Rachel Wrenn September 28, 2016 Precis: Johnson-Hanks, Seeman et. al., Seeman INTRODUCTION: My brother the airline pilot tells a story of learning how to fly a plane. When he would go up in the...Read More
Cara Curtis 19 September 2016 Precis: Unni Wikan; Kleinman & Kleinman What (All) Is At Stake?: Trying to Account for Experience in Ethnographic Work The authors we read for this week set...Read More
By Emmy Corey Godfrey Lienhardt’s Divinity and Experience: The Religion of the Dinka There is a moment in Divinity and Experience where Lienhardt asks the Padiangbar clan (a Dinka subtribe) a...Read More
In Godfrey Lienhardt’s incisive study of the African Dinka, Divinity and Experience, he defines Dinka religion not as a set of external beliefs and rituals but as “a relationship between men and u...Read More
Two researchers walk into a bar. The one exits the bar immediately, slips on a banana peel and while flat on his back is instantly overcome by the night sky, he is rendered speechless. The other tak...Read More
Dear Class Participants, Welcome to our new scholar blog site. Each week you should find the précis for the week posted here by Monday at 5 PM and can contribute your own comments or questions by Tue...Read More