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The Other Studies Another
French Scholars of Chinese Culture
Spring 2021
Mondays and Wednesdays
(for the first month; thereafter, Monday "labs" and Wednesday classes)
7:15-10:30
Robert André LaFleur Office Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 206 Tuesday 11:45-1:15
363-2005 Thursday 11:45-1:15
lafleur@beloit.edu ...or by appointment.
Required Books
La Tour de la France par deux enfants
Mauss, Manual of Ethnography
Durkheim, Emile. Selected Writings
Granet, Marcel. Chinese Civilization (.pdf file/Word file)
Granet, Marcel. Chinese Thought (.pdf file/Word file)
Granet, Marcel. Festivals and Songs in Ancient China
Granet, Marcel. The Religion of the Chinese People (.pdf)
Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Space: 1880-1918
Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days
Weber, Eugene. Peasants into Frenchmen
Robb, Graham. Discovery of France
Mauss, Marcel. The Gift.
Venuti, Lawrence. The Translation Studies Reader
Steven Lukes. Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work
Marcel Mauss, The Gift
Marcel Mauss, The Concept of the Person (.pdf file)
Various .pdf files (these will be sent to you)
Weekly Quizzes (15) 15%
Translational Letter 15%
Translational Review Essay 15%
Seminar Paper 55%
In this advanced seminar, we investigate the manner in which history and anthropology, two “total” disciplines (each considering all aspects of human life their purview), have engaged “the other”—and "translated" their understandings of texts, institutions, and cultural manners into language that readers in very different settings could grasp.
The seminar will begin with an overview of the history of significant cultural interactions from earliest times (particularly Homer, Herodotus, and Sima Qian) to the present, and the seminar will continue to address these interactions, even in our present day. Toward that end, we will examine the field of translation studies, and consider the instructor's mantra that anthropologists (and historians) need to be translators (even of complex texts), not only literary specialists.
The bulk of the seminar is devoted to careful study of French engagement with the outside world, as well as the disparate elements of a growing and changing French countryside in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. In particular, students will closely examine the final works of the French scholar Marcel Granet (1884-1940), which the instructor is finalizing for publication
Students will use the skills that they develop in their study of French anthropologie et histoire to prepare their own seminar papers on specific traditions of cultural translation. |
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History 310
Translating History, and Culture
Autumn 2021
Week I
(August 23, 25)
(these will be on the quizzes this week)
Monday, August 23
Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
Wednesday, August 25
(these will be on the quizzes this week)
Graham Robb, The Discovery of France Part One The Undiscovered Continent The Tribes of France I The Tribes of France II O Òc Sí Bai Ya Win Oui Awè Jo Ja Oua Living in France I: The Face in the Museum Living in France II: A Simple Life Fairies, Virgins, Gods, and Priests Migrants and Communters Interlude: The Sixty Million Others Part Two Maps Empire Travelling in France I: The Avenues of Paris Travelling in France II: The Hare and the Tortoise Colonization The Wonders of France Postcards of the Natives Lost Provinces Journey to the Centre of France Epilogue: Secrets
Sunday, August 29
1,000-word "miniature" review essay examining themes in Le Tour de la France (including the introduction), Graham Robb's Discovery of France, and Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.
This should be written as a brief, but well-structured
academic essay, and not as an "informal" work.
Due by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, August 29
Week II
(August 30, September 1)
Monday, August 30
Stephen Kern. The Culture of Time and Space: 1880-1918
The Nature of Time
The Past
The Present
The Future
Speed
The Nature of Space
Form
Distance
Direction
Temporality of the July Crisis
The Cubist War
Conclusion
Wednesday, September 1
Biographical “works” on Marcel Granet, with reference to his teacher (Emile Durkheim) and close colleague and friend, Marcel Mauss.
Granet, The Religion of the Chinese People: 1-29
Maurice Freedman, “Marcel Granet, 1884-1940, Sociologist” Stein, The World in Miniature: 1-3
In Memory of Marcel Granet
Robert LaFleur, "La Pensée Catégorique: Marcel Granet's Grand Sinological Project..."
Robert LaFleur, "Time , Space, and the Calendar in Early Chinese Mythology."
(hard copy in my office—MI 206)
Monday, September 6
Eugene Weber. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France
Introduction
Part I: The Way Things Were
*A Country of Savages
The Mad Beliefs
The King’s Foot
Alone With One’s Fellows
From Justice, Lord, Deliver Us!
*A Wealth of Tongues
France, One and Indivisible
*The Working of the Land
Give Us This Day
From ‘Subsistence’ to ‘Habitat’
The Family
Part II: The Agencies of Change
*Roads, Roads, and Still More Roads
Keeping Up With Yesterday
Rus in Urbe
Peasants and Politics
*Migration: An Industry of the Poor
Migration of Another Sort: Military Service
*Civilizing in Earnest: Schools and Schooling
Dieu Et-il Français?
The Priests and the People
Part III: Change and Assimilation
*The Way of All Feasts
Charivaris
*Markets and Fairs
Veillées
*The Oral Wisdom
Fled is That Music
*Le Papier Qui Parle
**Wring Out the Old
Cultures and Civilization
Wednesday, September 8
"Close Reading Mode" (three times, as we discussed in class)
Marcel Granet. The Religion of the Chinese People: 33-56
Preface
Peasant Religion
Rural Life
Holy Places and Peasant Festivals
Ancient Beliefs
Popular Mythology and Folklore
(hard copy in my office—MI 206)
Week IV
Monday, September 13
(Read the materials for the above for both Weeks III and IV).
Marcel Granet. Festivals and Songs in Ancient China
I The Love Songs of the Shih Ching
Introduction
How to Read a Classic
Rustic Themes
Village Loves
Songs of the Rivers and Mountains
Wednesday, September 15
Marcel Granet. Festivals and Songs in Ancient China II The Ancient Festivals
Local Festivals
Facts and Interpretations
The Seasonal Rhythm
The Holy Places
The Contests
Conclusion
LaFleur, "Smoke Hole at the Center of the Universe" (.pdf file) From Monday (discussion today).
(hard copy in my office—MI 206)
Week V
Monday, September 20
Wayne Booth, The Craft of Research (selections; .pdf file)
Wendy Belcher, Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks (selections; .pdf file)
Wednesday, September 22
I will be sending you a .pdf file of the entire text, "Rural Religoin in China," so that you can either read it on the blog (with a few pictures, if you wish) or as a text that is less fragmented (as blog posts inevitably are).
LaFleur, "The Cyclical Imagination" (.pdf, sent to you on 9/20)
This is my "explanation" of what is going on in Granet's "Peasant Religion." It is a long interpretive essay, but it will explain a great deal that wasn't clear before.
You should to read it alongside your .pdf copy of "Peasant Religion."
LaFleur, "Peasant Folktales and Chinese Scholarship" (video lecture; I'll send the link)
Monday, September 27
(No class meeting. Do the quiz, which I'll send to you in advance.
Send it back to me as an attachment).
Venuti. The Translation Studies Reader, 1-37
Introduction (just get a sense of the introduction)
Foundational Statements
1-Jerome
2-Nicolas Perrot D'Ablancourt
Anthony Giddens. Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings, 1-50
Durkheim’s writings in sociology and social philosophy
Wednesday, September 29
Marcel Granet. The Religion of the Chinese People: 57-156
Feudal Religion
The Life of the Nobles
The Cult of Heaven
Agrarian Cults
The Cult of the Ancestors
Mythology
The Official Religion
The Literati
Orthodox Metaphysics and Morality
Cults and Beliefs
Religious Revivals
Taoism
Buddhism
Religious Sentiment in Modern China
Anthony Giddens, Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings, 51-88
The field of sociology
Methods of explanation and analysis
Monday, October 4
(No class meeting. Do the quiz, which I'll send to you in advance.
Send it back to me as an attachment).
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabusVenuti. The Translation Studies Reader, 38-68
Foundational Statements (2)
3-John Dryden
4-Friedrich Schleiermacher
5-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6-Friedrich Nietzsche
Anthony Giddens, Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings, 89-122
The Science of Morality
Moral obligation, duty and freedom
Wednesday, October 6
From last week (read carefully):
Marcel Granet. The Religion of the Chinese People: 57-156
Feudal Religion
The Life of the Nobles
The Cult of Heaven
Agrarian Cults
The Cult of the Ancestors
Mythology
The Official Religion
The Literati
Orthodox Metaphysics and Morality
Cults and Beliefs
Religious Revivals
Taoism
Buddhism
Religious Sentiment in Modern China
Monday, October 18
(No class meeting. Do the quiz, which I'll send to you in advance.
Send it back to me as an attachment).
Venuti. The Translation Studies Reader, 69-106
1900s-1930s
7-Walter Benjamin
8-Ezra Pound
9-Jorge Luis Borges
Anthony Giddens, Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings, 123-154
Forms of social solidarity
The division of labour and social differentiation
Wednesday, October 20 Durkheim and Mauss, Primitive Classification
The Problem
The Australian Type of Classification
Other Australian Systems
Zuni, Sioux
China
Conclusions
Week X
Monday, October 25
(No class meeting. Do the quiz, which I'll send to you in advance.
Send it back to me as an attachment).
Anthony Giddens, Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings, 155-188
Analysis of socialist doctrines
Anomie and the moral structure of industry
Political sociology
LaFleur, Writing, History, and Culture (Rob's Writing Guide)
Part III—Read first
Part I—Read very carefully and take notes
Part II—Get a sense of what's there, without taking too much time.
Wednesday, October 27
Marcel Mauss, The Gift
*Foreword: Puzzles and Pathways by Bill Maurer *Translator's Introduction: The Gift that Keeps on Giving by Jane Guyer In Memoriam: The Unpublished Works of Durkheim and His Collaborators **Essay on the Gift: The Form and Sense of Exchange in Archaic Societies Selected Reviews
Week XI
Monday, November 1
(No class meeting. Do the quiz, which I'll send to you in advance.
Send it back to me as an attachment).
Venuti. The Translation Studies Reader, 107-132
1940s-1950s
10-Vladimir Nabokov
11-Roman Jakobson
Anthony Giddens, Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings, 189-218
Political sociology
The social bases of education
Wednesday, November 3
No class meeting; "Beloit and Beyond" conference day.
Week XII
Wednesday, November 10
Combined class meeting at 11:30 a.m. (one hour); I will send the quiz on Tuesday.
Venuti. The Translation Studies Reader, 133- 182
1960s-1970s
12-Eugene Nida
13-George Steiner
14-Itamar Even-Zohar
15-Gideon Toury
Anthony Giddens, Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings, 219-249
Religion and ritual
Secularisation and rationality
Mauss, The Concept of the Person
Mauss, Seasonal Migrations Among the Eskimo
Week XIII
Monday, November 15
(No class meeting. Do the quiz, which I'll send to you in advance.
Send it back to me as an attachment).
Venuti. The Translation Studies Reader, 183-268
1980s
16-Hans J. Vermeer
17-André Lefevere
18-Philip E. Lewis
19-Antoin Berman
Anthony Giddens, Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings, 250-268 Sociology of knowledge
Wednesday, November 17
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
Marcel Mauss, Manual of Ethnography
Introduction (please read this carefully)
Preliminary Remarks
Methods of Observation
Social Morphology
Technology
Aesthetics
Economic Phenomena
Jural Phenomena
Moral Phenomena
Religious Phenomena
Week XV
(November 29. December 1)
Focus on your papers and Mauss's The Gift
Wednesday, December 1
Final Papers Due on Thursday December 9 by 5:00 p.m.
(in my office—MI 206)
