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Wednesday's Anthro Courses

LAST CALL FOR ADDING OR DROPPING INTRO TO ANTHROPOLOGY AND EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY (anyone who wishes to add or drop after this point must have a signed permission slip from the principal)

I would also like to announce that

egyptianlove is your new TA. (OOC: Please join the assistant community if you haven't already). Your duties will mainly include looking over and grading homework and teaching when I'm away at conferences.

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Intro to Anthropology:

I have not received homework from:

futurebucs_star
jackie_sparrow
positive_angel
priestly_purple
prue_h
sharon_valerii
studentwillow
suzotchka

If you miss homework two more times, you will receive detention.

[OOC: I think one (or possibly more) might have put their homework in their journals? Please try to comment on the homework thread as it makes it easier to keep track of so I can assign detentions :P]

For those of you who haven't done the homework, you will be working on it in class. Everyone else may pair off into groups and read about societies. *hands out worksheets* Then answer these questions. You will share them with everyone else at the end of the class.

Homework: Create your own society based on what you read. Next class your societies will be sending diplomats to interact with other societies.

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Egyptian Archaeology:

I have not received homework from:

adolescent_alan
alchemic_bean
joolushko_tunai
kawalsky
missromana
valentine_tart
youngest_sister
yuuko_sama

Note: half-eaten lollipops do NOT count as homework. ~~I don't care if you happen to be siblings with Death~~

Two more times of no homework and you get detention.

Anyway, now we will be studying the site of Giza. ~~the site where the Stargate was found~~. *turns down the lights and starts teaching*

Homework: Please continue the reading, you will have a quiz on Giza next class.

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Last call for add/drop forms.

I hate to say it, but I may not be ready for this class, Professor...My appologies.

It's quite all right. If you want to sit in on some of the discussion without doing the work, you can always audit.

Comment here to participate in discussion or ask ~~pointless~~ questions.

Chihaya squawked when he saw his name on the bad homework list and began a panicked search through his bookbag. He could have sworn he turned it in and hoped he had the good sense to keep a copy.

*flips desperately through agenda* Oh no . . . so sorry, Professor, but what was the homework? I seemed to have missed it. My apologies; I'll get it done as soon as I know what it is . . .

Sorry, Professor. I found it.

*reads*

*strolls in*

Speech 301 was cancelled this morning. Professor Cregg's car... uh... blew up.

*takes handout and begins to read*

*slinks in looking somewhat abashed and hides in the back row*

[OOC: Been a busy day again. Stupid RL.]

*after about ten minutes, pulls out a notebook and starts scrawling the late homework assignment*

*hands it in before slinking out the door*

Comment here to participate in discussion or ask ~~pointless~~ questions.

Sir, I was reading up on some things and I discovered some crazy ass theories about how the pyramids were actually build by aliens to land their spaceships. What's your opinion on this?

...where did you find that?

I actually wrote a paper and was highly criticized for my theory on it. ~~But hey, it got me into the Stargate program~~

I found it on the internet (http://www.unexplainable.net/pyramids.html), sir. It seems a bit dodgy, but there's some interesting points right there.

You did? So you think there might be some truth behind it?

~~I know there is~~

Well, I found evidence that there was. But most of it's classified now.

Oh. *frowns* Classified as in you'd have to kill me if you'd told me about it?

Something like that. *smirks*

Right-o. I'll stop asking questions then? ~~Although, it's quite interesting that they would need to make any such information classified to begin with.</S~~

That would probably be a good idea. Though, perhaps I can finagle something so that I can actually talk about it in class without giving away all the classified stuff. ~~Don't ask me, ask the military guys who make the rules. I'm just a civilian~~

*grins* That would be cool, sir. ~~I will when I join the USAF and get to fly a the X-304.~~

Gosh! Wow! this is so fascinating! And Aliens?

Well, I guess after a few days here, nothing should really surprise me, right?

*sulks*

IT Was fRom egYPt frOm before, um.

It's okay, just...try better...next time?

So my picture counted as homework?

Cool.

Well, I excused you once. But don't expect me to let it slide again.

*Edward sits back and takes some notes, but mostly sleeps through the class, slightly hung over.*

*shows up, tries to flirt, pouts when Danny cuts the lights on her*

*proceeds to doodle and doze off in the back*

Lisa runs into class a few minutes late, obviously flustered but apologetic.

Gremlins, I'm sorry.

I had a question regarding the reading. The Hall of Records (http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/secretchambers3.htm)... is there any truth to the conspiracies?

What is it with those things overrunning this school? It's okay, just try to be more on time next time.

That's an interesting theory, and I've never actually done any excavations with the Sphinx, but considering some of the things I've discovered in Giza, it's fairly plausible.

I will, I think I have figured out a way to outrun them. And by outrun them, I mean tranquilize them.

That's fascinating. Thanks for your time, Dr. Jackson, see you next class. (And I will be on time.)

*Lily leaves class with 8 pages of meticulously-written notes*

Comment here to submit homework.

[OOC: If it's just reading, no need to. That's just for classes that there's physically homework to turn in, or if you want to, like, do extra credit.]

*meekly hands in a neatly-written page* Sorry it's late, Professor.

While both enthnocentrism and cultural relativism are intimately involved in the so-called purity of anthropology, they are diametrically opposed. Ehnocentrism refers to the attitude, usually of socio-cultural anthropologists, that their own culture (usually a developed Western culture, such as that of America or England, of even of a certain segment of society within these cultures) is superior to that which they are studying. A popular example used to illustrate ehthnocentrism in action is comparing middle-class America to the bushmen of the Kalahari - the popular protagonists of 'The Gods Must Be Crazy!'. A researcher from middle-class America may originally look down on the bushmen, because they live a nomadic lifestyle, own few possessions - and those are shared amongst the group - and wear next to nothing, to begin with. However, if said researcher from middle-class America were to be placed in the same arid environment and survive, they would necessarliy adapt. Animal husbandy or agriculture would be impossible; a nomaid lifestyle would therefore make sense. And because of constantly being on the move, possessions would gradually be dropped, as would clothing as it became more and more sensible to begin to wear next to nothing in the arid Kalahari environment. This example leads directly to cultural relativism. Cultural relativism is the view that all cultures must be viewed from its own point of view, not an external and "superior" judge, which is what anthropologists can become. However, cultural relativism includes that caveat that not all aspects of a culture - sacrifice of a sentient being, or female genital mutilation - are valid when viewed from the perspective of basic human or alien rights, and it should not be expected of the ethnographer to adhere to or shrug off these practices.

*hurries back to her desk to begin working on the societies assignment

::blushes:: Apologies. I enrolled late and was not aware of the homework, but that is no excuse. ::hands in late homework::

[*hides in corner and promises to do her homework after work tonight*]

Sorry Doc. I got.. lost. Long story ~~involving slime and torture devices in the girl's locker room~~.

*submits catch-up homework for last time, a hand-written description on a fertility artefact that looks very phallic, including a picture and some research that looks like it was pulled off Wikipedia and rewritten because Kawalsky has underlined certain key terms as if they were hyperlinks*

And the homework for this time.. the reading.. I haven't got the textbook yet. Can I borrow one of yours? *waves another box of tissues at Daniel*

There should be a new shipment coming in soon. In the meantime, the library should have one or two on reserve.

I don't have a library card yet, but I'll see what Janet can do to help me out. Thanks Doc.

The reading's not that long, you could always photocopy it or just read it at the library if you had to.

Gotcha. Will do. ~~Even though it drags me away from having an excuse to talk to Janet again, because OMG, no one else understands me~~

*hands in a report detailing a state society, with a number of eglatatian ideas, although stratification still occurs. The report includes a rough map of the capital, and shows (in far, far too much detail!) how the governing of both the state and church works*

((OOC: Whoops, I got MAJORLY sidetracked by a translating project and forgot to post in the other thread 'til much later. >_>))

*hands in society, featuring a world that exists concurrently alongside the human world but of which the human world is mostly unaware. The society features a multitude of 'magical' creatures including werewolves (earth), merpeople (water), vampires (air), salamanders (fire), and dragons (magic), has social strata based on a bloodlines caste system (purebloods and hybrids with the human world) and is slightly matriarchal*

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