987 [1819]. Preface to the second edition of Die Kinder- und Hausmärchen. In         The hard facts of the Grimms' fairy tales, ed. by Maria Tatar, 215-222. Princeton:         Princeton University Press.
Bendix, In Search of Authenticity, 27-44.
Bauman and Briggs, Voices of Modernity, chap. 5-7.
Stewart, Susan. 1994. Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation.         Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 66-131
Hobsbawm, Eric. 1983. Introduction. In The Invention of Tradition. Eric Hobsbawm and         Terence Ranger, eds. Pp. 1-14. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Handler, Richard, and Jocelyn Linnekin. 1984. Tradition, Genuine or Spurious. Journal         of American Folklore 97:273-90.
Briggs, Charles L. 1996. The politics of discursive authority in research on the "invention         of tradition." Cultural Anthropology 11(4):435-69.
Recommended readings:
(Also, see Jacob Grimm’s On the Origin of Language above)
Herzfeld, Michael. 1982. Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of         Modern Greece. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Wilson, William. 1976. Folklore and Nationalism in Modern Finland. Bloomington:         Indiana University Press.
6. Orality versus Literacy, Authenticity, and the Politics of the Text.
Derrida, Jacques. (1974) Of Grammatology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 29-73.
Lord, Albert Bates. (1960). The Singer of Tales. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University         Press, pp. Foreword, -13-67, 124-38.
Finnegan, Ruth (1977). Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance, and Social Context.         Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 1-29, 244-71.
Goody, J. (1977) The Domestication of the Savage Mind, Cambridge: Cambridge         University Press. 1-18, 146-62.
Halverson, J. 1992. Goody and the implosion of the literacy thesis. Man 27:301-317.
(Review Bauman and Briggs, Voices of Modernity, chap. 4-8)
Dorson, Richard. 1969. Fakelore. Zeitschrift fur Volkskunde 65:56-64.
Dundes, Alan. 1989. The Fabrication of Fakelore. In Dundes, Folklore Matters.         Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, pp. 40-56.
Bendix, In Search of Authenticity, 45-228.
Bauman, Richard. 1992. Folklore. In Richard Bauman, ed., Folklore, Cultural         Performances, and Popular Entertainments: A Communications-Centered         Handbook (New York: Oxford Univ. Press), pp. 29-40.
Recommended reading:
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. (1980). The Printing Press as an Agent of Change:         Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe.         Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Finnegan, Ruth (1988) Literacy and Orality: Studies in the Technology of         Communication, Oxford: Blackwell. *
Foley, John Miles (1988). The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Method.         Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Havelock, Eric. (1963). Preface to Plato. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Heath, H. B. (1983) Ways with Words. Language, Life, and Work in Communities and         Classroms, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Johns, Adrian. (1998). The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making.         Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Ong, W. J. (1967) The Presence of the Word, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Parry, Milman. (1971). The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman         Parry. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Tedlock, Dennis. (1983). The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation. Philadelphia:         University of Pennsylvania Press, esp. chap 1, 7.

7. Vernacular Critiques of Traditionality and Modernity: Conceptual Frames
Marx, Karl. The Fetishim of Commodities. In Capital: A Critique of Political Economy,         vol. 1. New York: International. Pp. 71-83.
Gramsci, Antonio. 1971. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. Quintin Hoare and         Geoffrey Nowell Smith, ed. and trans. New York: International. Pp. 3-23.
Scott, James C. 1985. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance.         New Haven: Yale University Press. Pp. 1-47, 304-50.
Kaplan, Martha, and John D. Kelly. 1994. Rethinking Resistance: Dialogics of         ‘Disaffection’in Colonial Fiji. American Ethnologist 21(1):123-51.
Guss, David M. 1986. Keeping It Oral: A Yekuana Ethnology. American Ethnologist         13(3):413-29.
8. Vernacular Critiques of Traditionality and Modernity: Vernacular Critical Discourses
For collective discussion, please choose three of the following books to present in class:
Abu-Luchod, Lila. 1986. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society.         Berkeley: University of California Press.
Bacon-Smith, Camille. 1992. Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation         of Popular Myth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Basso, Keith. 1979. Portraits of the Whiteman: Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols         among the Western Apache. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bauman, Richard. 1996. Transformations of the Word in the Production of Mexican         Festival Drama. In Michael Silverstin and Greg Urban, eds., Natural Histories of         Discourse, pp. 310-27. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Briggs, Charles L. (1988). Competence in performance: The creativity of tradition in         Mexicano verbal art. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Browning, Barbara. 1995. Samba: Resistance in Motion. Bloomington: Indiana
        University Press.
Caraveli-Chaves, Anna. 1980. Bridge Between Worlds: The Greek Women’s Lament as         Communicative Event. Journal of American Folklore 93:129-57.
Comaroff, Jean. 1985. Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a         South African People. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Flores, Richard. 1995. Los Pastores: History and Performance in the Mexican Shepherds'         Play of South Texas. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Gonzenbach, Laura. 2004. Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and         Fairy Tales. Transl. by Jack Zipes. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Lavie, Smadar. 1990. The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin         Identity under Israeli and Egyptian Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press.
(Available on campus at http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft967nb605/)
Levine, Lawrence W. 1977. Black Culture and Black Consciousness Afro-American Folk         Thought from Slavery to Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Limón, José. 1994. Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in         Mexican-American South Texas. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Mathias, Elizabeth and Richard Raspa. 1985. Italian Folktales in America: The Verbal         Art of an Immigrant Woman. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
Paredes, Américo. 1958. With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero.         Austin: University of Texas Press.
Radway, Janice A. 1991. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular         Literature. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
Seremetakis, C. Nadia. 1991. The Last Word: Women, Death, and Divination in Inner         Mani. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Taussig, Michael T. 1980. The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America.
        Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press.
Turner, Patricia. 1993. I heard it through the grapevine rumor in African-American         culture. Berkele : University of California Press.
White, Luise. 2000. Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa.         Berkeley : University of California Press
Yúdice, George. 2003. The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era.         Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


I will discuss some of my own work in this context:
Briggs, Charles L. (1988). Competence in performance: The creativity of tradition in
        Mexicano verbal art. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Briggs, Charles L., and Julián Josué Vigil. (1990). The lost gold mine of Juan
        Mondragón: A legend of New Mexico performed by Melaquías Romero. Tucson:         University of Arizona Press.
Briggs, Charles L. (1992). 'Since I am a woman, I will chastise my relatives': gender,         reported speech, and the (re)production of social relations in Warao ritual wailing.         American Ethnologist 19:337-61.
Briggs, Charles L. (1993). "I'm not just talking to the victims of oppression tonight—I'm         talking to everybody": Rhetorical authority and narrative authenticity in an         African-American poetics of political engagement. Journal of Narrative and Life         History 3(1):33-77.
Briggs, Charles L. (1993). Personal sentiments and polyphonic voices in Warao women's         ritual wailing: Music and poetics in a critical and collective discourse. American         Anthropologist 95:929-57.
Briggs, Charles L. (1996). Conflict, language ideologies, and privileged arenas of         discursive authority in Warao dispute mediation. In Charles L. Briggs, ed.,         Disorderly discourse: Narrative, conflict, and social inequality, pp. 204-42. Oxford:         Oxford University Press.
Briggs, Charles L. (2000). Emergence of the non-indigenous peoples: A Warao narrative.         In Kay Sammons and Joel Sherzer, eds., Translating Native Latin American verbal         art: Ethnopoetics and ethnography of speaking, pp. 174-96. Washington, D.C.:         Smithsonian Institution Press.
Briggs, Charles L., with Clara Mantini-Briggs. (2003). Stories in the time of cholera:         Racial profiling during a medical nightmare. Berkeley: University of California         Press.
Briggs, Charles L. (2004). Theorizing modernity conspiratorially: Science, scale, and the         political economy of public discourse in explanations of a cholera epidemic.         American Ethnologist 31(2):163-186.

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University of California, Berkeley                                        Spring Semester 2006
Department of Anthropology                                                Charles L. Briggs

Anthropology/Folklore 250B
Folklore Theory and Techniques


Theme: Governmentality and the Commodification of Culture

        This seminar explores the emergence of notions of tradition and modernity and their continual reproduction in dominant epistemologies and political formations. It uses a range of contemporary scholarship (Anderson, Chakrabarty, Foucault, Latour, Mignolo, Pateman, Poovey, and others) to critically reread how foundational works published between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries in folklore and anthropology, and the philosophical texts with which they are in dialogue, are imbricated within and help produce traditionalities and modernities.
        The second semester brings the project up to the present, focusing on works that provide new perspectives on the politics of culture and vernacular cultural forms. The seminar will focus this time on scholarship that analyzes the way that vernacular culture gets commodified, becomes part of global assemblages, and becomes the focus of regimes of governmentality—and/or efforts to resist them.
        Graduate students from all departments are welcome. Students who previously took Folklore 250A and/or B can retake the course for credit.

Requirements
1. Careful preparation of readings for class and participation in seminar.
2. A 1-2 page prospectus for the research paper, due 28 February. Students are strongly urged to come in and speak with me as soon as possible in shaping the project.
3. An oral presentation, during the class session of 9 May, of the research project.
4. A research project, resulting in an approx. 25 pp. (double-spaced) research paper, due on 15 May, that a) develops a critical approach and b) applies it to the critical evaluation of a body of scholarship related to the topic of the seminar.

Texts:
Bauman, Richard. 2004. A World of Others' Words: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Bausinger, Hermann. 1990. Folk Culture in a World of Technology. Transl. by Elke Dettmer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [out-of-print; available through used bookstores and on reserve]
Inda, Jonathan Xavier, ed. 2005. Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. 1998. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press).
Noyes, Dorothy. 2003. Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics after Franco. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Slater, Candace. 1982. Stories on a String: the Brazilian Literatura de Cordel. Berkeley:  University of California Press. [out-of-print; available through used bookstores and on reserve]
Stewart, Kathleen. 1996. A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an “Other” America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Yudice, George. 2003. The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era. Durham: Duke University Press.


Themes and Readings

17 January
1.        Introduction:

24 January
2.         The Globalization and Commodification of Vernacular Cultural Forms
Readings:  
Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 27-65.
García Canclini, Néstor. 2001. Consumers and Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 15-47.
Apter, Andrew. 1996. The Pan-African Nation: Oil-Money and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria. Public Culture 8(3):441-66.
Feld, Steven. 2000. Sweet Lullaby for World Music. Public Culture 12(1):145-71.

Recommended readings:
Castells, Manuel. 1996. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, vol. 1: The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford: Blackwell.
Harvey, David. 1989. The Condition of Postmodernity. Cambridge: Blackwell.
Jameson, Frederick.  1991.  Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
Sassen, Saskia. 1998 Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: New Press.
———. 2000 . Spatialities and Temporalities of the Global: Elements for a Theorization. Public Culture 12(1): 215–232.
Tsing, Anna. 2000. The Global Situation. Cultural Anthropology 15(3): 327–360.
Narayan, Kirin. 1996. Songs Lodged in the Heart: Public Culture and the Displacement of Regional Women's Culture. Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity, ed. by Smadar Lavie and Ted Swedenburg, pp. 181-213, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

31 January
3.   Vernacular Interventions in the Global Commodification of Culture
Readings:
Yudice, The Expediency of Culture


7 February
4. Governmentality and Vernacular Cultural Forms
Readings:
Foucault, Michel. 1991. Governmentality. In The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality, ed. by Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller, pp. 87-104. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Inda, Jonathan Xavier, ed. 2005. Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Recommended readings:
Dean, Mitchell. 1999. Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society. London: Sage.
Lupton, Deborah. 1999. Risk. London: Routledge.
Rose, Nikolas. 1996. Governing “Advanced” Liberal Democracies. In Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-liberalism, and Rationalities of Government, ed. by Andrew Barry, Thomas Osborne, Nikolas Rose, pp. 37-64. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.


14 February (10:00-12:00am)
5.          Intertextuality, Mediation, Communicative Technologies: A Conversation with Richard Bauman
Readings:
Bauman, A World of Other’s Words, chap. 1, 3, 5, 7-8
Bauman, Richard and Patrick Feaster. 2004. Oratorical Footing in a New Medium: Recordings of Presidential Campaign Speeches, 1896-1912. SALSA 11. Texas Linguistics Forum Vol. 46. [Available at
http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa/salsaproceedings/salsa11/SALSA11papers/bauman&feaster.pdf]
Bauman, Richard and Patrick Feaster. 2005. "Fellow Townsmen and My Noble Constituents!":  Representations of Oratory on Early Commercial Recordings. Oral Tradition 20(1): 35-5. [Available on-line through Project Muse; recording available at www.oraltradition.org]

Recommended readings:
Bauman, Richard, and Charles L. Briggs. 2003. Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and Social Inequality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chap. 7.
Bauman, Richard. 1977. Verbal Art as Performance. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland.
_____. 1983. Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking and Silence among Seventeenth-Century Quakers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
_____. 1986. Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
_____. 2001. Tradition, Anthropology of. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds., pp. 15819-24. London: Elsevier.
Bauman, Richard, and Charles L. Briggs. 1990. Poetics and Performance as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life. Annual Review of Anthropology 19.59-88.
Briggs, Charles L., and Richard Bauman. 1992. Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2:131-72.

Bauman Lecture: "Remediations of the Vernacular: Performances, Publics, and Polities" Thursday, 16 February, 5:00, Geballe Room, Townsend Center, Stephens Hall

Bauman workshop: Friday, 17 February, 12-2, Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall

Class meeting with Bauman: Friday, 17 February, 3-5, Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall


21 February: No class

28 February
6.    The Industrial Regimentation of Labor and Its Folkloric Contestations
Readings:
Noyes, Fire in the Plaça

Recommended readings:
Green, Anthony E. 1980. Popular Drama and the Mummers' Play. In Performance and Politics in Popular Drama, ed. by David Bradby et al., pp. 139-166. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.          
Briggs, Charles L. 1996. The Politics of Discursive Authority in Research on the "Invention of Tradition." Cultural Anthropology 11(4):435-69.


7 March
7.   The Social Life of Stories: A Conversation with Candace Slater
Readings:
Slater, Candace. 1982. Stories on a String:  The Brazilian Literatura de Cordel. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Recommended readings:
Young, Katharine Galloway. 1987. Taleworlds and Storyrealms: The Phenomenology of Narrative (Dordrecht: Nijhoff).
Lindt, Charlotte. 1993. Life Stories: The Creation of Coherence. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ochs, Elinor. 2002. Living Narrative: Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Shuman, Amy. 2005. Other People’s Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

Regina Bendix Lecture, "Sensory Irritations: Verbal Art and the Expression of the Inexpressible," Thursday, 9 March, 5:00, Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall

Bendix workshop: Friday, 10 March, 12-2, Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall


14 March
8.   Folklore and European Modernities: A Conversation with Regina Bendix
Readings:
Bausinger, Folk Culture in a World of Technology

Suggested Readings:
Anttonen,  Pertti J. 2005. Traditional through Modernity: Postmodernism and the Nation-State in Folklore Scholarship. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society.
Bendix, Regina. 1997. In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.


21 March
9.   (Dis)locating Spaces of Vernacular Critical Theory
Readings:
Stewart, A Place on the Side of the Road
Taylor, Betsy. 2002. Public Folklore, Nation-Building, and Regional Others: Comparing Appalachian USA and North-East India. Indian Folklore Research Journal 1(2): 1-27.

Suggested Readings:
Briggs, Charles  L. 1988. Competence in Performance: The Creativity of Tradition in Mexicano Verbal Art. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
José E. Limón. 1994. Dancing with the Devil: Society and Cultural Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

28 March: Spring break

4 April
10.   Popular Culture and Social Movements in Latin America: A Conversation with Yolanda Salas
Readings:
Rowe, William and Vivian Schelling. 1991. Memory and Modernity. Popular Culture in Latin America. London: Verso, pp.1-47, 151-192.
Rappaport, Joanne, 1990. The Politics of Memory: Native Historical Interpretation in the Colombian Andes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Introduction and chap. 7.
Martín-Barbero, Jesús. 1993[1987]. Communication, Culture and Hegemony from the Media to Mediations. London: Sage.  The Spanish edition is also available in the Library: De los medios a las mediaciones: Comunicación, cultura y hegemonía.  In the Spanish edition, the pages to read are pp. 14-26, 31-43, and 164-198. I will provide pages for the English translation.
Salas, Yolanda. 2003. Imaginaries and Narratives of Prison Violence. In Citizens of Fear: Urban Violence in Latin America, ed. by Susana Rotker, pp. 207-23. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


Suggested Readings:
Salas de Lecuna, Yolanda. 1987. Bolívar y la historia en la conciencia popular. Caracas: Universidad Simón Bolívar, 1987, especially pp. 37-92.
_____. 2001. La dramatización social y política del imaginario popular: el fenómeno del bolivarismo en Venezuela.” In Estudios latinoamericanos sobre cultura y transformaciones sociales en tiempos de globalización, ed. by Daniel Mato, 201–221. Buenos Aires: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales.
_____. 2001. Morir para vivir: La (in)certidumbre del espacio (in)civilizado. In Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Cultura y transformaciones sociales en tiempos de globalización 2, ed. by Daniel Mato, pp. 241-50. Caracas and Buenos Aires: UNESCO/Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales.
_____. 2003. En nombre del pueblo: Nación, patrimonio, identidad y cigarro. In Políticas de identidades y diferencias sociales en tiempos de globalización, ed. by Daniel Mato, pp. 147-72. Caracas: FACES-UCV.

Yolanda Salas Lecture, Thursday, 6 April, 5:00, Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall

Salas workshop: Friday, 7 April, 12-2, Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall


11 April
11.   Regulating the Global Regime of Commodified Culture
Readings:
Myers, Fred. 2004. Ontologies of the Image and Economies of Exchange. American Ethnologist 31(1):5-20.
Hafstein, Valdemar. 2004. The Politics of Origin: Collective Creation Revisited. Journal of American Folklore 117, 465: 300-315. [Available on-line at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_american_folklore/v117/117.465hafstein.html]
Scher, Philip W. 2002. Copyright Heritage: Preservation, Carnival and the State in Trinidad. Anthropological Quarterly 75(3):453-484.
Hayden, Cori. 2003. When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 125-57.
Nas, Peter J. M.  2002. Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Culture: Reflections on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Current Anthropology 43(1):139-148.
Goodman, Jane E. 2002. Stealing Our Heritage?: Women's Folksongs, Copyright Law, and the Public Domain in Algeria. Africa Today 49(1):84-97.

Recommended readings:
Rikoon, J. Sanford. 2004. On the Politics of the Politics of Origins: Social (In)Justice and the International Agenda on Intellectual Property, Traditional Knowledge, and Folklore, Journal of American Folklore 117, 465: 325-336. [rejoinder to Hafstein]
Scherzinger, Martin Rudoy. 1999. Music, Spirit Possession and the Copyright Law: Cross-Cultural Comparisons and Strategic Speculations.  Yearbook for Traditional Music 31:102-125.
Seeger, Anthony. 1996. Ethnomusicologists, Archives, Professional
Organizations and the Shifting Ethics of Intellectual Property. Yearbook for Traditional Music 28:87-105.


18 April
12.  The Violence of Tradition and the Traditionalization of Violence
Readings:
Taussig, Michael. 1987.  Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 74-92, 93-135.
McDowell, John. 2000. Poetry and Violence: The Ballad Tradition of Mexico's Costa Chica. Urbana:  University of Illinois Press, pp. 13-38.
Nelson, Diane. 1999. A Finger in the Wound Body Politics in Quincentennial Guatemala. Berkeley:  University of California Press, pp. 170-205.

Suggested Readings:
Cohen, Lawrence. 2002. The Other Kidney: Biopolitics beyond Recognition. In Nancy  Scheper-Hughes and Loic Wacquant, eds., Commodifying Bodies, pp. 9-29. London: Sage.
Feldman, Allen.  1991. Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Meeker, Michael E. 1979. Literature and Violence in North Arabia. Cambridge University Press.
Montell, William Lynwood. 1972. The Sage of Coe Ridge: A Study in Oral History. New York : Harper & Roe.
Salas, Yolanda. 2003. Imaginaries and Narratives of Prison Violence. In Citizens of Fear: Urban Violence in Latin America, ed. by Susana Rotker, pp. 207-23. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Santino, Jack. 2001. Signs of War and Peace: Social Conflict and the Use of Public Symbols in Northern Ireland. New York: Palgrave.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1996. Theft of Life: Globalization of Organ Stealing Rumors. Anthropology Today 12(3):3-11.
White, Luise. 2000. Speaking with Vampires. Rumor and History in Colonial Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 3-51.
Yudice, Expediency of Culture, sections on violence.


25 April (10:00-12:00AM)
13. Representing and Commodifying Heritage: A Conversation with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Readings: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Destination Culture

27 April, 2006, lecture by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, “Tradition, Trauma, and Technology: The Place of Folklore Scholarship in Troubled Times,” Geballe Family Room, Townsend Center, Stephens Hall

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett workshop: Friday, 28 April, 12-2, Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall

Class meeting with Kirshenblatt-Gimblett: Friday, 28 April, 3-5, Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall

2 May
14.   Symposium of Work by Seminar Participants I

9 May
15.   Symposium of Work by Seminar Participants II

koala352

很抱歉，由于原课程大纲是以Microsoft Word编辑，所以转贴到本站时，一切就乱掉了，所以附上Word的文件檔，让有兴趣者可以方便阅读。

有时间我会再回来对书目作一点简单的说明。