CIUDADES COLONIALES: PLAZAS, GENTES Y FIESTAS

TENOCHTITLAN/MEXICO Y CUZCO

J/6 abril Plazas bélicas : El lente del guerrero ibérico

“Segunda Carta de Relación de Hernán Cortés”, 1520, Crónicas de Indias, 211-320, Enfoque en las ciudades que describe, puntos de comparación y los eventos en Tenochtitlán .

Ver: Mapa- Primer mapa europeo de la ciudad de Tenochtitlán.

Leer: Oralidad y escritura en Bernal Díaz, Reserve or , Clendennin, “Fierce and Unusual Cruelty: Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico.” Reserve.

Semana 3
M/ 11 abril –Bernal Diaz – ‘Cosas nunca vistas ni oidas” – La Entrada a Tenochtitlán, Cortes y Montezuma, in Historia Verdadera en Crónicas de Indias, Leer: pp. 346-385

Rose: Great Monteczuma [pdf]
Peterson: "Imaging Malinche" [pdf]
Malinche Power Point
Presentaciones orales

J/13 abril –Visión de los Vencidos: Testimonios de catastrophe: la ciudad defendida y sitiada.

Leer: Testimonios – Introducción vii-xxx .
1-158. Centrarse en: Llegada de los invasores, estadía en Tenochtitlán, El masacre en el templo, La Noche triste. pp. vii-95

Leer: León-Portilla, “Bernardino de Sahagun and the Florentine Codex “
Leer: Damrosch, “The Aesthetics of Conquest: Aztec Poetry Before and After Cortés.” [pdf]

Optional: Clendennin: Aztecsm “Tenochtitlán: Part I The City; 25-83 Part IV, The City Destroyed " y “Epigraph, A question of Sources”.Reserve

PP Gruzinski, Painting the Conquest” y/o de Muñoz Camargo, Historia de Tlaxcala

Semana 4

M/18 abril – Vision de los vencidos continuación

Leer:–Asedio, Sitio y Rendición de México-Tenochtitlán; Visión de Conjunto; Testimonio de Tlatelolco – Testimonio de Tlaxcaltecas – Lienzo de Tlaxcala, Cantos Tristes de la Conquista y lo que siguió; 96-183,

Ver: Sahagún (Book 12/Conquista)

Presentaciones visuales y orales sobre Cantos y códices y Visión de los Vencidos .

Entrega de micro-ensayos sobre estos temas.

MEXICO: LA CIUDAD LETRADA Y LA MIRADA BARROCA

J/20 abril – Utopías y Ordenanzas “Todo en México está cifrado”

Balbuena, La Grandeza Mexicana, Estudio preliminar y poema, xiii-124
Comentar bosquejo, Trigo, “Formación Neocultural Barroca”

Leer: María José Rodilla, “La ciudad de México de Balbuena” Reserve
Christian: Colonial Mexico City [pdf]
Utopía Poética [pdf]

Semana 5

M/25 – Balbuena , Grandeza Mexicana - continuación

Leer: Rama, La ciudad letrada, Cap. I, La ciudad ordenada; Cap.II La ciudad
letrada 1-39. Reserve
Cruz: Ciudad novohispana [pdf]
Gage's Travels [pdf]

Presentaciones orales

LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO: SIGLO XVIII:
GENTES Y CALLES: RAZAS Y CASTAS

Las Pinturas de Castas
http://images.google.com/images?q=Casta+paintings&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
See also: www.backintyme

Leer: Klestew, Ilona, “Casta Paintings: Identity and Social Stratification in Colonial Mexico"
http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/laberinto/fall1997/casta1997.htm

Leer: Mills and Taylor, “Two Castas Paintings from Eighteenth-Century Mexico” [pdf]
Mills and Taylor: * “Miguel Hernández, Master of Mule Trains,” [pdf] 125-131
Beatriz de Padilla, Mulatta [pdf]
Cope, "Race and Class in Colonial Mexico City" [pdf] . Reserve

J/27abril – Pinturas de Castas – continuación
Optional, "Envisioning the Colonial Body" [pdf]
Cahill: Colour by Numbers [pdf]

Optional: Africa in the Americas – Texas Humanities Resources Timeline,
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/a_base_UD.html

Presentaciones orales

CUZCO: “OMBLIGO DEL MUNDO”; “CABECERA DE LOS REINOS”: MEMORIA Y MESTIZAJE

Semana 6

M/ 2 mayo – Cuzco: Memoria mítica; herencia materna

Garcilaso Inca de la Vega – selecciones de Los Comentarios reales, en Cronicas de Indias, pp. 447-512
Comentarios Reales de los incas, tomo 1 [pdf]
Comentarios Reales de los incas, tomo 2 [pdf]

Paseo Visual por el Cuzco imperial. ayer y hoy - CD

Pease: Las Cronicas y Los Andes, conquista [pdf]
Pease: Las Cronicas y Los Andes, Tahuantinsuyu [pdf]

J/ 4 mayo Garcilaso Inca – La ciudad de Cuzco continuación

Leer y Discutir: de Certeau, “Spatial Stories” [pdf]
Escobar: Lengua e Historia [pdf]
Mazzoti: Mestizo Dreams [pdf]
Contexto: Castro-Klaren: "El Cuzco de Garcilaso: El espacio y el lugar del conocimiento". Reserve.

Presentaciones orales

LAS CIUDADES Y GENTES DE GUAMAN POMA DE AYALA

Semana 7

M/ Guaman Poma de Ayala, La Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno, selecciones y en WWW http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/poma.

Ver bibliografía principal en WWW http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/poma bajo “Enlaces”, Rolena Adorno.

Guaman Poma de Ayala : La propuesta andina: Gentes: Incas, Coyas, Andinos, Españoles, Mestizos, Negros, Clérigos.

Leer: Chang-Rodríguez, “Las ciudades de Primer nueva corónica y los mapas…” [pdf]
Leer: López Baralt, ”La persistencia de las estructuras simbólicas andinas en los dibujos de Guaman Poma de Ayala.”. Reserve
Leer: Prólogo: Guaman Poma [pdf]

J/ 11 – Congreso Latin American Indian Literatures – Ramada Hotel, Olentangy River Rd. – asistir a una session, 11-13 mayo

Ver el programa en: http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/zevallosaguilar1/laila/

Leer: Franklin Pease, “Spanish and Andean Perceptions of the Other in the Conquest of the Andes “o Rolena Adorno: “Icons in Space” [pdf]

M/16- Continuación de Guaman Poma, “Ciudades andinas…”

Informes y comentarios sobre el Congreso de LAILA.

Presentaciones orales y temas pendientes.

Entregar micro-ensayos sobre temas andinos.

FIESTAS: “CORPUS EN LA TIERRA DE LOS INCAS”

J/18 Las procesiones de Corpus Christi en el Cuzco.

Corpus en la tierra de los Incas .Un documental de Raúl Goyburu. Comisión Episcopal de Comunicación Social, Conferencia Episcopal Peruana, Lima, Perú, 2003. DVD

Leer: Dean: Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Cap.1 “The Body of Christ in Cuzco” y Cap. 3 “Envisioning Corpus Christi [pdf] ”. Reserve.
Mills and Taylor “Two Paintings of a Corpus Christi Procession in Cuzco, Peru, ca. 1674-1680 “

Semana 9

M/23 Archángeles y vírgenes: la escuela cuzqueña de pintura – visuales -

Leer: Gisbert and Damian

Presentaciones de proyectos de investigación - Grupo 1`

J/ 25/ Presentaciones de proyectos de investigación - Grupo 2

Semana 10

M/30 Presentaciones de proyectos de investigación - Grupo 3

J/1 junio Presentaciones de proyectos de investigación - Grupo 4

Evaluacion del seminario

Semana 11 - Lunes, 5 de junio, 4 p.m - Entrega del Ensayo/Projecto Escrito,
298 Hagerty Hall, casillero de la Profa. Ahern

COURSE REQUIREMENTS (read carefully)

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION in the class sessions and attentive reading of all the required texts and other assigned materials before each class session are absolutely required. This is a discussion based class. Your consistent participation is a key component of our learning environment, thus you are expected to come to class ready to discuss the readings, to articulate questions about what you did not understand, and to help your classmates understand something you did understand. Be aware that H680 is a seminar that will require extensive weekly reading, discussion and research beyond merely attending class and taking notes.

ATTENDANCE is required, but it is not sufficient. Punctual regular attendance is required for successful progress in this course. More than two unexcused absences will definitely jeopardize your final grade, and may result in the loss of an entire grade point or more. Acceptable grounds for excused absences are strictly limited to: a) pre-arranged, university sponsored activities; b) your own illness; c) death or grave illness in your immediate family; d) jury duty or required legal appearances. All instances require written validation. Request excuse by phone or e-mail before class. No make-up will be allowed without a medical/legal written excuse.

TARDINESS: Plan to attend punctually. Late arrivals are disruptive to class sessions and discourteous to your classmates and your instructor. Late work will be accepted past the due date but 5 points will be deducted for each class session that it is overdue. Exceptions will be made only in the case of serious documented excuses. Work will not be accepted after the last day of class.

GRADING is on the basis of quality, improvement, participation and attendance. No "Incompletes" except for documented legal or medical emergencies

QUIZZES: You can expect unannounced quizzes on each unit of required readings, videos or any materials discussed at any point in the course. No makeups on quizzes missed.

ORAL PRESENTATION: 10 minutes of oral presentation of analysis on the topic of one of the short essays. It should be accompanied by a handout that outlines your major points and includes key citations, references and images. You are encouraged to present visual as well as verbal elements to illustrate your points and stimulate discussion. Close with a question about your topic. The oral version can become the nucleus for one of your short written essays on the same or a similar topic. If you wish to use PowerPoint, you need to be sure your formats are compatible with the setup in our classroom and check beforehand that it will work. Always prepare materials for a back-up in case technology fails. Oral presentations must fall within the calendar days scheduled for the unit on the topic. You need to sign up for your date on the schedule that will be circulated and define your topic as early as possible. See the suggested topics on the sheets on “Orientación lectiva y temario” distributed for each unit. For the topic of the oral presentation you need to consult me by e-mail or phone before you begin preparation. In case of changes of date or topic, I must by notified by phone or email before the day scheduled in order to plan class time equitably and productively It is not acceptable to present a descriptive summary of the plot, the author’s life or repeat introductory information from the anthology or my class lectures or ‘paste in’ material from Internet sites without citing the source.

WRITTEN MICRO-ENSAYOS (3-5 pages) In Spanish. These are thoughtful essays of the reaction paper type that first and foremost express your own ideas and reactions as well as textual and/or cultural analysis, 1 on a Tenochtitlán/Mexico topic and 1 on a Cuzco topic of the assigned texts. One of them can become the first draft of your research project. You are encouraged to choose topics and texts suggested by the professor or that reflect your own interests or you may address topics questions raised during discussion or in consultation by e-mail or phone. I’m happy to help you develop a specific focus or a topic through consultation during my office hours, or by email or by phone. It’s advisable to consult me as far in advance as possible. Base your arguments on textual or visual evidence and be sure to include it and cite it in your paper. You should incorporate readings of critical and contextual materials for research beyond the collective reading assignments. The more specific and focused the topic, the better. They may be comparative among two or more issues or texts, but must focus on a specific topic or issue. Be sure to include conclusions and bibliography of works cited or utilized. For most texts the suggested topics on the sheets on the “Orientación lectiva y temario” sheets that I distribute for each unit provide many avenues to explore.

Papers must be typed or word-processed DOUBLE SPACED, WITH A WIDE 1 “ LEFT HAND MARGIN for ease of reading and revision, using a normal 12 point font. Do not use abnormally large or small fonts or margins. Length is 3-5 pages minimum. Format is MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers,5a ed. (at SBX and most all bookstores) with foot or endnotes and a page for works cited for all references, including digital or electronic media sources. See the short-cut sheet on this format in the information stand opposite the Circulation Desk at the Main Library. Papers are due the day indicated on the course calendar, unless I modify the dates through announcement in class or by e-mail. . Points will be deducted for late submissions. Two short written essays are required.. Topics are chosen according to the following distribution. At least 1 is required on a topic on Tenochtitlán/Mexico and 1 on Cuzco.You should consult with me in advance –e-mail is fine - regarding your choice of topics.

THE RESEARCH PROJECT
By the end of the first two weeks of the seminar - by Tuesday April 11th – each participant should have chosen the two areas for her/his micro-essays, one of which will become the basis for the research project. The topics can be chosen from the “temarios” distributed in class or the student may select it independently, but always in consultation with the professor.

By the beginning of the 5th week – April 27th - the student is required to submit an abstract or one page statement of the problem with a tentative bibliography of primary and secondary sources. One of your micro-essays may be considered a first draft of your project, so you will be getting feedback from me about it.

During the 9th and 10th weeks, May 25-June 1, the student will present the results of his or her research orally to the class. The presentation will be in Spanish and should last approximately 20 minutes( 30% of the grade for the research project will be assigned to this portion will be evaluated on organization, clarity of presentation, communicative skills in Spanish, and ability to generate discussion) .
At the end of the 10th week, tentatively Monday, June 5th, the student will hand in the written research project that also incorporates any comments or suggestions learned during the oral presentation. The paper must be a minimum of 10 pages (not counting the bibliography), but it certainly be longer, typed, double spaced, in Spanish, with the bibliography in MLA format attached. (60% of the grade for the research project will be evaluated on the quality of the final written work, including the quality of Spanish).

NOTA BENE: REGARDING USE OF ANY INTERNET, WWW, VIDEO, FILM OR PRINT MATERIALS

The sources for all material, images or information obtained through WWW or in any kind of print or video form must be correctly attributed. Any information of any kind that is not your own original idea must be correctly cited as indicated in the MLA format to be distributed in class. Any material that is not your own which remains uncited will be subject to the university guidelines concerning plagerism and academic misconduct.

Plagiarism is the representation of another’s works or ideas as one’s own: it includes the unacknowledged word for word use and/or paraphrasing of another person’s work, and/or the inappropriate unacknowledged use of another person’s ideas. All cases of suspected plagiarism, in accordance with university rules, will be reported to the Committee on Academic Misconduct.

Students agree that by taking this course all required papers may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use posted on the Turnitin.com site.
http://www.turnitin.com/static/home.html?session-id=0ffb95e51f5b467f9013049eb1a1fe56

The Office for Disability Services, located in 150 Pomerene Hall, offers services for students with documented disabilities. Contact ODS at 2-3307

STUDY TIPS:
- Do each week’s reading before that week’s classes. Go over your notes after each class. Cross-reference your notes with the reading assignments. Use your syllabus as a table of contents for your notes.

- Acquire a good Spanish/Spanish dictionary such as Vox or Larousse from Latin American Book Sources, Inc. at www.latambooks.com on the Web (type in Vox or Larousse in the search box) and keep a list of new vocabulary for each reading selection, as 16th –18th century colonial Spanish will challenge your lexicon.Get the Spanish dictionary not a bilingual one.

-Above all, keep up with the reading. There is an extensive amount of information in this course; you can’t hope to master it by cramming at the last minute.
-If there is a gap in your notes or a concept you have missed, get notes from a classmate and handouts from the instructor or come to see me during office hours.