Peoples and Cultures of Europe

Announcements

Exam II has been rescheduled and will be held today, Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Feature of the Day

Exam II has been rescheduled and will be held today, Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Student Presentations

• Old Business

Old Business

Exam II

The second Midterm Exam was rescheduled and was held on Tuesday, 15 April 2008

and will cover materials up to and including today, Week 11 Day 21


• This includes the lecture materials, in-class videos, e-mails, the CEforum, the texts, and the text and class materials on any of the countries considered so far in the course
  
  
  This is an open-book exam
  
  

  • You may bring and use your texts, dictionary, thesaurus, a writing handbook, class handouts, notes, outlines, drafts, and memos
    
    
    You may also use references and materials from your other classes, with the caveat, of course, that you properly cite any sources you use
    
    
  • You may bring and use your laptop
    
    

    • but you must upload your exam to your WebDrop folder at the end of the exam period
      <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>
      
      Please be prepared to upload the entire exam as one file, if you can, including the optional take-home question if you choose to do that question
      
      
    • NOTE: It does not work simply to type in the .rtf extension on an existing .wps file. You must load the original document and then resave it as a .rtf file type
      • see detailed information on the WebDrop information page
        
        
  Each midsemester exams counts about 20% of the final grade
  
  
  You will have the choice of four (4) of thirteen (13) questions
  
  
  • sample exam questions
    
    
  • optional take-home question
    
    
  • sample exam
    • Midterm II f2006 (pdf version) (.rtf version)
      
      
  • assignments summary
    
    
• Other Resources
  
  

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Assignments

• CEforum
  
  
• Read: A Crisis of Births: Population Politics and Family-Making in Italy
  Ch. 6 "Gendered Myths, Gender Strife"
  Ch. 7 "Demographic Alarms, Racial Reverberations"
  Ch. 8 "Conclusion: Globalizing Policy, Policing Populations"

Notes

• Tuesday 15 April 2008: Midterm II

Announcements

• Pick up Exam II

Feature of the Day

Student Presentations

• Old Business

Old Business

• Continue from Thursday 10 April 2008: Italy: The makings of a Metaphor (slides) to #95, appearances

Assignments

• CEforum
  
  
• Read: Europe in the Anthropological Imagination
  Ch. 1 "Strangers in a Crowded Field: American Anthropology in France"
  Ch. 6 "Returning with the Emigrants: A Journey in Portuguese Ethnography"
  Ch. 11 "An Anthropology of the European Union, from Above and Below"

Notes

• Thursday 10 April 2008: Italy: The makings of a Metaphor (slides) to #95, appearances
• Tuesday 15 April 2008: Midterm II
• Thursday 17 April 2008: Italy: The makings of a Metaphor (slides) to #163, "... flattery and polite lies"