tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7199648998326113282023-11-16T06:15:46.140-05:00Blogthropology 2.0<b>Prof. Gaunt's Cultural Anthropology Group Blog, Baruch College-CUNY.<br><br>MOTTO #1: "I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong" (Richard Feynman). <br><br> MOTTO #2: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): “We see things not as they are but as we are.” </b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger185125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-68053797050486709322010-06-05T08:59:00.005-04:002010-06-05T09:12:02.686-04:00How to become the consumer of your own Productivity?This semester is over. <div><br /></div><div>Take a moment to look back and ask if you participated fully.</div><div><br /><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKzMZYOaJaAemJCVLyrnIGA9p2N5YOnc2L58cQ4iXRMnPNFrwHSarJHc3nZyBAHPyg55FWJB5MifHAEnjAKh4SMOGskFhuRJ4zDhyphenhyphenFgDGyF_nsa_q8KKG_Cu6oUepOsQa83kf7rxJFos8/s320/Leap.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479276314693939378" />Being a mere listener and reader in class is not enough. </div><div><br /></div><div>Asking questions, challenging others' views (including the professor), and sharing insights and reflections as well as triumphs and failures without any loss of power, all are <b>VITAL</b> to learning.<br /><br />You cannot learn simply from listening. Remember the expression in the syllabus?<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"></span></span><blockquote><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">What I hear, I forget.<br />What I hear and see, I remember a little.<br />What I hear, see, and ask questions about or discuss with someone else, I begin to understand.<br />What I hear, see, discuss and do, I acquire knowledge and skill.<br />What I teach to another, I master. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b>Mel Silberman, <i>Active Learning</i></b> (1996)</span><blockquote></blockquote></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><blockquote>This is based on the following Chinese philosophical expression:<br /><b>"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">by Xunzi (340-245 BC), one of the three greatest Confucian scholars of early years.</span></b></blockquote></span></div>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-53678338084285150652010-05-19T11:30:00.002-04:002010-05-19T11:32:59.648-04:00Colonialism, Memory and Massacres in IndiaPavneet Singh shared about the massacres that took place in India/Pakistan in the late 1940s. He wanted to share this sad and brilliant ethnographic video of a elder Sikh man recalling the massacres from his past. Very emotional. What kind of courage does it take to share this still today and what kind of courage and compassion do ethnographers need to bring? <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VljaL0UOG-E&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VljaL0UOG-E&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-87636739427701731902010-05-11T06:30:00.008-04:002010-05-12T10:36:00.556-04:00Sharing Your Final Reflections (AFTER our ebook is done)<div>Please submit your reflections <b>after</b> the SPEAK ebook is complete. (Originally posted for Fall 2009 deadline)</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfEuctK6SSniB5GRZ_WcumLMRWGia-Vsp7rGbQd8SAatgF3RgM3DFxvDP4MznEaAXXNOmd3rqR6YWnztxD_64soAPFR0HJXFOSzIIGjv-0BeGuTM_JEZos-k4ycPoh2FmDwMXZ9dhBJnE/s1600-h/Votehere.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfEuctK6SSniB5GRZ_WcumLMRWGia-Vsp7rGbQd8SAatgF3RgM3DFxvDP4MznEaAXXNOmd3rqR6YWnztxD_64soAPFR0HJXFOSzIIGjv-0BeGuTM_JEZos-k4ycPoh2FmDwMXZ9dhBJnE/s320/Votehere.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281917948804776818" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Discover if you popped this semester and what you learned from ANT1001. Before you begin, take a moment to review your own work from start to finish.<br /><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">After reviewing your own work and reading our final version of SPEAK, reply to 2 (two) of the following questions (of your choice) as a comment below this blog post. </span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">You must indicate what questions you are responding to in your comments. Keep it simple: cut and paste the question into your comment before you answer.<br /><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; ">1.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; "> Share how readings in the Kottak and/or the Conformity & Conflict reader created a shift in your view of the world? In other words, how did you come to see the world with lenses from another culture (even if momentarily) this semester? Please use etic terms to help explain what happened whenever possible.</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span">2.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> How might the ebook SPEAK challenge ethnocentric thinking about being a student or about being in college</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:130%;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">(You can address the collaborative process and/or the collective essays but not exclusively your own essay--THINK BIGGER PICTURE)?</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span">3.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> Clifford Geertz </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> wrote that it "takes a certain kind of mind to sail out of sight from land in an outrigger canoe" <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">("</span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/2629449/Anti-AntiRelativism-by-Clifford-Geertz"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Anti Anti-Relativism," 1984</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">). </span></span> In other words, letting go of what you already know and embracing the unknown is not a normal thing for us humans. What ethnocentric thinking did you learn to let go of in this course? What could you apply that process to that you have been resisting letting go of (i.e., prejudice, bias, ethnocentric thinking about this or that group of people as different)?</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic; ">4. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; "> You were acknowledged as a GREAT ONE every class. You have been a "participant-observer" (revisit Kottak pp. 48-50) all semester in this course experiment. What do you see from an etic point of view about "cultural adaptation" (see Kottak, 3-4), "agency" (see Kottak, 35-36), or the "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis" (see Kottak, 73-74 or revisit the C&C essay)?</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><i><b>5. </b>You can make a counter-offer for one question if you want to say/write anything else. </i></span></span></li></ol><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">There are posts from previous semesters recorded in the comments sections. You can read them if you like. </span></div></span></b></div>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com83tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-13562025241665135822010-04-17T01:26:00.002-04:002010-04-17T01:31:26.596-04:00Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history<div>At 2:18": "What's important here is not technological capital but social capital. These tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring....Now that media is increasingly social, innovation can happen ANYWHERE that people can take for granted that we are in this altogether." </div><div><br /></div><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/c_iN_QubRs0&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/c_iN_QubRs0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-21817037254554400452010-04-15T17:56:00.002-04:002010-04-15T17:57:54.903-04:00Collaboration<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfW7akfepmCnRjoQ_zilDbrC2rFpJU1JM1Xa2wtphNJmSdhYv2qMhK2xOfbMKrIGYTUMKRyzNy_psbUrPQgElT9WLlB1lpqoKBjFRhsHsXwY4i2vQFYiBk4KjhGF1V_QJp1Aku-b-leIM/s1600/234877734_e4ee5c1279.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 282px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfW7akfepmCnRjoQ_zilDbrC2rFpJU1JM1Xa2wtphNJmSdhYv2qMhK2xOfbMKrIGYTUMKRyzNy_psbUrPQgElT9WLlB1lpqoKBjFRhsHsXwY4i2vQFYiBk4KjhGF1V_QJp1Aku-b-leIM/s320/234877734_e4ee5c1279.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460486816620003122" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguZxqS4o0WVsNoGoAGnckBR6vAIHFANXVlPYaICwf3f7wzMVWS5CV17MULGpFSDXOBEfqmiJSJbYerzkS1dainG86End0i91qHgkZEV9TUB_Xo8MMl-QRFf3gAIyyWY7jv_E7-s_9guTE/s1600/EnterpriseCollaborationMaturityModel.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguZxqS4o0WVsNoGoAGnckBR6vAIHFANXVlPYaICwf3f7wzMVWS5CV17MULGpFSDXOBEfqmiJSJbYerzkS1dainG86End0i91qHgkZEV9TUB_Xo8MMl-QRFf3gAIyyWY7jv_E7-s_9guTE/s320/EnterpriseCollaborationMaturityModel.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460486717725291858" /></a>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-24656044146886298852010-04-15T17:26:00.003-04:002010-04-15T17:42:36.846-04:00The Baruch Bigger Picture Book<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><ol><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b>NO CLASS TUE APR 20 - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Professor Gaunt is at a Twitter Conference and you should spend this time working on your draft of your essay. In lieu of attendance, please submit your draft by email to kyra.gaunt@baruch.cuny.edu by 5pm Tuesday.<br /><br /></span></span></b></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b>NO QUIZ. Ethnicity and Race chapters and group presentation is postponed. Thu we will begin to edit your essays and launch the survey.<br /><br /></b></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; ">READ BY TUE APR 20: <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/29345160/The-Audacity-of-Humanity-Ebook" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">The Audacity of Humanity Ebook </a> </span></li><ol><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Read at least <b>the cover page</b>, <b>tag cloud of contents</b>, <b>authors page</b> (created by <a href="http://Wordle.net/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">Wordle.net</a>), the <b>intro by Kyra Gaunt</b>, and <b>8-10 different essays </b>or more.<br /><br /></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">WRITE A RESPONSE BY EMAIL<br />- Share what was your favorite essay in Audacity of Humanity and why?<br />- Share how these essays exemplify the title of the book AUDACITY OF HUMANITY? In other words, based on a sampling of the essays, what is audacious and what speaks to humanity, in your own words?<br /><br /></li></ol><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); ">Watch two or three videos of your choice from below and write a few comments on each to show you watched it. </b><br /></li><ol><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">The digital ethnography from KSU by Mike Wesch called <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">A VISION OF STUDENTS TODAY</a><br /><br /></b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UDdCyr1DZM&playnext_from=TL&videos=3WjqbEyArSo" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">Learning to Change, Changing to Learn</a> (5:37") </b>features my favorite quote "it means the death of education, but the birth of learning."<br /><br /></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA&feature=related" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">Networked Student</a> - A video about the idea that learning occurs from diverse social network and ties.<br /><br /></b></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><b>OPTIONAL: TED Talk: <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">How Schools Kill Creativity by Sir Ken Robinson</a></b> (19:21").<br /><br /></li></ol><li style="margin-left: 15px; "><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); ">Begin to write a 300 word essay that begins "What matters to me is..." </b><b><br /></b></li><ol><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">It can be about being a student, being a young adult embarking on life. Anything that makes you happy, that you desire, or that would make being a school more a reflection of what matters in life to you or to people as a whole.<br /><br /></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">It can be small, simple or mundane. It's more like what matters to you right now.<br /><br /></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">This might seem audacious. Like this little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. No one may agree with me, but this thing you write about lights you up. It simply mattters. If the world might take a listen to your thoughts about X or Z, life would be different for people (in my humble opinion).<br /><br /></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">This can be a "discovery draft" or a "<a href="http://www.43folders.com/2006/04/10/lamott-birthday" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">shitty first draft</a>". Just write and ask later whether it's a good idea. If you feel compelled to write (and it REALLY CAN BE ABOUT ANYTHING YOU ARE INTERESTED IN RIGHT NOW). Write on!<br /><br /></li></ol><li style="margin-left: 15px; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><b>SEND A RESPONSE ON EMAIL SHOWING YOU COMPLETED ALL OF THE ABOVE AND ATTACH A DRAFT OF YOUR ESSAY ABOUT WHAT MATTERS RIGHT NOW<br /><br /></b></li><ol><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Share about your favorite <b><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/29345160/The-Audacity-of-Humanity-Ebook" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">Audacity of Humanity Ebook </a></b> Essay and/or bio and why<br /><br /></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">What does it mean to be audacious and in this book and what does it say about humanity as a collective of ideas.<br /><br /></li><li style="margin-left: 15px; ">Attach your "shitty first draft" of a possible 300 words or less essay. Don't worry about a title yet. But if one comes to mind, share it.</li></ol></ol><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); ">_________________</b></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b>YOUR COMMENTS BELOW </b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><b>So you have some ideas about what we should or should not be up to with this project. I love what Bishoy said. This is an opportunity like no other. When do you get to CREATE instead of consume as a student. This book will be launched to students to inspire them to begin to inquire into what matters that represents Baruch College. Get the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">Bigger Picture of Baruch</span> from our ebook. </b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><b>Ultimately, I want you to see how simple it is to make a difference in a small but powerful way with an ebook. And I want to apply all the etic principles of ethnography and anthropology to ourselves and our environment. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">Make a difference RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.</span></b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b>Add your comments below. BE GREAT. Google anything you are unsure of or if you need help use Google HELP to log on to make a comment. Also see sidebar for instructions on commenting on the blog. </b></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><b style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><br /></b></span></div>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-12367430121770893572010-04-06T10:00:00.009-04:002010-04-06T10:16:14.562-04:00Free ebook THE AUDACITY OF HUMANITY ed. by Prof. Gaunt in 3 weeksBefore spring break I mentioned that I was creating an ebook that inspired our final project The Baruch Big Picture Book. I released it to the world on Friday April 2, 2010 and it's been viewed by over 3000 people since then and counting.<div><br /></div><div>The ebook is called <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/29345160/The-Audacity-of-Humanity-Ebook"><b>THE AUDACITY OF HUMANITY</b></a> and it features over 39 authors, ages 10 to 63, from 5 continents, representing multiple ethnicities, sexualities and belief systems with different abilities and limitations. We are ONE people, the human race, courageously up-ending stereotypes and generalizations. </div><div><br /></div><span><span>Each contributor offers their story as a radical transformation of what leadership can be. We are not contained by description (check out our bios). We agree to be offended and stay connected. From A to Zed, we are a collective testament to the audacity of humanity. Be the audacity of that!!</span></span><div><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span>One is a former student from ANT1001. Read the page under the tag "LEARNING ENGLISH" by Mei.<br /><br />This is free. Liberate it. Tweet it, email it, post it on your own site. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(54, 54, 54); line-height: 16px; "><br /></span></div>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-77729559882510368362010-04-06T10:00:00.002-04:002010-04-06T09:57:51.417-04:00Bringing Beginner's Mind/Etic Research to Women in Islam<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><table cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 5px; "><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="sqtdq" style="background-color: rgb(237, 241, 247); padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few”</h1></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p style="padding-top: 3px; "><img align="middle" width="11" height="9" src="http://thinkexist.com/i/sq/as2.gif" title="Author Popularity 5/10" alt="" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " /> <a class="sqa" href="http://thinkexist.com/quotes/shunryu_suzuki/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); ">Shunryu Suzuki quotes</a><span class="sqb" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(151, 151, 151); "> (<a href="http://thinkexist.com/nationality/japanese_authors/" class="sqb" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(151, 151, 151); ">Japanese</a> Zen priest, ?-<a class="sqb" href="http://thinkexist.com/birthday/december_4/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(151, 151, 151); ">1971</a>)</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Originally posted 3/31/2009 at 1:54pm</div><div><br /></div>I said last week I'd send an email about our conversations last class. The group presenting on gender presented a few videos out-of-cultural-context without any intervention into the generalizing stereotypes that exist in our culture about 1) women in Islam and 2) female circumcision in Africa. These two topics are fraught with stereotypes, "evolutionary" bias (like they are behind the modern way things SHOULD be), and mere misinformation that is worse than the truths are for actual men and women who are Muslims in the majority of cases.<br /><br />Here's a different view than what we saw last Thu in class.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EuxkU3H11Ag&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EuxkU3H11Ag&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />I insist that everyone take a look at a great website I found on PBS called <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/questions/women/index.html">GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The Middle East</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">. </span>The first question they delve into is "What factors determine the changing roles of women in Middle East and Islamic societies?<br /><blockquote>Some Americans believe that Muslim women are oppressed by their religion, forced to cover themselves completely, denied education and other basic rights. It is true that Muslim women, like women all over the world, have struggled against inequality and restrictive practices in education, work force participation, and family roles. Many of these oppressive practices, however, do not come from Islam itself, but are part of local cultural traditions. (To think about the difference between religion and culture, ask yourself if the high rate of <a href="http://www.findcounseling.com/journal/domestic-violence/domestic-violence-statistics.html">domestic violence in the United States</a> is related to Christianity, the predominant religion.)...<br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="597"><tbody><tr></tr><tr><td><br /></td> <td valign="top"> <!-- end bbinclude --> <p>The <!-- #bbinclude ":mideast:glossary.pl" #TERM#="Quran" --> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/glossary/term/quran.html" target="glossary" onclick="glossPop('term/quran.html');return false;" class="gloss_link">Quran</a> <!-- end bbinclude --> explicitly states that men and women are equal in the eyes of God. Furthermore, the Quran: </p><ul><li><span class="normal">forbids female infanticide (practiced in pre-Islamic Arabia and other parts of the world)</span></li><li><span class="normal">instructs Muslims to educate daughters as well as sons</span></li><li><span class="normal">insists that women have the right to refuse a prospective husband</span></li><li><span class="normal">gives women rights if they are divorced by their husband</span></li><li><span class="normal">gives women the right to divorce in certain cases</span></li><li><span class="normal">gives women the right to own and inherit property (though in <!-- #bbinclude ":mideast:glossary.pl" #TERM#="Sunni" --> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/glossary/term/sunni.html" target="glossary" onclick="glossPop('term/sunni.html');return false;" class="gloss_link">Sunni</a> <!-- end bbinclude --> Islam they get only half of what men inherit. Men are expected to care for their mothers and any unmarried female relatives, and would, it is reasoned, need greater resources for this purpose.)</span></li><li><span class="normal">While <!-- #bbinclude ":mideast:glossary.pl" #TERM#="polygyny" --> polygyny <!-- end bbinclude --> is permissible, it is discouraged and on the whole practiced less frequently than imagined by Westerners. It is more frequent in the Gulf, including Saudi Arabia. Many Muslims cite the Quranic phrase "But treat them equally... and if you cannot, then one [wife] is better" and argue that<!-- #bbinclude ":mideast:glossary.pl" #TERM#="monogamy" --> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/glossary/term/monogamy.html" target="glossary" onclick="glossPop('term/monogamy.html');return false;" class="gloss_link">monogamy</a> <!-- end bbinclude --> is preferable, or even mandatory.</span><br /></li></ul> <p> <b><a name="quran">The Quran and the role of women</a></b></p> <p>As the Islamic state and religion expanded, interpretations of the gender roles laid out in the Quran varied with different cultures. For example, some religious scholars in ninth- and 10th-century Iraq were prescribing more restrictive roles for women, while elite women in Islamic Spain were sometimes able to bend these rules and mix quite freely with men (see Walladah bint Mustakfi below).</p> <p>Some contemporary women -- and men as well -- reject the limitations put on women and are reinterpreting the Quran from this perspective.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote>How do you bring <span style="font-weight: bold;">beginner's mind</span> to something that seems so strange, even shocking at first? What tools do you have to have to begin considering how to think like an anthropologist. Think about how Geertz had to learn how to see sculptures in jungles, paintings in deserts, and political order OUTSIDE of state political structures that we recognize as "normal" or "the way is should be."<br /><br />We will discuss this in class this week and the coming weeks.Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-60519288716565093472010-04-06T10:00:00.000-04:002010-04-06T09:41:44.156-04:00YouTube Digital Ethnography from ANT students in Kansas<div>Originally posted on 11/5/2007 at 1:17pm.</div><div><br /></div><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dGCJ46vyR9o"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dGCJ46vyR9o" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />A short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University. Made by students in a Cultural Anthropology Class in Spring 2007.Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-39675482996767382552010-04-06T00:53:00.000-04:002010-04-06T00:52:49.487-04:00Ch. 8 - RELIGION: What do we know about how religions got started?<div>Originally posted 4.23.2009 at 4:21am</div><div><br /></div><object width="600" height="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/Religion.swf"><embed src="http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/Religion.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="300"></embed></object><br /><br />Watch one or all three of the videos. One is an excellent ethnographic short of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cargo cults</span>. The second is on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rastafarianism</span>. The third is a dialogue between a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Catholic priest and a Brahmin priest of Hinduism</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cargo cults</span> are compared to the cult of Jesus in this 6:03" segment:<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1skNgYdJXK8&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1skNgYdJXK8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />This features a man from a community of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rastafarians</span>, who have settled in the small southern Ethiopian town of Shashamene (3:01"):<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sNbMb7l1uoQ&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sNbMb7l1uoQ&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />This is a fascinating dialogue between a French Roman Catholic official (it seems) and a Hindu official or Brahmin priest.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/t05S_dLmQN0&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/t05S_dLmQN0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">POST A COMMENT: </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Decided to give you a bit more direction for the comment here. PICK ONE QUESTION TO COMMENT ON.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q#1: </span>After viewing the video on either <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cargo Cults</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rastafarianism</span>, or the dialogue between the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Catholic Priest and the </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brahmin priest</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>, how does the example you chose to watch highlight<br /></span></span><ol><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">the social constructed nature of religion as well as </span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">how our view of others is a manifestation of our own grinding and their reaction one cultural constructed by theirs.<br /></span></span></li></ol><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">If you are unsure of the culture of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cargo cults</span>, see Kottak <span style="font-style: italic;">Mirror for Humanity</span>, p. 195 again.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q#2: </span>How has the world capitalist economy of core and periphery stratification of nations perhaps contributed to the spread and formation of religions like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rastafarianism</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cargo cults</span>?<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><br /></span></span>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-61208912781681057322010-03-11T13:30:00.000-05:002010-03-11T13:27:52.712-05:00Getting People to Talk on Ethnographic InterviewingOriginally posted 10/13/09 12:40pm:<br />The Illinois Institute of Technology's Gabe Biller and Kristy Scovel created an introductory video on how to conduct an ethnographic interview. It features <a href="http://dori3.typepad.com/my_weblog/">Dori Tunstall</a> who teaches Design Ethnography at the University of Illinios Chicago and Colleen Murray of <a href="http://www.jumpassociates.com/">Jump Associates </a>along with a host of IIT folks. We will watch this great video in class. I also want you to watch it a second time by Tue Oct 16th. I found this 33 minute video on the blog <a href="http://eskar.dk/andreas/blog/?p=313">http://eskar.dk/andreas/blog/?p=313 </a><br /><br />You can also learn more about "<a href="http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/extreme-user">extreme user research</a>" mentioned in the video.<br /><br /><object height="225" width="400"> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1269848&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1"> <embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1269848&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="225" width="400"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/1269848?pg=embed&sec=1269848">Getting People to Talk: An Ethnography & Interviewing Primer</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user577370?pg=embed&sec=1269848">Gabe & Kristy</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/?pg=embed&sec=1269848">Vimeo</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/runningafterantelope/2609964322/in/pool-great_diagrams_in_anthropological_theory"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXYPS0R9Mc4StxJ_B-RtqGbk-pwt6SQOLSckRxWqasYqFSrxkrNO9w9d_VJqK7xIcD9u6UJUcmpV3aegQw0IDPLGf6WJxE_OVbzDBF8GYfJrryQ47tww3Had3KxuYy0EU2paZb5nHd1KQ/s200/2609964322_c1ec1ab999_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252241522289744914" border="0" /></a>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-35703437877468419412010-03-04T10:29:00.004-05:002010-03-04T10:53:34.706-05:00Notes on Writing about C&C Ethnographies<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhemGSwbquX3up2DT2SLcvQ4J5o0jiVSMMxVuThLymJdW-jz86f4WKw_QX60Sdrk4bUYufbsTYWteVOVVpp5ize7EWHKL09vLbfBUYUw05_aE-5x1rI2cZ0AQu7clZN2jBse6fXWwoEXFY/s1600-h/Frohawk.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 164px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhemGSwbquX3up2DT2SLcvQ4J5o0jiVSMMxVuThLymJdW-jz86f4WKw_QX60Sdrk4bUYufbsTYWteVOVVpp5ize7EWHKL09vLbfBUYUw05_aE-5x1rI2cZ0AQu7clZN2jBse6fXWwoEXFY/s320/Frohawk.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5444806811003525394" /></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN ETHNOGRAPHER; TO DO ETHNOGRAPHY </span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Thought I should compile some notes on your C&C essays that you all can learn from. Want to use crowd-sourcing of feedback more often.<br /><br /></span><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><b>OVERALL</b>: You should think about what these essays are demonstrating that anthropologists need to learn, do, and think that combats ethnocentrism and what actions did this involve to conduct and write a great ethnography. </span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">How does the author use terms (emic explanations) to reveal the native beliefs and core values? How does he use anthropological or etic terms to do the same? What methods did he apply to learn the emic explanations? How effective was he/she?</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Rather than writing a book report about how YOU reacted to the reading or what you remember about the "story" write about what's being revealed to you about conducting fieldwork, participant-observation and ethnography. </span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Don't waste paper putting the biblography on a separate page and strictly follow the format given. </span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Always refer to authors by their <b>LAST NAME</b>. You will never find a reference to an article by DAVID. No need to add titles like professor or "Dr."</span></span></li></ol><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-weight: bold; ">ABOUT SAPIR-WHORF ESSAY BY THOMSON</span><br /><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">A student wrote: "Not to take these readings literally but I think we should consider the fact that we do make </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">very instinctual decisions</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> as we speak". Consider that this is NOT instinctual but LEARNED. It is cultural not in any way biological. Notice how we even use language AGAINST language when we evoke "biology" (VERY instinctual). This means we didn't learn it. It's in us - like DNA.</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Here is an </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">exemplar model of description and critical thought</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">: </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">"My attention was captured as I tried to disentangle the "whys" in the way the Bushmen treated /ontah and his deeds. ...How can an ox look like a sac of bones to most villagers and, at the same time, be perceived as the largest, fattest game to "whitey". As I read on, I laughed in confusion....Are the !Kung playing a joke on a poor man?..."Insulting the mean" (http://www/slideshare.net/PaulVMcDowell/kung-san-of-the-kalahari-desert) was a way to prevent a young hunter rom becoming arrogant and dominating. My embarrassment ...was being </span></i><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">ethnocentric</span></i></b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> (Kottak, 37).</span></i></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, serif; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">HERE IS ONE I EDITING ALONG THE WAY</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">: </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 26px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">In chapter 4 of</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Mirror of </span><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Humanity</span></span></i><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow;font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">, Kottak</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">writes</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> about how Americans simplify the shades of color from teal, blue-green, hunter green and so on into one label “green” </span><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">(CITATION MISSING: Kottak, p. ??).</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> There isn’t any difference between the way that so called “advanced civilizations” use language and the way extinct </span><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">(??? Who said anything about extinct dialects? What are these??)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> and lesser </span><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">(Whose language is lesser?? Watch it1 Your ethnocentrism is showing!)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> used dialects use language. </span><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Thus, every</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> language has its own ways </span><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">of distinguishing</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> the same </span><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">phenomena</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">; therefore each language is </span><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">effective</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">(WC—word choice--</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">affective</span></i><span style="font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> refers to feelings and emotion) for the group of people that use it</span><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">.</span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">[GREAT POINT]</span></span></span></span></i></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, serif; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Another exemplar model</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">: </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">"Whorf argues that English speakers think in past-present-future (Thomson, 115). Thus, our lives operate accordingly. We hurry to catch the train, the bus or to work. Accurately, we are catching the time that our language teaches us. It can come, pass, or never be back. When we build a building, we measure the progress by designating different stages of being finished on specific days....We think and do any possibilities throught he way we measure time through language (or the way language measures time)....The words we use to describe the world are all we know about it [learned through enculturation and it differs from other cultures--not for better or worse]. Our imagination is also restricted by the </span></i><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">lexicon</span></i></b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> we use (Kottak, 70).</span></i></span></li></ol><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Are these useful and explain why if you can. PLEASE POST A COMMENT for practice. </span></span></span></b></div></span></div>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-55548932054431050622010-02-05T19:42:00.003-05:002010-02-05T19:46:03.884-05:00The Future of Social Media in Higher Education: McGraw-Hill sponsored panel 2/5/1010 9:31AMThis panel took place today and was uploaded on USTREAM as part of the Social Media Week that took place all week and ends Sat at the Roger Smith Hotel for a barcamp-style workshop from 7:30 - 5:30pm <a href="http://smw-newyork.sched.org/">http://smw-newyork.sched.org/</a>
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<br /><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="480" height="386" id="utv471936" name="utv_n_67045"><param name="flashvars" value="loc=%2F&autoplay=false&vid=4470423" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/4470423" /><embed flashvars="loc=%2F&autoplay=false&vid=4470423" width="480" height="386" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" id="utv471936" name="utv_n_67045" src="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/4470423" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-84680644317691498522010-02-04T17:54:00.004-05:002010-02-04T17:59:36.225-05:00NOTICE: Problems with email on Blackboard<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk-VG1JfBB0tLov6scSYShBPvndZc_oIOinrsvXDMIF9iQCsFTlW5fsbM8KD35hD-VunmXiVLHNdHqWMtE69yzhtXctLD526IInLFSujRg2tcncomrL-1hrjXZonGWIF1bhAHjWO9CaC0/s1600-h/Screen+shot+2010-02-04+at+5.57.26+PM.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk-VG1JfBB0tLov6scSYShBPvndZc_oIOinrsvXDMIF9iQCsFTlW5fsbM8KD35hD-VunmXiVLHNdHqWMtE69yzhtXctLD526IInLFSujRg2tcncomrL-1hrjXZonGWIF1bhAHjWO9CaC0/s320/Screen+shot+2010-02-04+at+5.57.26+PM.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434526434098446498" border="0" /></a><br />If you have not been receiving emails and/or you recently transferred to Baruch from a sister institutions in <span style="font-weight: bold;">CUNY</span>, you need to manually <span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE EMAIL</span> or update your email from the HOME PAGE at Baruch College.<br /><br />Go to <span style="font-weight: bold;">HOME PAGE</span><br /><br />In the <span style="font-weight: bold;">TOOLS</span> menu on the far left, click <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">UPDATE EMAIL</span><br /><br />Your current email in the system will show, please insert your <span style="font-weight: bold;">CUNY email address</span> from Baruch. You cannot use any other email for Blackboard.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">The email you input must end with @baruchmail.cuny.edu.</span><br /><br />Thanks, Prof. GKyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-82463031985698521272010-01-31T12:02:00.003-05:002010-01-31T12:07:03.132-05:00MUST SEE YOUTUBE TV: Using Twitter to Create the Future in the ClassroomFrom <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitterhandbook.com/blog/?s=classroom">Twitter Handbook Blog:</a><br /><br />August 9th, 2008<br />· by Warren Whitlock · Filed Under: Twitter · Twitter Videos · Twitter in Education<br /><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/mwesch"><span style="font-weight: bold;">@mwesch</span></a> used social media tools to turn what could have been a boring university lecture class into an experience that harnessed the power of students knowledge, connections and imagination.<br /><br />His views on education are refreshing. The outcome from the class is fascinating.<br /><br />While watching this video, I kept thinking of more ways that a small group of people can do more than we had imagined.<br /><br />I look forward to seeing your comments about how you will use this in your network, relationships, groups, business and life.<br /><br />Please put your @ handle in your comment so we can follow you on Twitter.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Professor G's handle <a href="http://twitter.com/kyraocity">@kyraocity</a></span> Come follow me!<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/J4yApagnr0s&color1=0x11645361&color2=0x13619151&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/J4yApagnr0s&color1=0x11645361&color2=0x13619151&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-18796485852425847542010-01-30T11:02:00.005-05:002010-01-30T11:28:10.149-05:00Social Media: Twitter Guide and Its Use in College Classrooms<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Hey ANT1001-ers. Please read the non-fanatical beginner's </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLQjQNivFAYhLrPckz4Xu0KYcmhA8Kxqc238MOIuBDxIFtp1viHPgMUjd4jWAWjdnRm9T1_tWY6f_zS8_QcxNI3E7bByZCGunSPzJaDgGLT_9ZzNgtG4gmfW4NEBJK7_uf2Ff7Zbwhzms/s1600-h/share_this_200px_72dpi.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLQjQNivFAYhLrPckz4Xu0KYcmhA8Kxqc238MOIuBDxIFtp1viHPgMUjd4jWAWjdnRm9T1_tWY6f_zS8_QcxNI3E7bByZCGunSPzJaDgGLT_9ZzNgtG4gmfW4NEBJK7_uf2Ff7Zbwhzms/s320/share_this_200px_72dpi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5432568727034848258" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >guide to Twitter and skim through the two other articles listed below on using social media in the classroom. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Social Media: Twitter Guide and Its Use in College Classrooms</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">My dear social media friend </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.deannazandt.com/">Deanna Zandt</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> wrote the definitive must-read guide to </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Twitter</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> in a blog titled: </span> <div id="titlecontainer" style="font-family:arial;"> <div id="titleicon"><h2><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.deannazandt.com/2009/02/26/a-non-fanatical-beginners-guide-to-twitter/" rel="bookmark" title="Permalink: A non-fanatical beginner's guide to Twitter">A non-fanatical beginner's guide to Twitter</a></span></h2></div> </div> <blockquote style="font-family: arial;"> <p><em></em></p><p><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>(If you're not sure what Twitter is, or why you should consider Twittering, check out "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.deannazandt.com/2009/03/02/why-twitter-anyways/">Why Twitter, anyways?</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">")</span></em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Edited 1/3/2010 to include updates to Twitter interface over the past few months.<br /></em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Thanks to a bunch of mainstream media coverage, a lot of folks around me are becoming more interested in participating in the Twitterverse. "All right, all right," they say. "You've convinced me. But how do I get <em>started</em>?" It's almost like walking into a giant party for the first time: You're not sure where your friends are, the bar is on the other side of the room, and the bathrooms are anyone's guess. Allow me to be your party guide.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:85%;">Sure, sure, you could also just Google "beginner's guide to Twitter" and read a any number of other guides that have been written. Problem is, I feel like most of them focus on two niches: how to be a fanatical Twitterer, and/or how to be a really obnoxiously popular Twitterer. What I'm aiming for here is more for people who want to <span style="font-weight: bold;">experiment</span> a little and <span style="font-weight: bold;">connect with other folks on a pretty direct level</span>. We'll talk later about different ways you can participate, but for now, let's just get the basics down<a href="http://www.deannazandt.com/2009/02/26/a-non-fanatical-beginners-guide-to-twitter/">....click for more.</a></span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">OTHER ARTICLES ON TWITTER IN COLLEGE CLASSROOM</span><br />Here are<span style="font-family: arial;"> some brief articles that serve as resources for understanding the power of social media in college-level classrooms.</span><br /></span></span></p><ol style="font-family:arial;"><li style="font-family: arial;"><h1><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://teachingtechnology.suite101.com/article.cfm/using_social_media_in_education">Effectively Using Social Media in Education: A College Educator on the Advantages of the Web 2.0 Classroom</a> by Lisa Manfield, Dec 30, 2008</span></h1></li><li> <a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.deannazandt.com/2009/02/26/a-non-fanatical-beginners-guide-to-twitter/"> <o:documentproperties> <o:template></o:template><o:version></o:version> </o:documentproperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng> </o:allowpng> </o:officedocumentsettings><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Times New Roman"; panose-1:0 2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:0 2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;} p.MsoFooter, li.MsoFooter, div.MsoFooter {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; tab-stops:center 3.0in right 6.0in; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-parent:""; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <!--StartFragment--> </a><p class="MsoNormal"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.deannazandt.com/2009/02/26/a-non-fanatical-beginners-guide-to-twitter/"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>From Twitter 101: Social Media's Move to College Classrooms</b> </span></a><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://bit.ly/2DSH7u">http://bit.ly/2DSH7u </a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">7/17/09</span><br /></span></p></li></ol><p style="font-family: arial;"><!--EndFragment--><a href="http://www.deannazandt.com/2009/02/26/a-non-fanatical-beginners-guide-to-twitter/"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></p><span></span> <!--EndFragment--> <!--EndFragment--> </a></p><p style="font-family: arial;"></p>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-15994985883479770602010-01-22T17:05:00.001-05:002010-01-23T01:10:55.265-05:00Student IntroductionsWelcome to ANT1001 - Spring 2010!<br />I expect each of you to learn how to comment on our group blog and the best way is to dive in.<br /><br />FIRST, sign up or <span style="font-weight: bold;">subscribe to the blog on the right</span>. Subscribe to posts and comments.<br /><br />SECOND, read the <a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42399"><span style="font-weight: bold;">INSTRUCTIONS TO COMMENT</span></a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Then introduce yourself to the class.</span><br /><ol><li>Share your name and any nickname<br /></li><li>Your major/year</li><li>The borough/region of NY metro area where you now live<br /></li><li>Then describe the way a person introduces themselves in your native culture/community (in no more than 25-50 words).<br /></li></ol><ul><blockquote><li>What do they say? Is there formal/informal versions of introductions?<br /></li><li>How do you physically greet/meet another person or persons?<br /></li><li>Does age matter?<br /></li><li>Is there a difference in greeting men vs. women vs. children?<br /></li><li>And does that introduction represent a particular culture in your mind or a different culture to others? </li></blockquote></ul><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">EXAMPLE: When you greet another person of same age in black culture, you often see people give each other "dap" or a special handshake. "Dap" comes from a brand of hair grease or palmade from the South. Most associate it with men but women do it too. Older folks do not ordinarily do this. </blockquote><br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SzFZgBKXFLw&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SzFZgBKXFLw&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-75297573590758846892009-11-30T19:58:00.006-05:002009-11-30T20:40:34.799-05:00OLPC Donate one laptop per Baruch Class<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" allowNetworking="all" height="230" width="150" align="middle" data="http://www.firstgiving.com/widgets/fgwidget.swf" flashvars="EggId=1012080"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.firstgiving.com/widgets/fgwidget.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="flashvars" value="EggId=1012080" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /></object><br /><br />SEND THIS LINK TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY: <a href="http://www.firstgiving.com/barucholpc">http://www.firstgiving.com/barucholpc</a><br /><br />.Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-80284671302557142352009-11-30T18:57:00.003-05:002009-11-30T19:03:36.355-05:00Creating our Marketing Campaign for One Laptop Per Class Campaign<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pXa8fN08wNE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pXa8fN08wNE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />We need to make at least 200 paper airplanes to release into atrium on Thu Dec 10th during club hours. Please use the <a href="http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/nickplan.php">Nick's Plane</a> design in the video or your best version otherwise.<br /><br />For more on the design visit: http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/nickplan.php<br />This paper airplane is a superb glider it is very well balanced indeed even when made by the most inexperienced child. It can be quickly made from a sheet of A4 paper and I really like it. I drew this page up and placed it on the internet within a day of learning to make this paper airplane.Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-83605250489716070922009-11-09T11:30:00.001-05:002009-11-09T11:20:30.658-05:00Jane Elliot's A Class Divided (Frontline Doc)Originally posted 10/5/07 12:17 PM<br /><br /><h1 id="video_title">FRONTLINE: A Class Divided - 1 of 5</h1>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCjDxAwfXV0<br /><br /><br />If you missed class or want to see the video we watched in class, here it is. I posed that WORDS create WORLDS and that Jane Elliot's experiment with her third grade class shown in this documentary gives you a etic view of how this works around discrimination.<br /><br />You should watch parts 1 and 2 on YouTube.<br /><br />What were your thoughts?<br /><br />PS Also here is the link to the Opinion in The Ticker on <a href="http://media.www.theticker.org/media/storage/paper909/news/2007/09/24/Opinion/Ticker.Talk-2985843.shtml">"Exclusive Diversity" </a>at Baruch College published 9/24/07 by several editors on staff.Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-86017113709560915862009-11-09T11:30:00.000-05:002009-11-09T11:13:26.811-05:00Race & Racism in BrazilOriginally posted 5/19/09 4:37 PM<br />After we read Jeffrey Fish's essay on race in Brazil titled MIXED BLOOD in the Conformity & Conflict textbook (McCurdy & Spradley), you could be left thinking racism doesn't exist in Brazil. This video paints another picture. <br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CBNUOsrIiAs&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CBNUOsrIiAs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-82305140667611726332009-11-03T19:38:00.000-05:002009-11-03T13:54:39.042-05:00The Leech and the Earthworm<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P97BLMJW_Es&rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P97BLMJW_Es&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Originally posted 11/20/07<br />Marc Silver directed a documentary about indigneous people's views on genetic engineering. This is the title sequence based on a folktale. What do you think about the emic vs. etic view of such a tale? What assumptions come up for the outsider who is white, from a colonial nation, from the US, or for the native Australian seeing this tale in a film for the first time?<br /><br />Check out Marc's cool website.<br /><a href="http://www.marcsilver.net/#">http://www.marcsilver.net/#</a>Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-7313453648444167582009-11-03T16:00:00.002-05:002009-11-03T18:02:17.684-05:00HOMEWORK: THU NOV 3 HOW CORPORATIONS BECAME LEGAL PERSONSOriginally posted 5/13/09<br />The last few weeks I have been emphasizing how individuals are shaped by culturally-defined contexts of race, ethnicity, nation, sex, gender, class, achieved vs. ascribed status, and much more. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Ethnography</span> gains insight into the cultural mindset through the ways individuals understand how their culture and/or the world works. This presumes a mindset that seems like it is reality but it is the glasses we were conditioned to see with.<br /><br />In <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">your introduction to anthropology (ANT1001)</span> we examined how we evolved as a human species from the band, the tribe, the chief and the state out of which grew state economies and capitalism. Westernization, colonialism, and cultural imperialism was an outcome that could not be consistent with the values of the generalized reciprocity of the band. Or so we've been taught. Enculturation and acculturation is everywhere but it is not the end of possibilities in our choices as individuals or groups. But we'd have to be responsible for HOW we learned what we know and WHAT that learning has been for. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Ethnography</span> is the tool to excating that learning process and knowing way of being.<br /><br />I didn't get to a set of short video clips from the award-winning Canadian documentary <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.viddler.com/explore/someguy/videos/104/">THE CORPORATION</a> (watch the whole documentary <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.viddler.com/explore/someguy/videos/104/">here</a>). Now that you have begun to see the power of ethnography as a tool for understanding cultural mindsets, probably one of our best tools students of culture and humankind has, this documentary takes the conversation to a level not often thought of.<br /><br />How corporate culture has usurped the status of the individual and the effects that is having on our existence as part of a global human culture.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">YOUR RESPONSE: </span>Check out these segments and I'd love to hear how you think this connects to the evolution of the study of man -- anthropology.<br /><br />YOUR HOMEWORK rather than reading an essay is to watch the documentary THE CORPORATION (3 hrs) on google videos<br /><br /><embed id=VideoPlayback src=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=3203253804055041031&hl=en&fs=true style=width:400px;height:326px allowFullScreen=true allowScriptAccess=always type=application/x-shockwave-flash> </embed><br /><br />Come back to class Thu, prepared to share at least one thing that really stood out in this documentary about how the corporation has become a person in our culture.Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-78876603764787238222009-10-28T22:54:00.004-04:002009-10-28T23:08:06.892-04:00Kottak Ch. 10, World System & ColonializationRarely do we consider that music and dance and poetry play a key role in how everyday people learn about the global politics of the world. Kottak's title "World System" might be today referred to as the global economy and how capitalism came to be. Colonialization played a huge role in shaping the power dynamics and relationship between nations and its peoples.<br /><br />This chapter reveals the etic framework. The song "ARE MY HANDS CLEAN?" helps us make the macro level of the economics more real and palpable...and uneasy. This is not a nice story or a myth about how the core nations came to be connected through power, wealth and prestige over the periphery and semi-peripheral nations. But it makes it real. Gets to the emic level of<img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhde6Ky3sP-DW-a3g5Wxe0gYdKwDdRQPKTg5MU0QNVYz0tEhBsCJjUoNWIW-tFBetcWlPzTLS-NZ6RS27nI3rxG6mYneikRIdf5EMWxewxt3XA0joukvXsnfJEcZn223B7Ew0quKrjzvrw/s320/Carnegie+Sweet+Honey.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397853172948022658" /> looking at from the outside in and the inside out.<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;">Are My Hands Clean? </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Lyrics and music by Bernice Johnson Reagon. Songtalk Publishing Co. 1985<br />Performed by Sweet Honey in the Rock from the album Live at Carnegie Hall (1988)<br /></span><br />I wear garments touched by hands from all over the world<br />35% cotton, 65% polyester, the journey begins in Central America<br />In the cotton fields of El Salvador<br />In a province soaked in blood,<br />Pesticide-sprayed workers toil in a broiling sun<br />Pulling cotton for two dollars a day.<br /><br />Then we move on up to another rung—Cargill<br />A top-forty trading conglomerate, takes the cotton through the Panama Canal<br />Up the Eastern seaboard, coming to the US of A for the first time<br />In South Carolina<br />At the Burlington mills<br />Joins a shipment of polyester filament courtesy of the New Jersey petro-chemical mills of Dupont<br />Dupont strands of filament begin in the South American country of Venezuela<br />Where oil riggers bring up oil from the earth for six dollars a day<br /><br />Then Exxon, largest oil company in the world,<br />Upgrades the product in the country of Trinidad and Tobago<br />Then back into the Caribbean and Atlantic Seas<br />To the factories of Dupont<br />On the way to the Burlington mills<br />In South Carolina<br />To meet the cotton from the blood-soaked fields of El Salvador<br />In South Carolina<br /><br />Burlington factories hum with the business of weaving oil and cotton into miles of fabric<br />for Sears<br />Who takes this bounty back into the Caribbean Sea<br />Headed for Haiti this time—May she be one day soon free—<br /><br />Far from the Port-au-Prince palace<br />Third world women toil doing piece work to Sears specifications<br />For three dollars a day<br />My sisters make my blouse<br />It leaves the third world for the last time<br />Coming back into the sea to be sealed in plastic for me<br />This third world sister<br />And I go to the Sears department store where I buy my blouse<br />On sale for 20% discount<br />Are my hands clean?Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719964899832611328.post-65980659933614561912009-10-15T16:24:00.000-04:002009-10-15T07:49:44.430-04:00Ch.4 Language: Does Your Culture's Language Shape How You Perceive the World<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Language</span>: As Kottak discusses, it is based on "arbitrary, learned associations between words and the things they stand for." Humans, not other animals as far as we can tell, have the linguistic capacity to discuss the past and future, share their unique or cultural view of their experiences, and benefit from their experiences.<br /><br />My cat Delilah seems to know the difference between night and day but she can't discuss what happened two days ago with me (or it seems to another cat) to share me how much she loved the petting session we had or hated that I was away all day long.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis</span> claims that a culture's language has a significant impact on how the members of the culture perceive things. For example, in American English we use a lot of metaphors about battle and war. What is we replaced them with metaphors of dance? Would we perceive our interactions differently?<br /><br />"I <span style="font-style: italic;">shot down</span> all your points" <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">vs. </span>"I'm tired of <span style="font-style: italic;">dancing</span> to those points"<br />"You're always <span style="font-style: italic;">attacking</span> my points" <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">vs.</span> "You're always <span style="font-style: italic;">dancing around</span> my points"<br />"I win." <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">vs. </span> "What a great dance!"<br /><br />What about the metaphors we use to talk about love?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Below,</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:georgia;" > I offer</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> 3 examples</span> to bring your into the anthropological world of language, into the study of linguistics. First, language change in English literature, then two quotes and finally a TED Talk video that I love. All is followed by a suggestion for comments.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Language Changes in Bible: </span>(taken from <a href="http://ksuanth.wetpaint.com/page/Language+and+Gesture">Wesch lecture notes</a>)<span style=";font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif;font-size:100%;" ><b>:</b></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"></span><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">English 11th Century:</span> <br />Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum; Si þin nama gehalgod<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">English about 1400 CE: </span> <br />Oure fader that art in heuenis halowid be thi name ...<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">English 1611 (King James):</span><br />Our father which art in heauen, hallowed be thy name.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">English 1963 (Phillips): </span><br />Our Heavenly Father, may your name be honored;<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">English 1970 (K. Condon):</span><br />Our Father in Heaven, let your holy name be known</blockquote><br />On the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf_hypothesis">Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis</a> (or the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_hypothesis" title="Linguistic relativity hypothesis">linguistic relativity hypothesis</a>"):<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kerenyi" title="Karl Kerenyi" class="mw-redirect"></a><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span><span><span style="font-style: italic;">[Language] diversity is a diversity not of sounds and signs but of ways of looking at the world</span> (Karl Kerenyi, 1976).</span></span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf_hypothesis#cite_note-1" title=""><span></span></a></sup></blockquote><br />From a TED talk by anthropologist<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/wade_davis_on_endangered_cultures.html">Wade Davis</a><span style="font-style: italic;">:<br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">Language is not just a body of vocabulary or set of grammatical rules. A language is the flash of the human spirit. It is vehicle through which the soul of each particular culture comes into the material world. Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind; a watershed of thought; an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities....fully half [of 6000] are no longer whispered into the ears of children.</span><br /></blockquote><br /><br /><object height="326" width="446"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/WadeDavis_2003-embed_high.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/WadeDavis-2003.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=69"><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/embed/WadeDavis_2003-embed_high.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/WadeDavis-2003.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=69" height="326" width="446"></embed></object><br /><br />[22 mins TED TALK]<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">TRY IT ON (suggestion for comments): </span>What kinds of metaphors do you notice yourself speaking as part of being male or female, Black, Caribbean, or Asian, as part of your student club, or your home country/nation? How have those metaphors or other uses of language shaped the way you perceive yourself and the world around you?Kyra Gaunt, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12350503744881463295noreply@blogger.com19