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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, and save 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), "Seekers vs. Planners"
- 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. Seekers,"
- 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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