Fall 2004 Advance Course Information

This information effective for Fall 2004. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.

Anthropology

[ANTH-170] [ANTH-177] [ANTH-184]

170. History of Archaeological Theory and Method

Note: Preliminary draft—details may change

TTh 6:00-7:45 p.m., 145 Social Sciences 1
Instructor: D. Gifford-Gonzalez
Office: 351 Social Sciences 1
Office Hours: Wed. 1-3 p.m. or by appt.
Phone: 459-2633, message 459-3365
Email: dianegg@ucsc.edu

About the course: Surveys development of concepts and methods in prehistoric archaeology, from Renaissance to present, concentrating on the English-speaking world. Lectures stress ideas and methods in archaeology in their social and historical contexts. Many readings are original documents from different phases in the history of archaeology. Students receive coaching in reading texts and writing analytic essays. Satisfies the "W" requirement.

Prerequisites: Introduction to Archaeology (Anthropology 3) or equivalent.

Work for the course:
Readings for the course are heavy, and class time will be spent discussing them. Students therefore should do the readings before the lecture for which they are assigned. Readings are on E-Reserves and can be downloaded as pdf files and printed at a variety of campus locations for a fee. Bring the relevant readings to class each time. Hard copies are at McHenry Reserves.

(1) A brief (3-5 sentence) comment or query on each assigned reading to instructor via e-mail the day before the materials are discussed. With instructor's consent, typed comments may be put in her mailbox by 4 pm. Counts for about 15% of the course grade/evaluation.

(2) Three analytic essays, each of 8 pages maximum, are required. Essays will be evaluated on the basis of analytic content, organization, and clarity of expression. Counts for 75% of the course grade/evaluation.

A first draft must be turned in the session before the seminar on the topic. Note: The first draft must be at least 7 pages long and serious in content. For shorter drafts, a half-grade will be marked down from the final paper grade, per every two pages of shortfall. For example, a 5-page first draft, with an A on the final draft results in an A- grade on the final draft; a three-page first draft, with a C on the final draft results in A D grade on the final draft, etc.

A final revision based on seminar and instructor's first draft comments is due the next class session after the seminar (after a weekend). No one shall pass the course without turning in these papers by their due dates. Alternative submittal dates must be arranged with the instructor in advance. Guidelines for Seminars #1 and #2 will be distributed the first full week of class. Seminar #3 is be based on E-Reserves/McHenry Reserves materials assigned before Thanksgiving break. Students should budget enough time to choose and use them.

(3) On each seminar date, all students should be prepared to participate in small-group discussions of the topics covered by the essays. Counts for 10% of course grade/ evaluation.

Required Readings [Bay Tree Bookstore + McHenry Reserves]

Trigger, Bruce A History of Archaeological Thought. 1992 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Watkins, Joe Indigenous Archaeology 2000 Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press.
Gifford-Gonzalez, Diane Anthropology 170 Reader [Electronic Reserves + McHenry Reserves]

Optional [Bay Tree Bookstore + McHenry Reserves]

Thomas, David Hurst Skull Wars. 1999 New York, Basic Books.
Swidler, Nina, Roger Anyon, & Kurt Donogske, editors. Native Americans and Archaeologists: Stepping Stones to Common Ground. 1997 Walnut Creek, AltaMira Press.

On reserve @ McHenry Library: all of the above, plus

Binford, Lewis R. An Archaeological Perspective. 1972 Orlando, Academic Press.
Binford, Lewis R. Constructing Frames of Reference. 2001 Berkeley, University of California Press.
Binford, Sally R. & Lewis Binford New Perspectives in Archaeology. 1968 Chicago, Aldine.
Clarke, David L. Analytical Archaeologist: Collected Papers of David L. Clarke. 1979 New York, Academic Press
Hodder, Ian Symbolic and Structural Archaeology. 1982 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Hodder, Ian The Domestication of Europe. 1990 New York, Blackwell.
Pinsky, Valerie & Alison Wylie Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology. 1989 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Preucel, Robert & Ian Hodder Contemporary Archaeology in Theory. 1996 New York, Blackwell.
Shanks, Michael & Christopher Tilley Re-Constructing Archaeology. 2nd Ed. 1992 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Willey, Gordon & Jeremy Sabloff. A History of American Archaeology. 3rd Ed. 1993 New York, W.H. Freeman.

Anthropology 170 Readings on E-Reserves

Note: The password for access to this Web-based resource is: Mary_Leakey
You can print articles from your own printer, in Computer Labs, or in McHenry or the Science and Engineering Libraries, where you will be charged a fee per page.
Print Duplex (Double-Sided) to save paper.
Note: Paper copies of all articles are in individual folders at McHenry Reserves.

Frere, John 1797 Letter to the Rev. John Brand. In Man's Discovery of his Past, R. Heizer, editor. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs (1962). Pp. 70-71.
Boucher des Perthes, Jacques de Crevecoeur 1860[1838] On antediluvian man and his works. [De L'Homme Antédiluvian et ses oeuvres] Treuttel, Paris.
Hutton, John 1788 Excerpt from Theory of the Earth. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Lyell, Charles 1867 Excerpt from Principles of Geology. John Murray, London
Prestwich, John 1860 Verification of Boucher des Perthes' claims. In Man's Discovery of his Past, edited by Robert Heizer. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs (1962). Pp. 99-102.
Thomsen, Christian J. 1837 The various periods to which heathen relics can be assigned. In Man's Discovery of his Past, R. Heizer, editor, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs (1962). Pp. 21-26.
Pitt-Rivers, Augustus H. Lane Fox 1875 On the evolution of culture. In General Pitt-Rivers, by M. W. Thompson. Moonraker Press, Bradford-on-Avon (1977).
Boas, Franz 1902 Some problems in North American archaeology. American Journal of Archaeology 6(1):1-6
Stocking, George 1968 The scientific reaction against cultural anthropology, 1917-1920. In Race, Culture, and Evolution. Pp. 270-307.
Kidder, Alfred V. 1914 Prehistoric cultures of the San Juan drainage. In Alfred V. Kidder, by R. Woodbury, Columbia University Press, New York (1973). Pp. 99-107.
Kidder, Mary A. and Alfred V. Kidder 1917 Notes on the pottery of Pecos. American Anthropologist 19(3):325-360.
Burkitt, Miles C. 1933 Introduction. The Old Stone Age. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Clark, Grahame (J. G. D.) 1938 The reindeer hunting tribes of northern Europe. Antiquity 12:154-171.
Clark, Grahame (J. G. D.) 1955 The economic approach to prehistory. In Contemporary Archaeology, M. Leone, editor. University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale (1972). Pp. 62-77.
Childe, V. Gordon 1929 Preface. The Danube in Prehistory. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Childe, V. Gordon 1937 Chapters I & II. Man Makes Himself. Watts & Company, London.
[Cotter, John L. 1993 Kentucky memoir: digging in the Depression. Archaeology 46(1):30-35.]
Kluckhohn, Clyde 1940 The conceptual structure of Middle American Studies. In Contemporary Archaeology, M. Leone, editor. University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale (1972). Pp. 78-84.
Steward, Julian 1955 Chapter 2. Theory of Culture Change, The Methodology of Multilinear Evolution. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
Taylor, Walter W. 1949 Excerpt from A Study of Archaeology. University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale (1967). Pp. 93-111.
Willey, Gordon R. and Phillip Phillips 1958 Introduction. Method and Theory in American Archaeology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Adams, Robert McCormick 1956 Some hypotheses on the development of early civilizations. American Antiquity 21(3):227-232.
White, Leslie A. 1959 Chapter 1. The Evolution of Culture. McGraw-Hill, New York.
Binford, Lewis R. 1962 Archaeology as anthropology. American Antiquity 28(2):217-225.
Binford, Lewis R. 1965 Archaeological systematics and the study of culture process. American Antiquity 31 (2):203-210.
Flannery, Kent V. 1967 Culture history vs. culture process: a debate in American archaeology. Scientific American 217(2)119-122.
Coe, Michael and Kent V. Flannery 1964 Microenvironments and Mesoamerican prehistory. Science 143(3607):650-654.
Deetz, James F. 1970 Archaeology as social science. American Anthropological Association Bulletins 3(3):115-125.
Clarke, David L. 1973 Archaeology: loss of innocence. Antiquity 47:6-18.
Clarke, David 1974 The Beaker network—social and economic models. In Analytical Archaeologist. Academic Press, New York (1979). Pp. 333-360.
Schiffer, Michael B. 1972 Archaeological context and systemic context. American Antiquity 37:156-165.
Grove, David C. and David E. Buge 1978 Prehistoric demography, behavior, and ancient pottery. Journal of Irreproducible Results 24:21-23.
Binford, Lewis R. 1983 An Archaeological Odyssey. In Pursuit of the Past Decoding the Archaeological Record. Thames and Hudson, New York.
Binford, L. R. 1980 Willow smoke and dogs' tails: hunter-gatherer settlement systems and archaeology. American Antiquity 45:4-20.
Deetz, James F. 1988 American historical archeology: methods and results. Science 239:362-367.
Leone, M. 1985 Symbolic, structural, and critical archaeology. In Archaeology Present and Future, edited by D. Meltzer, D. Fowler and J. Sabloff, pp. 415-438. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
Hodder, Ian 1985 Post-processual archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 8:1-26.
Hodder, Ian 1984 Burials, houses, women, and men in the European Neolithic. In Ideology, Power and Prehistory, D. Miller and C. Tilley, editors. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Pp. 51-68.
Conkey, Margaret and Janet Spector 1984 Archaeology and the study of gender. In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 7:1-38. Academic Press: Orlando.
Gero, Joan 1985 Sociopolitics of archaeology and the woman-at-home ideology. American Antiquity 50:342-350.
Engelstad, Ericka 1991 Feminist theory and post-processual archaeology. In The Archaeology of Gender. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Chacmool Conference, edited by Dale Walde and Noreen D. Willows. Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, Calgary. Pp. 116-120.
Meighan, Clement and Larry Zimmerman, 1994 Burying American archaeology vs sharing control of the past. Archaeology 47(6):63-68.
McManamon, Francis P. 1995 The reality of repatriation. Federal Archeology Fall/Winter 1995:1.
Naranjo, Tessie 1995 Thoughts on two worldviews. Federal Archeology Fall/Winter 1995:8.
Federal Archeology 1995 Capital presence: an interview with Carey Vicenti. Federal Archeology Fall/Winter 1995:13-16.
Whorl, Rosita 1995 NAGPRA: Symbol of a new treaty. Federal Archeology Fall/Winter 1995:28-29.
Hodder, Ian 1991 Interpretive archaeology and its role. American Antiquity 56(1):7-18.
Broughton, Jack & O'Connell, James F. 1999 On evolutionary ecology, selectionist archaeology, and behavioral archaeology. American Antiquity 64(1):153-164.

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177. European Conquest of the Americas

TTh 10:00-11:45 a.m., 192 Engineer 2
Instructor: Judith A. Habicht Mauche
Office: 403 Social Sciences 1
Phone: 459-3201
E-mail: judith@ucsc.edu
Office Hours: Wed. 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Course Description:

This course explores processes of cultural confrontation, resistance, and transformation among Native American groups in the wake of European colonial expansion in the Western Hemisphere during the late fifteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries. Within this historical context we will discuss the recent development of anthropological theories of culture contact and change, including world systems theory, historical political economy and neo-Marxist approaches to the study of power, domination, and resistance. The case studies examined in this class use an ethnohistoric approach, which combines the methodologies of archaeology, history, and ethnography. This perspective is used to develop a broader understanding and deeper appreciation of the role of Native Americans as social and political actors in their own and world history.

Prerequisites: Anth 2 and 3

This course fulfills the upper division Arch-Phys course requirement for the general anthropology major and the regional culture history requirement for the Archaeology Track.

Course Requirements:

Course evaluations will be based on attendance and participation in class discussions (5%), as well as two short, synthetic essays (5-7 pages) based on a critical analysis of assigned readings (80%). In addition, students will be required to post comments and questions on the readings to an on-line course bulletin board (on ERES) prior to every class meeting (15%).

Required Texts:

Available at Bay Tree Bookstore:

• Wolf, Eric R. (1997) Europe and the People without History (new edition).
• Milanich, Jerald T. (1999) Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians.
• Jones, Grant D. (1998) The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom.
• Richter, Daniel K. (1992) The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization.
• Brooks, James F. (2002) Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands.
  
  (All assigned texts are on reserve at McHenry Library)

Additional required and optional readings available on ERES (http://eres.ucsc.edu/)