End of year reflection. We will take time to write this in class on Tuesday.  Please hand write this, or print it out and sign it once you are complete.  If you will miss class on Tuesday, our last day, I am sorry you will miss our potluck and closing ritual, please get your letter to me before you leave.

Articles to layer on our discussion Disneyland and Baudrillard and "Say Cheese!"

If Disney is hyper-reality, what kind of world is it creating, what does it represent?

How is this like/unlike cultural reproduction theory?
Disney as Appaduri's "mediascape"; what is its role in a globalized world?
Other connections, questions?

Gender Role Portrayal and the Disney Princesses (masculine and feminine characteristics)
Damsels in Discourse: Girls Consuming and Producing Identity Texts Through Disney Princess Play, (play and writing)
Ethnically Correct Dolls: Toying with the Race Industry, (race, Barbie, and "queering" of toys)
Mickey Mouse Monopoly (film critique of Disney movies)

Sheep in Navajo Culture and Social Organization is there a parallel in larger American society?

Gary Witherspoon Language and Art in the Navajo Universe
Painting with Sand, Navajo Medicine Man, 1949

Questions to consider as you read  Pintupi text

from PINTUPI COUNTRY, PINTUPI SELF

• What is The Dreaming?  How is it simultaneously symbolic, creationary, descriptive, etc.?
• What is the relationship between people and place / landscape and the Dreaming?
• What is the relationship between yuti (visible) mularrpa (real) and Tjukurrpa (The Dreaming)?
• What is the significance of The Dreaming to sacred places, yarta yarta?  Conception?
• Dreams v. The Dreaming?
• How is the The Dreaming timeless?  How are new events or situations incorporated within The Dreaming?
• What are the meanings of ngurra?  Significance?
• What is the relationship between story and place, landscape and narrative?
• How does one “own” a ritual or place – and what obligations does this entail?

Anthropology opportunity:

We invite you to join us and listen to our African students from Madison High School to share their personal struggles and barriers which they face. They will discuss the challenges of living in a White society, while simultaneously maintaining their own unique cultural identity.  Their stories of destitute & hope and the struggles of balancing completely different cultures from their home and school environments are some of the challenges they face on a daily basis.  This discussion will be facilitated by the Equity & Partnership Department with the support of our community partners.

When: Thursday, April 21, 2016

Time: 4:30-6:00 pm

Where: BESC Boardroom (The District Office near the Rose Quarter)