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• Student Presentations will begin Week 12 Day 24, and there will be presentations on 4 days
  
  
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• The first Midterm Exam will be Day 15, Tuesday, 11 March 2008, rather than Day 14, Thursday, 6 March 2008, 2:00 - 3:55 p.m. in Cina 214 , as Prof. Willie Henderson will be our guest speaker on Day 14, Thursday, 06 March 2008
  
  
• Topic 5 for the CEforum will be for you to 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 by one week from today.
    
    
  • Discussion on Thursday, 28 February 2008
    
    
    
    • Midterm I f2006 (.pdf version) (.rtf version)
      
    • Midterm I ss2007 (.pdf version) (.rtf version)
      
      Assignments summary
      

Features of the Day

Old Business

• Next time
• Tuesday, 19 February 2008: Methods: Units of analysis / cultural metaphors (slides), to #96, "Units of analalysis may include a nation, the item or action itself, a "cultural metaphor"

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 26 February 2008: Comparative analysis / Units of Analysis: The item or action or idea itself, Romantic Lovwe in Strange Relations (60 min., 1992, VC 1974, pt. 2)

Announcement

• The first Midterm Exam will be Day 15, Tuesday, 11 March 2008, rather than Day 14, Thursday, 6 March 2008, 2:00 - 3:55 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
  

A 'Riverdance' Farewell in Duluth

'Riverdance' tour kicks up its heels for a final time at the DECC,
celebrating Irish confidence and culture
Duluth News Tribune, The Wave, Thursday, February 28, 2008

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Features of the Day

• Old Business
  
  
  
• Exam I Questions?
  
  
  

• A Note on "ANTHROPOLOGY IN EUROPE, OR ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE?" (slides)
  • following Susan Parman, Europe in the Anthropological Imagination, pp. 14-16
    
    
    
• A brief introduction to Ireland (slides)
  
  
  • Nan
  • Man of Aran
    • Man of Aran -- selections from and discussions about "How the Myth was Made" and "Looking Back"
  • Inis Beag: Isle of Ireland

Old Business

• Units of Analysis (slides)

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 26 February 2008: Comparative analysis / Units of Analysis: The item or action or idea itself, Romantic Lovwe in Strange Relations (60 min., 1992, VC 1974, pt. 2)

• Thursday 28 February 2008: Finished A Note on "ANTHROPOLOGY IN EUROPE, OR ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE?" (slides), and introduction to Ireland to #27, Northern Ireland is part of UK (slides)