ANT 4336 / ANG 5336 |
Dr. Maxine L. Margolis Office: 309 Grinter Phone: 392-2253, ext. 301 E-mail: maxinem@anthro.ufl.edu |
| The Peoples of Brazil | |
Course
Requirements:
Undergraduate students: Research report, and two exams.
Graduate students: Research paper, class presentation, and two exams.
Required
Readings
Undergraduate
and Graduate Students:
Wagley, Charles, Introduction to Brazil, 2nd edition,
Columbia University Press, 1971.
Degler, Carl, Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race
Relations in Brazil and the United States,
Macmillan, 1970.
Kottak, Conrad P. Assault on Paradise , Random House, 3rd edition, 1998.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy, Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1993.
Margolis, Maxine L., Little Brazil: An Ethnography of Brazilian
Immigrants in New York City, Princeton University Press, 1994.
Course Packs (available at Custom Copies, 1202 NW 9th Ave):
Pack I Margolis, Bezerra & Fox, “Brazil” from Countries and Their
Cultures, 2001; chapters from
Gomes, Brazil and the Indians,
2000; chapters from Ribeiro, The Brazilian People, 2000; Mead, “Dressing for Lula.,” article from The New Yorker,
2003.
Pack II Out of print book: Freyre, Gilberto, The
Masters and the Slaves, rev. and abridged 2nd edition, University of
California Press.
Graduate Students Only: The following
are available in the library:
Johnson, Allen W., Sharecroppers of the Sertão, Stanford
University Press, 1971.
Harris, Marvin, Town and Country in Brazil, Norton, 1971.
Margolis, Maxine L., The Moving Frontier: Social and Economic
Change in a Southern Brazilian Community, University of Florida Press,
1973.
Course
Outline And Assignments
Weeks 1 & 2
General Introduction to Brazil
Wagley, Introduction
to Brazil, Chapter 1
Margolis, Bezerra and Fox, “Brazil” (Course Pack I)
Weeks 3
& 4 The Make-Up of
Brazilian Culture
Wagley, Introduction
to Brazil, Chapter 2
Freyre, The
Masters and the Slaves (Course Pack II)
Week 5
The Northeast Interior (sertão)
Johnson, Sharecroppers
of the Sertão
Week 6
The Northeast Coast (zona da mata)
Kottak, Assault
on Paradise
Week 7 The Eastern Highlands
Harris, Town
and Country in Brazil
Week 8
The Amazon Valley
Gomes chapters (Course Pack I)
Week 9
The West
Week 10
The Rural South
Margolis, The
Moving Frontier
Week 11
The Urban South
Week 12 Race Relations in Brazil
Degler, Neither
Black Nor White
Ribeiro chapters (Course Pack I)
Week 13
Brazilian Socio-Economic Classes
Wagley, Introduction to Brazil, Chapter 3
Scheper-Hughes, Death Without
Weeping
Mead, “Dressing for Lula” (Course Pack I)
Week 14
The Family and the Community
Wagley, Introduction to Brazil, Chapters.4-7
Week
15 The New Exodus
Wagley, Introduction to Brazil, Chapter 8
Margolis, Little Brazil
First
Exam: Wednesday, October 22, in
class
Second
Exam: Wednesday, December 10, in class
Paper
Due : Wednesday, November 12
Note: There will be no class on Wednesday, November
19.
Also
Please Note: No incompletes will be given in this
course except for reasons of illness (with a doctor's note) or serious personal
crisis.
About
the Course:
Attendance in class is required. It is impossible
to do well in this course without attending class regularly. Much of the
material in class will not be covered
in the assigned readings but will be on the exams. Should you miss a class, be
sure to get the notes from another student who attended.
Students should do all the required readings in
the sequence suggested and I strongly advise that you keep up with the reading.
Read for general content rather than for specific facts.
Grade
Policy: The first exam counts
for 20 percent of your grade, the second exam 40 percent and the paper 40
percent.
Undergraduate
Students: Aside from the assigned readings, exams, and
attendance in class, you will select one topic covered in “Brazil” in Course Pack I (see Weeks 1 & 2 above) and write a brief
research report—5 or 6 pages typed—on it.
Details will be provided in class.
Graduate Students: Aside from the reading, exams, and attendance in class, you will do a research paper on a topic of your choice having to do with Brazil. Please consult me about the topic before you begin your research. You also may be asked to give an informal 15 to 20 minute presentation in class on the topic you have chosen. Additional details will be given in class.