Anthropology
3520, Jan-April 2008
Anthropology
3520, Jan-April 2008
The Social Lives of Places and Things:
Material Culture and the Archaeology of the Contemporary Past
The final exam is online here.
Readings Course Handouts Lecture Notes Contact/Admin
Below are scans of most of our readings. If you click a link, it will download a pdf.
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For January 10 and 17:
Readings from the Molotch book: Where Stuff Comes From.
No scans available. Paper copies outside KD's office (Vari 2036), and the book is on 2-hour reserve at Scott, Call number TA 148
M65 2003
For January 24 (Other approaches to Stuff / Material Culture)
Wearing It Out (1346 Kb)
Turn It On (1316 Kb)
Diversity, Necessity, Evolution (1333 Kb)
The Evolution of Technology (935 Kb)
From Pins to Paper Clips (677 Kb)
For Jan 31 (Rubbish! The study of garbage)
Yes, Wonderful Things (1903 Kb)
Garbage and History (1628 Kb)
What We Say, What We Do (1844 Kb)
Into the Unknown 1 (1151 Kb)
Into the Unknown 2 (935 Kb)
For Feb 7 (Energy and War: The Material Culture and Heritage of Oil and The Nuclear Age)
Guest lecturers: Marc Lafleur and Nelson Ferguson
Given that these readings have been posted late (by KD - my fault!), we can only ask that you do your best to become familiar with them for Thursday's class. Thanks! n.b. We will be returning to these after Reading Week, so please ensure you have them read by then.
Oil:
A brief history of the early days of the oil industry in Canada: www.petroleumhistory.ca/history/cdnbeginnings.html
And a few key events in Canada's oil history: www.petroleumhistory.ca/history/wells.html#springs
And the Alberta oil chronology: http://www.petroleumhistory.ca/history/chronologies.html
The End of Cheap Oil: http://www.globaloilwatch.com/reports/Cheap%20Oil.pdf
Material Culture and Archaeology of The Nuclear Age and Atomic Tourism
ATOMIC TOURISM:
Joseph Masco, "5:29:45 am", from Museum Cultures, about tourism at the Trinity site. PDF here (1060 Kb)
The Cold War and the Nuclear Age
n.b. If you know little about the Cold War, I encourage you to review at least the opening paragraph of this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
Also: Please review the timeline of the Doomsday Clock (which gives a very brief history of the riskiest moments in the nuclear age): www.thebulletin.org/minutes-to-midnight/timeline.html
A Brief History of the Nuclear Age: www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/printStoryId.aspx?StoryId=4968
For the rest of the readings, please see here
Major Assignment Instruction Handout (pdf)
Avoiding plagiarism/using sources correctly (pdf)