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Spring 2008 Schedule
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The Spring 2008 semester is over. Thank you all for a great class!
PAST SCHEDULE:
January 17 – Introduction
January 22 – a brief history of Anthropology and why they don’t eat cows in India
Haviland, Chapters 1 & 2
Online Reading: Holy Cow Remains Subject of Legal Fight
January 24 – Virtual Fieldwork Experience in Central New Guinea – Part One
Haviland Chapter 3
Reader: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema by Horace Miner
January 29 – Watch Merchants of Cool online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/view/
Reader: Doing Fieldwork Among the Yanomamo by Napoleon Chagnon
Reader: Eating Christmas in the Kalahari by Richard Lee
January 31 – Race and Structural Racism
Haviland Chapter 4 (pages 91-95)
Examine Website: Race: The Power of an Illusion
February 5 – Introducing the World Simulation
Assignment to Groups: Rituals of Social Solidarity
Read: The Crisis of Significance by Michael Wesch (Online)
February 7 – Language & Gesture
Haviland Chapter 5
Reader: Fighting For Our Lives by Deborah Tannen
February 12 – Language, Worldview, and Media Ecology (Environment Draft Due)
Reader: Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannon
Online: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
February 14 – Language, Gender, Personality, Self, and Identity
Haviland Chapter 6
Reader: “I Can’t Even Open My Mouth!” by Deborah Tannen
February 19 – EXAM ONE (35 min) – Name Rituals (40 min)
February 21 – A Brief History of the World and Subsistence Discussion
Haviland Chapter 7
Reader: Understanding Eskimo Science
February 26 – Exchange & Coca-Colonization and Subsistence & Exchange Discussion
Haviland Chapter 8
Reader: Why Can’t People Feed Themselves?
IMPORTANT: Special Group-Specific Assigned Readings of Ethnographies Online
February 28 – Sex and Marriage + Sex, Love, and Marriage Discussion
Subsistence & Exchange Draft Due
Haviland Chapter 9
Reader: When Brothers Share a Wife (87-89)
Quiz 4 deadline extended until Saturday March 1st (due to KSOL outage and wiki confusion)
March 4 – Love and Beauty + Sex, Love, and Marriage Discussion Part 2
Reader: Who Needs Love! In Japan, Many Couples Don’t (112-115)
Reader: Where Fat Is a Mark of Beauty (137-138)
March 6 – Family & Household + Family & Household Discussion
Sex, Love & Marriage Draft Due March 7th
Haviland Chapter 10
March 11 – Kinship, Social Organization & Stratification + Discussion
Family & Household Draft Due
Haviland Chapter 11
March 13 – EXAM TWO (35 min) – Optional Group Meeting after Exam
March 17-21 – Spring Break
March 25 – Power (Hard, Soft, and Structural)
Kinship / Social Organization Draft Due
Haviland Pages 381-384
March 27 – Political Organization, Law & Order + Political Organization Discussion
Haviland Chapter 12
Reader: The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead by Del Guercio
QUIZ 6 DUE
April 1 – Culture and the Supernatural + Political Organization
Monsoon Wedding and/or Bend it Like Beckham Extra Credit Due
Haviland Chapter 13
Reader: Baseball Magic by George Gmelch
April 3 – New Religious Movements, The Matrix,+ Religion & Core Cultural Values Discussion
Online Reading: World Simulation Rules from Spring 2007
Political Organization Draft Due
Language and Gender Notes Due
QUIZ 7 DUE
April 8 – Art & Music + Art Discussion
Religion Draft Due
Haviland Chapter 14
QUIZ 8 DUE
April 15 – Very Important World Simulation Workshop: Creating the Rules Part One
Haviland Chapter 15
Final Drafts of Ethnography Sections are due
Integrator can make edits and changes until class on April 17th
April 17 – World Simulation: Creating the Rules Part Two
Haviland Chapter 16
Ethnographies due
QUIZ 9 DUE
Re-read: Why Can’t People Feed Themselves
Posters due in Waters 206 by 4:30 pm (slide under door if I am not there)
SpaceShip Earth Statistics (Extra Credit) Due
April 24 – World Simulation in Union Ballroom
Special Quiz 10 over the World Simulation Rules due by 9 am
Videographers submit clips to Dr. Wesch by 5 pm Friday, April 25th
Historians post first drafts of main events to Wiki by 5 pm Friday, April 25th
May 1 - World Simulation Reflection WorkshopWorld Simulation Reflections Due May 2nd by midnight (If you were in class on May 1st, you probably turned it in after class)
May 6 - Ethnography of Now
May 8 – Ethnography of the Future
Ray Kurzweil's Vision of the Future
Quiz 11 Due by 9 am
May 13 – FINAL EXAM IS ONLINE– DUE BY 4 pm
Extra Credit Guidelines
The Spring 2008 semester is over. Thank you all for a great class!
January 17 – Introduction
January 22 – a brief history of Anthropology and why they don’t eat cows in India
Haviland, Chapters 1 & 2
Online Reading: Holy Cow Remains Subject of Legal Fight
January 24 – Virtual Fieldwork Experience in Central New Guinea – Part One
Haviland Chapter 3
Reader: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema by Horace Miner
January 29 – Watch Merchants of Cool online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/view/
Reader: Doing Fieldwork Among the Yanomamo by Napoleon Chagnon
Reader: Eating Christmas in the Kalahari by Richard Lee
January 31 – Race and Structural Racism
Haviland Chapter 4 (pages 91-95)
Examine Website: Race: The Power of an Illusion
February 5 – Introducing the World Simulation
Assignment to Groups: Rituals of Social Solidarity
Read: The Crisis of Significance by Michael Wesch (Online)
February 7 – Language & Gesture
Haviland Chapter 5
Reader: Fighting For Our Lives by Deborah Tannen
February 12 – Language, Worldview, and Media Ecology (Environment Draft Due)
Reader: Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannon
Online: Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
February 14 – Language, Gender, Personality, Self, and Identity
Haviland Chapter 6
Reader: “I Can’t Even Open My Mouth!” by Deborah Tannen
February 19 – EXAM ONE (35 min) – Name Rituals (40 min)
February 21 – A Brief History of the World and Subsistence Discussion
Haviland Chapter 7
Reader: Understanding Eskimo Science
Language and Gender Draft notes should be posted on the wiki by this time
February 26 – Exchange & Coca-Colonization and Subsistence & Exchange Discussion
Haviland Chapter 8
Reader: Why Can’t People Feed Themselves?
IMPORTANT: Special Group-Specific Assigned Readings of Ethnographies Online
February 28 – Sex and Marriage + Sex, Love, and Marriage Discussion
Subsistence & Exchange Draft Due
Haviland Chapter 9
Reader: When Brothers Share a Wife (87-89)
Quiz 4 deadline extended until Saturday March 1st (due to KSOL outage and wiki confusion)
March 4 – Love and Beauty + Sex, Love, and Marriage Discussion Part 2
Reader: Who Needs Love! In Japan, Many Couples Don’t (112-115)
Reader: Where Fat Is a Mark of Beauty (137-138)
March 6 – Family & Household + Family & Household Discussion
Sex, Love & Marriage Draft Due March 7th
Haviland Chapter 10
March 11 – Kinship, Social Organization & Stratification + Discussion
Family & Household Draft Due
Haviland Chapter 11
March 13 – EXAM TWO (35 min) – Optional Group Meeting after Exam
March 17-21 – Spring Break
March 25 – Power (Hard, Soft, and Structural)
Kinship / Social Organization Draft Due
Haviland Pages 381-384
March 27 – Political Organization, Law & Order + Political Organization Discussion
Haviland Chapter 12
Reader: The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead by Del Guercio
QUIZ 6 DUE
Monsoon Wedding and/or Bend it Like Beckham Extra Credit Due
Haviland Chapter 13
Reader: Baseball Magic by George Gmelch
April 3 – New Religious Movements, The Matrix,+ Religion & Core Cultural Values Discussion
Online Reading: World Simulation Rules from Spring 2007
Political Organization Draft Due
Language and Gender Notes Due
QUIZ 7 DUE
April 8 – Art & Music + Art Discussion
Religion Draft Due
Haviland Chapter 14
QUIZ 8 DUE
April 10 – EXAM THREE - Cultural Integration Workshop
Art & Cultural Values Draft Due
Art & Cultural Values Draft Due
Haviland Chapter 15
Final Drafts of Ethnography Sections are due
Integrator can make edits and changes until class on April 17th
April 17 – World Simulation: Creating the Rules Part Two
Haviland Chapter 16
Ethnographies due
QUIZ 9 DUE
Submit presentations by e-mail or mediafire.com by April 20th (Sunday)
April 22 – Introducing Our World – Culture Videos & Presentations
Reader: The Price of Progress April 22 – Introducing Our World – Culture Videos & Presentations
Re-read: Why Can’t People Feed Themselves
Posters due in Waters 206 by 4:30 pm (slide under door if I am not there)
SpaceShip Earth Statistics (Extra Credit) Due
April 24 – World Simulation in Union Ballroom
Special Quiz 10 over the World Simulation Rules due by 9 am
Videographers submit clips to Dr. Wesch by 5 pm Friday, April 25th
Historians post first drafts of main events to Wiki by 5 pm Friday, April 25th
April 29 – Globalization and the Global Garment
May 1 - World Simulation Reflection Workshop
May 6 - Ethnography of Now
May 8 – Ethnography of the Future
Ray Kurzweil's Vision of the Future
May 13 – FINAL EXAM IS ONLINE– DUE BY 4 pm
Extra Credit Guidelines
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| aimeekh | extra credit | 0 | Mar 27 2008, 2:39 PM EDT by aimeekh | |
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can anyone let me know what the youtube video extra credit is...and really any other info yuo have on extra credit oppurtunities (except the movies)? I must have missed class the day the majority of the extra credit was discussed. thanks!
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| tomamay | Exam Review | 1 | Mar 13 2008, 12:07 PM EDT by molly07 | |
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Sounds stupid on my part but could we keep the exam review notes aligned to the left. If every one else prefers center alignment thats fine.
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| dboden | Ethnography | 1 | Feb 28 2008, 1:57 AM EST by Katy11 | |
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I think that the Kaluli is a good representation of the Ticos. Like the Ticos, they live in the tropical rainforest. They rely on horticulture as a means of getting food necessary to live. They both hunt, fish, and grow food. The Ticos also live in small villages like the Kaluli. They are both very close with their family and friends. The men and women get along and help eachother during day to day activities.
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| lindsayt | Ethnography | 0 | Feb 27 2008, 10:48 PM EST by lindsayt | |
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The culture with the most in common with Sasnak in the Temperate Grassland area is the Azande Tribe in the center of Africa. Although they differ greatly in gender roles and witchcraft beliefs, their similar environments lead to comparable means of settlements and subsistence. Sasnak Inhabitants and Azandes both live in an environment that allows them to be very independent and therefore very strong cultures. They can domesticate the wildlife of the area to help with farming or they can use the wildlife for food, clothing, weaponry, and trade; they can grow and farm crops for their own use to use in trade for the few things they can't produce themselves. Their homes are built very similarly, but the Azandes use their homes to represent status by the size of the courtyard and Sasnak's homes are more equall among different social status groups. I believe the Sasnaks could survive in the Azande enviroment, but besides the conditions provided by nature, these cultures don't have that much in common.
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| KSUhudson | Ethnogrphies | 0 | Feb 27 2008, 5:02 PM EST by KSUhudson | |
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I thought that the Ojibwa closely resembled our culture of the Okosmokos because of their geographic location. They are a tight knit group of settlers who pride themselves on family belonging to a whole. They were allowed relations with both extended family and members of other groups as they moved among them. They were very strong. Not just their community but in battle as well, the Ojibwa being the largest and most powerful of the Great lake tribes.
The location at times had a short growing season which did not attract settlement. We are comparable to being skilled hunters and trappers (useful skills in war and the fur trade). Fishing, like trout and sturgeon, provided the basis for our diet which became increasingly important. We can take their pride on rarely useing horses or hunting buffalo but dogs are the only domestic animal and a favorite dish served at the feasts. We can use birchbark for almost anything like utensils, storage containers, and canoes. Meaning we can use birchbark to make canoes and eventually trade them for other necessities. Not just that but metals that we aquired and fur for clothing would be essential trading tools.
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reflectionworksheet.pdf (Adobe Portable Document Format - 53k)
posted by mwesch Apr 29 2008, 9:05 AM EDT
World Sim Reflection Worksheet
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posted by abana Apr 8 2008, 5:50 PM EDT
religion belief of okosmoskos
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