Part I: Ethics and Morality  (Monday) Part II: Ethics and Morality (Wednesday - the article ends on page 13, "Comments" heading)

The relationship between capitalism and caste, from Arundhati Roy, "India's Shame"  How does caste, outlawed since independence, manifest itself in the "New India"?

Article for use in the second half of class today - stop at page 11, problem spaces

To help set the ethnographic present of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a selection of articles on the tensions between religions: 

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/06/world/asia/modi-gujarat-riots-timeline.html?_r=0#/#time287_8514 timeline of Hindu/Muslim violence in Gujarat, 2002

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/07/narendra-modi-massacre-next-prime-minister-india  violent history of the current Prime Minister Modi (opinion piece)
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2015/01/muslims-burned-death-india-attack-20151190514458644.html  examples of retaliatory violence against Muslims
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/10/13/448182574/indias-ban-on-beef-leads-to-murder-and-hindu-muslim-friction more current tensions

For Tuesday, November 24, please use the following reading: http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/internal-labor-migration-india-raises-integration-challenges-migrants

Please pay your $10 to Jill Ross ASAP to cover your meal in Woodburn!

Week of November 9-13

Monday:  Debrief Woodburn trip
                Small group discussion fishbowl of the final chapters of The Forest People
                What are the big questions, themes?

Wednesday:  No school, Veteran's Day

Thursday:  Finding Turnbull 

Folks!  Your field trip to Woodburn High School is rapidly approaching; here are a few key details:
Yes, lunch will be provided at the school. You're getting take-out from from Luis' Taqueria which looks quite delicious.  A $10 donation towards the cost would be greatly appreciated, if you are able. Please pay Mr. Pearlz or Jill Ross.

Parents will serve as drivers and chaperones, a big thank you to Susan Dierauf for helping drive!

I look forward to hearing about the day.  Enjoy!

From Shadowed Lives introduction, 3rd edition and epilogue for our field trip November 5.

Carry On!

Bad news.  During parent teacher conferences, I fell while walking down the stairs from the patio towards the bleachers. It was a silly second step from the bottom stumble, but I am scheduled for surgery to align my fibula on Tuesday. Unbelievable.  Matt Plies will be your substitute while I am out and will also accompany you to Woodburn on November 5 (the HOTA test has been changed:) Pay attention to the blog for any assignments or clarification and have fun reading your coming of age stories on Tuesday, I'll be with you in spirit!

Social Structure and Function

Crazy for Pygmy Pop, here's the full article

Pygmies of the Rain Forest Kevin Duffy, 1975

Questions to consider in your 1-2 page critique:

• where do we see concurrence with The Forest People, contradiction?
• what does this film tell us about the film maker,  Kevin Duffy?
• What does it tell us about ourselves?
• Do we "suspend disbelief" in this film, as Titon argues?
• is this a "good story" are the Mbuti coming to life for us?
• how do the "rhetorical conventions" play out in this film?
• who has "authority" in this film?
• who is the target audience?

Chapters 1 & 2 questions to ponder:

What is the real relationship between the Mbuti and the villagers?

Why would the Mbuti participate in the nkumbi ceremony, what do they get out of it?  And the villagers?

Do the Mbuti spend time in the village?  Doing what? What is their status in the village?

“What made the People of the Forest what they were, what made them so very different from the villagers all around them, what made them seem to adopt village ways with such enthusiasm, only to abandon them with utter unconcern the moment they left the treeless confines of the village and return to the forest.” ?

What strikes you about the ways in which Turnbull talks about the Mbuti, the villagers?

How do the Mbuti handle disputes?

What kind of social stratification occurs with the band? Between the Mbuti and the villagers?

What is the function of sister exchange?

What are the degrees of illness p.42?

Why bury Cephu’s daughter in the village style?

Death and villagers - relationship to witchcraft?

What is the molimo? To use the formula of Malinowski, what is its charter, personnel, norms, material apparatus, activities and function.

Significance of noise?

Map of a Block assignment due Tuesday, along with chapter 1 notes from  The Forest People

Here is a link to examples of students' map of a block papers from the text:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0sz6RAlKPmXZ0U4R0lyLWpVd2M

skulls to Boas slides here

Welcome 2015-16 Seniors!  A link to the Boas' article can be found here

1. How like or unlike was your exhibit plan to Boas’ vision of how a museum on culture would be organized?  What were the limitations of this activity?
2. How were folks like Tylor, Morgan and Grant products of their time?
3. Can an exhibition be political?  If so, how, if not, why not?
4. Boas thought that people would see the humanity in others, “if only people learned to look”?  How did Boas want them to see others?
5. How was “science” used to justify policy - or vice versa?

An interesting article related to Code of the Street.  Made me also think of the shooting on NE Alberta about the choices kids make.

mama lola 3
feminism and post-modernism

Down draft to updraft reading here: Fieldworking
The second revision is due MONDAY 3/2

China film critique overview and materials link here: China films

Complete Factory Girls, chapter 5 "Factory Girls" guided notes for 2/24