elanya

Sometimes it is rough being a Boggan.

I am almost out of scanning already!

I wrote a cool haiku this morning about fall but I don't think I remember it.

bright forest burning
leaf blazes orange glory
falls extinguished

Something like that.

Blargh

To Do

Solos! Because I refuse to sacrifice all my fun
Presentation for next week - e-mail Celia, start readings
Start working on funding applications (INA and Wrenner-Gren) (both in November)
Start thinking of paper topics for Cultural (talk to Steve!!) (first draft in November)
Start reading up on different theorists (for paper)

Don't Panic!

Someone (okay it was fortysevenbteg. ETA: no, I lie it was nichm!) posted this as a meme. I'm egotistical, so I'm game.

Rules: Take a picture of yourself right now. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair... just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing.

I have a presentation next week in my cultural anthropology theory class. It's a shared presentation, which is an odd and unfamiliar format, but I thik it can be good!

I'm presenting on Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Zora Neale Hurston. The latter I know nothing about - yet! The others I'm much more familiar with. Boas did a lot of work with various Native groups along the north west coast of North America, and that was the focus of one of my most memorable (and formative) ethnography classes as an undergraduate. So i've got a lot of exposure to his ideas. benedict was one of his students, and I've got a fair amount of exposure to her as weel - again all at UNB. And people told me it was pointless to keep class notes. well who's laughing now? :V

Anyway the point is that I went back through a lot of old notes from my undergrad theory classes and now I'm feeling much less freaked out. In fact the Sherry Ortner article that we're using as a foundation to build the class discussions on now? I've already read it! I'm feeling a lot more psychologically prepared to deal with this class now, which is good, and I *was* feeling inexplicably scared by it.

Now it is still a ton of work. I still have a shitton of stuff to do between now and November, but I think I can handle it. Now I just need to figure out what exactly I want to write my paper on and I'll be feeling a lot more secure. I'm thinking I want to tackle the identity issue, but I need to frame it in terms of: agency, power, subject/the other, culture, symbolism, society, practice, history, idealismvs materialism. Those are our "keywords".... Identity, maginalization, relationship to the community... And then i have to couch my studies in X number of the theorists we are studying. *Runs away with Turner, Foucault and Bourdieu, at least.... Possibly some Boas/Benedict tossed in....*

Well I'm totally rambling now! But I'm verging on psyched for this now, as opposed to terrified!

Now if I could only get psyched about the funding apps... -_-