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=WEEK 1=

A good rule of ethnographic method: when things get abstract and difficult to figure out just by thinking about it, look for concrete examples out in the world and try to describe what you see (or better yet, get other people to describe what they think they see). A simple experiment: if you search Flicker for images that are tagged with the word "culture," here is what you get: http://www.compfight.com/#search_type=tags&query=culture&commit=Search&license=&original=1&safe_search=1

What can you say about culture using these images?

-- Posted by The Big Man

"[|What the World Eats]"

I clicked on one of the advertising links that came up in the right sidebar here on wikispaces -- the one for Ethnographic Insight -- and got to this BusinessWeek article on rituals which is quite interesting: []

- Submitted by The Big Man

media type="youtube" key="k2sYIIjS-cQ" height="315" width="560" Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">And don't speak too soon <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">For the wheel's still in spin <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">And there's no tellin' who <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">That it's namin' <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">For the loser now <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Will be later to win <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">For the times they are a-changin'.

<span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Come senators, congressmen <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Please heed the call <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Don't stand in the doorway <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Don't block up the hall <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">For he that gets hurt <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Will be he who has stalled <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">There's a battle outside <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">And it is ragin' <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">It'll soon shake your windows <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">And rattle your walls <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">For the times they are a-changin'.

<span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Come mothers and fathers <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Throughout the land <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">And don't criticize <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">What you can't understand <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Your sons and your daughters <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Are beyond your command <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Your old road is <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Rapidly agin' <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Please get out of the new one <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">If you can't lend your hand <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">For the times they are a-changin'.

<span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">The line it is drawn <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">The curse it is cast <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">The slow one now <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Will later be fast <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">As the present now <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Will later be past <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">The order is <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Rapidly fadin' <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">And the first one now <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Will later be last <span style="color: #474747; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px;">For the times they are a-changin'.

It's a simple question: "In the city or area where you live, do you feel safe walking alone at night, or not?" http://www.gallup.com/poll/155402/women-feel-less-safe-men-developed-countries.aspx