Peoples and Cultures of Europe

Announcements

• In the News:
  
  Thursday we'll have our first look at Turkey, in the meantime, have a look at what's happening this week in Turkey ...
  
  
  • Turks protest over headscarf plan -- BBC news: Europe (2 February 2008)

Feature of the Day

• nlt 2:28 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?

Old Business

• next week
  
  
• Tuesday, 29 January 2008: Ended with "Master Ethnographic Texts and 'Classics' in the Anthropology of Europe" I (slides), "... What is 'classic'" #16

Assignments

• CEforum
  
  
• Read: Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
  • Ch. 1, "The Race to Codlandia"
  • Ch. 2, "With Mouth wide Open"
  • Ch. 3, "The Cod Rush"

Notes

• tba

Announcements

• REM: CEforum

Old Business

• next week

Assignments

• CEforum
  
  
• Read: Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
  • Ch. 4, "1620: The Rock and the Cod"
  • Ch. 5, "Certain Inalienale Rights"
  • Ch. 6, "A Cod War Heard 'Round the World"
    
    
• Read: Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece
  • Ch. 3, "The Family: Consumption Habits"

Notes

• Thursday, 7 February 2008: Presented as scheduled