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  • Assignment 2: Project Proposal (second version)

    Yongho Kim Assignment 2: Project Proposal (second version) September 24, 2004 Ethnographic Interviewing 1. My microculture is a flowershop. 2. The flowershop is located in Minnesota, in on a relatively major avenue. About 20 employees seem to work there. My informant, Sarah, is one of the managers (or so it seems) and I will be…

  • Assignment 3: Interview on the Diversity Weekend Committee

    September 21, 2004 Yongho Kim Ethnographic Interviewing Assignment 3 Interview on the Diversity Weekend Committee I interviewed a friend, and she really wanted to talk about the Diversity Weekend committee. And although I realized that I knew the microculture too well (if it could be called one), and that it had a short life span…

  • Assignment 2: Project Proposal

    Yongho Kim Assignment 2: Project Proposal September 21, 2004 Ethnographic Interviewing

  • 50 emails in the last 24 hours

    And there’s more coming! One of the CP comrades put me up as the contact person. Well, at least now spams don’t overnumber regular emails.

  • [Yongho Kim] Marx and Engels

    From: “Yongho Kim” Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 2:04 PM Subject: Marx Notes September 20, 2004 Yongho Kim Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook German Ideology is a work that unfolds from the context of the Hegelian/socialist debates in Germany. In it, Marx criticizes idealist reformists such as Max…

  • [Anna Schwartz] Tylor and Morgan

    This text was produced by Anna Schwartz while the person was a student at Macalester. It was distributed for in-class review. Any use of this text necessitates you to contact the person directly for copyright purposes.

  • Beginning again, from refugee to Citizen

    BEGINNING AGAIN: FROM REFUGEE TO CITIZEN Keynote Presentation by Professor Ahmed I. Samatar. “Somalis in America,” conference held at Macalester College, July 15-17, 2004. I. Introduction: II. Why People Decamp A.Push. B. Pull. C. Terms. III.Waves and Models IV.The Somali Moment A.Tacabir vs. Qaxootin: B.Issues: V.The Dialectic of Critical Adaptation A.English Language B.Racism C.Somali and…

  • Faith and Social Justice

    Yongho Kim March 11, 2004 Anthropology Internship: Faith and Social Justice Prof. Sonia Patten Finding Common Grounds: Religious Morality as a Catalyst for Economic Justice What Faith Groups Say About “The Right to Organize”, by the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice (NICWJ), brings together the strongest arguments made in alliance with the workers’ rights…

  • Weatherford rocks

    amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0609610627/qid=1080489130/sr=8-3/ref=pd_ka_3/103-6648822-4747822?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Weatherford’s Genghis Khan and the making of the Modern World ranks 31 in Amazon.com rankings! I gotta buy one and send to my younger bro. [added in 2005] heh heh. what was THAT review If all history books were this fun I wouldn’t have flunk…, November 10, 2004 Reviewer: Ma WenRui “soukouslover” (Minneapolis, MN…

  • Making connections with the audience: professionalism and alienation

    Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music May 10, 2004. (due May 7th – three days late ) Making connections with the audience: professionalism and alienation In reflecting on the production of “Forgotten”, I want to focus on the difference between the performance at the Union Hall and the one at Macalester in the level of…

  • imagined conversation between Benjamin Filene and Ruth Glasser on "authenticity"

    Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music May 10, 2004 (due April 15 – 3 weeks late) [DJ plays “We shall not be moved” by the Almanac Singers] Glasser: I like how the band uses the banjo, which gives it a more folk feel. Were the instruments made in the east coast before being sold to…

  • Coalition-making in The Fuse’s Seattle 1919

    Yongho Kim Labor’s Story through Music February 25, 2004 Coalition-making in The Fuse’s Seattle 1919: Class Solidarity and Divisiveness, and Incorporation of the Other in post-World War I Unionism. Seattle 1919 addresses issues of class solidarity frequently present in the newly emerging U.S. unionism and attempts to unite workers from different race, gender, and skill…

  • I just saw this on Tapestry

    I finally found him! He’s Roger Guenver Smith and he did The Huey P. Newton Story in the Fall of 2001. I loved his performance, and his after-discussion in which he advocated having holistic aspirations – I still recall him saying “Say, I my major is the sky.” Oooh! Happy happy.

  • Next year plans

    So, some things I want to pull together for next year just don’t work. This year I was lucky and managed to always leave large chunks of time to be used for my off-campus work study. Next year, I’ve got these two annoying major requirements that stick in the middle of the day – MWF…

  • Class schedules are partially up!

    And the anthro classes seem to be all up! Yay MS. Byrne! Fall 2004 Medical Anthro W 7:00 Patten Gender and Family in Africa 2:20 Patten Anthro of War 1:00 Weatherford Untitled 2:45 Dean Globalization 1:10 Dean? History of Anthro Ideas 10:50 Guneratne Intermediate German II Huener Philosophy Mind 2:45 Laine FIlm Studies 10:10 W7…

  • [Comment] Blues people: negro music in white america

    Yongho Kim Telling Labor’s Story through Music February 10, 2004 Baraka points out in chapter 2 that West African music provided a baseline for the music sung by African-Americans who came to the United States through slavery. Two main tenets of these West African roots are the multilingualism of its lyrics and the narrow albeit…

  • Evaluation of translation 8b (Fairest Friend, by Robert French)

    Yongho Kim Russian 265: Literary Translation February 4, 2004 Evaluation of translation 8b (Fairest Friend, by Robert French) Having had the bias of looking at the uncle-tone styled Chapter I translations of the poem, French’s tone, which sets up a relationship of clandestine lovers between the poet and the interpelate (3-10), which given its detour…

  • Protected: Sample interview on Bon Appetit

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  • Sweet '38 Latin major story at Lilly

    [Jan. 3rd, 2004|09:19 am] All of you Classics majors should read Margaret Lukins Ferguson (’38)’s story in the Macalester History Project by Lilly. Refreshing! http://www.macalester.edu/lillygrant/history/view.html

  • Witchbuster

    Yongho Kim December 12, 2003 Anthropology of Religion Are there any conditions under which it could be justifiable to punish a witch? If yes, what are those conditions, what might be appropriate punishment, and what assumptions are you making to support this position? If no, why not? Yes. A witch should be punished when he…