On this date on Round and Square's History
Tuesdays and Thursday
(for the first module; thereafter, Tuesday classes and Thursday "labs"
2:00-3:45
Office Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 206 Monday. 1:30-3:00 (Godfrey)
363-2005 Tuesday 1:00-2:00
lafleur@beloit.edu Thursday 12:00-2:00 ...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)
Marcel Mauss, The Concept of the Person (.pdf file)
Various .pdf files (these will be sent to you)
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Evaluation
Weekly Quizzes (15) 15%
Translational Letter 15%
Translational Review Essay 15%
Seminar Paper 55%
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.
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 2022
Week I
(August 30, September 1)
(August 30, September 1)
(these will be on the quizzes this week)
Tuesday, August 30
Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
Thursday, September 1
Please Read the Attendance Policy and the Late Assignment Policy
(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
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, September 4
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, September 4
academic essay, and not as an "informal" work.
Due by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 4
Click Here to Review the Late Assignment Policy
Please Read the Attendance Policy
Tuesday, September 6
Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square SyllabusKern. The Culture of Time and Space: 1880-1918
The Nature of Time
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
Thursday, September 8
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
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."
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Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Tuesday, September 13
Eugene Weber. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France
Introduction
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
Thursday, September 15
"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
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Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Tuesday, September 20
(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
I The Love Songs of the Shih Ching
Introduction
How to Read a Classic
Rustic Themes
Village Loves
Songs of the Rivers and Mountains
Thursday, 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
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Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Week V
Tuesday, September 27
LaFleur, Writing, History, and Culture (Rob's Writing Guide) Entire text.
(As part of your "capstone" work, think about writing in the context of this seminar, as well as in your future careers).
LaFleur, "Peasant Folktales and Chinese Scholarship" (televised lecture)
LaFleur, "Calendars and Almanacs" (.pdf file)
(Feel free to pick up an almanac outside my door...and return it on Tuesday after class)
Thursday, September 22
Wayne Booth, The Craft of Research, 29-64 (chapters three and four)
Wendy Belcher, Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks, 1-65 (chapters one and two)
(We'll talk about how to approach this reading in class)
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Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Tuesday, October 4
Venuti. The Translation Studies Reader, 1-37
Introduction (just get a sense of the introduction)
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
Thursday, October 6
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
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
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Final Essays Due
by Thursday, December 15 by 5:00 p.m.
(hard copies in my office—MI 206)
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Week VII
Tuesday, October 11
Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square SyllabusVenuti. The Translation Studies Reader, 38-68
Foundational Statements (2)
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
Thursday, October 13
Exam I (in-class)
Final Essays Due
by Thursday, December 15 by 5:00 p.m.
(hard copies in my office—MI 206)
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Week VIII
Autumn Break
Week IX
Tuesday, October 25
No Class This Week (read the email message sent on 10/24).
Use the time to get moving (strongly) on your final assignments.
Final Essays Due
by Thursday, December 15 by 5:00 p.m.
(hard copies in my office—MI 206)
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Week X
(November 1)
Tuesday, November 1
Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square Syllabus
Venuti. The Translation Studies Reader, 69-106
1900s-1930s
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
Durkheim and Mauss, Primitive Classification
The Problem
The Australian Type of Classification
Other Australian Systems
Zuni, Sioux
China
Conclusions
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Week XI
Tuesday, November 8
Venuti. The Translation Studies Reader, 107-132
1940s-1950s
1940s-1950s
10-Vladimir Nabokov
11-Roman Jakobson
Anthony Giddens, Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings, 155-188
Analysis of socialist doctrines
Anomie and the moral structure of industry
Political sociolog
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
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
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Final Essays Due
by Thursday, December 15 by 5:00 p.m.
(hard copies in my office—MI 206)
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Week XII
(November 15)
Tuesday, November 15
Venuti. The Translation Studies Reader, 133- 182
1960s-1970s
12-Eugene Nida
12-Eugene Nida
13-George Steiner
14-Itamar Even-Zohar
15-Gideon Toury
Political sociology
The social bases of education
Mauss, The Concept of the Person
Mauss, Seasonal Migrations Among the Eskimo
***. ***
Final Essays Due
by Thursday, December 15 by 5:00 p.m.
(hard copies in my office—MI 206)
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Week XIII
(November 22)
Tuesday, November 22
Week XIV
(November 29)
Wednesday, November 24
Venuti. The Translation Studies Reader, 183-268
1980s
16-Hans J. Vermeer
16-Hans J. Vermeer
17-André Lefevere
18-Philip E. Lewis
19-Antoin Berman
20-Lori Chamberlain
Religion and ritual
Secularisation and rationality
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
Methods of Observation
Social Morphology
Technology
Aesthetics
Economic Phenomena
Jural Phenomena
Moral Phenomena
Religious Phenomena
***. ***
Final Essays Due
by Thursday, December 15 by 5:00 p.m.
(hard copies in my office—MI 206)
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Week XV
(December 6, 8)
Tuesday, December 6
Here are two essays written about China's sacred mountains, and using a range of theoretical perspectives. They were sent to you as .pdf files over the weekend.
LaFleur, "Religiosity Spent"
LaFleur, "Divine Entrepreneurs"
Anthony Giddens, Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings, 250-268
Sociology of knowledge
***. ***
Final Essays Due
by Thursday, December 15 by 5:00 p.m.
(hard copies in my office—MI 206)
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
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