Anthropology 101 in session

Hello all,

After a summer of much-needed distraction from the wonderful field and careers we've chosen, it's time to get focused and use this blog to our fullest advantage. Since the launch several months ago, our contributors have reviewed a few texts straight out of last year's Irvine proseminar, and lucky for us anteaters, most of the syllabus remains intact for the fall. For the rest of you, I'm sure the material won't be that much of a departure (although we will cover a few books by our faculty that aren't even dry from the publishers), so please use this resource to the fullest ability.

To add a little more of a personal touch, I will be transcribing my notes from our Monday proseminar course onto the blog. Since I'm too lazy (and poor) to bring a laptop to class, I am experimenting with an alternative methodology towards my graduate studies: I invested in a digital voice recorder prior to arriving on campus, and I will write summaries of my documented notes and publish them onto this blog. For now, I will only do this for the proseminar course, but if people from my other courses (or any other anthropology-related event that I happen to record) want me to post those transcripts, I will be happy to oblige.

Our first reading of the term is George Stocking, Jr, "On the Limits of 'Presentism' and 'Historicism' in the Historiography of the Behavioral Sciences". You can view Stephen's excellent article on the reading here. Happy studying!