Peoples and Cultures of Europe

Announcements

• Today's Headlines
  • "'Dracula's Castle' for sale" in Romania [sic.]
  • "Investigation into Great Britain bomb plots goes international"

Old Business

• "What do I already know about the Peoples and Cultures of Europe?" (from Day 01)
  • Results
    
    
• Questions:
  
  
  • "Do [the people of Kypseli] behave this way at present?"
    
    
  • "I was wondering if you know if this class could count for an international studies course."
    
    
    • ANTH 3635 - Peoples and Cultures of Europe
      (3.0 cr; Prereq-1604, min 30 cr, or #; A-F or Aud, fall, spring, offered when feasible)
      Exploration of European peoples to develop a cross-cultural understanding of how cultures function. Survey of social, political, economic, religious, family and kinship, gender, urban, globalism/globalization and the European Union (EU) on all of the above.
      
      
    • (LEIP CATxx): No
      
      
  • "Is it true that Mary Magdaline had children with Jesus?"
    
    
• textbooks

• Introduction / Orientation to Peoples and Cultures of Europe (slides 01A) -- #44 "How many European countries [/ cultures] are there?"
  
  
• Video: Kypseli: Women and Men apart -- a Divided Reality and your Case Study of it. . . .
  
  
  • Questions about the case study project on Kypseli: Women and Men apart -- a Divided Reality?
    
    
  • Or about the video Kypseli: Women and Men apart -- a Divided Reality iteslf?
    (41 min., 1987,  VC 3286)
    
    
    • Visual Anthropology
      
      
  • Writing the paper
    
    
• Course Overview / Requirements: Questions?
  
  

• Discussion of term paper
  
  
  • Question: What are the three topics that you might be most interested in working on for your term paper?

"Topics and Resources"

• what students last year were thinking about for a topic
  
  
• resources
  
  
• topics

Features of the Day

• "Master Ethnographic Texts and 'Classics' in the Anthropology of Europe" I (slides)
  -- following Susan Parman, Europe in the Anthropological Imagination, pp. 11 - 14
  
  

Assignment

• Read: Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
  
  
• PART ONE: A FISH TALE
  • Ch. 7 "A Few New ideas Versus Nine Million Eggs"
  • 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 Inalienale Rights"
  • Ch. 6, "A Cod War Heard 'Round the World"