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Dallas L. Browne, Ph.D.                                                                                      Office:PH0227

Anthropology 411/M, W, F 10:00-10:50  A.M.                                                Tel.: X2138

Urban Anthropology, PH 0405                                                                          Office Hours: 9:00-10:00 A.M
Web Site:  http://www.siue.edu/~dbrowne                                                     or by appointment M,W,F


                                                                                                                               

COURSE SYLLABUS: Urban Anthropology – Fall 2003

 

Course Description and Objectives:  

This course seeks to provide insight into the factors that give rise to cities and to

urbanization.   We will also examine the quality and character of urban life from

an anthropological perspective by looking at how urban institutions structure the

life chances or opportunities of urban dwellers.   Major anthropological theories of

urbanization will be reviewed in light of recent empirical research findings.

Substantive issues to be examined include: urban housing; family structures;

race and ethnic relations; community within the city; work and unions; city politics

and urban policy.

 

Students will be required to conduct research on one aspect of urban social

life.  Each student is expected to write a ten page research paper and to share their

findings with the class through classroom discussion.

 

Course Requirements:

A. Class Participation:  Students are expected to READ ALL ASSIGNED material and

to take notes on each before coming to class.  Vigorous participation in class

discussions is also expected.  Each student should REFLECT CAREFULLY on

their own research findings and to share these with the class through a formal

presentation and on going class discussion.

 

B. In Class Report:  Each student is to select one urban ethnography, either
 Bourgoise’s work on crack selling or Gregory’s work on Black Corona, Queens.

You will report your findings in class

1. 10/17 & 10/20  In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio

2.11/07 & 11/10  Black Corona: Race & Politics in an Urban Community

 

C. Book Review.  Write a  five page book review of the book that you report on in  class.
  FIRST DRAFT DUE  October 27, 2003.  Final Book Review due 12/05/03

 

D. Examinations:  There will be two examinations during the semester on September 26th &
November 14th, 2003, and a final examination Monday  December 15, 2003, from  10:00 A.M. until 11:40 A.M.


  E. Grading: 

Book Review                                                       15%

In class report                                                     15%

First examination                                                 20%

Second examination                                             20%

FINAL examination                                              30%

TOTAL                                                              100%

In general, a satisfactory grade will earn a grade of "C", excellent work will earn

a "B", and outstanding, original or creative work will earn an "A".

                          

 F. Required Readings:

Bettylou Valentine.  Hustling And Other Hard Work.

Philippe Bourgois. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio.

Steven Gregory. Black Corona: Race & Politics of Place in an Urban Community.

Fred Siegel, ed.  Urban Society.  6th edition.

Gmelch & Zenner, eds.  Cities of the Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology

                           
G. Recommended Reading:

William Kornblum.  Blue Collar Community

Leith Mullings.  Cities Of The United States

G. Ansari and P.M. Nas.  Town-Talk

D. V. Folkman.  Urban Community Development

Jane Jacobs.  The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Spradley.  You Owe Yourself A Drunk.

Cohen. Custom and Politics In Urban Africa.

Kertzer.  Comrades And Christians: Religion and Struggles with the Italian   Communist

Charles Murray. Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980

Theresa Funiciello. Tyranny of Kindness: Dismantling the Welfare System.

A. Edwards and C. Polite.  Children of the Dream: The Psychology of Black  Success.

Joel Garreau.  Edge City: Life on the New Frontier.

SYLLABUS

 

DATE                     ASSIGNMENT                                     TOPIC

8/25  M                   Gmelch & Zenner. 2-14                        Introduction to Cities.

        RECOMMENDED: V. Gordon Childe. "The Urban Revolution." The Rise of Cities

 

8/27  W                  Gmelch & Zenner. pp. 15-35               Urbanism as a way of life.

 

8/29  F                    Gmelch & Zenner.  pp. 491-510          Necropolis to Utopia 

 

9/01  M                   LABOR DAY: No classes, read, take notes, and review course material.

 

9/03  W                  FILM: The Islamic City                     

 

9/05  F                    Gmelch & Zenner. pp. 82-94               The Preindustrial City

 

9/08  M                   Gmelch & Zenner.  Pp. 35-46. 47-60   Robert Park/Urban Ecology

                               Recommended: R. Park. The City     

                               Recommended: Warner.Yankee City.   W. Lloyd Warner/ Community Study Approach

 

9/10  W                  Gmelch & Zenner.  Pp. 60-81              Vienna/ Metropolis & Identity

         Robert Redfield                                    Rural - Urban Migration Continuum

                              Reserve Desk SIUE Library

                              FILM: Ibadan                                        City of Farmers?

 

9/12  F                    Gmelch & Zenner.  pp. 491-510.         Rural to Urban Migration/Push vs. Pull Factors
                               Egypt: Urban Migration Without Breakdown

 

9/15  M                   Gmelch & Zenner. pp. 188-210.          Mexico: Urban Migration Causes Breakdown

 

9/17  W                  Gmelch & Zenner. pp. 259-279           Urban Migration in Africa/Females Coping in Cities

                                Tom Weisner                                        One Family Two Households: Urban Kenya

 

9/19  F                   Gmelch & Zenner. pp. 524-548           Tokyo Neighborhoods
                             The Japanese Factory Worker vs. The Salary Man.

 

9/22  M                   Browne                                                  Shembe Religion and the Zulu of Durban, S. Africa

 

9/24  W                  In class review for First Exam

 

9/26  F                    First Examination.                               Bring pencil, eraser and ink pen..

 

9/29  M             Review First Exam                                                                                                                  

 

10/01  W            Gmelch & Zenner.  pp. 279-293          Cyclical Migration & Development in Spain  

 

10/03  F                  Gmelch & Zenner.  pp. 432-445          Caste in an Indian Neighborhood.

                                FILM: Bombay Our City.

 

10/06  M Browne                                                  East Indian Urban Hindu Weddings in Durban

 

10/08  W                Recommended:  Global Studies China              China/Background

                                FILM: Working - The City and Industrial Chinese Workers.

 

10/10  F                  Gmelch & Zenner.  pp. 335-353          Chinese Urban Family Life

                                James Watson. pp. 201-222.               Chinese Restaurant Workers In London.

 

10/13  M                 Gmelch & Zenner.  pp. 210-228          Yugoslavia/Background

                                Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing            Serbian Peasants in Cities

 

10/15  W                Gmelch & Zenner.  pp. 510-524          Brasilia & Favelas
                                Gmelch & Zenner.  pp. 245-259          Portuguese Women Rural-Urban Migrants

 

10/17  F                  IN CLASS REPORT                             In Search of Respect

 

10/20  M                 IN  CLASS REPORT                            In Search of Respect

 

10/22  W                Gmelch & Zenner.  pp. 418-432          Office Work & Crack Dealing in Spanish Harlem

 

10/24  F                  Gmelch & Zenner.  pp. 353-367          Urban Wives and Their Servants: Guatemala City        

 

10/27  M Gmelch & Zenner.  pp. 445-459.         Urban Political Activist Culture; Merida, Mexico

FIRST DRAFT OF BOOK REVIEW DUE IN CLASS

 

10/29  W                Gmelch & Zenner.  pp. 378-405          Culture of Poverty/ Puerto Rico & Mexico: Cuba?        

 

10/31  F                  Gmelch & Zenner.  pp. 405-418          Critique of Culture of Poverty

 

11/03  M Gmelch & Zenner.  pp. 228-245          West Indians in London

 

11/05  W                Gmelch & Zenner.  pp. 323-335          All Our Kin; Black Extended Families in US Cities

 

11/07  F                  IN CLASS REPORT             Black Corona

 

11/10  M                 IN CLASS REPORT                             Black Corona

 

11/12  W                In Class Review for Second Examination.

 

11/14  F                  Second Examination.  Bring pencil, eraser, & ink pen.

 

11/17  M Review Second Exam in class.

 

11/19  W                Valentine.  Hustling                             The Setting.

 

11/21  F                  Valentine  Hustling                              The Burtons.

 

11/124– 11/30     THANKSGIVING BREAK NO CLASSES/ Read and review.

 

12/01  M Valentine. Hustling                              The Wards & the Wilsons.

 

12/03  W                Valentine. Hustling                              The Meaning of it all.

 

12/05  F                  Siegel. Urban Society. pp.6-11           American Fear of City?

                                Gmelch & Zenner. pp. 35-47 Urban Danger

FINAL BOOK REVIEW DUE IN CLASS TODAY

 

12/08  M Siegel.  pp. 12-15                  Going Suburban?

                                Siegel. pp. 16-24                                   Primate Cities and Megalopolis

                                Review:

FILM: Megalopolis - Cradle of the future?

 

12/10  W                   Siegel. pp. 36-45                                   Downtown

                       Siegel. pp. 46-55                                   The Other Suburbia.

                                Siegel. pp. 60-77                                   New York and Seattle vs. Tokyo

                                Siegel. pp. 80-84                                   Cars and American Urban Culture

                                Siegel. pp. 85-96                                   Homeless & Addiction

                                FILM: Where Can I Live? Gentrification

Gentrification  - Blessing or Scourge?

 

12/12  F                  In Class Review for Final Exam

 

Monday  December 15, 2003             Final examination.            10:00 P.M. - 11:40 P.M.  Good Luck!*  

 

If you need your final grade before it is officially posted then please provide Dr. Browne with a self-addressed, stamped envelope, and a written request for your grade. Make certain that a space is provided to record your final grade.  Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS.