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Wednesday 18 July 2007
Week 03 Day 10

Video: Man of Aran -- selections from and brief discussion about "How the Myth was Made" and "Looking Back"

Announcements

What is the population of the Aran Islands?
- Islands Around Ireland, Ireland 2007
  - Inishmore (800) -- [Man of Iran was filmed on location on Inis Mór]
  - Inishmaan (150)
  - Inisheer (300 [200])

Synchronic Analysis

Diachronic Analyusis

William Butler Yeats (1865 –1939)
(ca. 1897)

Jack Butler Yeats
(1871-1957)

Illustration from The Aran Islands by John M. Synge, 1907.

The Aran Islands
John M. Synge
1907 (completed in 1901)
(full-text on-line)

Man of Aran

Robert J. Flaherty
1934

Inis Beag: Isle of Ireland
1983
John Messenger

Inis Beag Revisited: The Anthropologist As Observant Participator
1989
John Messenger

Contemporary
21st century

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Old Business

What is "The Anthropological Imagination"
Units of Analysis (slides)
- Culture Metaphor: Humor (#159)

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Features of the Day

“. . . and the work of anthropologists is not only to invent, explore, and make useful the general concept of culture but also to invent particular cultures. Ethnography and particular peoples play key roles in the anthropological enterprise of helping anthropologists develop and define particular anthropological concepts. As [Roy] Wagner (1975, 12) observed, 'By forcing his [sic.] imagination, through analogy, to follow the detailed conformations of some external and unpredictable subject, the scientist's or artist's invention gains a sureness it would not otherwise command. Invention is controlled by the image of reality and the creator's lack of awareness that he [sic.] is creating.'"

Susan Parman, Europe in the Anthropological Imagination, p. 02

Video: Man of Aran -- selections from and brief discussion about "How the Myth was Made" and "Looking Back"
- "How the Myth was Made": a 60 min. documentary about the making of Man of Aran
  - co-produced by James Brown and George C. Stoney
- "Looking Back": Robert J. Flaherty reflects on the making of Man of Aran (5 min.)
- Other features of the CD edition include:
  - "Hidden and Seeking": A documentary excerpt in which Frances Flaherty reflects on her life and work with Robert Flaherty (presented in b&w)
  - "Flaherty and Film": A filmed discussion between Frances Flaherty and Robert Gardner about the making of Man of Aran (presented in b&w)
  - "Outside the Frame": A gallery of production stills, sketches and publicity photos (presented in b&w)
Ireland
- Introduction. . . .
- Aran, Galway, Conemara, County Clare. . . .
- Dingle, Kerry, Bantry, Cork. . . .
- Dublin
- Newgrange. . . .
- Analysis. . . .
- Ireland.ppt (general overview)

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Assignments

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