HIST 840
SYLLABUS
WEEKLY DISCUSSION MATERIALS
COURSE MATERIALS

 

GENDERED SPACE; SACRED SPACE; QUIET SPACE; VERMIN; GARDENS AND PARKS

Videos and photos:

Hogan: Traditional Navajo House (6:12 min.)
http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E6as5KIX7U

Home – a film by Yvonne Latty (Navajo Housing Authority, 12:54 min.)
http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX_DJDDUWPE

“Purdah”  (One-page essay)

Zenana:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenana (essay with photos)
“Zenana” (documentary, 4:54 min.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HOrUrvCtfY

Harem

England’s Greatest Landscape Designer -Capability Brown (2:36 min.):
https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcwhvJc-sSk

Capability Brown’s Most Famous Gardens and Landscapes 1:29 min.):
http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaMSaE_MNjc

How Do You Spot a Capability Brown Landscape? (1:27 min.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_QcL8-4lg

“The House on Trubnaya” (Russian, silent film, 1928: watch 2:00-5:00 min. for morning chores in the apartment house)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scf9f9W4oNs

 

Readings:

Moore, The Prehistory of Home, Chapter 5 (“Model Homes”), pp. 70-92

Bryson, At Home, Chapters 11 (“The Study”) and 12 (“The Garden”), pp. 341-406