224, http://deoxy.org/evasion/toc.htm : Gets to Ghost Not a different way?
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This should probably be wiki, not weblog..
Syllabus (ho)
- Instructor Introduction
- Liberal Arts Education <-- World Tours
- Grading
- Three exams (100), one comprehensive final (150)
- Missed exams, when excused are replaced by final grade
- Class participation: 20%
- unannounced quizzes (sp)
- professor pleasantly suprised that my typing is class notes
- Projects (ho) ..
Projects
- Artifacts (Carlos):
- quality over quantity
- long tour
- Communication:
- two of (one Asian, one African, one Middle Eastern)
- at least two www sites
- Families:
- Art & Music:
- 10 min presentation, non-European
- instruments
- music sample, explanation -> themes>/li>
- Cuisine (sp?): new exotic food type
- Interview:
- Start now, find two people
- several appointments
- start with 8 questions, follow up, follow along
- paper can be essay or FAQ / Q&A format
- data will indicate format
- non-European: Asian, African, ..
- rule of thumb:
ask some of the Qs, If they answer "the same way you do" get another subject - targets: ESL, neighbourhood, convenience store
- in class: foreign nationals may interview Americans (Nigerian: Ibu(sp?))
- Russians: differ by geography, time
- no one who came here as a young child
- They need strong English.
- Need not do different areas/cultures for each project.
- Reservation born Native American, native aborigones (sp)
- Do not need to use their real name is report
Schedule (ho)
Books: Reader and Coursepack
first few Coursepack articles on her site: http://www.gpc.peachnet.edu/~rcarrie/anthlinks.htm
which is also an official resource for the course.
What is anthropology?
- Study of Man?
- started Man's culture
- What is culture?
- shared beliefs
- traditions
- material and non-material
- Components of Culture (slide):
- Social Structure
- Belief Systems
- Technology
- Subsistence
- Communication
- Politics
- Aesthetics
- Social Structure
- Physical
- Primatology
- Monkeys have tails
- Chimps share 98% genome with humans
- language, thumbs, intelligence
- Monkeys have tails
- Human Paleo
- pre-human (H. erectus) skull (shown)
- brow ridges
- smaller brain case
- half the size of ours
- diff is in frontal lobes
- likely lacked long term storage
- less have to re-learn daily
- likely non-verbal and verbal comms</il>
- pre-human (H. erectus) skull (shown)
- Forensic
- Human Variation
- Primatology
- Archaeology
- study extinct societies
- study things left behind or thrown away
- artifact: portable item left behind by previous
- feature: non-portable, eg: building foundations
- spheroid artifact: ... ball from gambling game northern illinois 130 ya
- study extinct societies
- Linguistics
- not just language, but communication
- body language
- facial expressions
- music, song in non-literate cultural
- art in many cultures
- not just language, but communication
- Cultural
- most of this class
- components of culture (above)
- participant-observation
- immersion: live as they do
- attempt to be non-invasive
- this is quite difficult bc of technology, et al
- scientific observation -> accurate portrait of target organization
- gather in most miunte data to get "big picture"
- ethnography: in-depth study of a community
- typically 2-3 years:
- comfort,
- seasons,
- different individuals, aging (births, deaths, and funerals)
- most of this class
- ethnology: study a particular aspect of a culture, eg drums
- Physical
Subcultures:
- Prostitution,
- firefighters,
- cocktail waitresses
Corporate Ethnography: how a business works, why it doesn't
Office hours: Mo and We, Tu and Th not on campus (Alpharetta), Fridays odd
