January 9: Orientation to course (Ford) Review: Geographical Concepts: distance, scale, direction, region, spatial analysis, landscape, culture, etc.

Introduction to the Region - What is Latin America?

Review Intro Powerpoints LAS 101 HERE

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READINGS:

• Understanding the Cultural Landscape (Hardcover) by Bret Wallach (Author). Guilford Press. 2005.

**LULC (Landuse/Land cover) & Scale

• Key Terms - Map Use
• Locating a point on Earth
• Fundamentals of Physical Geography - Maps, Remote Sensing and GIS (Chapter 2)

 

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January 14:  Basic Cultural Geography Concepts: culture, landscape, history, material vs. symbolic culture, culture change, place vs. space, etc.

 

January 16:  Continued: Basic Cultural Geography Concepts:

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READINGS:

• Culture and Space: Conceiving a New Geography by Joel Bonnemaison

• Understanding the Cultural Landscape by Bret Wallach (Author). Guilford Press. 2005.

Introduction to SERVIR-VIZ and Google Earth

NOTE: Students should download and install on their machines SERVIR-VIZ

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January 21:  Continued: Basic Cultural Geography Concepts: culture, landscape, history, material vs. symbolic culture, culture change, place vs. space, etc.

 

January 23:  Continued: Basic Cultural Geography Concepts:

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READINGS:

• Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience by Tuan, Yi-Fu

• Anthropology of Space and Place by Setha M. Low and Denise Lawrence-Zunigais

• On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture (Paperback)
  by Setha M. Low (Author)

• Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies Paul C. Adams, Stephen D. Hoelscher, and Karen E. Till

• Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) by Steven Feld (Editor), Keith H. Basso (Editor)

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January 28: Introduction to Landscape

January 30:  Landscaping Traditions

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READINGS:

• John Wylie, 2007. Landscape. Routledge. Chapter 1 and 2 (pps. 1-53).

• Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience by Tuan, Yi-Fu

• Anthropology of Space and Place by Setha M. Low and Denise Lawrence-Zunigais

• On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture (Paperback)
  by Setha M. Low (Author)

• Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies Paul C. Adams, Stephen D. Hoelscher, and Karen E. Till

• Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) by Steven Feld (Editor), Keith H. Basso (Editor)

Discussion/brainstorming on individual projects (Final Paper)

February 4: Ways of Seeing

FILM: To be announced

February 6: Cultures of Landscape

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READINGS:

• John Wylie, 2007. Landscape. Routledge. Chapter 1 and 2 (pps. 1-53).

• Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience by Tuan, Yi-Fu

• Anthropology of Space and Place by Setha M. Low and Denise Lawrence-Zunigais

• On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture (Paperback)
  by Setha M. Low (Author)

• Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies Paul C. Adams, Stephen D. Hoelscher, and Karen E. Till

• Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) by Steven Feld (Editor), Keith H. Basso (Editor)

WEB REVIEW #1 (February 6)

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Week 6:

February 11: Landscape Phenomenology

 

February13: Prospects for Landscape

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READINGS:

• John Wylie, 2007. Landscape. Routledge. Chapter 1 and 2 (pps. 1-53).

• Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience by Tuan, Yi-Fu

• Anthropology of Space and Place by Setha M. Low and Denise Lawrence-Zunigais

• On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture (Paperback)
  by Setha M. Low (Author)

• Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies Paul C. Adams, Stephen D. Hoelscher, and Karen E. Till

• Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) by Steven Feld (Editor), Keith H. Basso (Editor)

• OTHERS TO ANNOUNCED....

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE DUE FOR PAPER (February13)

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February 18: Sustainability, Livelihoods, Poverty, and Latin American Development

FILM: To be announced

February 20: Sustainability, Livelihoods, Poverty, and Latin American Development - continued

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READINGS:

• Jonathan Rigg, 2007. An Everyday Geography of the Global South. Routledge. Chapter 1-4 (pps. 1-95).

• Latin American Politics And Development (Paperback)
  by Harvey F. Kline (Author), Howard J. Wiarda (Editor) Westview Press; 6 edition (August 30, 2006)

Take-home LAB activity - Measures of sustainability, poverty, and development

WEB REVIEW #2 DUE  (February 20)

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February 25-29: SPRING RECESS

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March 3: Geography of the Global South: Living with Modernity, Mobility, and Livelihoods

FIRST DRAFT ON BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE  (March 3)

March 5: Geography of the Global South: From Society to the State

 Discussion/brainstorming on individual projects

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FIRST DRAFT ON BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE  (March 3)

READINGS:

• Jonathan Rigg, 2007. An Everyday Geography of the Global South. Routledge. Chapter 5-7 (pps. 95-165).

REVIEW: Harm de Blij (7th edition) - Regions and Concepts: Introduction (Foundations) and Chapters 5 - Middle America

NOTE: Harm de Blij (8th edition) - Regions and Concepts: Introduction (Foundations) and Chapters 4 - Middle America

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March 10: MID-TERM EXAM

 

FILM: To be announced

March 12: Mosquito coast (Rimlamd) - CONTRAS, Creoles, Garifuna, and "Baymen" (Belizeans and Bay Islanders)

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READINGS:

• Central America: A Natural and Cultural History (Paperback)
  by Anthony G. Coates (Editor). Yale University Press. 1999.

• Central America Inside Out: The Essential Guide to its Societies, Politics, and Economics (Paperback) by Tom Barry (Author). Grove Press 1994.

• A Neotropical Companion (Paperback) by John Kricher (Author). Princeton University Press. 1999.

REVIEW: Harm de Blij (7th edition) - Regions and Concepts: Introduction (Foundations) and Chapters 5 - Middle America

NOTE: Harm de Blij (8th edition) - Regions and Concepts: Introduction (Foundations) and Chapters 4 - Middle America

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March 17:  Greater Antilles: Cuba, Hispanola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica

FILM: To be announced

 

March 19: Lesser Antilles: Virgin Islands, St. Lucia, Trinidad, St. Barth's, Martinique, Aruba, Curacao, etc.

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READINGS:

• New Perspectives in Caribbean Tourism (Routledge Advances in Tourism) (Hardcover) by Chambers/Daye/R (Author). Routledge. 2007.

• Patterns of Pillage: A Geography of Caribbean-Based Piracy in Spanish America, 1536-1718 (Paperback) by Peter R. Galvin (Author). Peter Lang Pub Inc (July 2000).

REVIEW: Harm de Blij (7th edition) - Regions and Concepts: Introduction (Foundations) and Chapters 5 - Middle America

NOTE: Harm de Blij (8th edition) - Regions and Concepts: Introduction (Foundations) and Chapters 4 - Middle America

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Week 12:   Cases in the Cultural Geography of Middle America (Mainland) - Mexico

 

March 24: The Heartland and Indian South

 

FILM: To be announced

 

March 26: The Northern Borderlands - Maquiladoras and the Jet-ski World (Cancun, La Paz, Mazatlan, Zihuatanejo, etc.)

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READINGS:

• Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias: The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion (Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom). by Rosalva A'da Hernndez Castillo (Author)

• U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Jaguar Books on Latin America) by Oscar J. Martinez (Author)

• Troublesome Border (Paperback)
  by Oscar J. Martinez (Author)

• The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality (Paperback) by Daniel D. Arreola (Author), James R. Curtis (Author)

REVIEW: Harm de Blij (7th edition) - Regions and Concepts: Introduction (Foundations) and Chapters 5 - Middle America

NOTE: Harm de Blij (8th edition) - Regions and Concepts: Introduction (Foundations) and Chapters 4 - Middle America

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March 31 : Brazil - European sector

VIDEO: "Who and What is an Afro-Brazilian?"

April 2: Brazil - Amerindian sector

VIDEO: "The Last Wild Places - Amazonia" or Guest (Bill Harp)

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READINGS:

• The Forest Within: The World-view of the Tukano Amazonian Indians (Paperback) by Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff (Author). Council Oak Distribution (March 1996)

• Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians (Phoenix Books) (Paperback) by Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff (Author). Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx); New Ed edition (June 1974)

REVIEW: Harm de Blij (7th edition) - Regions and Concepts: Introduction (Foundations) and Chapters 6 - South America

NOTE: Harm de Blij (8th edition) - Regions and Concepts: Introduction (Foundations) and Chapters 5 - South America

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April 7: Peru and Bolivia - Land, Ethnicity, Religion and social class

GUEST SPEAKER: Stahl Center, La Sierra University - History of Social Reform on the Altiplano (Peru/Bolivia)

FILM: To be announced

April 9: Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela - Petroleum, Coffee, Trade, and Drugs)

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READINGS:

• Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change (Paperback)
  by Edward L. Cleary (Editor), Timothy J. Steigenga (Editor)

• Latin American Politics And Development (Paperback)
  by Harvey F. Kline (Author), Howard J. Wiarda (Editor) Westview Press; 6 edition (August 30, 2006)
  

PAPERS DUE FOR PEER REVIEW (handout a draft copy of your paper to at least two colleagues) - DUE on April 7

REVIEW: Harm de Blij (7th edition) - Regions and Concepts: Introduction (Foundations) and Chapters 6 - South America

NOTE: Harm de Blij (8th edition) - Regions and Concepts: Introduction (Foundations) and Chapters 5 - South America

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April 14: Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile (NAFTA vs. MERCOSUR)

 

April 15: STUDY DAY: 

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READINGS:

• Latin American Politics And Development (Paperback)
  by Harvey F. Kline (Author), Howard J. Wiarda (Editor) Westview Press; 6 edition (August 30, 2006)

HAND-BACK PAPERS TO YOUR PEERS - DUE on April 14

REVIEW: Harm de Blij (7th edition) - Regions and Concepts: Introduction (Foundations) and Chapters 6 - South America

NOTE: Harm de Blij (8th edition) - Regions and Concepts: Introduction (Foundations) and Chapters 5 - South America

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Week 16: Finals Week

FINAL EXAM: At regular scheduled time - April 16-19

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