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  • FOLK 570: Identity and the Life Course

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Hammarberg. Examines life experience through autobiographies, journals, diaries, life histories and other self-reports in relation to culturally-constituted identities and life plans for different societies and subgroups. Explores tensions, conflicts and creativity associated with sex, gender and age, rites of passage, personal development, family systems, and identity processes and cultural integration. Requirements include your own autobiographical writing and a consultant-based life-history analysis (15-20 page limit).
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  • FOLK 575: Environmental Imaginaries

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Hufford, M. "Environmental imaginaries" names the contending discourses that order society around processes of development and change. Behind public controversies over development, its subject, objects, and technologies, are an array of collectively wrought fictions that relate people to their material surroundings. We will be especially attentive to solipsistic cartesian fictions that enable the persistent separation of culture from environment. How are these fictions produced, enacted, and materialized in such diverse sites as Appalachian strip mines and Sea World, nature walks and prmit hearing What kind of environmental imaginary sustains the notion that "wisdon sits in places" How are alternative ways of knowing and being cojured through naming practices, narratives, and other speech genres, as well as yardscapes, protest rallies and other forms of public display We will traverse the border between humanities and social sciences. How is Bakhtin's law of placement essential for urban planners Why is Bateson's notion of the thinking system vial for environmental writers Moving from theories of world making, multiple realities, and aesthetic ecologies through ethnographic literature on culture and environment, and into your own experience, obsevation, and written reflections, this seminar will explore the production of environmental imaginaries acress a range of modern genres and practices. At stake is nothing less than place, identity, and the nature of human being.
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  • FOLK 580: Literature and Activism

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Watterson. How do words transform people, places, and events in ways that bring about social change What are the motivations, methods, politics and implications of "doing good work " How does an understanding of doing good work depend on ones position: as non-profit worker, social justice advocate, community activist, business person In this interdisciplinary seminar we will cover current issues surrounding social initiatives in many forms of literature: from fiction and non-fiction, to exhibits, web-sites, on-line journals, grant-proposals, and ethnographic documentaries. Students will be given an opportunity to do participatory research on local concerns: witnessing, critiquing, and putting words into action and thereby gain pratical knowledge about how artists express themselves in ways that impact and empower local community arts, cultural and education programs. Students may, for example work in programs to learn about how art and community performance can bring people together through location, spirit and tradition ccan empower people to adress difficult social issues. And, as art, after all, is not only created by artist and craftsperons, but disseminated bothe informally and formally -- through schools, museums and programs -- we will also explore how particular policies affect society and local culture.
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  • FOLK 603: Food,Culture,and Society

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. Behind a simple proverb like "You are what you eat" lies a great deal of food for thought. Human beings have always elaborated on the biological necessity of eating, and this course will explore the myriad ways in which people work, think, and communicate with food. The course will survey the major approaches from folklore, anthropology and related fields toward the role of food, cookery, feasting and fasting in culture. Among the topics to be addressed are gender roles and differences in foodways, the significance of food in historical transformations, the transmission of foodways in writing and publishing, the relationship of foodways to ethnicity and region, the intimate relationship between food and religion, and foodways in the global market place. Short exercises and a term project will provide students with opportunities to research and write about foodways from different angles.
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  • FOLK 605: Anthropology of Music

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Muller. This seminar in ethnomusicology examines music from a cultural perspective. We investigate theoretical and methodological issues that arise when music is situated within an ethnographic context. Theories from anthropology and folklore are studied as they have been applied in ethnomusicology, including structural-functionalism, structuralism, symbolic anthropology, and performance theory. Topics include music and social structure; ritual and performance; social change and historical process; class, ethnic identity, and gender. Case studies from around the globe enrich this exploration of music in culture.
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  • FOLK 606: History of Folklore Studies

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Ben-Amos. A survey of the theoretical basis and the historical development of research in international and American folkloristics.
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  • FOLK 620: Feminist Theories

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Staff. When the topic is "Feminist Theories," FOLK 620 will be crosslisted and the following description applies. This course gives students the opportunity to engage with the most significant theoretical influences upon feminist thought and historical scholarship in the last 35 years. Foucault, Bourdieu, Rubin, Butler, and Freud are just some of the theorists we will discuss. We will also incorporate recent works in feminist film theory and queer theory. Our focus is twofold: working collectively through difficult theory that is too daunting to tackle alone, and exploring possible applications of feminist theory for feminist politics and historical studies of women, gender and sexuality. Approximately half of our course reading will be devoted to work designated as "theory" and the other half to recent applications by historians.
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  • FOLK 629: Theories of Myth

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Ben-Amos. Theories of myth are the center of modern and post-modern, structural and post-structural thought. Myth has served as a vehicle and a metaphor for the formulation of a broad range of modern theories. In this course we will examine the theoretical foundations of these approaches to myth focusing on early thinkers such as Vico, and concluding with modern twentieth century scholars in several disciplines that make myth the central idea of their studies.
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  • FOLK 639: Issues in Cultural Studies

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Zelizer. This course tracks the different theoretical appropriations of "culture" and examines how the meanings we attach to it depend on the perspectives through which we define it. The course first addresses perspectives on culture suggested by anthropology, sociology, communication, and aesthetics, and then considers the tensions across academic disciplines that have produced what is commonly known as "cultural studies." The course is predicated on the importance of becoming cultural critics versed in alternative ways of naming cultural problems, issues, and texts. The course aims not to lend closure to competing notions of culture but to illustrate the diversity suggested by different approaches.
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  • FOLK 650: Folklore and Critical Regionalism

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Hufford, M. In tandem with global political and economic restructuring, and the related unsettling of national and local identities, scholarship on place has burgeoned. Recently, scholars from multiple disciplines have called for a shift from identity- centered approaches to the study of place and region to a more critical assessment of how the encounter of the local with "the larger than local" is articulated (Shuman, 1993). "Critical regionalism," a term hailing from architectual theory, names an effort to "frame a dialogue between localized dimensionality and the imperatives of international architecture" (Frampton, 1981). One way of framing this dailogue is to examine the imaginaries that span disjunct places "twinned" through those larger than local processes, imaginaries that regionalize from within (Herr, 1996). What are the foundations for such a project in folkloristics, and what is the role of ethnography in cultivating critical regionalism To get at such questions, we will examine selected regional ethnographies and place-based folklore programs. Work for the course will include 1) evaluating a regional ethnography and a public program inlight of critical regionalist theory and 2) developing, with a partner or group, a proposal for a multi-site kethnography anchored partly in the mid-Atlantic region.
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