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(Anthro 103)
As part of your Day 1 check-in procedures, you will need to get started setting up your own course blog on Blogger. This blog will be your tool for projects and assignments and discussions throughout the course.
Use this blog as just a sample of what you might want to do with your own blog. You aren't required to personalize it... If all you do is use the posting function, that's up to you, but have some fun with it! I do ask that you limit posts to strictly course projects for the duration of this class. After that, it is up to you what you want to do with it.
To get started, click the link to the right for the page "Setting up your own blog on Blogger". Please let me know if you have any questions. You will need to send me the url link to your new blog by midnight of Day 1, though formatting and personalization of your blog can be done at your leisure.
In addition to setting up your blog, please also complete the following by 11:59 pm on Day 1:
To get started, click the link to the right for the page "Setting up your own blog on Blogger". Please let me know if you have any questions. You will need to send me the url link to your new blog by midnight of Day 1, though formatting and personalization of your blog can be done at your leisure.
In addition to setting up your blog, please also complete the following by 11:59 pm on Day 1:
- Submit comments to this post with regard to the discussion questions listed below. Please submit as comments below in the comments section, NOT on your personal blogs. Click the "Comments" link below to get started.
- Make two substantive responses within the comment thread below to posts made by other students. Please make sure to follow the course Netiquette rules (available on Blackboard under "Course Info") and specify the name of the person you are addressing in your comment. Again, these comments should go on the comment thread below, NOT on your personal blogs.
You will be submitting three separate comments, one in response to the questions below and two as responses to other students. For grading purposes, please do NOT combine them into one massive comment.
(Having problems posting comments? Head over to "Blogger Help" page on the right side of the screen. The most common problem is an issue with "third party cookies" used by Blogger. If your computer is set to block those cookies, your comments will NOT post. There are instructions on the "Blogger Help" page to address this.)
Discussion: We will be studying cultures very different from ours, including practices and behaviors you might find disturbing or even wrong, by your moral standards. Many people are disturbed by anthropologists studying practices like these because it seems to them as if by studying morally abhorrent behaviors, anthropologists are seeking to justify those behaviors, to explain why it's "okay" to behave that way.
Do you think this conception of anthropologists is true? By studying cultural practices, are anthropologists trying to justify them, to demonstrate that these behaviors are acceptable from a moral perspective? As a cultural anthropologist, what would you say to help these people understand why it is helpful to understand cultures different from ours?
Ready? Go!
