Category: anthropology
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JC's place – progress report
Mary Guerra Ben P. Johnson Yongho Kim Anthropology (248) of Religion October 29, 2003 Progress Report on Class Project We have chosen the JC’s place as our field site. JC’s place is (apparently) an inter-confessional youth program developed by the Emmanuel Christian Center that holds worship services on Wednesdays at 7:00 PM, consisting of praise…
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Anointment
Yongho Kim October 27, 2003 Anthropology (248) of Religion Members of the Holiness Church (the Sign Followers) of Eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, and elsewhere in the U.S., maintain that faith alone is not enough to prepare a believer to handle serpents, speak in tongues, heal through prayer, etc. Describe what is required of a believer…
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Gender
Yongho Kim Anthropology (248) of Religion October 20, 2003 Almost everywhere, religious beliefs and rituals blend with/reflect cultural constructions of gender. Why is this the case? And why is it so widespread that women are most vulnerable to accusations of harming others via their access to supernatural power? Try to analyze these puzzling situations using…
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Obituaries
Yongho Kim Anthropology (248) of Religion October 15, 2003 Choose any issue of the St. Paul Pioneer Press or the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper and read the Obituary Section. Describe any consistencies/commonalities that you observe across the majority of the obituaries. If there are any significant differences in one or more of the obituaries, describe…
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Proposal: Self-image among Masaai youth
Yongho Kim Anth258: African Societies Paper topic proposal: Self-image among Masaai youth The Masaai are a pastoral and patrilineal people who live mostly in southern Kenya but also in northern regions of Tanzania, constituting roughly 5% of the Kenyan population. Their means of subsistence has been cattle, goat and sheep herding. Social hierarchy is strictly…
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Ethnographic Analysis: Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta
Yongho Kim Anthropology 258: African Societies October 13, 2003 Jomo Kenyatta was a Gikuyu anthropologist trained in London under Bronislav Malinowski. He was pointed by the British colonial administration as the organizer of the Independence movements in Kenya and imprisoned for eight years, but was eventually released and became the first president of Kenya in…
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Ritual
Yongho Kim Anth248: Anthropology of Religion October 1, 2003 Boyer distinguishes ritual from other human action in that rituals follow a specific rule, and a performed in a specific manner and place, and with a specific instrumentation. (231) Failure to comply with scripts is believed to lead to a vague danger, and so practitioners follow…
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Multivocality
Yongho Kim October 8, 2003 Anthropology (248) of Religion Our author Hicks tells us that blood is a multivocal symbol, and this makes it particularly useful in ritual contexts. What IS a “multivocal symbol”? How have cultures used blood to transmit powerful religious concepts? (Use specific ethnographic examples to illustrate your discussion.) Can you think…
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Film Review of Lumumba
Film Review of Lumumba Anthropology 258: African Societies Yongho Kim I have seen Lumumba as a traditional film containing the ten years before and immediately following the independence of DRC. In other words, the fact that the theme was based in Africa did not tweak the way in which the narrative itself was presented, as…
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Gender – China
Intro. To talk about current issues of gender inequality in China is to talk about the consequences of a quickly developing socialist society with a patriarchal, agriculturally intensive and confucianist tradition.