Kim Hopper, Ph.D.
University of Alaska President's Professor of Biomedical Research
Columbia University

Reading materials:

Seminar synopsis

1. The Problem(s) of Culture(s)
   Wednesday, May 7: 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
   • UNESCO, Our Creative Diversity: Report of the World Commission on Culture and Development (excerpts) Paris, 1995
   • Sen, A. Cultural liberty. In United Nations Human Development Report for 2004.
   • Geertz, C. The uses of diversity. Tanner Lecture, 1985.
2. Globalization and Its Discontents- An Overview
   Friday, May 9: 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
   • Appadurai, A. Disjuncture and difference in the global economy. In his Modernity at Large, University of Minnesota, 1996.
   • Packer, G. The megacity. New Yorker, November 13, 2006.
   • Held, D. and McGrew, A. The great globalization debate: An introduction. In The Global Transformations Reader. Polity Press, 2000.
   • Castells, M. Prologue. In The Rise of the Network Society, 2nd ed. Blackwell, 2000.
3. Culture(s) Revisited
   Monday, May 12, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
   • Berger, B.M. Chapter 13 of An Essay on Culture. University of California, 1995.
   • Appadurai, A. The capacity to aspire. In Culture and Public Action, V. Rao and M. Walton, eds. Stanford University Press, 2004..
   • Sahlins, M. Two or three things I know about culture. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5(3): 399-421, 1999.
   
4. Creolization- The Making of (Postmodern?) Cultures
   Wednesday, May 14, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
   • Palmie, S. Creolization and its discontents. Annual Review of Anthropology 35:433-456, 2006.
   • Beneduce, R., Martelli, P. Politics of healing and politics of culture: Ethnopsychiatry, identities and migration, Transcultural Psychiatry 42(3): 367-393, 2005.
   
5. Politics of culture- Examples from Alaska Native Research
   Friday, May 16, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
   • Politics of culture – examples from Alaskan Native research? Moore, R. Marketing alterity. In Visualizing Theory. L. Taylor, ed. Routledge, 1994.