Winter Quarter Reading List :
BOOKS:
Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
Johnson, Charles: Middle Passage
Mauss, Marcel: The Gift
Marchant, Jo: Decoding the Heavens
Murray, Sabina: Tales of the New World
And selections from:
Malinowsky, Bronislaw: Argonauts of the Western Pacific, Ch. 2,3,4.
Helms, Mary: Ulysses’ Sail: Ch. 1, Ch. 4, Ch.5
Smith, Linda T.: Decolonizing Methodologies; Ch. 1, Ch. 4
Diamond, Jared: Collapse; Ch. 2, Ch. 3
Rapa Nui Articles:
- Hunt, Terry, “Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island” (and resp.)
- Hunt, Terry, “Rethinking Easter Island’s Eco. Catastrophe”
- Hunt and Lipo, “Ecological Catastrophe, Collapse, and the
- Myth of Ecocide on Rapa Nui.”
Geertz, Clifford:
- The Interpretation of Cultures; “Thick Descrip”
- Local Knowledge Ch. 3
The Story of Maps (Ch. ?)
Seeds of Change (Sugar)
FILMS:
Traces of the Trade
Longitude
Fall Quarter Readings for Ships of Wisdom
The Craft of Sail, Jan Adkins
The Odyssey, Homer (Penguin Classics, Robert Fagles translation)
The Ancient Mariners, Second edition, Lionel Casson
Vaka Moana, K. R. Howe, ed.
When China Ruled the Seas, Louise Levathes
Sea Runners, Ivan Doig
Summer Reading:
Either: The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, By Padraic Colum
Or: the “Penguin Classics” edition of The Voyage of the Argo: The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes, translated by E.V. Rieu.
NOTE: The Golden Fleece is available as a free download at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2395
Other readings will be provided during the quarter as downloads from the program website.