Peoples and Cultures of Europe

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Feature of the Day

• "Master Ethnographic Texts and 'Classics' in the Anthropology of Europe" I I (slides)
  • -- #16 What makes "Master Ethnographic Texts and 'Classics'"
    -- following Susan Parman, Europe in the Anthropological Imagination, pp. 11 - 14
    
    
    
• nlt 12:50 Video: Life chances: Four Families in a Changing Cypriot Village
  (43 min., 1973,  VC 3286)
  
  
• Major Characteristics of Anthropology (slides 03A)
  
  
  • one of which is . . .
    
    
    • comparative methods: as major approaches to the study of human behavior development and structure
      
      
• REM: Comparison / Contrast
  from the suggested writing/development strategies and the discussion of
  Kypseli: Women and Men apart -- a Divided Reality of Week 01 Day 02
  
  
  • Note how things are the same and how they are different. In the Kypseli case, a logical comparison / contrast would be with / between "The Divided Reality" of the women's world and the men's world.

  	Women			Men
  Item # 1	similar	different		similar	different
  Item # 2	similar	different		similar	different
  Item # 3	similar	different		similar	different
  Item # 4	similar	different		similar	different
  Item # N	similar	different		similar	different

  • Compare / Contrast
    
    • Kypseli
    • Vasilika
    • Life Chances
    • Discussions of Greek Villages and Greek Ethnology/Ethnography in Europe in the Anthropological Imagination
      
      
      • How are they Greek?
      • How are they villages?
      • How are they "island communities" ?
      • How are they "peasant communities" ?
      • How are they part of larger social/cultural systems?

Assignments

• 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"

      A COOK'S TALE: SIX CENTURIES OF COD RECIPES