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Schedule
of Lectures and Readings
Week 1 (March 30-April 1): Mapping out materials and methods.
Mon:
Introduction to ethnic and immigrant groups in the Nordic and Baltic region.
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Handout:
Indigenous, Regional, Religious, Language and Foreign-Born groups in North
Europe
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Background reading: Daiva Kuzmickaite, "History of Lithuanian Immigrants'
Lives in Chicago," in Between Two Worlds: Recent Lithuanian Immigrants in
Chicago (1988-2000) (Vilnius: Versus Aureus, 2003), 70-77.
Wed:
Methods of Studying Immigrant and Ethnic Folklore
Read before
class:
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Unni
Wikan, "Introduction: A Personal Odyssey," in Generous Betrayal, 1-16
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Anna-Leena
Siikala et al., "Foreword," in Creating Diversities, 7-13.
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Stephen Stern and John Allan Cicala, "Preface," in Creative Ethnicity,
ix-x.
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Guntis
Šmidchens, "Immigrant and Ethnic Folklore" and
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“Ethics and the Student Fieldworker”
In George Schoemaker, ed. Emergence of Folklore in Everyday Life
(Bloomington: Trickster Press, 1990), 133-144 and 11-14.
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Graduate Readings: Jonas Frykman, "The Informalization of National
Identity," Ethnologia Europaea 25,1 (1995): 5-15.
Week 2 (April 6-8): Classifying Race, Language and Beliefs of
Indigenous Peoples: Sami, Seto and Livs.
Mon:
Extrinsic Representations of Indigenous People
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"In
pictures: The Seto people," BBC News, International version, n.d., [Link].
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Margus Kolga et al., eds., "The Livonians," in The Red Book of the Peoples
of the Russian Empire (Tallinn: NGO Red Book, 2001). [Link]
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Stein
Mathiesen, "Hegemonic Representations of Sámi Culture: From Narratives of
Noble Savages to Discourses on Ecological Sámi," in Creating Diversities,
17-30;
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Kjell Olsen, "The Touristic
Construction of the "Emblematic" Sami," in Creating Diversities,
292-305.
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Graduate
readings:
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Robert Kaiser
and Elena Nikiforova, "Borderland spaces of
identification and dis/location: Multiscalar narratives and enactments of
Seto identity and place in the Estonian-Russian borderlands," Ethnic and
Racial Studies 29,5 (2006): 928-958. [Link]
(For information about connecting from off-campus,
click
here)
Wed:
Intrinsic Representations of Indigenous People
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Mara
Zirnite, "Livonian Lifestories: Source of Identity," in
Lives, histories and
identities : studies on oral histories, life and family stories,
Vol. 1, ed. Tiiu Jaago et al. (Tartu: University of Tartu, 2002). [Link]
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Harald Gaski, "Like a Ski-Track across the Open Plains: The Tenderness and
Strength of Sami Literature," in Minority Languages: The Scandinavian
Experience, edited by Gunilla Blom et al. (Oslo: Nordic Language
Secretariat, 1992), 131-140.
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Jay Weiner,
"We fought for our culture": The Samis,
Norway's indigenous people, tell the world who they are at Lillehammer, Star
Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) [METRO Edition], 27 Feb 1994, 18A.[Link]
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Barre
Toelken, "Ethnic Selection and Intensification in the Native American
Powwow," in Creative Ethnicity, 137-156.
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Film, King
for a Day, 2002 [Seto in Estonia]. Odegaard Media Center,
Videorecord SLA 121
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Graduate
readings Kjell Olsen,
"Heritage, Religion and the Deficit of Meaning in Institutionalized
Discourse," in Creating Diversities, 31-42.
Week 3 (April 13-15): Ethnic Groups and Boundaries
Mon: Ethnic Groups and Boundaries
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Jan-Petter
Blom, "Ethnic and Cultural Differentiation" (74-85);
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Harald Eidheim,
"When Ethnic Identity is a Social Stigma" (39-57);
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Fredrik Barth,
"Introduction" (9-38).
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Graduate
readings: entire book
Wed: Ethnic
Groups and Boundaries, the sequel
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Katherine Verdery, "Ethnicity,
nationalism, and the state: Ethnic Groups and Boundaries past and
present," in The Anthropology of Ethnicity: Beyond
"Ethnic Groups and Boundaries", edited by Hans
Vermeulen and Cora Grovers (Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, 1994).
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C. Silverman,
“Strategies of Ethnic Adaptation,” Creative Ethnicity, 107-122.
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Graduate Readings:
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"Barth,
Fredrik," in Anthrobase: Dictionary of Anthropology, A searchable
database of anthropological texts, edited by Kari Helene Partapuoli and
Finn Sivert Nielsen (n.d.). [Link]
(Click on the link at the bottom of the page, to see some interpretations of
Barth's works).
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Harald Eidheim, "On the Organisation of Knowledge in Sami Ethno-Politics,"
in Becoming Visible - Indigenous Politics and Self-Government,
edited by Terje Brantenberg, Janne Hansen, and Henry
Minde (Tromsø, Norway: The University of Tromsø, Sámi dutkamiid
guovddáš - Centre for Sámi Studies, 1995). lLink] [Visit
the Centre's website]
Fri: Research
Report
1 due:
Web search.
Week 4 (April 20-22): Geographical Boundaries: National Minorities in 20th
Century Nation States.
Mon:
European National Minorities, 1920-1940
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John Hiden,
"Thinker of the European Minorities Movement," in
Defender of Minorities: Paul Schiemann, 1876-1944 (London: Hurst &
Company, 2004), 127-148.
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Max
Engman, "Finns and Swedes in Finland," in Ethnicity and Nation Building
in the Nordic World, edited by Sven Tägil (Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press, 1995), 179-216.
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Lamonas Briedis, "The Absent Nation," in Vilnius, City of Strangers
(Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2008), 193-218.
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Graduate
readings: Minorities in international politics:
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Lorenz Rerup, National Minorities in South Jutland / Schleswig," in
Ethnicity and Nation Building in the Nordic World, edited by Sven Tägil
(Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995), 247-281.
Wed:
Indigenous National Minorities (!) Today
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JoAnn Conrad, "Mapping Space,
Claiming Place: The (Ethno-)Politics of Everyday Geography in Northern
Norway," in Creating Diversities, 165-189.
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Ivars
Ijabs, Russians and Civil Society, in
Latvian-Russian Relations: Domestic and International Dimensions,
edited by Nils Muižnieks (Riga: LU Akadēmiskais Apgāds,
2006), 74-84. Connect to this book online at
http://szf.lu.lv/szf/eng/140/index.htm
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Film, Life
after the End of the World, 2001 [Russian Old Believers in Estonia].
Odegaard Media Center, Videorecord SLA 095.
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Graduate
readings: David D. Laitin, "Culture and National Identity: 'The East' and
European Integration (Statistical Data Included)" in West European Politics 25,2 (2002): 55-80.
[Link]
Week 5 (April 27-29): Problems of Identity. What to
describe?
Mon: Ethnographer's dilemma: New Traditions or Old?
Wed:
Contacts with the Old Country
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Linda Dégh, "Approaches to Folklore
Research among Immigrant Groups," Journal of American Folklore 79 (1966):
553-556. [Link].
(For information about connecting from off-campus,
click
here)
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Linda Dégh, "Two Letters from Home,"
Journal of American Folklore 91 (1978): 808-822. [Link]
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Jennifer
Eastman Attebery, "'Peasant Letters' Revisited: The Immigrant Letter from a
Folklorist's Perspective," The Swedish-American Historical Quarterly 56,2-3
(2005): 126-140.
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Graduate Readings:
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Inta Gale Carpenter, "Festival as Reconciliation: Latvian
Exile Homecoming in 1990," Journal of Folklore Research 33,2 (1996): 93-124.
[Link]
Week 6 (May 4-6): Refugees and Immigrants: Where do they
belong?
Mon
Dual Identities
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Pekka Hakamies,
"Finns in Russia, Russians in Finland," in Creating Diversities,
43-53
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Jurki Pöusä, "Finnishness"
and "Russianness" in the Making," in Creating Diversities,
54-70.
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Betty
A. Blair, "Iranian Immigrant Name Changes in Los Angeles," in Creative
Ethnicity, 122-136.
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Graduate readings: Sally Boyd, "Immigrant Languages in Sweden," in
The Other Languages of Europe, edited by Guus Extra and Durk Gorter (Clevedon:
Multilingual Matters Ltd, 2001), 177-192.
Wed:
Parallel Identities
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Unni
Wikan, Generous Betrayal, 19-114.
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Graduate readings: Keld Buciek, Jørgen Ole
Bærenholdt, Kristine Juul, "Whose Heritage? Immigration and Place Narratives in
Denmark," Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography 88, 2 (2006):
185–197. [Link]
Fri: Research
Report
2 due: Library research &
bibliography
Week 7 (May 11-13): Clash of Civilizations
Mon:
Clash of Religions
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Barbro Klein,
"The Miracle in Södertälje, Sweden: The Re-enchantment of Sweden and
the Othering of a Young Woman," in Creating Diversities, 71-88.
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Pia Karlsson
Minganti, "Mosques in Sweden: On Identity and Spatial Belonging,"
in Creating Diversities, 153-164.
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Carolyn Lipson-Walker, "Weddings among the Jews in Post-World-War-II
American South," in Creative Ethnicity, 171-186.
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Graduate readings:
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Professor Tariq Modood, Professor Randall Hansen, Professor Erik Bleich,
Professor Brendan O'Leary, Professor Joseph H. Carens, "The Danish Cartoon
Affair: Free Speech, Racism, Islamism, and Integration," International
Migration 44,5 (2006), 3–62. [Link]
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Irena
Borowik, "Orthodoxy Confronting the Collapse of Communism in Post-Soviet
Countries," Social Compass 53,6 (2006): 267-278. [Link
to download PDF file]
Wed:
Clash of Languages and Ideologies.
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M. Herrera-Sobek, “Corridos and Canciones,”
Creative Ethnicity, 87-106
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Barbro Klein, "Fences, Fertilizers, and
Foreigners: Moral Dilemmas in the Swedish Cultural Landscape," Journal of
Folklore Research 30,1 (1993): 45-59 [Link].
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Unni Wikan, Generous Betrayal, 117-129;
198-204.
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Graduate readings:
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David Smith, "Commemoration, Identity Politics,
and Estonia's War of Monuments" [Link]
(For information about connecting from off-campus,
click
here)
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Nils
Muižnieks, "Russian Foreign Policy towards 'Compatriots' in Latvia," in
Latvian-Russian Relations: Domestic and International Dimensions, edited by Nils Muižnieks (Riga: LU Akadēmiskais Apgāds, 2006), 119-130. Connect to
this book online at
http://szf.lu.lv/szf/eng/140/index.htm
Week 8 (May 18-20): Advocating a Clash
Mon:
Culture vs. identity among immigrants
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Unni
Wikan, Generous Betrayal: Politics of Culture in the New Europe
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).
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Book
Review of Generous Betrayal due.
Wed:
New directions in representation
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Robert
Borofsky, “Envisioning
a More Public Anthropology: An Interview with Fredrik Barth,” April 18th,
2001. Public Anthropology [Link]
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Cathrine Kyø
Hermansen and Thomas Abel Møller, "The Danish Immigration Museum of Furesø:
The history of immigration and the collecting of memories," Museum
International 52,1-2 (2007): 137–144. [Link]
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Graduate Readings: Zoë-haateehc
Durrah Scheffy, "Sami Religion in
Museums and Artistry," in Creating Diversities, 225-259.
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Reginald Byron, "Ethnicity and Generation: On 'feeling Irish' in
Contemporary America," Ethnologia Europaea 28,1 (1998): 27-36.
Fri: Research
Report
3 due:
Report from the "field".
Week 9 (May 27): Advocating a Clash of Civilizations
Monday,
May 25: Memorial Day Holiday
Wed:
Ethnic humor: To laugh or not to laugh?
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Alan
Dundes, "A Study of Ethnic Slurs: The Jew and the Polack in the United
States," Journal of American Folklore 84 (1971): 186-203. [Link]
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Elliot Oring, "The Humor of Hate," in Engaging Humor (Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, c2003), pages 41-57.
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Handout,
ethnic jokes from Northern Europe
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Robert Jarvenpa, "Visual Expression in
Finnish-American Ethnic Slurs," Journal of American Folklore
89 (1976): 90-91. [JSTOR
Link]
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Listen:
The Disgusted Swede (click on Finnish, then #19)
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Graduate
reading:
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Liisi Laineste, "Poltics of Joking: Ethnic Jokes
and their Targets in Estonia (1890s-2007)" Folklore 40 (2008): 117-146 [Link]
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Christie
Davies, "Conclusion" in Ethnic Humor around the World: A
Comparative Analysis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990),
307-324.
Week 10 (June 1-3): Changing Traditions
Mon:
Changing culture, changing identities
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Lizette Graden,
"Christmas in Lindsborg," in Creating Diversities, 276-291.
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*L. Danielson, “St. Lucia in Lindsborg,
Kansas” Creative Ethnicity, 187-203
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Graduate Readings: Jonas Frykman, "Belonging in Europe: Modern Identities in
Minds and Places," Ethnologia Europaea 29,2 (1999): 13-24.
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J. Leary and R. March, “Dutchman Bands,”
Creative Ethnicity, 21-43.
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Review of Lizette Graden's 2003 book about Lindsborg, Journal of American
Folklore 121 (2008) 367-368. [Link]
Wed: Brokering Ethnicity:
Who and what represents a group? How?
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S. Auerbach, “The Brokering of Ethnic
Folklore,” in Creative Ethnicity, 223-238.
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Graduate Readings: Bjarne Stoklund, "The Role of International Exhibitions
in the Construction of National Identities in the 19th Century,"
Ethnologia Europaea 24,1 (1994): 35-44.
Friday:
Final Research Paper due
Upload to the
"Collect It" website (different from the regular discussion website)
Final Examination:
Thursday, June 11, 2009, 2:30-4:20 pm, Sieg Hall 226 |