Week 01

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• Read: Europe in the Anthropological Imagination
  
  
  • "Preface"
  • Ch. 3, "Bringing the 'Other' to the 'Self': Kypseli -- The Place and the Film,"and
  • Ch. 2, "Europe through the Back Door: Doing Anthropology in Greece"
    
    
• Work on : Kypseli Case Study

Due to WebDrop
<https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>
Your first version of Kypseli Case Study is due by Monday, 28 January 2013, 11:55 p.m. CDT
(Atomic Clock Sync freeware from worldtimeserver.com)



• Unexcused late Case Study papers will result in a loss of 2% of the final course grade
• grading
  • criteria for grading written works
  • " The Strike Zone "
  • " The Curve " 
• UMD Grading Policie

• Read: Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece
  
  
  • Ch. 1, "The Village: As a Setting"
  • Ch. 2, "The Family: Economic Activities"

• Read: Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
  
  
  • PART ONE: A FISH TALE
    
    
    • Ch. 1, "The Race to Codlandia"
    • Ch. 2, "With Mouth wide Open"
    • Ch. 3, "The Cod Rush"
    • Ch. 4, "1620: The Rock and the Cod"
    • Ch. 5, "Certain Inalienable Rights"
    • Ch. 6, "A Cod War Heard 'Round the World"
      
      
• Read: Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece
  
  
  • Ch. 3, "The Family: Consumption Habits"

• Read: Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
  
  
  • PART TWO: LIMITS
    
    
    • Ch. 7, "A Few New ideas Versus Nine Million Eggs"
    • Ch. 8, "The Last Two Ideas"
    • Ch. 9, "Iceland Discovers the Finite Universe"
    • Ch. 10, "Three Wars to Close the Open Sea"
      
      
  • PART THREE: THE LAST HUNTERS
    
    
    • Ch. 11, "Requiem for the Grand Banks"
    • Ch. 12, "The Dangerous Waters of Nature's Resilience"
    • Ch. 13, "Bracing for the Spanish Armada"
    • Ch. 14, "Bracing for the Canadian Armada"
      
      
• Read: Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece
  
  
  • Ch. 4, "The Family: Dowry and Inheritance; Formal Structure"

• Read: Europe in the Anthropological Imagination
  
  
  • Ch. 7,"Restless Continent: Migration and the Configuration of Europe"
    
    
• Read: Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece
  
  
  • Ch. 5, "Human Relations"

• Read: Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece
  
  
  • Ch. 6, "The Village: As a Community"
    
    
• Prepare for Midterm Exam Part I

• Prepare for Midterm Exam Part I
  
  
• Read, after the exam: Nan: The Life of an Irish Traveling Woman
  
  
  • Ch. I, "Nan"
  • Ch. II,"The Sweep's Daughter"
  • Ch. III, "The Kitchen Maid"

• Read: Gannon, Martin J. (2004). Chapter 22, “Belgian Lace.” Understanding Global Cultures, 3rd. ed., pp. 303-318. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
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• Read: Nan: The Life of an Irish Traveling Woman
  
  
  • Ch. IV,"The Unwilling Wife"
  • Ch. V,"Travelling in the North"
  • Ch. VI, "Never the Same After"
  • Ch. VII,"Galway"
  • Ch. VIII, "Dublin"
  • Ch. IX, "Birmingham"

• Read: Nan: The Life of an Irish Traveling Woman
  
  
  • Ch. X, "Holylands"
  • Ch. XI, "The Old One"
  • "Epilogue"
    
    
• Read: Europe in the Anthropological Imagination
  
  
  • Ch. 9, "A Forty-Year Retrospective of the Anthropology of Former Yugoslavia"
    
    
• Read: Inis Beag: Isle of Ireland
  
  
  • Ch. 1, "The Island and Its Past"
  • Ch. 2,"The Land and the Sea"
  • Ch. 3,"The Village and the Family"
    
    
• Read (optional): online
  The Aran Islands
  • Introduction
  • Author's Foreword
  • Part I

• Read: Gannon, Martin J. (2004). Chapter 21, “The Italian Opera.” Understanding Global Cultures, 3rd. ed., pp. 285-302. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
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• Read: Inis Beag: Isle of Ireland
  
  
  • Ch. 4, "The Supernatural and the Esthetic"
  • Ch. 5, "The Future of the Island"
    
    
• Read (optional):online
  The Aran Islands
  • Part II
  • Part III
  • Part IV
    
    
• Read: Europe in the Anthropological Imagination
  
  
  • Ch. 5, "Representing Italy Returning with the Emigrants: A Journey in Portuguese"
    
    
• Read: A Crisis of Births: Population Politics and Family-Making in Italy
  
  
  • Ch. 1, "Population Politics, Population Struggles"
  • Ch. 2, "Family Tree, Revolutionary Roots"
  • Ch. 3, "Field Work, Sweater Work"
  • Ch. 4, "Displaying Class, Consuming Distinction"

• Read: A Crisis of Births: Population Politics and Family-Making in Italy
  
  
  • Ch. 5, "Labors of Love, Love's Labors Lost"
  • Ch. 6, "Gendered Myths, Gender Strife"
  • Ch. 7, "Demographic Alarms, Racial Reverberations"
  • Ch. 8, "Conclusion: Globalizing Policy, Policing Populations"
    
    
• Prepare for Midterm Exam Part II

• Read, after exam: Europe in the Anthropological Imagination
  
  
  • Ch. 1, "Strangers in a Crowded Field: American Anthropology in France"
  • Ch. 6, "Returning with the Emigrants: A Journey in Portuguese Ethnography"
  • Ch. 11, "An Anthropology of the European Union, from Above and Below"
    
    
• Read:
  Sárkány Mihály,
  "Cultural and Social Anthropology in Central and Eastern Europe"
  (on the web <http://www.cee-socialscience.net/archive/anthropology/article1.html>)
  
  
• Read: Europe in the Anthropological Imagination
  
  
  • Ch. 10, "Utter Otherness: Western Anthropology and East European Political Economy"

• Read: Europe in the Anthropological Imagination
  
  
  • Ch. 09, "A Forty-Year Retrospective of the Anthropology of Former Yugoslavia"
  • Ch. 12, "The Place of Europe in George P. Murdock's Anthropological Theory"
  • Ch. 13, "The Meaning of "Europe" in the American Anthropologist (Part I)"

• Finish Term Paper
  
  
• Your CE Term Paper is due by End of Week 14, Friday, 3 May 2013, 11:55 p.m. CDT
  
  AVISO: Late Term Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date. Why?
  
  
  Term Paper due to WebDrop
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(Atomic Clock Sync freeware from worldtimeserver.com)

• Unexcused late Case Study papers will result in a loss of 2% of the final course grade
• grading
  • criteria for grading written works
  • " The Strike Zone "
  • " The Curve " 
• UMD Grading Policie
  
  
• Read: Gannon, Martin J. (2004). Chapter 17, “The Traditional British House.” Understanding Global Cultures, 3rd. ed., pp. 221-237. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
  
  
  • UM DULUTH Library Reserve Online Resource EL Online Resource
    <https://login.libpdb.d.umn.edu:2443/login?url=http://lib.d.umn.edu/res/troufs/anth3635_und_gl_cu_ch_17.pdf>
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• Read (again): Europe in the Anthropological Imagination
  • Ch. 3, "Bringing the 'Other' to the 'Self': Kypseli--The Place and the Film"
    
    
• Read: Review your original Case Study paper on the video Kypseli: Women and Men apart–a Divided Reality from Week 01 Day 02

• Finish: Kypseli Case Study

The final version of your Kypseli Case Study is due by End of Week 15, Friday, 10 May 2013, 11:55 p.m. CDT
AVISO: Late Kypseli Case Study Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date.




• Due to WebDrop
  <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>
  

(Atomic Clock Sync freeware from worldtimeserver.com)

• Unexcused late Case Study papers will result in a loss of 2% of the final course grade
• grading

  • criteria for grading written works
  • " The Strike Zone "
  • " The Curve " 
• UMD Grading Policie

• Review, and prepare for the Final Exam
  
  
• REM: final CE forum post--evaluation of the semester
  (3 paragraphs minimum)

• Find a good book on Peoples and Cultures of Europe and have a look at it

The Peoples and Cultures of Europe Final Exam is scheduled for 08:00-09:55 a.m., Friday, 17 May 2013, in Cina 214

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: The final exam will be cumulative in a general sense, although the readings since the last exam will be covered in the same detail as the quizes.