Part One: The Colonial Imaginary and Disciplinary Practices |
1-4 | Section One: Biopolitics, the Fetish, and the Colonial Imaginary Lecture 1: Course Overview and Introduction | Lecture 1  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.
———. "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 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. |
5-6 | Section Two: Ecstasis and the Shock of Culture Contact | Lecture 5 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 ———. 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. |
7-8 | Section Three: Historical Ideologies of Sexuality, Race, and Madness | Lecture 7
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 Gilman, Sander L. Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985, pp. 109-149. ISBN: 9780801493324. 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 |
9-10 | Section Four: Colonial Medicine in South Africa | Lecture 9 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 ———. 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. |
11-13 | Section Five: Race, Gender, Colonial Medicine, and the Construction of Disease | Lecture 11 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
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 ———. 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 |
14-16 | Section Six: Medical Pluralism in the Former Zaire | Lecture 14 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. 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 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 ———. 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." |
17-19 | Section Seven: Culture, Morality, and the Senses in Ghana | Lecture 17 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 ———. 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 ———. 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. |
20 | Section Eight: Sensory Ethnography in Niger | 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 |
21-22 | Section Nine: Religion, Medicine, and the Medical Pluralism in Haiti | Lecture 21 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
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. |
23-24 | Section Ten: Contemporary Psychiatry: Race, Gender, and the Mind | Lecture 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. 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 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. |
25-26 | Section Eleven: Fictions of Race, Gender, and Illness | Lecture 25 Butler, Octavia E. Wild Seed. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780446606721. Book 1. Lecture 26 ———. Wild Seed. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780446606721. Book 2. |
