The Skits from the 2011 Anthropology 104 class with Dr. Mullooly, have been posted on YouTube!!
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The basic sense I get from post-modernity, is that all things are to be deconstructed or at least critiqued. Vulgar Post Modernism – “Sitting on the porch with your forty-ouncer complaining about all the cars that go by instead of building your own.” – Unknown
Like all fields of Academia, Anthropology was a bastion for “good ol’ boys” ( as a certain professor states in his oft-repeated caveat, “pardon my genitalia”). Even in the days of Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, women “were marginalized, pigeonholed, and excluded from important aspects of the discipline.” It was not until the fifties that discussions of [...]
Dear Anthro Theorits: Here is the skit guideline that Hank developed a few years back. Students have gone beyond this considerably. Hence the term “guide”. In the end, it should be fun and illustrate your synthesis of some person’s work. -jim PS. We meet on the Monday after the break. Mark your calendars.!! Now off [...]
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Structuralism http://prezi.com/kw1o_4onrhek/structuralism-levi-strauss-and-ortner/ Claude Levi-Strauss (b. 1908) Linguistics and Anthropology A Breakdown of the Reading In this article, Levi-Strauss discusses at length the multi-tiered nature of the notions of the relationship between language and culture. And it it his premise that if you study the Culture, than you will have an intimate knowledge of the Language. This [...]
Neomaterialism Steward and White from the previous section laid the foundations of Ecological Anthropology materialistic cultural analysis, but it wasn’t until the next generation of Anthropologists that these fields underwent true development. As with all things, the course of the good ship Anthropology was sent in the same direction as the concomitant winds of scientific thought, [...]
All quotes are taken from the reading unless otherwise noted. After “the ‘mid-century collapse’ of Historical Particularism” a resurrection of the dearly departed “cross-cultural comparison” or evolutionary perspectives on culture, began to crop up. A good example of this is the following reading, where the author states that societies that occur in similar environments develop [...]
A Reposting of Marcus Rockwell’s Comment on Historical Particuarism: The title of this article provides excellent foreshadowing. Right and wrong. Ok then, in the realm of the relative, right and wrong exist. Start analyzing, right and wrong fall by the wayside in the realm of the ultimate. One cannot ignore the relative in favor of dwelling [...]
All subsequent quotes are taken from the associated texts unless otherwise noted. This particular method of research was the brain-child of Franz Boas. It was also the first school of anthropological thought that was born on American soil. Franz Boas (1858-1942) Historical particularism is a method of research that was the brain-child of Franz Boas; the [...]
The Foundations of Sociological Thought – Durkheim, Mauss, and Weber All subsequent quotes refer to the corresponding text. Sociology, a close sibling to Anthropology is based on many philosophical and scientific literatures. Therefore, both of these disciplines share many tenets of their basic theories and structures. Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) As a student of August Compte [...]
