Anth 590: Advanced Seminar: Cultural Landscapes

Friday 1-3:40

Stevenson Hall 2065

Prof. Margaret Purser

Contact Info:

664-3164

Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-2, Wednesdays 9-10, Fridays 10-11

Course Description:

This is an advanced graduate-level seminar that examines the growing body of literature on cultural landscapes in a heritage management context. Seminar readings will be focused on current approaches to the topic in cultural resource management, heritage management, and historic preservation practice, covering US as well as other national and international examples. Course discussion and workload will emphasize primarily methodological and management-based issues, including appropriate field techniques, policy definitions, and collaboration with stakeholder communities. Weekend optional field trips in the surrounding region are also planned. (3 graduate units, Fridays 1-3:40 PM).

Required Text: Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America (Paperback)

by Dolores Hayden (Foreword), Arnold R. Alanen (Editor), Robert Z. Melnick (Editor)

The Johns Hopkins University Press (March 2, 2000) ISBN-10: 0801862647

Course Requirements: This is a seminar-format course, meaning that each week will involve substantive reading assignments and preparation for lengthy discussion of the assigned material. The course has been divided provisionally into three sections, “Basic concepts, theoretical/disciplinary approaches, and debates”, “policy approaches and issues”, and “case studies”. After the initial readings from the course text, subsequent readings will be selected based on our collective interests and research. Individual students will be assigned to organize and lead the discussion of each week’s material. In addition, there are two larger assignments: an annotated bibliography, and a topical research paper. These assignments will be covered later under separate handouts.

Grading

Grades for this course will be weighted as follows:

Attendance and participation: 30%

Annotated Bibliography: 30%

Research Paper: 40%

[Presentation: 10%]

[Paper: 30%]

Assignment specifics and grading criteria will be developed as a part of class discussion, and will be covered in later handouts. But in general, this course is designed to help students develop professional level research, analytical, and expository writing skills. Although there are some team or group assignments incorporated into the course program, the assessment or grading focus will be on individual work. Some general standard criteria for graduate-level university course work do apply for this course: this includes spelling, grammar, complete sentence structure (where appropriate), and other basic mechanics of English writing. If you think your writing skills could use a brush-up, or you find yourself getting papers marked down consistently for simple errors, I would urge you to take advantage of SSU’s excellent Writing Center services. They are located in 1103 Schulz Information Center, and you can check them out at http://www.sonoma.edu/programs/writingcenter/ .

University level course protocols and etiquette

This is a graduate-level course in a professional master’s degree program. This means that there are certain standards of conduct that, in addition to your performance on graded assignments, will affect your overall performance in this course. A basic review of these standards follows:

All university policies covering intellectual property rights and plagiarism will apply in this course. If you have questions about these policies you can consult the university’s website at http://www.sonoma.edu/uaffairs/policies/cheating_plagiarism.htm . This will apply equally to all conventional text or printed media, and to web- or internet-based sources. I STRONGLY recommend using the tools made available through the university library’s website, especially at http://library.sonoma.edu/research/subguides.html and http://libguides.sonoma.edu/content.php?pid=9403 .We will be discussing the basics of this policy during the course, as well, as it relates to specific assignments.

Please note that all due dates are firm, and late assignments cannot be submitted without affecting your grade. Specifically, unless some other arrangement has been made IN ADVANCE, each day late will reduce the possible point value of the grade for that assignment by one letter grade (eg., one day late drops the grade from “A” to “B”, two days from “A” to “C”, etc.). PLEASE NOTE: To request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact the disabled student services office (their phone is 664-2677 and they are located inSalazar 1049. Their website is: http://www.sonoma.edu/dss/ ). If you have a letter from their office indicating that you have a disability that requires academic accommodations, please present the letter to me WITHIN THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF CLASS (by Feb. 6) if at all possible so we can discuss the accommodations that you might need in this class.

Course attendance is a part of your grade. At the graduate level, attendance and active participation in seminar discussions is the basis of the course itself, rather than lecture. In the course of the semester, everyone will probably have some kind of emergency or conflict arise that means they must arrive late, or leave early, but these should be kept to an absolute minimum. Please observe the basic courtesy of not leaving in the midst of class unless it is absolutely necessary, and if you must leave for some reason, please be as courteous and undisruptive as possible to your fellow classmates as you exit. It is the responsibility of each student to find out what material they have missed by coming late or leaving early.

Please show the basic courtesies due to your colleagues in a public gathering: turn off your cell phones, keep conversation to a minimum, and try to make any accommodation needed for people with any special needs.

Course Calendar:

1/30: Course introduction, introductory exercise (see first assignment posted on website).

2/6: Basic concepts, theoretical/disciplinary approaches, and debates, week 1

2/13: Basic concepts, theoretical/disciplinary approaches, and debates, week 2

2/20: Basic concepts, theoretical/disciplinary approaches, and debates, week 3

2/27: Summary and discussion

3/6: Policy approaches and issues, week 1

3/13: (SCA Conference)

3/20: Policy approaches and issues, week 2. Annotated bibliographies due.

3/27: Policy approaches and issues, week 3

4/3: summary and discussion

4/10: Case studies and applications, week 1

4/17: SSU Spring Break

4/24: Case studies and applications, week 2

5/1: Case studies and applications, week 3

5/8: Summary and discussion

5/15: Last day of classes. Final presentations due.

5/22: Final exam date. All papers due.

Additional Recommended Reading Sources:

Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives (Social Archaeology) (Paperback)

by Wendy Ashmore (Editor), A. Bernard Knapp (Editor)

 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (November 5, 1999)

 Language: English

 ISBN-10: 0631211063

 ISBN-13: 978-0631211068

Ideas of Landscape: An Introduction (Paperback)

by Matthew Johnson (Author)

 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (September 12, 2006)

 Language: English

 ISBN-10: 1405101601

 ISBN-13: 978-1405101608

Landscape and Power (Paperback)

by W. J. T. Mitchell (Editor)

 Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 2nd edition (April 15, 2002)

 Language: English

 ISBN-10: 0226532054

 ISBN-13: 978-0226532059

The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) (Paperback)

by Eric Hirsch (Editor), Michael O'Hanlon (Editor)

 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (August 24, 1995)

 Language: English

 ISBN-10: 0198280106

 ISBN-13: 978-0198280101

Landscape, Memory And History: Anthropological Perspectives (Anthropology, Culture and Society) (Paperback)

by Pamela J. Stewart (Editor), Andrew Strathern (Editor)

 Publisher: Pluto Press (May 20, 2003)

 Language: English

 ISBN-10: 0745319661

 ISBN-13: 978-0745319667

Against Cultural Property: Archaeology, Heritage and Ownership (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology) (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology) (Paperback)

by John Carman (Author)

 Publisher: Duckworth Publishers (October 26, 2005)

 Language: English

 ISBN-10: 071563402X

 ISBN-13: 978-0715634028

Cultural Landscapes: Balancing Nature and Heritage in Preservation Practice (Paperback)

by Susan Calafate Boyle (Contributor), Susan Buggey (Contributor), Michael Caratzas (Contributor), Courtney P. Fint (Contributor), Heidi Hohmann (Contributor), Hillary Jenks (Contributor), Randall Mason (Contributor), Richard Longstreth (Editor)

 Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press (April 24, 2008)

 Language: English

 ISBN-10: 0816650993

 ISBN-13: 978-0816650996

Understanding Ordinary Landscapes (Paperback)

by Paul Groth (Editor), Todd W. Bressi (Editor)

 Publisher: Yale University Press (November 13, 1997)

 Language: English

 ISBN-10: 0300072031

 ISBN-13: 978-0300072037

Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J. B. Jackson (Paperback)

by Chris Wilson (Editor), Paul Groth (Editor)

 Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (March 3, 2003)

 Language: English

 ISBN-10: 0520229614

 ISBN-13: 978-0520229617

Heritage, Memory and the Politics of Identity: New Perspectives on the Cultural Landscape (Heritage, Culture & Identity) (Heritage, Culture and Identity) (Hardcover)

by Niamh Moore (Editor), Yvonne Whelan (Editor)

 Publisher: Ashgate Publishing (January 30, 2007)

 Language: English

 ISBN-10: 0754640086

 ISBN-13: 978-0754640080

Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) (Paperback)

by Steven Feld (Editor), Keith H. Basso (Editor)

 Publisher: School of American Research Press (January 1997)

 Language: English

 ISBN-10: 0933452950

 ISBN-13: 978-0933452954

The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (Paperback)

by Dolores Hayden (Author)

 Publisher: The MIT Press; 2 edition (February 7, 1997)

 Language: English

 ISBN-10: 0262581523

 ISBN-13: 978-0262581523

Mappings (Paperback)

by Denis Cosgrove (Author)

 Publisher: Reaktion Books (April 15, 1999)

 Language: English

 ISBN-10: 1861890214

 ISBN-13: 978-1861890214