History 461A  SEMINAR IN LATIN-AMERICAN HISTORY     (Radding)

            Topic: Cultures of Nature and the Nature of Culture

            Graduate research seminar focused on the conceptual and methodological interfaces of environmental and cultural history.  Common readings will include recent publications on theories of knowledge, of culture, and on the contested meanings of nature.  Readings will be focused primarily, but not exclusively on Latin America, and students will be expected to report on major journals that are pertinent to the theme.  Readings and discussions will cover exemplary works in both the colonial and recent periods of history, allowing for students' divergent research interests, and point to interdisciplinary approaches to history.