A simplified article in Anthropology Today which helps clarify Bourgois': cultural reproduction theory

• plan on Friday, February 26 and Tuesday, March 1 as official fieldwork days.  For those who need to visit your fieldwork sites during the day, this time is for you; although you are in no way limited to just those days, we will have lighter in-class lessons on those dates and all material we use will be on the blog. 
• For those whose fieldwork does not require time during the class day - March 6 - is your target date for all fieldwork to be completed; make use of lunch, free periods, weekends, etc.

In Search of Respect:  Selling Crack in El Barrio, heretofore known as ISOR, introductory questions and terms here.  Please have this section read and be prepared to discuss on Wednesday.  

Make sure you check out Doing Cultural Anthropology:  Projects in Ethnographic Data Collection from the book room - we are using it this week as follows:

everyone will read chapter 1 "Becoming a Participant Observer" as a means of introduction, then students are assigned the following chapters:

2. Noah, 3. Sasha, Micky 4. John, Emma, 5. Daniel, 6. Simone, 7. Abby, 8. Tim, Anna, 9. Benito,
10. Elena, 11. Olivia, 12. Maddy, 13. Orion, 14. Mai, 15. Catherine

For your respective chapter, read and write a paragraph summary in googledocs of the chapter which includes:

• a basic summary of this data collection style
• who might use it?
• what kind of data would it provide?

This paragraph is due Thursday, February 11.  The paper 3 practice exam has been moved to Tuesday, February 16

Arjun Appaduri's Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy  key terms and/or concepts:
imaginaire
ethnoscapes
mediascapes
technoscapes
financescapes
ideoscapes
fetishism of the consumer
fetishism of the producer
globalization v. homogenization
repatriation of difference