GC Week 6 Memo s2025 Page

Week 6
GC Memo

UMD Department letterhead.16 February 2025               

 

LAST CALL: If you have not yet submitted a Midterm Exam Question, please do that today . . .

 

What’s Happening Week 6?

This week we venture out to meet then twelve-year-old Chai Thao who will tell us about her Hmong family in neighboring Appleton, Wisconsin, and what was like to grow up in a Hmong shaman’s family as an “American” pre-teen.

We will have a preliminary look at "Units of Analysis" in anthropological research in an exercise comparing/contrasting Chai Thao of Appleton and the acclaimed Olympic gymnast Sunisa Lee of St. Paul.

We’ll consider some “Other Important Terms” that you should keep in mind. (“Units of Analysis” is one we’ll focus more on during Week 10.)

The other main thing you need to do this this week is prepare for the Midterm Exam next week (it will be available Monday-Saturday, 24 February- 1 March 2025). So catch up on your readings, videos, and slides, and start thinking about the Midterm Exam.

Slide decks include “Other Important Terms”, and "Fieldwork as a Primary Research Technique".

Week 6 Overview

GC Wk6 OVERVIEW TO BEGIN MODULE 6.


Week 6 Wrap-UP

GC Wk6 WRAP-UP.


Questions? / Comments / Suggestions . . .

If you have any questions or comments right now, please do not hesitate to post them on the “Discussions”, or e-mail troufs@d.umn.edu, or ZOOM https://umn.zoom.us/my/troufs Links to an external site.. (E-mail is fastest, and most generally best as quite often URLs need be sent.)

Best Wishes,

Tim Roufs

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Split Horn Shaman Hmong Appleton WI.jpg

 

Image of America vs. the U.S.A.



Map of the Americas from the Library of Congress.