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===Anthropological and Cultural Theory===
 
===Anthropological and Cultural Theory===
  
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:*Storey, Chapter 1, p. 1-5
 
:*Nanda and Warms, Introduction to Anthropology, Ch 4, "Cultural Anthropology"
 
:*Nanda and Warms, Introduction to Anthropology, Ch 4, "Cultural Anthropology"
  
 
==JAN 27==
 
==JAN 27==
  
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:*Richerson and Boyd, Not By Genes Alone, Chapters 1+ 2 (culture, populations, ethnography cultural transmission)
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:*Richerson and Boyd, Not By Genes Alone, Chapters 1
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:*Bowman, Honour, Introduction
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:*Bowman, Honour, "Introduction"
  
 
==JAN 29==
 
==JAN 29==
  
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:*Storey, Chapter 1
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:*Richerson and Boyd, Not By Genes Alone, Chapter 2, only up to page 40.
 
:*Diamond, Jared, "How Do Cultures Make Such Big Mistakes?"
 
:*Diamond, Jared, "How Do Cultures Make Such Big Mistakes?"
  
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===More Tools for the Critique of Culture: Marx, Gramsci, Symbolic Anthropology, and Ethnography===
 
===More Tools for the Critique of Culture: Marx, Gramsci, Symbolic Anthropology, and Ethnography===
  
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:*Marx, in Storey, Reader, p. 58-60
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:*Quiz
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:*Storey, Text, Chapter 4, p. 59-62 (Marx); p. 82-84 (Hegemony)
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:*Marx and Engels quotes In Storey, Reader, p. 58-60
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:*Storey, Text, Chapter 4, p. 59-62 (Marx);
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:*Kellner, Douglas, "Cultural Marxism and Cultural Studies" [http://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/culturalmarxism.pdf]
  
 
==FEB 5==
 
==FEB 5==
  
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:*continue discussion of Marx and in Italian context
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:*Quiz
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:*Crehan, "Gramsci's life and work"
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:* Storey, Chapter 4 82-4
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:*Gramsci, "Hegemony, Intellectuals, and the State," 75-80
  
 
==FEB 10==
 
==FEB 10==
  
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:*poss. Creban
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:*Movie Presentations
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:*Gramsci, "Common Sense, Language, and Folklore"
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:*Watch ''The Working Class Goes to Heaven''
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==FEB 12==
 
==FEB 12==
  
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continued discussion of Gramsci.
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:*Quiz
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:*Rapport and Overling, "Thick Description," 349-352, Social and Cultural Anthropology
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:*Geertz, "Thick Description"
  
 
==FEB 17==
 
==FEB 17==
  
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:*Geertz, "Thick Description"
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:*short video, "Puglia" 26 mins.
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:*Wood, Graeme, "Anthropology Inc"
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:*light background article on food in Puglia: [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/italy/9074319/Puglia-Italy-all-you-can-eat.html]
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:*The Meaning of Extra Virgin Olive Oil.  [[Media: Meneley_Anne_Like_an_Extra_Virgin.pdf]]
  
 
==FEB 19==
 
==FEB 19==
  
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:*Pia di Bella, Maria, "Name, Blood and Miracles"  
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:*Quiz
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:*Pia di Bella, Maria, "Name, Blood and Miracles"
  
 
==FEB 24==
 
==FEB 24==
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===Anomalies of Italian Culture: Unification, Italian "Mentality", the Problem of the South===
  
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:*TBD: critical ethnographic film
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:*Quiz
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:* Video The Italian Unification https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE9Kc-Dn4fA
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:*The Economist, June 9th, 2011: "Oh for a new Risorgimento" http://www.economist.com/node/18780831
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:*Doyle, One Nation, Three Republics
  
 
==FEB 26==
 
==FEB 26==
  
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:*Midterm Exam
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:*Quiz
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:*Putnam, "Chapter 5, "Tracing the Roots of Civic Community," 121-162
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:*Putnam "Explaining institutional performance" 83-120
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==MAR 3 ==
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==MAR 3==
  
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===Anomalies of Italian Culture: Unification, Italian "Mentality", the Problem of the South===
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:*Midterm Exam
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::*Culture and Ethnography: How can you know that you are sometimes looking at cultural differences rather than genetic or environmental influences?  How do Pia di Bella’s ethnography and the ethnographic study of olive oil isolate structures that make cultural processes visible?
  
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:*Putnam, historical chapter
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::*What would Marx and Gramsci recognize as critical analysis of respectively 1970s and contemporary Italy in The Working Class Goes to Heaven and Girlfriend in a Coma? What would they disagree with? Please refer to specific scenes and aspects of the two films as well as to the reading of Marx and Engels, Story, and Gramsci.
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:*D'Epirio, "Garibaldi"
 
  
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==MAR 5==
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==MAR 5 ==
  
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:*Putnam "Explaining institutional performance"
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:*Viroli, Chapter 4, "The Pre-requisites of Servitude"
  
 
==MAR 17==
 
==MAR 17==
  
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:*Viroli, Chapter 4, "The Pre-requisites of Servitude"
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:*Movie Presentations
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:*Watch ''Benvenuti al Sud''
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==MAR 19==
 
==MAR 19==
  
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:*News on electoral reforms today
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:*Quiz
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:*Ginsbourg, Ch. 4, "Civil Society and Mass Culture"
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:*Gilmour, "Introduction"
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:*Parks, Chapter 5, 147-194
  
 
==MAR 24==
 
==MAR 24==
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===Shame and Honour===
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:*Movie Presentations
  
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:*Parks, Chapter 5, 147-194
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:*movie, Rocco and His Brothers
  
 
==MAR 26==
 
==MAR 26==
  
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:*Benvenuti al Sud?
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:*Bettiga-Boukerbout, "Crimes of 'Honour' in the Italian Penal Code"
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:*Gilmore, "Introduction: The Shame of Dishonor"
  
 
==MAR 31==
 
==MAR 31==
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:*no quiz
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:*Zanardo, "Il Corpo delle Donne" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y42hqlTmM00
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:*Muraro, Lisa, "Toward a Symbolic of Sexual Difference"
  
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===Shame and Honour===
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==APR 2 ==
  
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:*Gilmore, "Introduction: The Shame of Dishonor"
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:*Short Answer Question: review Rocco, Honour and shame readings in Gilmour And Betiga-Boukerbaut, Muraro, and video.
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:*Feminicido Today -- links to current news
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:*Bettiga-Boukerbout, "Crimes of 'Honour' in the Italian Penal Code"
 
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:*movie, Divorce Italian Style
 
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:*Feminicido Today --  
 
  
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==APR 7 ==
  
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===Popular Culture===
  
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:*Quiz
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:*Storey, Chapter 1, 5-13, Chapter 4 64-72
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:*Bennett, Gramsci and Popular Culture, 81-8
  
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==APR 2 ==
 
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:*movie, Ricco and His Brothers
 
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==APR 7 ==
 
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:*Zanardo, "Il Corpo delle Donne"
 
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:*Muraro, Lisa, "Toward a Symbolic of Sexual Difference"
 
 
==APR 9==
 
==APR 9==
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===Popular Culture===
 
  
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:*Storey, Chapter 1, 5-12
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:*Short answer questions
 
:*Gramsci, Popular Culture
 
:*Gramsci, Popular Culture
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:*Bennett, Gramsci and Popular Culture
 
  
 
==APR 14==
 
==APR 14==
  
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:*movie, Reality
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:*Leonardo Sciascia, "The Day of the Owl"
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:*Stille, Chapter 3
 
  
 
==APR 16==
 
==APR 16==
  
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:*Quiz
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:*Saviano, ''Gommorah'', excerpts (see 5 short pdfs on ereserves)
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:*Preview of Gomorra in class
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==APR 21==
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:*Movie Presentations
 
:*movie, Gommorah,
 
:*movie, Gommorah,
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:*Saviano, Gommorah, excerpts
 
  
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==APR 21==
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:*Recommended
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:*movie, The Mafia Only Kills in Summer
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::*Beppe Severigni on the NYT on the Gomorrah TV series http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/opinion/beppe-severgnini-gomorrah-italys-criminally-great-tv-show.html?ref=topics
  
 
==APR 23==
 
==APR 23==
  
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:*Ginsburg, Italy and Discontents, Chapter Six, "Corruption and the Mafia," pp. 179-213
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:*Short Answer
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:*review  Sciascia, The day of the owl, Consider in particular the conception of Sicily (see opening paragraph, Bellodi's reflections throughout the story and also his dialogue with the Mafiosi and his discussion with his friends in Parma)
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:*Andrews, "Civic renaissance in Sicily," pp. 131-150. 
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:*updates, notes ont the State-mafia negotiations
  
 
==APR 28==
 
==APR 28==
  
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:*movie, Slow Food
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*Watch The Mafia Only Kills in Summer (library reserve- Alfino)
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*Camille's presentation
  
 
==APR 30==
 
==APR 30==
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:*Quiz
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:*Watch "Slow Food Story" (library reserve - Alfino)
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:*Andrews, "Slow Food"
  
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:*Student Presentations
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==May 4==
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==MAY 5 ==
 
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:*Student Presentations / Review
 
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==MAY 7==
 
  
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:*Final Exam
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:*3pm final Jepson 122

Latest revision as of 23:07, 30 April 2015

Return to Philosophy of Italian Culture

JAN 13

Introductory Topics

  • Introduction to the Course

JAN 15

  • Gilmour, "Modern Italy"

JAN 20

  • Emmett and Piras, "Girlfriend in a Coma"

JAN 22

Anthropological and Cultural Theory

  • Storey, Chapter 1, p. 1-5
  • Nanda and Warms, Introduction to Anthropology, Ch 4, "Cultural Anthropology"

JAN 27

  • Richerson and Boyd, Not By Genes Alone, Chapters 1
  • Bowman, Honour, "Introduction"

JAN 29

  • Richerson and Boyd, Not By Genes Alone, Chapter 2, only up to page 40.
  • Diamond, Jared, "How Do Cultures Make Such Big Mistakes?"

FEB 3

More Tools for the Critique of Culture: Marx, Gramsci, Symbolic Anthropology, and Ethnography

  • Quiz
  • Marx and Engels quotes In Storey, Reader, p. 58-60
  • Storey, Text, Chapter 4, p. 59-62 (Marx);
  • Kellner, Douglas, "Cultural Marxism and Cultural Studies" [1]

FEB 5

  • Quiz
  • Crehan, "Gramsci's life and work"
  • Storey, Chapter 4 82-4
  • Gramsci, "Hegemony, Intellectuals, and the State," 75-80

FEB 10

  • Movie Presentations
  • Watch The Working Class Goes to Heaven

FEB 12

  • Quiz
  • Rapport and Overling, "Thick Description," 349-352, Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • Geertz, "Thick Description"

FEB 17

FEB 19

  • Quiz
  • Pia di Bella, Maria, "Name, Blood and Miracles"

FEB 24

Anomalies of Italian Culture: Unification, Italian "Mentality", the Problem of the South

FEB 26

  • Quiz
  • Putnam, "Chapter 5, "Tracing the Roots of Civic Community," 121-162
  • Putnam "Explaining institutional performance" 83-120


MAR 3

  • Midterm Exam
  • Culture and Ethnography: How can you know that you are sometimes looking at cultural differences rather than genetic or environmental influences? How do Pia di Bella’s ethnography and the ethnographic study of olive oil isolate structures that make cultural processes visible?
  • What would Marx and Gramsci recognize as critical analysis of respectively 1970s and contemporary Italy in The Working Class Goes to Heaven and Girlfriend in a Coma? What would they disagree with? Please refer to specific scenes and aspects of the two films as well as to the reading of Marx and Engels, Story, and Gramsci.

MAR 5

  • Viroli, Chapter 4, "The Pre-requisites of Servitude"

MAR 17

  • Movie Presentations
  • Watch Benvenuti al Sud


MAR 19

  • Quiz
  • Gilmour, "Introduction"
  • Parks, Chapter 5, 147-194

MAR 24

Shame and Honour

  • Movie Presentations
  • movie, Rocco and His Brothers

MAR 26

  • Bettiga-Boukerbout, "Crimes of 'Honour' in the Italian Penal Code"
  • Gilmore, "Introduction: The Shame of Dishonor"

MAR 31

APR 2

  • Short Answer Question: review Rocco, Honour and shame readings in Gilmour And Betiga-Boukerbaut, Muraro, and video.
  • Feminicido Today -- links to current news

APR 7

Popular Culture

  • Quiz
  • Storey, Chapter 1, 5-13, Chapter 4 64-72
  • Bennett, Gramsci and Popular Culture, 81-8

APR 9

  • Short answer questions
  • Gramsci, Popular Culture

APR 14

  • Leonardo Sciascia, "The Day of the Owl"

APR 16

  • Quiz
  • Saviano, Gommorah, excerpts (see 5 short pdfs on ereserves)
  • Preview of Gomorra in class

APR 21

  • Movie Presentations
  • movie, Gommorah,
  • Recommended

APR 23

  • Short Answer
  • review Sciascia, The day of the owl, Consider in particular the conception of Sicily (see opening paragraph, Bellodi's reflections throughout the story and also his dialogue with the Mafiosi and his discussion with his friends in Parma)
  • Andrews, "Civic renaissance in Sicily," pp. 131-150.
  • updates, notes ont the State-mafia negotiations

APR 28

  • Watch The Mafia Only Kills in Summer (library reserve- Alfino)
  • Camille's presentation

APR 30

  • Quiz
  • Watch "Slow Food Story" (library reserve - Alfino)
  • Andrews, "Slow Food"

May 4

  • 3pm final Jepson 122
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