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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
- 18 IN COUNTRY
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
Tuesday June 17, 2014
- Rosenthal, Judy, "Religious Traditions of the Togo and Benin Ewe" (182-196)
Wendnesday June 18, 2014
Thursday June 19, 2014
Monday July 7, 2014
- LC Packet: Millenium Development Goals for Benin: Browse links on Learning Community site and look up other health and development data. Post some impressions to the email discussion, but also keep this some notes for in country discussion.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
- Sachs, Jeffrey, The End of Poverty, Chapter 3, "Why Some Countries Fail to Thrive"
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
- Easterly (from LC Packet) "Planners vs Searchers"
- Easterly, Chapter 2, "The Legend of the Big Push"
Thursday, July 10, 2014
- Karlan and Appel, More than Good Intentions, Chapter 4
Monday July 14, 2014
- Karlan and Appel, More than Good Intentions, Chapters 6 and 7
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
- Songhai Self-Study
- Review of Millennium Development Goals and updated indicators of well-being from your research.
Thursday, July 17, 2014
- LC Packet: Easterly, William. 2006. excerpt from The White Man's Burden. Chapter 1, "Planners vs. Searchers"
- LC Packet: Nzamujo, Fr. Godfrey. "Using agriculture to challenge Africa's triple threat." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caw2htKiT0I
IN COUNTRY
- LC Packet: Viewing and discussion of Mama, Kpai, Hass
- Acemoglu and Robinson, from Why Nations Fail
- Sharing of individual research
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