Anthropology 230: Anthropology of East Asia

TuTh 3-4:30 Parmly 302
Dr. Hugh Blackmer

Course description from the 2001-2002 Catalog
On the Study of the Anthropology of East Asia:
excursus and syllabus
setting up your web presence
and making Web pages

glossary of terms encountered, and
Oxford English Dictionary

Chronologies and a Gazetteer and some maps
Provinces of China and finding information

Assignments ...and some words on grading,
projects, and evaluating project ideas

Using ArcView in Parmly 302
1990 Census variables for China
some images and population distributions

Topical weblets
Infanticide
Family
www.ethnologue.com and languages
Analects
for 20 Sept
names and naming
Rashomon
Spirit mediums, shamans, etc.
"face"
etymology Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean
on Kurosawa's Ran
mapping minzu, other mappings, loess, walls and terre pisé
citers of Binford & Ho 1985
Can China Feed Itself?
Tampopo
Identities and Stereotypes and Views of Others
Universals, Translation, Aesthetics...
Chushingura
Japanese technologies and transformation
some China texts, tea and 'foreign mud'
Taiping Rebellion
Cui Jian and Musics in Cultures
Generalizations
...and so...
Jesse Zink checks in
...and look at University Scholars projects (from Human Geography)

Dramatis Personae:
Murray Abernethy
Jack Craddock
Colin Harding
Lucy Hinkle
Brett Kirwan
Ian McAllister
Caroline McKinney
Andy Mendrala
Ginny Moncure
Jaime Muscar
Alicia Ravenel
Blair Sanzone
Elizabeth Saxton
Jessica Taylor
Charles Tonelli

In-class writing and other exercises
on Rashomon
on Nothomb's portrayal
Beginning ArcView
maps for projects?
mapping drives
mapping ethnicities
cleaning up maps and moving on...
project.html
music
so what? 29/xi
and so... 4/xii

my log of thoughts and links, 1998-2000
and 2001- continuation of log

Fall 2000 version of the course
My Dec 2000 reflections on where we've been
and what it all means...

and student reflections on Anthropology 230