Week 1. Anthropology, Ethnography and Film: An Introduction to the `Other'
Film: Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North (1922) 54 min.
Week 2. Classics: Two Views From The Beginning.
Films by Margaret Mead:
Bathing Babies in three Cultures (1952) 9 min
Four Families, Part I: France and India (1965) 30 min
Trance and Dance in Bali (1951)
20min
Week 3. Constructing the !Kung?
Film John Marshall (with Robert Flaherty): The Hunters.
Also: Bitter Melons 28 min
Who are the !Kung, anthropologically speaking?
Reading:
i. Richard Lee, The Dobe !Kung. Ch. 1-4
ii. See article in Reader
Week 4. To See or to Read? Some questions in Ethnographic Documentation.
Reading: Richard Lee, The Dobe !Kung. Ch. 5-7
Week 5. Who can Really Represent The !Kung?
Reading:
i. Richard Lee, The Dobe !Kung. Ch. 7-9
ii. articles in Reader
Week 6. An Introduction to Indian Civilization and Indian Ethnography
--> Reading: Kantowsky, pp. vii - 89
--> Films:
i. North Indian Village.
ii. Dadi's Family.
Week 7. India in Western Tradition
--> Films:
i. Robert Gardner (and Akos Oster): Forest of Bliss. (90 min.)
ii. Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom [clip]
--> Reading: Kantowsky, pp. 90 - 179
The Return of the Repressed: Lucas and Spielberg's Temple of Doom
Writer Tries To Block Spielberg Slave Film
India: Exotic Travel Adventures
Yet hope for Western Investment?
ii. Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala.
Some Educational Good Web Sites on India: See especially sections on Diaspora
One Indian's View of the World
Final Exam
i. Film: Gurinder Chadha: Acting Our Age.
