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Day 12 (9/2): Body Ritual Among the Nacerima


Aims & Objectives

  • to encourage students to make connections between academic disciplines by exploring underlying concepts and by identifying similarities and differences in the methods of inquiry used in different areas of knowledge
  • to encourage students to be more aware of their own perspectives and to reflect critically on their own beliefs and assumptions
  • identify and explore links between knowledge questions and the world around us

Key Questions

Is it possible to eliminate the effect of the observer in the pursuit of knowledge in the human sciences? (Perspectives)

What values determine what counts as legitimate inquiry in the human sciences? Can knowledge be divorced from the values embedded in the process of creating it? (Ethics)

Agenda:

  • Read "Body Ritual Among the Nacerima"
  • Assignment: Multimodal Ethnography Project
Homework: 
  • Multimodal Ethnography Prewrite Due 9/15
  • EE: 
    • Revised 3000-word draft PAST DUE
    • Schedule your 2nd Formal Reflection Session!
  • End-of-Unit Blog - Due date 9/10

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