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I am really tired. it is ten. I have skimmed the stuff relevant to my presentation. I know the basic arguments. it is malinowski, lagoon versus ocean fishing, magic as a way to cope with anxiety and things that are beyond reason and control... and the same thing in texas, in bay versus gulf fishermen and their beliefs. What's to say, really, beyond that? Not much of a presentation.
I could tell myself that I can do this tomorrow as long as I read the rest of my readings for tomorrow, and/or some france, but I'm tired. I'm just not up for Mark Leone beating me about the head with the hammer of Marxism. Why is everyone a goddamned Marxist these days, anyway? I am just not sure if I accept that *everything* is about power relations. In fact, I'm pretty sure that I don't. Now why do I have such a hard time articulating why? I wonder if anyone has written an article on the relationship between Functionalism and Marxism. Stupid mark leone, look what he's doing to me! I'm too tired to read about his garden thingy. THINGY. Ha. There is *my* resistance for the evening. :p
I guess I will draw up an outline, at least, and probably just wing it tomorrow, and if Dr Stewart says anything, I can just ask him what more he expects of me, considering that there aren't technically supposed to be any classes tomorrow :p
I have barely read any france at all, I am not nearly close enough to finishing my paper/chapter for Dr E, and I have another paper due on Monday ;_; And this weekend is Tsiankiio's wedding. So why am I even considering gaming on Sunday? Because I'm a crazy stupid fool :p Bah. It probably won't even be an issue, as I won't get back from Raleigh in time.
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I could tell myself that I can do this tomorrow as long as I read the rest of my readings for tomorrow, and/or some france, but I'm tired. I'm just not up for Mark Leone beating me about the head with the hammer of Marxism. Why is everyone a goddamned Marxist these days, anyway? I am just not sure if I accept that *everything* is about power relations. In fact, I'm pretty sure that I don't. Now why do I have such a hard time articulating why? I wonder if anyone has written an article on the relationship between Functionalism and Marxism. Stupid mark leone, look what he's doing to me! I'm too tired to read about his garden thingy. THINGY. Ha. There is *my* resistance for the evening. :p
I guess I will draw up an outline, at least, and probably just wing it tomorrow, and if Dr Stewart says anything, I can just ask him what more he expects of me, considering that there aren't technically supposed to be any classes tomorrow :p
I have barely read any france at all, I am not nearly close enough to finishing my paper/chapter for Dr E, and I have another paper due on Monday ;_; And this weekend is Tsiankiio's wedding. So why am I even considering gaming on Sunday? Because I'm a crazy stupid fool :p Bah. It probably won't even be an issue, as I won't get back from Raleigh in time.
This entry has been brought to you by the bitch-o-matic 5000 :p
cranky
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Marxism and functionalism (at least, some brands of it) go hand in hand. You should read Trigger's History of archaeological thought, chapter 7, which starts out talking about functionalism, then goes right into Gordon Childe and materialist Marxism. God, there must be something else written on functionalism and Marxism. I did read essentially a huge chunk of arch-theory literature a couple of years back and take notes on it all. Hmm ... Dean Saitta's stuff is roughly a sort of functionalist Marxism, not to mention parts of Trigger's own empirical work. It all depends on how important class conflict is to Marxism, whether it is essential or can be weakened.
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I'm reading "Interpreting Ideology in Historical Arcaheology: using the Rules of Perspective in the William Paca Garden in Annapolis, Maryland."
It *is* a landscape course, afterall. Leone's work on the Paca garden was pretty much inevitable.
I'm off to bed, though, with a short and shitty prsentation halfassedly 'finished' and nothing new read. I'm just too tired :/
I'm waiting on that new edition of Trigger, though. Or is it out yet? ;)
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