Category: school
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Outline: Maasai Identity
Yongho Kim Anthro 258: African Societies November 14, 2003 In my topic proposal, my research question has been this: How do the younger generations of Maasai view themselves [in the context of generational gap, education, “tradition”, tourism and authenticity] in relation to elders and the urban Kenyan society? Based on readings, I have come to…
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Fundamentalism
Yongho Kim November 12, 2003 Anthropology (248) of Religion Pascal Boyer tells us that fundamentalism is neither religion in excess nor politics in disguise. According to Boyer, what IS fundamentalism? According to YOU, what is fundamentalism–on what points do you agree with Boyer and on what points do you disagree? In a sense, fundamentalism can…
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Minow and Gourevitch: Human Rights as a recovery of Humanity
Yongho Kim INTL245: Human Rights November 7, 2003 Gourevitch’s We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families is a powerful account of the genocide in Rwanda, an analysis of certain key concepts in issues of mass violations of human rights, and an outcry to the international community and the…
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Revitalization
Yongho Kim November 3, 2003 Anthropology (248) of Religion Anthony F.C. Wallace provided a five-stage structural framework for understanding the revitalization process (see Hicks, pp. 455-68). To what extent are these five stages applicable to the Holiness Church (Sign Followers) of Eastern Kentucky? Do you consider the Holiness Church to be a revitalization movement? Why…
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Inter-American System
The Inter-American System JU, SL I. Background and Institutions The Inter-American System of human rights consists principally of the General Assembly, the Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the Council, and the General Secretariat. It is guided by the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man (adopted 1948) and the American…
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Field notes from JC’s place
Yongho Kim Anthropology (248) of Religion Wednesday Oct 29th, 2003. Field notes from JC’s place Foreword for Mary, Ben, and Prof. Patten: In the middle of this fieldnote, I realized that it would end up being quite long. Then I thought I should share this with the JCP staff and our group. So I decided…
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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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European Court of Human Rights
KJ, SK. Group 9 This section opens with a detailed account of the Lustig- Prean and Beckett case that came before the European Court of Human Rights. These two British nationals complained that investigations into their homosexuality their discharge from the Royal Navy on the sole ground that they are homosexual violated Article 8 of…
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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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Response to the European Convention and the Case of Homosexuality
Monday, October 27. Group 8: AT, AW, Yongho Kim Response to the European Convention and the Case of Homosexuality The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms System constitutes a model and a standard of its own in terms of effectiveness in enforcing Human Rights among its members. The Convention was…
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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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ICCPR Mechanism
CH, JM. Discussion Group 7 What kinds of complaints are brought before the ICCPR? How does it differ from other treaty regimes? One of the components of the ICCPR Human Rights Committee is an optional protocol (ratified by 95 of the 144 states as of March 2000), with a critical provision stating that communications must be…
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Thought piece on International Roundtable: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Yongho Kim INTL245 Introduction to Human Rights October 20, 2003 Thought piece on International Roundtable: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Ngugi asserts in his paper, When the Margin Becomes the Center: African Identities in a Global Context, that political and economic remedies are not enough in addressing the internal problems in African societies, and that linguistic and…
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ICCPR
CH, HM, AP. Group 6 Response The UN currently has 6 treaty organs, which are distinguished from Charter organs in that they are not created under the UN charter, but are mandated by the 6 universal human rights treaties. The ICCPR Human Rights Committee is a treaty organ created by Articles 28-45 of the International…
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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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UN Security Council
AG, RR, EO. Thematic Mechanisms Thematic Mechanisms have been in use since 1980. They were originally created in response to disappearances in Argentina. In order to preserve national integrity, avoid political embarrassment, and protect economic issues, they were created on an international level as opposed to an individual country level. The Commission used a ‘thematic’…
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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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United Nations
JH, NE, RN. Group 4 The reading begins by discussing the problematic topic of enforcement in the realm of human rights. Serious questions are raised about the feasibility of consistent enforcement of human rights norms. It is relatively clear that some international enforcement is inevitable, regardless of it’s agreed upon desirability. However, the reading asserts that…
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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…