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:*Culture: Hessling O'Neil, "The Person who does you wrong..." | :*Culture: Hessling O'Neil, "The Person who does you wrong..." | ||
:*Culture: Hammer, Joshua, "On the Vodun Trail" | :*Culture: Hammer, Joshua, "On the Vodun Trail" | ||
| + | ::*What do you find curious about the origins and practices of vodun? | ||
| + | ::*What distinguishes Vodun from the faith(s) you are most familiar with, what similarities can you see? | ||
==Wednesday June 11, 2014== | ==Wednesday June 11, 2014== | ||
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Contents
- 1 Thursday June 5, 2014
- 2 Monday June 9, 2014
- 3 Tuesday June 10, 2014
- 4 Wednesday June 11, 2014
- 5 Thursday June 12, 2014
- 6 Monday June 16, 2014
- 7 Tuesday June 17, 2014
- 8 Wendnesday June 18, 2014
- 9 Thursday June 19, 2014
- 10 Monday July 7, 2014
- 11 Tuesday, July 8, 2014
- 12 Wednesday, July 9, 2014
- 13 Thursday, July 10, 2014
- 14 Monday July 14, 2014
- 15 Tuesday, July 15, 2014
- 16 Wednesday, July 16, 2014
- 17 Thursday, July 17, 2014
Thursday June 5, 2014
- LC Packet: Reader, The Atlantic Slave Trade (pp. 377-403)
- Culture: Coates, Tim, "King Guezo of Dahomey, 1850-52" (1-23, 79-83, 161-167, 185-195)
Monday June 9, 2014
- Culture: Geertz, "Thick Description"
- Geertzs argues "for a narrowed, specialized" concept of I culture. What methodological strategies does he propose to arrive at this; what should, in his view, be the nature and purpose of anthropological studies?
- What would make this concept of culture "theoretically more powerful" than previous ones?
Tuesday June 10, 2014
- Culture: Hessling O'Neil, "The Person who does you wrong..."
- Culture: Hammer, Joshua, "On the Vodun Trail"
- What do you find curious about the origins and practices of vodun?
- What distinguishes Vodun from the faith(s) you are most familiar with, what similarities can you see?
Wednesday June 11, 2014
- LC Packet: Gardinier and Beierschenk -- Francophone Africa and Benin Politics
Thursday June 12, 2014
- Culture: Blier, "Chapter 1: Vodun Art, Social History and the Slave Trade" (23-54)
Monday June 16, 2014
- LC Packet: Mama, Kpai, Hass: View the Kpai and Hass video over the course of the week.
Tuesday June 17, 2014
- Rosenthal, Judy, "Religious Traditions of the Togo and Benin Ewe" (182-196)
Wendnesday June 18, 2014
- LC Packet: Millenium Development Goals for Benin and Easterly reading. Browse links on Learning Community site and look up other health and development data, and save notes for in country discussion.
Thursday June 19, 2014
Monday July 7, 2014
- Sachs, Jeffrey, The End of Poverty, Chapter 3, "Why Some Countries Fail to Thrive"
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
- Easterly (from LC Packet), "Seekers vs. Planners"
- Easterly, Chapter 2, "The Legend of the Big Push"
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
- Karlan and Appel, More than Good Intentions, Chapters 4, 6, and 7
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Monday July 14, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
- Acemoglu and Robinson, from Why Nations Fail
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
- Sharing of your research with class online.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
- Songhai Self-Study
- Review of Millenium Development Goals and updated indicators of well-being from your research.
