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==Thursday, July 10, 2014==
 
==Thursday, July 10, 2014==

Revision as of 08:54, 7 July 2014

Return to Philosophy of Culture: Benin


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) "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. 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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