ANTHROPOLOGY 177
              European Societies: A Celtic Journey
                                
                                                  Prof. Carole L. Crumley                           204A/B Alumni Building
                                                  Spring, 2002                                      Office Hours: Wed 1-3 pm

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
     As contemporary Europe embarks on a new phase (common currency) of their bold
experiment called the European Union, this course explores one of the threads in the fabric that has
shaped the European community from earliest times and from which it continues to claim identity. 
But did Celtic peoples, first identified as such by Classical writers during the Iron Age (800 bce until
the Roman conquest in 52 bce) really consist of a single great society that stretched from Central
Europe to the Atlantic, as the European Unionists would have us believe?  Or is Celtic society a
product of the academic and popular mind?  Who were the Celts?  What did the Druids know?  Is
there still a Celtic religion?  Is there any connection between the Iron Age Celtic warrior and the
contemporary racists who belong to Aryan Nation?  Do North Carolinians have the right to wear kilt
and kirk?  The course explores the changing contexts in which the term Celt has been employed,
examines the display of Celtic identity over 2500 years, and contemplates the (re)uses of history in
Western and Central Europe.

TEXTS:
                    Wells     Beyond Celts, Germans and Scythians.  London: Duckworth (2001)
               Ray  Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South.  Chapel Hill:
          University of North Carolina Press (2001)    
     Selected articles

REQUIREMENTS:
     Course grade will be based on student choice between two models:
Model #1: class participation (10%), first hourly examination Th Feb 07 (20%), second hourly
examination Th Mar 07 (20%), contribution to a class project or projects (due when that 
topic/those topics are discussed) (if you choose 1 or 2 projects it will be assumed that you will lead
the group; if 3 or 4, that you will be a contributor) 25%,  research paper due Apr 30 (25%).
Model #2: class participation (10%), contribution to a class project or projects (due when that 
topic/those topics are discussed) 25%,  research paper due Apr 30 (65%).

               Jan 08         Objectives of the course

               Jan 10         What is Identity?  (Wells ch. 1)
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               Jan 15         Who Birthed the Celts?  The Gimbutas-Renfrew controversy (Mallory)

               Jan 17         The Iron Age in Europe (Wells chs. 2-5)

                                                                 Jan 22         Characteristics of the Iron Age (Hallstatt)       

               Jan 24         Celtic Art (Prof. Verkerk) 218 Hanes
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               Jan 29         Characteristics of the Iron Age (la Tene)

               Jan 31         Celtic Art (Prof. Verkerk) 218 Hanes
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               Feb 05         Iron Age Landscapes (land use, oppida, etc.)

               Feb 07         First Hourly Exam
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                                                                           Feb 12         Social Class, Ties that Bind: soldurii, the slave trade     

               Feb 14         Gender, including uppity women, fightin' men
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               Feb 19         Roman Colonialism

               Feb 21         Roman Colonialism
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               Feb 26         The Arthurian Legend (Elizabeth Jones)

               Feb 28         Celtic "Edges" (Sythia, Spain, Italy, British Isles, Croatia...)
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          Mar 05    Language, Law, Literary Traditions

          Mar 07    Second Hourly Exam
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          Mar 12    SPRING BREAK

          Mar 14    SPRING BREAK
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          Mar 19    RESEARCH PAUSE

                         Mar 21    RESEARCH PAUSE 
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          Mar 26    Celts and Nature (Green Man, etc)

          Mar 28    Celtic Character (bellicosity, drinking, etc; Dietler 1999)
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          Apr 02    Celtic Spiritual Continuity (Oaks 1987; McMillan 1981)

          Apr 04    Celts in the New World (Ray chs 1-3)
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          Apr 09    Celts in the New World (Ray 4-7)

          Apr 11    Neo-Paganism, druidism, and California Celts
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          Apr 16    Folklore, Fairy Tales, Enduring Legends (wicker, wheels, etc)

          Apr 18    Nations and Nationalism (Amy Sullivan)
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          Apr 23    Nations and Nationalism (Prof. Tomaskova)

          Apr 25    dark Celticism: neo-Nazis and other fanatics
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          Apr 30    Pan-European Celticism and the European Union