"The [performance art] piece is set on a space station in the future and explores the relationship between politeness and violence, from manners at European courts to the recent boorishness found in the media and entertainment industries, via interaction with a musical, catapulting environment of insult, obstacle and challenge."
Discussion preparation for Ur-Boor.

Mind Candy: Art

• A couple of my favorite paintings by Lisa Vandegrift Davala. Browse her site.
  • Particularly the artist's books.
  • See also Re-member: Fear Lent Wings. We're going to make some books on our field trips and as projects.

  • See also Midnight at North Wales Pond

  • Alleluiahs of Love

• Visit also Richard Callahan's site to see Table for Eleven and Homage to H.J.

  Mind Candy: Poetry

• Sophisticated Prose
  Poet's discussion of nature in the city. Delightful images of the animals Jack Collum usually describes in nature. The whole interview is worth reading. jeanne

• We Are the Dinosaur
  thought you'd like this one by Bob Holman. I especially like the "dum de dum dum dum dum dum dumb." jeanne
  • We Are the Dinosaur
    Sound File. Read by Bob Holman.

  Mind Candy: Music

  A Punjabi Song from Stephen Lyon's Dissertation Work
  From a village in Pakistan.

  • Stephen Lyon's Field NotesThis is the first week of an anthropologist's field notes. Note the importance he places on the openness and transparency of his field research. In the Pass or Prepared? I will discuss such transparency and its value to discourse on research.

  • Indus Civilization
    Very brief blurb on the Indus Civilization. "Archaeologists unearth clues to ancient cities--long disappeared--that once flourished in the Indus Valley of Pakistan and northwestern India."

    The cover photo of the June 2000 issue is of a hunter in waterbird mask, lifting his head "above the Indus River in Pakistan. Recent excavations reveal that in 3300 B.C. the Bronze Age village of Harappa was home to farmers, hunters, and fishermen." Harappa gave rise "to one of at least five urban centers of the Indus Civilization." The article includes maps and photos of the area that Stephen Lyons is describing. One of the pictures was taken near Lahore, which Lyons mentions.

  • Intertextuality. Having Lyons' notes from his archeological work available on the Internet gave me my first introduction to Lahore. Then, when I read the June 2000 National Geographic, and found maps and pictures that included that same area, I was incredibly pleased with myself. I "knew" Lahore. This is how texts, including working texts from our academic teaching and learning help give meaning to the official texts, which in this case would be the National Geogrpahic.

    We found Nicholas J. Fox's article on intertextuality a great help in conceptualizing our work with our students and the recognition that such work held the power to challenge the "administering" of the academy. Intertextuality and the Writing of Soccial Research by Nicholas J. Fox.

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  Grist Magazine
  Ecology. Tammy York sent me the URL. Theory Readings Click <- Here to Work Ahead for Fall 2000.

  First of new file on Gordon Fellman's Rambo and the Dalai Lama

  what jeanne's reading

  Tales from New York
  Justice Studies Association Paper

  • Why We Need Theory

  • Recuerdo . . .

  • Photodocumentary and Visual Ethnography in a Postmodern Digital World: From Positivist Empiricist Pomposity towards a Critique of Photo-electric Representation
    by W. Gordon West. This essay brings us face to face with the dilemma of whether the visual world can lie. Can we rely on what we see? Think of the Rodney King incident.

  • Respect and Disrespect

  • London Bridges the Racial Divide
    New excerpt from National Geographic article, June 2000.

  • University Protests over Sweat Shop Tactics

  • New Additions to Justice Studies Association Paper
    Beginning Notes from the Trip Up!

  • Madonna and Judith Butler's Gender Trouble

  • Some Theoretical Notes from JSA Meetings
    Pierre Bourdieu's Perception of Structural Violence in Academic Discourse

  • Structural Violence in Honoring Our Heroes
    Professor Don Hata's account of problems with a Japanese War Memorial.

  • Comments on the Structural Violence of Exams
    More of this file up soon. We talked about this at the Justice Studies Association Meetings.

  • Intrinsic versus Extrinsic MotivationA bioopsychological approach.

    Children's Rights

    Children's Nutritional Rights
    George Kent provides draft articles online.

    Labelling Theory
    This is intended as a reading, not as a project. Please do not do this exercise! We will do a modified version of it, for which you cannot be arrested. jeanne

  Discussion Threads

  • Comments on Girls at Risk

    Suggested Projects

    Paper for ASA Meetings in August 2000.
    This paper is on how we managed to share in curriculum development with students, with the community, and across universities (cross-country). As I manage to put up the process text, you are all welcome to participate in the final drafting of the paper.

    Call for papers on criminology and justice.

    Pass or Prepared?

    • On Learning to See Graphs and Maps
    • On Plagiarism and Interpreting Data
    • On Crosstabs at Home with SDA

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    Jeanne's To Do List

    Pass? or Prepared? for all the readings. E-mail your preferences. I can do them in any order you like. jeanne

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