Origins
Contested Identities
(Introduction to the Humanities 42)
Stanford University, Fall Quarter 2001

 
Course Description & Syllabus
Assignments
Lectures
Writing Resources


  "To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root...
To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where we've have come from."
(Richard Leakey, in National Geographic, February 1998)
 
 

The Texts
Leakey
 

 

Diamond

 

Rousseau

 

Riefenstahl (film)


Foucault