COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN CULTURES & TRANSFORMATION
CUNY – Brooklyn College Dr. Tom Miller
Anthropology 1105 Spring 2020
Part One: The Big Picture
![Gregory and Cathy Bateson - Intercultural Studies.org](https://anth1105miller.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11241/files/2020/02/Gregory-and-Cathy-Bateson-Intercultural-Studies-org.jpeg)
WEEK 1. Jan27-Feb2
- Tues 1/28 Introduction to class
- Thurs 1/30 Overview of topics and areas
- Text (password-protected PDF): Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind — Metalogue 1: Why Do Things Get In A Muddle?
WEEK 2. Feb 3-9
- Tuesday
- Geographies and Ecologies
- River systems
Part Two: Circumpolar Peoples
![On the Road of Bones - before Chernyi-Prizhim](https://anth1105miller.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11241/files/2020/02/Bolot-On-the-Road-of-Bones-before-Chernyi-Prizhim-300x201.jpg)
LINKS
- Arctic Centre: Arctic Indigenous Peoples
- National Museum of Natural History: Arctic Studies Center
- American Museum of Natural History: Jesup North Pacific Expedition
- Online Documentation of Kolyma Yukaghir
- Humanistic Texts: Yukaghir
- Arctic Centre: Definition of indigenous peoples
- Circumpolar peoples study guide (PDF)
- ARMAP- The Arctic Research Mapping Application
- Arctic Administrative areas (image)
- Arctic definition (image)
- Arctic Centre: Arctic Calls
- Circumpolar Languages (image)
- Thursday
- Quiz #1
- The Sámi
WEEK 3. Feb 10-16 Northern Peoples
- Tuesday: Sápmi history and land rights issues
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- Text (password-protected PDF): Vars, Susanna Laila. 2019. The Indigenous World 2019: pp. 52-61. Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA).
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- Thursday: The Sakha-Yakut
![Children's mural in Yakutsk photo T Miller](https://anth1105miller.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11241/files/2020/02/Childrens-mural-in-Yakutsk-photo-T-Miller-300x197.jpg)
WEEKS 4-5
!["Papa" Franz Boas](https://anth1105miller.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11241/files/2020/02/Boas-young-227x300.jpg)
JNPE – American Museum of Natural History Library Special Collections
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- The Jesup North Pacific Expedition
- Introduction to Siberian shamanism
- The Jesup North Pacific Expedition
![Yakut Shaman's coat and drum - AMNH](https://anth1105miller.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11241/files/2020/02/5-Kolotushka-Jesup-coat-Drums120-196x300.jpg)
WEEK 6. Mar 2-8 The Yukaghir
- Text (password-protected PDF): Derlicki, Jaroslaw. 2007. Spirits of the Land. Academia – Focus on Ethnology No. 4(16):12-15.
- Text (ProQuest eBook Central PDF): Willerslev, Rane. 2007. Soul Hunters: Hunting, Animism, and Personhood among the Siberian Yukaghirs. Berkeley: University of California Press.
![Yukaghir-hunter-Spiridon-Spiridonov-Spiridonovich-in-his-house-in-Nelemnoe-1999-photo-by-Tom-Miller.](https://anth1105miller.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11241/files/2020/06/Yukaghir-hunter-Spiridon-Spiridonov-Spiridonovich-in-his-house-in-Nelemnoe-1999-photo-by-Tom-Miller-197x300.jpg)
- Recommended reading (supplemental texts, not required):
- Text (password-protected PDF): Miller, Thomas Ross. 2019. Reading the Ethnographic Past in the Present: Waldemar Jochelson and The Yukaghir. In Erich Kasten, ed., Jochelson, Bogoras and Shternberg: A Scientific Exploration of Northeastern Siberia and the Shaping of Soviet Ethnography. Furstenberg/Havel, Germany: Kulturstiftung Sibirien. [Electronic edition for www.siberien-studies.org]
- (Library ProQuest eBook): Landscape & Culture in Northern Eurasia (2011)
- Chapter 2 – Rane Willerslev, Seeing with Others’ Eyes: Hunting and ‘Idle Talk’ in the Landscape of the Siberian Yukaghir
- Chapter 6 – Virginie Vaté, Dwelling in the Landscape Among the Reindeer Herding Chukchis of Chukotka
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White reindeer. Photo: Bolot Bochkarev 2010
WEEK 7. Mar 9-15
- Jochelson, The Yukaghir and Yukaghirized Tungus: Nervous Diseases (Vol I, pp. 30-38)
- Text (password-protected PDF): Willerslev, Rane. 2010. “Urbanites without a City: Three Generations of Siberian Yukaghir Women. Acta Borealia, Vol. 27, No. 2:18-207.
Resource:
![Pole of Cold with sled](https://anth1105miller.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11241/files/2020/02/Bolot-Pole-of-Cold-with-sled-300x201.jpg)
Photo: Bolot Bochkarev 2010
WEEK 8. Mar 16-22
- Text (password-protected PDF): Derlicki, Jaroslaw. “I’m the son of the oliero”: Yukaghir identity and land issues. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Scholarship:272-282. Nga Pae o te Maramatanga. University of Auckland.
Part Three: Africa
![A Radio Bridge across the Zambezi](https://anth1105miller.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11241/files/2020/01/A-Radio-Bridge-across-the-Zambezi-photo-Claudia-Wegener-300x157.jpg)
Online Module #1: Introduction to Zambia
- Text (password-protected PDF): Cultures and Customs of Zambia – excerpt
The Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River flooded the Tonga people’s territory and
separated them by creating the world’s largest artificial lake, Lake Kariba.
- Video (YouTube embed below): Faces of Africa – Nyami Nyami: The River God
Birds of the Zambezi River Valley
Field recordings from the Cornell Ornithology Lab MacCaulay Library
Online Module #2: The Tonga
Lwaano Lwanyika: The Tonga Book of the Earth
- Text (password-protected PDF): Lwaano Lwanyika – Tonga Book of the Earth (excerpts)
Online Module #3: Media in Africa
https://www.znbc.co.zm/radio-live-streaming
- Text (password-protected PDF): Personal News and the Price of Public Service
Online Module #4: Building Radio Bridges
![Radio Bridge 2018 photo](https://anth1105miller.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/11241/files/2019/10/Radio-Bridge-2018-photo-Radio-Continental-Drift-300x300.png)
Media: Radio Bridges Across the Zambezi
PLAYLIST
- Total listening time = 1 hour 44 minutes 29 seconds
- Click here to hear “Zubo Women recording Women’s Stories” (by Zubo Trust, Publication date: 2016, Programme length = 24:26)
A RADIO BRIDGE ACROSS THE ZAMBEZI by Radio Continental Drift
- Programme length = 1:19:43
- Click to hear “A Radio Bridge Across the Zambezi – Part 1” (41:28 long)
- Click to hear “A Radio Bridge Across the Zambezi – Part 2” (38:35 long)
- Links: Radio Continental Drift – Zongwe FM
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- Final Assignment: Audio letters to Zongwe FM
Click here for Internet Archive page of your Audio Letters to Zambia from NYC: Building Radio Bridges: Link to Audio Letters