Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean

Fall 2000
71: ANTH 203 81
486: ALS 203 81
Tu 5:30-8PM  IRC 2

 Dr. Donald R. Hill

 Office: Fitz 403 Phone:2018

 Office hrs: TuTh 10-11:30

 hilldr@oneonta.edu

 

Web page: http://www.oneonta.edu/~hilldr/           

 

COURSE TEXTS:

1.      Hill, Donald: The Impact of Migration (closed reserve)

2.      Brown, Mama Lola

3.      Lovelace, The Dragon Can’t Dance

4.      Moore, Nationalizing Blackness

5.      handouts

 

DATES OF EXAMS:

 1. Exam I: Tu 26 Sep

             2. Exam II: Tu 7 Nov

             3. Final: Tu 19 Dec

 

FORMAT: lectures, brief discussion, films, essay and term id on exams.

 

TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE:

  I. Introduction                                

       The Study of Anthropology               

 Regional Survey

       The Caribbean, Africa & Europe

       Slavery and Maroonage
II. The Economic History and Colonialism
     Sugar 

     Plantations & Peasants

 Hill – Impact of Migration (closed reserve)

video: Sugar Cane Alley
III. Religion Brown, Mama Lola

IV. Caribbean Lifeways                         

       Economy
       Family & Social Organization                   

 Hill – Impact of Migration

V.  Afro-Caribbean Arts

      Afro-Cubismo 
      Carnival
      Painting

Moore,  Nationalizing Blackness                      Lovelace: The Dragon Can’t Dance