Anthropology 385-C:

Indigenous Anthropology

Fall 2001 UH Manoa

Mondays 2:30-5:00pm

BusAd Bldg. D-103

Instructors:

Lynette Hiilani Cruz

* a few related sites to lynette

http://starbulletin.com/97/06/20/news/newsmaker.html

http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/future/j5/lynette.html

http://heea.edgateway.net/pub/heea_org/3

Maria Kaimipono Orr

http://www.sha.hawaii.edu/pdfFiles/News99_05.pdf

Ty Kawika Tengan

http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/anth/gradstudents/gradachieve.htm

http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/cp/CP132.html

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cp/toc/cp13.2.html

Course Description:

In this course, we will attempt to theorize and put into practice an indigenous anthropology.

We will examine various models for doing anthropological research and look at the ways

that indigenous anthropologists might redefine anthropological paradigms of outsider-insider

and objectivity. We will also explore the challenges that both indigenous and non-indigenous

anthropologists face when working in communities engaged in larger struggles over power,

knowledge, resources, land, and self-determination. This is also a how to course that seeks

to incorporate indigenous protocols and world views, contemporary anthropological theory,

community based research practices, and a commitment to the well-being of communities

with whom research is conducted. There will be a strong focus on how anthropologists do

work in indigenous communities, and a sharing of methodologies to facilitate

relationship-building.

Classes will feature a number of guest lecturers.

Exercises, field trips, videos, and an on-line discussion.

Two texts that will be utilized for class:

Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1999) Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Rob Borofsky, ed. (2000) Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation to Remake History

** All other readings will be provided as handouts and or internet websites.

**Bibliography of the class

Grades will be based on class participation, journals (students will reflect on class assignments,

discussions, experiences, etc. to be written throughout the semester), and a final

project which addresses the theme of ‘indigenous anthropology’.

Week 1: (8/27) Intro to course

Exercise on ‘Limited Resources’ & discussion on experience of exercise
Class/Instructor introduction- Getting to know all about you!
Description of Makua field trip on 9/8
Grading; Course Requirements

Reading for on-line discussion: Fahim (1982); Periano (1998); Perez (1998)

Week 2: (9/3) Holiday: Labor Day

NO CLASS

9/8 Makua Field trip 8:00am-3:30pm

Reading for 9/10 class: Harrison (1991); Smith (1999): Intro, Ch 1; Silva (2000)

Week 3: (9/10) Developing a liberatory and empowering approach to research

Understanding and practicing cultural & community protocols for ethnographic and other research
Guest Speaker- Bion Griffin http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/faculty/griffin/griffin.htm;
Decolonizing research practices discussion

Reading for next class: Ethical guidelines packet; Coronil et al (2001)

Week 4: (9/17) The ethics and politics of anthropology

Guest Speaker- Rob Borofsky http://www.hpu.edu/facultyadmindisplay.cfm?ID=47
Guest Speaker- Les Sponsel http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/anth/faculty/sponsel/sponsel.htm
Discussion of presentations and readings

Reading for next class: Kauanui (1999)

Week 5: (9/24) Voices from the ground

Guest Speaker- Skippy Ioane http://www.hawaii-nation.org/bigislandconspiracycd.html

Video- Collision Course and We Are Who We Were, class discussion

Reading for next class: Ayau & Tengan (2002); Clifford (2002)

Week 6: (10/1) Reclaiming a voice in the museum

Bishop Museum CRCC Presentation of “Ola Na Mo’olelo”- Kalakaua http://bishopmuseum.org/
Repatriation discussion

Readings for next class: Borofsky (2000); Hau’ofa (2000); Hereniko (2000)

Week 7: (10/8) Voices from history: voices from the Na’au

Guest speaker- Noenoe Silva

http://www.ipl.org.ar/cgi/ref/native/browse.pl/A467

http://home1.gte.net/kakaukii/protest.html

Guest Speaker- Mahealani Kamau'u (Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation) http://www.reflectionshawaii.com/OHA-IMUA/mahealani.html;
Class discussion

Assignment for next class: Quilt Making- display genealogy on 8X11

Week 8: (10/15) Mid Point

Class check in- ‘What has been learned thus far?’
Present Quilt pieces
Journal and project check

Reading for next class: Watkins (200)

Week 9: (10/22) Archaeology Fieldwork Issues

Guest Speaker- Jim Bayman http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/anth/faculty/bayman/bayman.htm

Video-Thieves of Time

Class discussion

Readings for next class: Clifford (1997a); White & Tengan; Pukui, How Legends Were Taught(optional)

Week 10: (10/29) Ethnography case studies

Guest speaker- Stephen and Joan Boggs (field work in Nanakuli in the late 1960s)
Guest speaker- Les Sponsel (the history of field work on the Yanomamo)
Discussion of presentation

Readings for next class: Holmes (2000); Meyer (2001); Lucas (2000)