Anthropology 230: Anthropology of East Asia

TuTh 3-4:30 Parmly 302
Dr. Hugh Blackmer
Course description from the 2000-2001 Catalog
On the Study of the Anthropology of East Asia:
excursus and syllabus
University Scholars 201 (Spring 2000)
setting up your web presence

glossary of terms encountered, and
Oxford English Dictionary

Chronologies and a Gazetteer
Provinces of China and finding information

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

Using ArcView and 1990 Census variables
some images and population distributions

 Dramatis Personae:
Callie Campbell
Katie Clark
Berdine Edgar
Phelps Harmon
Jared Jones
Jessica Jones
Hyewon Kim
KJ Linthicum
Thaxton Mauzy
Marc McAfee
Greg Michaels
Cheol Park
Sarah Petrey
Monica Schoenthaler
Matt Socha
Topical weblets
my log of thoughts and links
My notes on Skinner 1985
names and naming
identities
mappings of China
Korean archaeology
more on One Child
walls, and the Great Wall, etc.
the Analects of Confucius
age pyramids
ethnicities in Guangdong and Guangxi
Hakka
etymology Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean
words for and associated with 'tea'
A focusing technique
Some texts to illuminate...
Falun Gong / Falun Dafa
Taiping Rebellion
Views of Others: stereotypes and more
A digression on tea
Rashomon
Six classes remaining...
Japan and the Outside World and Portuguese and more Perry
How to Wrap Five Eggs
silk and type and Zen koans
Cui Jian and Musics in Cultures
Kurosawa's Yojimbo
Some Chinese Medicine Sources
Martin Gardner on the I Ching
Selected Stories of Lu Xun
Berdine's Secret Admirer

Reflections on where we've been
and what it all means...
and finishing everything up

In-class writing and other exercises
First approximation to Projects
personal identities
first ArcView maps
Second approximation to projects
ArcView 2: ArcView does minzu
ArcView 3: 1990 Census and PhotoShop
ArcView 4: JOINing Tables in ArcView
More of and/or less of?
ArcView5: population density
ArcView6: occupation
The Suits go to Lunch
ArcView7: minzu in more detail
Projects as of 23 Oct
Third Approximation to Projects
Plan of Attack re: Falun Gong
First draft of Project introductions
ArcView8: topography of provinces
What's new in the Taiping texts?
Rashomon essays
Current state and plans for Projects
on Yojimbo

Reflections on Anthropology 230