Raymond Fogelson

21103. Classical Readings: Romantic Anthropology. This exploration of anthropology's Romantic strains considers the writings of Rousseau, Herder, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, Robert Redfield, Margaret Mead, and Claude Lévi-Strauss.  

21106/34510. Classical Readings: Worlds Fairs.

21203. Intensive Study of a Culture: Iroquois. This course offers an overview of Iroquois culture from its prehistoric backgrounds to the modern day. In addition to studying the basic data of Iroquois ethnology, the course examines how Europeans and anthropologists have viewed the Iroquois as well as how the Iroquois view themselves and others.

21301. Modern Readings in Anthropology: Shamanism. The venerable topic of shamanism is explored in its original Siberian manifestations, North American variations, and extensions into Central and South America and elsewhere. The New Age and not-so-New Age interest in shamanism is also considered.

32003. Topics on Native America: Black Indians. This course covers 500 years of African, African-American and Native American relations omitted or obfuscated in much of the American historical record. Photographic and oral historic evidence will help to fill in some of the gaps; biographical sketches will personalize the historical narrative. The chronological structure of the course is complemented by weeks presentations of ongoing research on recognized Black Indians. A. T. Straus, Fogelson.

31800. Religious Movements in Native North America. New Agers essentialize and romanticize Native American religions. Religious beliefs and practices are assumed to be primordial, eternal, and invariable. However a closer examination reveals that Native American religions are highly dynamic and adaptive, ever reactive to internal pressure and external circumstances. Perhaps the most dramatic forms of religious change are the transformations that anthropologists recognize as nativistic or revitalization movements. These movements on one level represent conscious breaks with an immediate negative past and they anticipate a positive future in which present sources of oppression are overcome. Such movements have occurred fairly regularly in the historical record and doubtless occurred prehistorically as well. Indeed the collective memory of such events may be enshrined in myths. Many contemporary Native American movements, be they political and/or religious, can be understood as sharing similar dynamics to past movements. Classic accounts of the Ghost Dance, often considered to be the prototypical Native American religious movement, analysis of the Handsome Lake Religion among the Senecas, and other Native American religious movements will also be examined.

33101-33102. Native Peoples of North America I, II. PQ: Consent of instructor. Must be taken in sequence. This course is a comprehensive review of Native American cultural history, including consideration of intellectual context, prehistory, ethnology, history, and the contemporary situation. The last half of the third quarter is devoted to a mutually agreed-on topic in which stu-dents pursue individual research, the results of which are presented in semi-nar format. Offered bi-annually.

343. Psychological Anthropology: Historical Perspectives on Psychological Anthropology (=HumDev 342). This course considers the logical status of psychological anthropology as an anthropological disci-pline. Attention is paid to the "prehistoric" roots of psychological discipline, as well as the influence of psychoanalysis on anthropology. The _culture and personality_ movement is evaluated as a movement. The course concludes with a discussion of trends and trending in modern psychological anthropology.

34401,02. Fourth World [Primitive] Religion I, II (=HumDev 335-1,-2). PQ: Consent of instructor. Must be taken in sequence. A theoretical and substantive survey of the religions of "primitive" peoples. Topics include the notion of primi-tivism, a history of the anthropological study of religion, minimal definitions of religion, religious experience, dreams, myths, ritual, divination, theories of magic, shamanism, curing, conceptions of power, and dynamics of reli-gious change. R. Fogelson. Autumn, Winter 1996-97; 1998-99; 2000-01, 2002-2003.

34501, 34502. The Anthropology of Museums I, II (SocSci 345). PQ: Open to advanced undergraduates with consent of instructors. This course will consider museums from a variety of perspectives: as cultural phenomena with particular histories and structures and functions; as sites of entertainment and embodiments of popular culture; as institutions for cultural transmission; as total institutions with distinctive world views and ideologies; and as battlegrounds for past and present cultural wars. After some introductory discussions, among the issues examined will be cultural presentation in the Columbian Exposition; the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act; the image and imagination of African American culture as presented in two local museums; and museums as history and memorials as exemplified by Holocaust exhibitions. Included in the seminar are several on-site visits to Chicago-area museums. R. Fogelson, M. Fred. Spring 1997, 1998, 1999, Winter-Spring 2000, Win-Spr 2001; Win-Spr 2002; Win-Spring 2003, Win-Spr 2004.

35100. Classic Readings in the Ethnography of the Psyche (=HumDev 370). As the title suggests, the reading will consist of classic approaches to the ethnography of the psyche within anthropology and related fields. We will begin with Wundt and James; move to Rivers, Seligman, early Malinowski and the Torres Straits period; spend three weeks on culture and personality and their critics (Sapir, Benedict, Mead, Kardiner, early Kluckhohn); read Bateson; then Weston LaBarre and George Devereux; and finish with Levy's Tahitians and the contemporary transformation of early psychoanalytic orthodoxy in Crapanzano, Obeyesekere, and recent Chodorow. We aim to talk more broadly than we expect people to read. The goal of the course is to provide some intellectual grounding for current explorations in subjectivity and experience, looking backwards for some roots and forwards for some direction.

51301. Topics in Psychological Anthropology: Culture and Psychoanalysis. PQ: Consent of instructor. This course centers on the significance of Sigmund Freud's contribution to general theories of culture. Freud's legacy to theories of culture is reviewed, as well as contributions of his followers, apostates, and successors. Special attention is paid to major developments in contemporary psychoanalytic anthropology.

51302. Topics in Psychological Anthropology: Culture Bound Syndromes (=HUDV 51302). Culture-bound syndromes encompass those types of rare or seemingly exotic forms of mental disorder that appear to be exclusive to particular cultures separated in space and time. In this course we will review some of the classic and contemporary descriptive and theoretical literature in this area in an effort to ascertain what role cultural factors play in the occurrence, incidence, etiology, symptomatology, treatment, and outcome of these disorders. Attention will also be paid to classificatory issues in diagnosis and whether some disorders have disappeared with the passage of history and processes of globalization and whether new form have emerged in our classificatory systems.