Cross-Cultural Studies 200

Revised Schedule (subject to further change)

Thursday, January 30 - Discussion of Yamamoto, "Betty-san" in Betty-san Stories, pp. 9-67

Tuesday, February 4 - Comparisons

Start reading Finn, Tracing the Veins
Recommended: Skocpol and Somers, "The    Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry." Comparative 
   Studies in Society and History 22: 174-197 

Thursday, February 6 - Comparisons; discuss Finn, Tracing the Veins

Tuesday, February 11 - Conceptualizing Globalization

Appadurai, "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy" in 
   Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization 
Cox, "A Perspective on Globalization" in Globalization: Critical Reflections" in
   Globalization: Critical Reflections, ed. by J. Mittelman.
(For a political economy perspective, see also Mittlelman, "The Dynamics of 
Globalization," in Globalization: Critical Reflections)

Thursday, February 13 - Issues of globalization and resistance at the grassroots

Ortner, "Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal." Comparative Studies in 
Society and History 37: 173-193 
Recommended:  Comaroff & Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution, pp. 1-32, esp. pp. 19-32 

Tuesday, February 18 - Guest lecture, Prof. Roger Jackson (Religion Dept.)

Reading to be announced.

Thursday, February 20 - Transnational populations and communities

Portes, et al., "The Study of Transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent
     Research Field"  Ethnic and Racial Studies 22
Befu, "Globalization as Human Dispersal: Nikkei in the World" in New Worlds, New Lives: 
     Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americans and from Latin America in Japan, ed. L. Hirabayashi et al.
Lesser, "In Search of the Hyphen:  Nikkei and the Struggle over Brazilian National Identity" in New Worlds, New Lives

Film: "Gaijin" by T. Yamazaki (1980) (to be scheduled)

Thursday, February 25 - Case study

Moniz,  "Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and the Narrative of National Identity   
     in the Films of Tizuka Yamazaki" in New Worlds, New Lives 
plus others to be announced

Thursday, March 4- Discussion of Yamashita, Brazil Maru