HIST 285A SEM 1: Seminar: Japanese History: Japan: History, Ethnography, and Testimony

M. Silverberg Wed 4:00 – 6:50

UCLA Bunche 2173

Spring 2005

JAPAN: HISTORY, ETHNOGRAPHY, TESTIMONY

BOOKS FOR PURCHASE

Agamben, Giorgio.Remnants of Auschwitz:The Witness and the Archive.

Kim-Gibson, Dai-Sil. Silence Broken: The Korean Comfort Women.

LaCapra, Dominick. Writing History, Writing Trauma:

Perks, Robert and Thomson, Alistair, eds. The Oral History Rder.

Spiegel, Gabrielle. Practicing History: New Directionss in Historical Writing.

Troup Kathleen and Green, Anna. Eds.The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in Twentieth- Century History and Theory

Yoneyama, Lisa. Hiroshima Traces: Time. Space, and the Dialectics of Memory

Opti onal

Behar, Ruth and Gordon, Deborah A. Women Writing Culture.

WK 1 April 6 INTRODUCTION: NUTS AND BOLTS

PART I HISTORY

WK 2 April 13 In Search of a Disciplinary Method

Green and Troup, ed. The Houses of History

White, Hayden. ”Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth”

in Friedlander, Saul. Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the Final Solution chptr 2) optional

Biernacki, Richard.”Method and Metaphor after the New Cultural History

in Bonnell, Victoria E. and Hunt, Lynn, eds. Beyond the Cultural

Turn (chptr 3.) optional

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*Todorov, Tzvetan, The Morals of History. (Ch. 5 “The Wrong Causes for Wrong Reasons”)

* Joan Scott, “Women’s History”

_______ “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” from Gender and the Politics of History (chptrs 1,2)

WK 3 April 20 Oral History as Method

GUEST SPEAKER: Theresa Barnett, Director, UCLA Oral History Program

Perks, Robert and Thomson, Alistair, ed, The Oral History Reader

[recommended by guest speaker]:

Frisch, Michael. “Oral History and Hard Times: a review essay”

Grele, Ronald J. “Movement without aim: methodological and theoretical problems”

Passerini, Luisa. “Work Ideology and consensus under Italian fascism

Portelli, Alessandro. “What Makes Oral History Different”

Blee, Katherine. Evidence, Empathy and Ethics: lessons from Oral Histories of the

Klan

*Schrager, Samuel. “What is Social in Social History?”

*Thomson, Alistair. Anzac memories: putting popular memory theory into practice in

Austral ia/

*Borland, Katherine. “ ‘That’s not what I said’: interpretive conflict in oral narrative

Research’

*Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky. “Telling Tales: oral history and the construction of pre-

Stonewall Lesbian History”

(optional on-line: It's Not the Song, It's the Singing from Envelopes of Sound (Grele)

PART TWO: ETHNOGRAPHY

WK 4 April 27 Writing Anthropology

GUEST SPEAKER: Sharon Traweek (UCLA Dept. of History)

Cohen, Bernard. “History and Anthropology: The State of Play”

An Anthropologist Among the Historians and other Essays . (ch 2)

Clifford James. “On Ethnographic Authority” in Predicament of Culture: -Twentieth

Century Ethnography, Literaature, and Art

Behar, Ruth. “The Vulnerable Observer.” In Behar, The Vulnerable Observer (chptr 1)

Comaroff, John and Jean. I “Ethnography and the Historical Imagination” in

Ethnography and the Historical Imaginaiion

Marcus, George E. “Afterword; Ethnographic Writing and Anthropological Careers,” in

Writing Culture

Geertz, Clifford, “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight.” From Daedalus Winter

1972, vol. 101 no 1.

optlAsad, Talal Two European Images of non-Europan rule) in

Asad, , ed. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter. (pp 103-111)

optl Gupta,Akhil and Ferguson “Beyond Culture: Space, Identity/and the Politics

Of Difference”

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Optl Clifford James. On the Edges of Anthropology

optlSuzuki, Peter 1980 “Case Study : A Retrospective Analysis of a Wartime ‘National Character’ Study [1] Dialectical Anthropolpgy , 5:33-46.

optl_____________. “The Universiy of California Japanese Evacuation and Resettlement Study: A Prolegomenon” Dialectical Anthropology, 10: 189-213.

*Haring,Douglas O. “”Aspects of Personal /Character in Japan,” in The Far Eastern Quarterly, vol 6. issue 1 (nov 1946)m 12-122 (JSTOR)

*Kent, Pauline. “Ruth Benedict’s Original Wartime Study of the Japanese” The International Journal of Japanese Socio;ogy (IJJS) Number 3 (1994) 81-97. (professor has ILL COPY)

* Benedict, Ruth The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Week 5 May 4 Women Writing Culture

GUEST SPEAKER Mariko Tamanoi, (UCLA Dept, of Anthropology)

Tamanoi, Mariko. Remembering Manchuria migration, colonization, repatriation, and

Nostalgia (book ms) ____________________________________________________________________

Cole, Sally and Phillips Lynne. Ethnographic Feminisms:Essays in Anthropology. (Ch 1 The Work and Politics of Feminist Ethnography.)

Behar, Ruth and Gordon, Deborah A. Women Writing Culture.

Behar, Ruth Introduction: Out of Exile

*Babcock, Barbara. “’Not in the Absolute Singular’”: Rereading

Ruth Benedict

Optl Lutz, Catherine.”The Gender of Theory.”

*Newton, Judith and Stacy, Judith. “Ms, Representations:

Reflections on Studying Academic Men”

*Ong, Aihwa. “Women Out of China: Traveling Tales and

Traveling Theories in Postcolonial Feminism.”

WEEK 6 May 11 Ethnography as Testimony

Yoneyama, Lisa. Hiroshima Traces: Time. Space, and the Dialectics of Memory

Spiegel, Gabrielle. “Memory and History: Liturgical Time and Historical Time.”(History and Theory 41, May 2002. 149-162.)

* on-line Hiroshima Testimonies

Presentation on Culture of the US Occupation of Japan

PART THREE: TESTIMONY

Week 7 May 18 Testimoni(o)

Beverly, John. Testimonio, On the Politics of Truth.

LaCapra, Dominick. Writing History, Writing Trauma.

_. *Felman, Shoshana, “Education and Crisis: The Vicissitudes of Teaching.” In Felman and Laub, Dorim eds. Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History

* I Rigoberto Menchu.

Week 8 May 25 The Holocaust

Levi, Primo. “The Drowned and the Saved.” In Survival in /Auschwitzr

_________. “The Grey Zone,” in The Drowned and the Saved.

_________. “The Intellectual I Auschwitz” in The Drowned and the Saved

Agamben, Giorgio. “The Witness” and “The Musselman” from

Remnants of Auschwitz:The Witness and the Archive.

Agamben, Giorgio. “The Archive and Testimony” from Remnants of Auschwitz.

Week 9 June 1 Finding Methodologies

GUEST SPEAKER Spiegel, Gabrielle. UCLA Dean of Humanities

Gabrielle Spiegel, ed, Practicing History: New Directions in Historical Writing.

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**German War Crime Testimony/ Japanese/ Japanese –American

Testimonies

Week 10 June 8 The Comfort Women

Kim-Gibson, Dai-Sil. Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women.

Film : The Murmuring. {Nanumu no Ie}

Film-script in English

Film-script in Japanese

Presentation : re Comfort Men (film clips)

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*Comfort Women Speak: Testimony by Sex Slaves of the Japanese Military : Includes New United Nations Human Rights Report (Science and Human Rights Series) Sangmie Choi Schellstede (Editor), Soon Mi Yu (Photographer)

Preliminary bibliographies due

Course Requirements

READING:

Weekly readings (all on line, reserve)

Optional= optional for all

*= responsibility of discussion group (7 min. presentation per text)

TALKING

History, Ethnography, Testimony groups responsible to formulate and lead discussion (as a group)

Ability to summarize, query, and to critique

WRITING

One 10-12 line précis for each chapter or essay. Insert page numbers

For ref. ( hand in 6^th week and last class)

3 points to be listed on discussion bd, by noon Monday.

(positive, critical. Question) re reading for the week

Use of the Discussion Board for furthering of discussion; exchange of info

And research finding

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR PAPER PROBLEMATIC

[DUE LAST CLASS]

Instructor	Office	Phone Number	Email	Office Hours
Silverberg, Miriam	5365 Bunche	54368,54601	silverbe@history.ucla.edu	Tuesday 3:00-5:00