Category: papers
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Who Inquires? Assumed Interactions at Art Exhibit
Yongho Kim Principles of Art March 18, 2005 Material Inquiry is a month-long national exhibition of textile and fiber arts works at Macalester College. I briefly toured the exhibit on the morning of March 18th, the closing day, for comments and thoughts to be submitted at the Principles of Art class.
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Outline: AIDS, politics of accusation, and racially bound female bodies in the Korean American public discourse
Medical Anthropology March 3, 2005 Yongho Kim My paper aims to make the claim that geographically and racially imagined narratives within the Korean American community (in particular New York City) that portray the AIDS/HIV epidemic as originating from outside the ehtno-nationally defined core of the Korean American community have contributed to the ongoing process of…
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Polio Resurgence, Control in Saudi Arabia and Surrounding Areas.
Medical Anthropology Short paper on current issues in infectious diseases February 25, 2005 Yongho Kim Poliomyelitis, called “polio” for short, is a viral infectious disease affecting mostly young children between the age of 3 to 5 years. It is caused by the poliovirus, with three recognized strains – non-paralytic, spinal paralytic, and bulbar – and…
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Anthropology Senior Seminar Yongho Kim February 24 2005…
Anthropology Senior Seminar Yongho Kim February 24, 2005 Assignment: One-page summary of the theory of your research paper. Does it belong to a particular type? Is it informed by particular types? If it cuts across theoretical lines, which theories does it cut across? My research paper argues that social relationships among the GW riders is…
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Superstructures and subaltern practices in the ANC and the SCLC
Fredom Movements Essay 1 February 23, 2005 Andrew Ancheta Yongho Kim In his controversial book Black Marxism, Cedric Robinson argues that “the roots of Western racism took hold in European civilization well before the dawn of capitalism” (Kelley, 2000: 12). In a differing approach from George Frederickson to the overlaps of racism and capitalism in…
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False (third world) Consciousness
False (third world) Consciousness Response to presentation on public art Art 149: Principles of Art February 17, 2005 Yongho Kim Assignment: Consider a favorite space in your life. … In a length of 1-2 pages, describe this place in detail, thinking especially about physical qualities of the site which conribute to your positive recollections. Can…
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The Black Body as a feared Necessity in the Post-Industrial Urban Economy
response paper to the Sixth Annual African American Studies Conference at Macalester College Freedom Movements February 16, 2005 Yongho Kim In her keynote speech Democracy and Captivity, Joy Ann James argues that the prison-state constitutes the institution through which neoslave narratives are embodied in the United States. A neoslave narrative, James argues, is “a recycling…
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Contested Bodies: Immigrants as a Singularity in Minnesota's Political Terrain
Contested Bodies: Immigrants as a Singularity in Minnesota’s Political Terrain Minnesota Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Internship Paper January 27, 2004 Yongho Kim The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride of 2003 was a national movement aimed at claiming immigrants’ rights in the legislative branches of the United States. It gathered a critical mass of religious, labor, progressive…
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Strategic repositioning within academia
arguing for the statement that Cultural Anthropology belongs to the humanities and not to the social sciences December 20, 2004 History of Anthropological Ideas Yongho Kim This paper defends the position that Cultural Anthropology, as a field of study, belongs (and should belong) to the humanities division. In so doing, I argue along two main…
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Individual agency as a postmodern project in Anthropology
December 9, 2004 History of Anthropological Ideas Second essay, on the idea of agency in anthropological thought Yongho Kim This essay addresses the notion agency as a contended concept in the development of anthropological thought, from Durkheim and Kroeber to Rosaldo and D’Andrade.