Comparative Conquests, Colonization, and Resistance in the AmericasEthnic Studies 259 Ross FrankWinter 2003 Office: SSB 227Wednesday 9 – noon, SSB 233 Phone: [email protected] materials available at: http://weber.ucsd.edu/~rfrankCourse DescriptionThe course will offer a comparative survey of the impact of European interactions withNative nations and populations in the New World, from Peru to Canada. Readings willemphasize modes of initial interaction, patterns of European colonization and Nativeadaptation and resistance, and broader changes in Native culture and cosmology as aresult of conquest and colonization.The readings will provide a basis for you to develop a historiographical framework forconsidering the study of situations of colonial contact in the Americas. Among theimportant facets of your framework will be responses to the following:How have authors used and read different sources and incorporatedmethodologies? Where does theory enter works about the colonial enterprise in the New World? How do historical and academic voices normalize conceptions of space, race,sexuality, and gender?How can colonized and subaltern voices, meaning, and perspectives emerge fromhistorical study? How do and how should cosmology and religion fit within these studies?EvaluationSeminar assignments will consists of:1) group discussions of the weekly readings in the seminar meeting;2) extra readings presentations; 3) two seminar presentations over the quarter (or a research paper option);4) and two papers in which you engage the material from the week chosenabove (3) in comparison with readings from previous weeks.Individual work will be evaluated as follows:A. Discussion and seminar presentations make up 50% of the grade.B. The two written papers make up 50% of the grade, weighted equally.I am happy to meet to give periodic evaluations of your work in the seminar;you may also make appointments at any time.Ethnic Studies 259 Winter 2003page 2SyllabusReadings are marked according to the following:R on reserve online at: http:/reserves.ucsd.eduG available at Groundwork Bookstore.Week 1: Introduction and course organizationWeek 2: Mexico – Aztec and MayaCortés, Hernán, and Anthony Pagden. Letters from Mexico. New Haven: YaleUniversity Press, 1986, 2nd and 3rd Letter. Rdel Castillo, Bernal Diaz. The Conquest of New Spain. Baltimore: Penguin Books,1963. J. M. Cohen, trans., 140-307. RBoone, Elizabeth Hill. Incarnations of the Aztec supernatural: the image ofHuitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europe. Philadelphia: American PhilosophicalSociety, 1989. RClendinnen, Inga. Ambivalent conquests : Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. GTownsend, Richard F. State and cosmos in the art of Tenochtitlan, Studies in pre-Columbian art and archaeology ; no. 20. Washington: Dumbarton OaksTrustees for Harvard University, 1979. RWeek 3: Peru – InkaAndrien, Kenneth J. Andean Worlds : Indigenous History, Culture, andConsciousness under Spanish Rule, 1532-1825. Albuquerque: University ofNew Mexico Press, 2001. GSilverblatt, Irene, “ Becoming Indian in the Central Andes of Seventeenth-Century Peru”, in Gyan Prakash, ed. After Colonialism: Imperial Historiesand Postcolonial Displacements. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995,279-298. REthnic Studies 259 Winter 2003page 3Week 4: Northern Mexico and the US SouthwestGutiérrez, Ramón A. When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away : Marriage,Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Stanford, Calif.: StanfordUniversity Press, 1991. GAnderson, Gary Clayton. The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830 : Ethnogenesis andReinvention. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. GSpivak, Gayatri, “Can the Subaltern Speak”, in Carey Nelson and LawrenceGrossberg, ed., Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Urbana :University of Illinois Press, 1988. RWeek 5: The Great Lakes / WoodlandsWhite, Richard. The Middle Ground : Indians, Empires, and Republics in the GreatLakes Region, 1650-1815. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge UniversityPress, 1991. GWeek 6: Northeast US - IroquoisDennis, Matthew. Cultivating a Landscape of Peace : Iroquois-European Encounters inSeventeenth-Century America. Ithaca/Cooperstown, N.Y.: CornellUniversity Press, New York State Historical Association, 1993. GRichter, Daniel, “War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience”, William and MaryQuarterly, 40 (1983), 528-559. RWeek 7: Southeast, Colonial and Beyond – Choctaw and CatawbaGalloway, Patricia Kay. Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700. Indians of the Southeast.Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. GMerrell, James Hart, and Institute of Early American History and Culture(Williamsburg Va.). The Indians' New World : Catawbas and Their Neighborsfrom European Contact through the Era of Removal. Chapel Hill: University ofNorth Carolina Press, 1989. GWeek 8: Southern Plains and Southwest - ComancheHämäläinen, Pekka, “The Western Comanche Trade Center: Rethinking thePlains Indian Trade System, Western Historical Quarterly, 24:4 (1998): 485-513. RFoster, Morris W. Being Comanche : A Social History of an American IndianCommunity. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991. GEthnic Studies 259 Winter 2003page 4Week 9: Alternative EpistomologiesBasso, Keith H. Wisdom Sits in Places : Landscape and Language among the WesternApache. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. GAdelman, Jeremy and Steven Aron, “From borderlands to borders: Empires,nation-states, and the peoples in between in North American history”,American Historical Review. 104:3 (1999): 814-841. RForum Essay: Responses, American Historical Review. 104:4 (1999): R“Introduction: Borders and Borderlands”, 1221.Evan Haefeli, “A Note on the Use of North American Borderlands”, 1222-1225.Christopher Ebert Schmidt-Nowara, “Borders and Borderlands ofInterpretation”, 1226-1228.John R. Wunder; Pekka Hamalainen, “Of Lethal Places and Lethal Essays”,1229-1234.Adelman, Jeremy and Steven Aron, “Of lively exchanges and largerperspectives”, 1235-1239.Duara, Prasenjit. Rescuing History from the Nation : Questioning Narratives ofModern China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, Part 1: 3-82. RWeek 10: Late Conquest -