Readings | Medicine, Religion and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora | Anthropology

Required Texts

Brodwin, Paul. Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521570299.

Butchart, Alexander. The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998. ISBN: 9781856495400.

Butler, Octavia E. Wild Seed. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780446606721.

Fabian, Johannes. Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780520221239.

Geurts, Kathryn Linn. Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780520234567.

Gilman, Sander L. Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780801493324.

Janzen, John M. The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982. ISBN: 9780520046337.

Stoller, Paul. The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780812212921.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity. A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. 2001.

Recommended Texts

Hunt, Nancy Rose. A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780822323662.

Peard, Julyan. Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780822323976.

Films

Directed by Zola Maseko. The Life and Times of Sara Baartman - The Hottentot Venus. 1998, 53 minutes.

Directed by Fred Zinnemann. The Nun's Story. 1959, 149 minutes.

Strange Beliefs: Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard. Film for the Humanities and Sciences, Inc. 1990, 52 minutes.

Directed by Maya Deren. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. 1985, 52 minutes.

Directed by Anne Lescot and Laurence Magloire. Of Men and Gods. 2002, 52 minutes.

Directed by Zola Maseko. The Return of Sara Baartman. 2003, 55 minutes.

Readings by Session

Course readings.
Lec #	TOPICS	READINGS
Part One: The Colonial Imaginary and Disciplinary Practices
1-4	Section One: Biopolitics, the Fetish, and the Colonial Imaginary Lecture 1: Course Overview and Introduction	Lecture 1 Foucault, Michel. "The Politics of Health in the Eighteenth Century." In Power. Edited by James Faubion. Translated by Robert Hurley, et. al. London, UK: Penguin Books, 2002, pp. 90-105. ISBN: 9780140259575. ———. "The Birth of Biopolitics." In Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth. Edited by Paul Rabinow. Translated by Robert Hurley, et. al. London, UK: Penguin Books, 2000, pp. 73-79. ISBN: 9780140259544. Lecture 2 Lock, Margaret, and Nancy Scheper Hughes. "A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent." In Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method. Revised ed. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996, pp. 41-70. ISBN: 9780275952655. Lecture 3 Pietz, William. "The Problem of the Fetish." Parts 1, 2, 3a, Res 9 (Spring 1985): 5-17, Res 13 (Spring 1987): 23-45, Res 16 (Autumn 1988): 105-123. Lecture 4 James, Erica. "Bio-Politics and the Struggle for Recognition." Chapter 2 in The Violence of Misery: "Insecurity" in Haiti in the "Democratic" Era. Doctoral Thesis, 2003, 34 pages.
5-6	Section Two: Ecstasis and the Shock of Culture Contact	Lecture 5 Fabian, Johannes. Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000, chapters 3-5, pp. 52-127. ISBN: 9780520221239. Lecture 6 ———. Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000, chapters 8-9, pp. 180-239. ISBN: 9780520221239.
7-8	Section Three: Historical Ideologies of Sexuality, Race, and Madness	Lecture 7 Gilman, Sander L. Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985, introduction and chapter 3, pp. 15-35, 76-108. ISBN: 9780801493324. Directed by Zola Maseko. The Life and Times of Sara Baartman - The Hottentot Venus. 1998, 53 minutes. Lecture 8 Gilman, Sander L. Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985, pp. 109-149. ISBN: 9780801493324. Littlewood, Roland, and Maurice Lipsedge. "Medicine and Racism." Chapter 2 in Aliens and Alienists: Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1982, pp. 26-60. ISBN: 9780140221282.
Part Two: Colonial Contexts of Medicine, Religion and Politics
9-10	Section Four: Colonial Medicine in South Africa	Lecture 9 Butchart, Alexander. The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998, chapters 1, 5, 7, pp. 1-12, 74-91, 111-127. ISBN: 9781856495400. Lecture 10 ———. The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1998, chapters 8-9, pp. 128-172. ISBN: 9781856495400.
11-13	Section Five: Race, Gender, Colonial Medicine, and the Construction of Disease	Lecture 11 Peard, Julyan. Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000, chapters 3-4, pp. 81-137. ISBN: 9780822323976. Lecture 12 Hunt, Nancy Rose. A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999, chapter 5, pp. 196-236. ISBN: 9780822323662. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. The Nun's Story. 1959, 149 minutes. Lecture 13 ———. A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999, chapter 6, pp. 237-280. ISBN: 9780822323662. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. The Nun's Story. 1959, 149 minutes.
Part Three: Anthropological (Re)Constructions of "African" Religion, Healing and Embodiment
14-16	Section Six: Medical Pluralism in the Former Zaire	Lecture 14 Skim prior to class: Evans-Pritchard, E. E. Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1976, 1972 (c1937), pp. 1-119. ISBN: 9780198740292. Janzen, John M. The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982, chapters 1-2, pp. 3-62. ISBN: 9780520046337. Strange Beliefs: Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard. Film for the Humanities and Sciences, Inc. 1990, 52 minutes. Lecture 15 Janzen, John M. The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982, chapters 3-5, and 8, pp. 67-89, 114-125. ISBN: 9780520046337. Lecture 16 ———. The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982, chapters 9-10, pp. 127-192. ISBN: 9780520046337. Guest lecturer Kathleen O'Connor, "O Outro lado: Candomblé, Psychiatry and Discourse in Bahia, Brazil."
17-19	Section Seven: Culture, Morality, and the Senses in Ghana	Lecture 17 Geurts, Kathryn Linn. Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, chapters 1-3, pp. 3-69. ISBN: 9780520234567. Lecture 18 ———. Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, chapters 4-7, pp. 73- 165. ISBN: 9780520234567. Lecture 19 ———. Culture and the Senses: Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, chapters 8-9, pp. 169-223. ISBN: 9780520234567.
20	Section Eight: Sensory Ethnography in Niger	Stoller, Paul. The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780812212921. (Entire book.) Directed by Maya Deren. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. 1985, 52 minutes.
Part Four: Cosmopolitan Medicine, Race, Gender, and Inequalities
21-22	Section Nine: Religion, Medicine, and the Medical Pluralism in Haiti	Lecture 21 Brodwin, Paul. Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996, introduction and chapters 1-2, pp. 1-55. ISBN: 9780521570299. Directed by Anne Lescot and Laurence Magloire. Of Men and Gods. 2002, 52 minutes. Lecture 22 Brodwin, Paul. Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996, chapters 4-6, pp. 76-151. ISBN: 9780521570299.
23-24	Section Ten: Contemporary Psychiatry: Race, Gender, and the Mind	Lecture 23 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General. Skim chapters 1-2, read chapter 3, pp. 53-76. Littlewood, Roland, and Maurice Lipsedge. Aliens and Alienists: Ethnic Minorities and Psychiatry. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1982, chapter 3, pp. 61-82. ISBN: 9780140221282. Lecture 24 Swartz, Leslie. Culture and Mental Health: A Southern African View. Cape Town, South Africa: Oxford University Press, 1999, chapters 8-10, pp. 167-240. ISBN: 9780195709810. Directed by Zola Maseko. The Return of Sara Baartman. 2003, 55 minutes.
25-26	Section Eleven: Fictions of Race, Gender, and Illness	Lecture 25 Butler, Octavia E. Wild Seed. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780446606721. Book 1. Lecture 26 ———. Wild Seed. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1999. ISBN: 9780446606721. Book 2.