ANTH 319.090 | Research Methods in Expressive Culture

Jolanda vanArnhem and I wish you a healthy and happy experience learning how to become anthropologists!
We are looking forward to your postings here and in googledocs.
Dr. Quinn

Posted on September 2nd, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

Hello everyone:
I hope all is going smoothly during the final week of school.
Please turn in your final papers/portfolios on Tuesday, May 5, in Room 207 (Center for Expressive Culture) at 5PM SHARP.  You may also turn in your work early by putting it in Dr. Quinn’s mailbox at 19 St. Philip Street, second floor. DO [...]

Posted on May 1st, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

“A map of the world covered of one wall of the cafe, and as I huddled over a cup of coffee I noticed David staring at it intently.  He glanced at me, then back at the map, then again at me, only this time with a grin that splayed his beard from ear to ear.  [...]

Posted on April 7th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

After much thought I decided to choose Jean Briggs as an ethnographer I would like to imitate.  I re-read the Kapluna Daughter and went over the material I highlighted and realized that Briggs, like Geertz was descriptive and attempted to place the reader in the society of the Utkuhiksalingmuit where Briggs was going to spend [...]

Posted on April 7th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

Caitlin
One of my favorite ethnographic accounts is a book called “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Daughter, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures” by Ann Fadiman.  Lea, a Hmong immigrant toddler has severe epilepsy, which her family diagnoses as a flight of her soul from her body. Fadiman’s [...]

Posted on April 7th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

On the established anthropological principle,When in Rome, my wife and I decided, only slightly less instantaneously than everyone else,that the thing to do was run too. We ran down the main village street, northward, away from where we were living, for we were on that side of the ring. About half-way down another fugitive ducked [...]

Posted on April 6th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

“Today, a few special occasions aside, the newer rectitude makes so open a statement of the connection between the excitements of collective life and those of blood sport impossible, but, less directly expressed, the connection itself remains intimate and intact. To expose it, however, it is necessary to turn to the aspect of cockfighting around [...]

Posted on April 6th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

“As he gazed at the landscape he said to me, “Birbhum [the district Mangaldihi lies in] is the best place in the world. Everyone here knows each other and everyone loves each other.” His words made me feel exceedingly lucky to have happened on such a place: I looked around, with the winter sun warm [...]

Posted on April 5th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

The Owl Sources for Electronic Citing

Posted on April 3rd, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: None