Announcements

• CEforum questions for the Midterm I exam are due by Friday evening, 26 February 2010, 11:59 p.m. CDT
  (See details below)
  
  
  
• REM: The Term Paper topic idea(s) due by Friday evening, 26 February 2010, 11:59 p.m. CDT, to WebDrop
  
  
  
• Student Presentations will begin Week 12 Day 24, and there will be presentations on 4 days
  
  
  • If you have not already done so, sign up for Presentation Date/Time
    
    
    
• The first Midterm Exam will be Day 14, Thursday, 4 March 2010, 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. in Cina 214
  
  
  
• Rescheduled for 2 April 2009 -- Guest: Dr. Willie Henderson, Director, Royal D. Alworth Institute for International Studies
  Castagneto Carducci, Province of Livorno, region of Tuscany, Italy

Features of the Day

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Old Business

• next time

Assignments

• CEforum
  
  
• Read: The Basque History of the World
  
  Ch. 8: "The Basque Ear"
  Ch. 9: "Gernika"
  Ch. 10: "The Potato Time"
  Ch. 11: "Speaking Christian"

Notes

• Tuesday 17 February 2009: Finished Europe as an Ethnographic "Culture Area" and Other Units of Analysis (slides) and "Anthropology in Europe, or Anthropology of Europe?" (slides)
• Tuesday 24 February 2009: Introduced and viewed video: A little "Romantic Love" from Strange Relations (60 min., 1992, VC 1974, pt. 2)

Announcement

• REM: Topic 5 CEforum questions for the Midterm I exam are due by Friday evening, 26 February 2010, 11:59 p.m. CDT -- make up at least one good question for Exam I and post it on the forum, and . . . briefly describe why you think your question is a good one
  
  
  • Please do this today, if you haven't already done so
    
    
    • Midterm I f2006 (.pdf version) (.rtf version)
      
    • Midterm I ss2007 (.pdf version) (.rtf version)
      
      Assignments summary
      
      
  • (See details below)
    
    
    
• REM: The Term Paper topic idea(s) due by Friday evening, 26 February 2010, 11:59 p.m. CDT, to WebDrop
  
  
  
• The first Midterm Exam will be Day 14, Thursday, 4 March 2010, 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. in Cina 214 , as Prof. Willie Henderson will be our guest speaker on Thursday, 06 March 2008
  
  
  • Midterm I f2006 (.pdf version) (.rtf version)
    
  • Midterm I ss2007 (.pdf version) (.rtf version)
    
    Assignments summary
    
    
    
• Romantic Love: Birmingham, ENGLAND
  

Make up a Good Question for the Midterm Exam I

Have a look at the the Midterm Exam I materials at
<http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth3635/ceexams_midterm.html#exam01>

including the sample exam question format

including the optional take-home question that you can bring in with you

old exams online:

Midterm I f2006 (.pdf version) (.rtf version)
Midterm I ss2007 (.pdf version) (.rtf version)

Click on the various items for details

Then review the materials so far covered this semester

in your text
in your class notes
on the video viewing guides

Recommendations on how to study and take exams:

How to write an essay exam

Purdue University Online Writing Lab

test taking strategies
learning styles
study strategies
study strategies
listening skills
notetaking
special facilities / arrangements
extra help

Assignment:

Make up at least one good question for the Midterm Exam I and post it on the the CEforum, and . . .

Briefly describe why you think your question is a good one

Features of the Day

• Old Business
  
  
  
• Exam I Questions?
  
  
  

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Old Business

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Assignments

• CEforum
  
  
• Read: The Basque History of the World
  Ch. 12: "Eventually Night Falls"
  
  Part Three EUSKADI ASKATUTA
  
  Slippery Maketos
  
  Ch. 13: "The Great Opportunity"
  Ch. 14: "Check and Balances"
  Ch. 15: "Surviving Democracy"
  Ch. 16: "The Nation"
  
  
• Read: Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece
  • Ch. 6, "The Village: As a Community"

Notes

• Tuesday 17 February 2009: Finished Europe as an Ethnographic "Culture Area" and Other Units of Analysis (slides) and "Anthropology in Europe, or Anthropology of Europe?" (slides)
• Tuesday 24 February 2009: Introduced and viewed video: A little "Romantic Love" from Strange Relations (60 min., 1992, VC 1974, pt. 2)
• Tuesday 26 February 2009: An Introduction to Ireland (slides) up until the curagh