Course Announcement:
Pueblos Indígenas de America
(Anthropology Taught in Spanish)
"Este fue el modo como feneció el mexicano....,ya nada comimos.
Y toda la noche llovió sobre nosotros." [2] [This is how Mexicans
were beaten....and we didn't eat anymore. All that night it rained on us.]
"Guatemoc and his captains were captured on the evening of 13 August
1521. Thanks be to our Lord Jesus Christ and Our Lady the Virgin Mary, His
Blessed Mother. It rained and thundered that evening...." [3]
Which version of the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlán, city of the
Aztecs, by Hernán Cortés is true?
This spring, Anthropology 304: Native Peoples of the Americas offers
an optional lab section for one (1) hour credit in Spanish or Anthropology
(SP/ANT 300), utilizing Spanish texts as well as translations of indigenous
texts into Spanish for students with intermediate Spanish and who have completed
the language requirement.
Goals: to incorporate voices of Latin Americans in order to
enrich our own perspective; to use language skills outside the language
classroom, as part of the Language Across the Curriculum program. Students
will be guided by worksheets and discussion.
Course Description:
Spanish 300L / Anthropology 304L
(To be taken concurrently with Anthropology 304)
Description of Anthropology 304: Ethnographic and ethnohistoric study of
the Americas from the time of contact with Europeans until the present day.
Attention to ethnicity, to the effects of contact and resistance.
Prerequisite: Spanish 201, or permission of instructor.
Credit: One (1) credit.
Instructors: Rees and Cash.
Rationale: The focus of the language component of this course will be
on the careful study of texts in Spanish: by native peoples, translated into
Spanish, like the Popul Vuh (a sacred Mayan text); by Spanish chroniclers; by
present-day Latin American anthropologists; testimonials. The texts were chosen
for their historic, contemporary and personal perspective.
All texts will be edited with glossaries and pre- and post-reading activities
comparable to the skills of students who have completed Spanish 201.
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