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October 15, 2004
History of Anthropological Ideas
Essay 1
Yongho KimPrivate Property in social evolutionary theory from Weber to Enlightenment
In this essay I examine different usages of the concept of property and private ownership in a variety of theories with particular social evolutionary agenda in Western Europe from Locke to Weber. The driving premise in this review is that in its efforts to achieve argumentative strength as a science, private property – a prime example of objective material condition shaping society – has become a space of contention between different political theories of the time advancing the idea of social evolutionism. In particular, I advance the argument that Weber’s critique of Engels carries historical resonance in tensions and arguments among enlightenment philosophers and social evolutionists by showing the ways in which the notion of private property separates and joins different forms of thought about society its development.
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LB meeting, October 12th, 7:00pm. Weyerhauser Boardroom.
Agenda approved.
Introduction to Program Board. Erink K. Miller introduced several PB officers and explained its rationale. No questions raised.
Michael Barnes addressed the Legislative Body on need-blind admissions.
Ben Johnson reported no FAC business, and announced that next week would present on the state of MCSG finances, plus Addlt Allocation Requests.
Rebecca Hossain reported on four charters. MATE was rejected, DDRtists, Flying Fingers and GeoClub was approved.
Michael Barnes and Renee Lepreau introduced a motion on the Timeframe of the Need-Blind Discussion, requesting the Board of Trustees to postpone the vote on the issue from January. The issue was debated at length and put to a vote, with 15 Is, 16 Nays, and 2 abstentions. Vote was recorded.
Commission activities. (External Relations Committee – Cara Haberman, Student Services Committee – Rebecca Hossain, Academic Affairs Committee – Aroosa Saeed)
SSC – Laura Stewart was appointed as an EPAG student rep and will be present at the meeting tomorrow. SSC will be meeting Sundays at 10pm in the MCSG office.
Committee activities (Institutional Responsibility, Need-Blind, Constitutional Reform, Campus Life, Alumni Relations).
IRC – will meet Tuesday at 6:30pm at Weyerhauser
LB adjourns at 8:55pm
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Ricardo Levins Morales
Arrr! Arrrrr! Arrurrurru! Just wanted to wake you up.
Diversopoids come out of their hibernation, and when it’s over the monopoids come back. Organizing is like seeds – best seeds not in poor soil. I want to look at the concept of communities in contrast to movements. Black panther movement. Lords of AIM. My favorite quote is “revolution will not be subsidized”. Prisons as measured. Employers wanted “Latinos”, not Chicanos/PR, meaning, they could be exploited in their undocumented status. Movements separate w/o solidarity. Look at fusion.Anguksuar (Richard LaFortune)
Whole systems. Continue organizing. Ecology & anticoporate. GLBT native organizing. Hippie veggie co-op. (for-profit) Under reaganomics tax laws, small businesses were classified as non-profit. Language & HIV in native americans. learn from each other, diversity of intellect, thought. colonization continues today and not just native americans’ problem. private sector organizing is philantropy. not only cultural matrimony/patrimony but join & translate other systems.Toni Carter
things of my heard. Langston Hughes poem. because of the history of living. no recognition. can organize in the corporate environment. find great fullfilment. children achieving. black wasn’t supposed to be good at jobs. if not right for SoC, not right for LIS, not right for SnSLupe Serrano
transformational change. all works together (issues). no english – no access in domestic violence. learn of latina needs.Sandra White Hawk
identitites are not negotiable. politics doesn’t make up identity but politicians define us. power in oneself. ask yourself: 1. who am I? 2. where do I come from? 3. what am I doing? 4. where am I going? answers for white too.Karin Aguilar San Juan
11 years in boston as organizer. second generation filipino & lesbian feminist. Gracely Boggs stay in a place long enough. New research project – young people organizingagainst corporatization of schools, poisoning of environment, etc. Youth organizing in Twin Cities is new. (not related with antiracism)Perry – community/movements – can you elaborate?
Ricardo LM: sense of movement, now out of it. bringing in people from the community. Issues have connections
Toni C:
Lupe S: latinos are agents of change and beneficiaries
Richard LF: movement AND relationshipsBrooke: reciprocity:
Sandra WH: space and take it to other colleges:
Toni C: 651-331-1243
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Dear SSC Chair,
I suggest the following adaptations for the proposed charters. Maybe the organization contacts can get this arranged with the SSC before the LB meeting?
Mac DDRtists
IV. Suggest eliminating this article. There seems to be no point in declaring an advisor whose responsibilities and selection are defined by the co-presidents. This should be an internal position.
V.c. Suggest replacing “three members” to a certain percentage, i.e. twenty percent. The concept of quorum does not fit a fixed number in a membership that may increase/decrease.
V.d. Suggest replacing “three main officials” with “the co-presidents and the treasurer”, or otherwise define what the three main officials may be.
VII.a. Suggest replacing “sixty percent” with “clear majority” since “a resounding ‘HOORAH!’” cannot be counted.
VIII. Suggest eliminating this article. No more than a majority present seems to be needed to ratify the constitution
IX. Suggest including a nominal Sunset clause.MATE
1. Strongly encourage separation of charter clauses using a number system. Discussion of the charter becomes blurry as it is hard to note what portion we will talk about.
2. (MEAT) Given that DATE O TRON 5000 seems to be a machine equipment, shouldn’t there be an explanation as for whether this equipment will be procured from MCSG capital funds or as pro bono gift by members?
3. Suggest eliminating the first untitled two paragraphs. The narratives provides no description of the actual organization. Should the text stay, I suggest moving it to a subsection titled “Statement of Purpose and Belief”, or “Original Sin”, for that matter.GeoClub
I. Suggest changing name to GeolClub. The hybrid “GeoClub” does not accurately reflect the nature of the organization since Geography Department is not included in GeoClub’s business. A future creation of a Geography Department club may create conflict of interests over name.
VII.b. Suggest removing concept of “bank”. Unless the organization relies on pocket money from the Geology Department, such notion contradicts current FAC proceduresYongho Kim
LB Social 2 rep
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link: 국가보안법 사수국민대회 http://ddanzi.com/new_ddanzi/159/159yp_051.asp [national rally to defend the national security law in south korea]
A coalition of 100,000 conservative and christian south koreans put up a mass rally in Seoul in October 4th. (Same day as the Minnesota Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Rally! Thank you for the support!)
In the article (see link), DDanzi.com suggested better demonstration strategies and published a video version of the rally with the Internationale superimposed on it.
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Semantic relationship: strict inclusion
Form: X is a kind of Y
Cover term: occassion
Included terms:- funeral
- birthday
- payback
- thank you
- sympathy
- hospital stuff
Semantic relationship: sequence
Form: X is a step in Y
Cover term: opening procedures
Included terms:- open the back door
- unset the alarm
- put the cat down
- turn the lights on
- let the cat out of the channel
- feed the cat
- check my messages on the machine
Sematinc relationship: strict inclusion
Form: X is a kind of Y
Cover term: arrangement
Included terms:- vase arrangement
- traditional arrangement
Semantic relation: strict inclusion
Form: X is a kind of Y
Cover term: unclear
Included terms:- designers (the creative people)
- customer
- wholesalers
- clerks
- drivers
- owners
Semantic relationship: means-end
Form: X is a way to do Y
Cover term: clients build relatioship with the designer- building a trust with your customers
- getting you know your clientele
Semantic relationship: spatial
Form: X is a part of Y
Cover term: store- front door
- back door
- executive offices
- green house
- garage
- front office
- design area
- printer
- cooler four
- big cooler
- little cooler
- front store or sales area
Semantic relationship: spatial
Form: X is a part of Y
Cover term: design area- Na’s bench
- Marion’s bench
- Sarah’s bench
- jean’s bench
- Jan’s bench
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diversity weekend committee does, is doing diversity weekend. So how do you go about doing it?… Or planning or…
J: well.. every committee has its own structure but what tends to happen is, committees.. I mean subcommittees. Subcommittees. (uhuh) subcommittees meet outside of, together two or three people, sometimes more, sometimes lesss, there’s actually three or four people, sometimes more sometimes less, together – and they arrange all the details they have to do for the specific event that they have committed themselves to. Then on Sundays we get together and coordinators discuss, you know, broad structural things about the event, such as.. funding an organization, and vision, mission statement, but it’s all in contribution with what other people on the committee are saying. And we give different reports about how we’re doing. An important part of Diversity Weekend, too, is that we are also learning about one another, and getting to know about the types of interest that we have for each other, and that we personally have on our own, and there’s always space for socializing at the beginning and the end.
Y: you said that.. during the meetings? Is that right? (uhuh) during the meetings, people will go over structural things, like the budget, and vision.. are there other kinds of structural.. how do you call these things, the budget, vision..
J: I call them.. I call them.. organizational necessity? [laugh]
Y: is that how everyone else in the diversity weekend committee call it? (I don’t think so) how do the rest of the people call it?
J: they may call it.. no, I don’t think we have established a name for it..we actually just call it… structure, budget, funding, vision.. [laugh impregnated in tone] (uhuh) but I don’t know if there’s actually been.. a… umbrella term to cover all these things.
Y: But when you think of it, you call it organizational necessities. (uhuh) so what other kinds of organizational necessities are there, there’s budget, vision, funding.. are there other kinds?
J: I think a lot has to do with diplomatic relationships with other committees, (uhuh) …. Of course every one of the members has responsibility of keeping their members informed of what’s going on. And so that’s responsibility that’s dispersed, and not concentrated, the way some of these activities are. Although, actually, there’s been a lot of participation from non-coordinators. For example this friend of mine Yongho Kim, he umm, he’s organized much of the funding, even though he’s not the coordinator (uhuh) but has he’s visionary [laugh] (uhuh)
Y: umm.. you said that some activities are coor.. dispersed, and some activities are concentrated, can you give me some examples of activities that are concentrated?
J: uh.. yes.. yes. I think some of the activities that are.. or some responsibilities.. that would be my word. Responsibilities that have become more concentrated, happen to be relationships that occur between other organizations like Macalester Student Govenrment, and the Program Board, where they have assumed responsibility for being a liaison and representing diversity committee in those types of spaces. And that’s more concentrated [heavy breathing – stress?] and so I know that you know when there’s discussion going working on the theme, and the mission statement and the questions, we discussed them in a group but the people who actually went to write on the actual theme, were actually a group of two. Sometimes three. (uhuh) and they came together and then the entire committee would check it. And make sure that there was consensus on the vision.
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Yahoo! Groups : DNBAM Calendar
So I just found out that “club” settings are customized depending on which category you put your “club” in. Defend Need Blind Admissions is under Colleges and Universities -> Minnesota. For College groups, Yahoo! provides the following options:
Anniversary
Appointment
Bill Payment
Birthday
Breakfast
Call
Chat
Class
Club Event
Concert
Dinner
Graduation
Happy hour
Holiday
Interview
Lunch
Meeting
Movie
Net event
Other
Party
Performance
Reunion
Sports Event
Travel
TV Show
Vacation
WeddingHopefully, these categories have been based on what most college groups in the U.S. announce frequently via their mailing lists and such. It’s such a sad picture. I don’t think I have ever used any category except “meeting” and “performance”. What the fuck does a “public debate” fit into? Should “public debate” be a “meeting”?
Bah.
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Look at those healthy blond white alumns, all very happy to serve in executive positions of the Alumni Board.
Then the minority-looking last names are put in the “Multicultural Committee” and “Careers Task Force”
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From: “Yongho Kim”
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 9:48 AM
Subject: Request for MCSG web space for SS2MCSG executive officers:
Roscoe and myself, representatives to the Social Studies II division withinthe Legislative Body, would like to request a space within MCSG’s website tohost our website.
We have created an open blog where constituent members and anyone else canhold discussions on current topics, and though which we also plan onannouncing our next constituency meetings in the future. Currently, theblog, http://ss2.uni.cc/, is set to point to a folder in my personal website(macalester.edu/~ykim/ss2) and we would like to request a space to begranted so that student would be able to access SS2 underwww.macalester.edu/mcsg/ss2
I am CC’ing this message to Tamara since I heard she maintains the websiteitself.
Also, I would like to use this opportunity to remind you that I had asked ifLB members could have an office time at the MCSG office.
yours,
Yongho Kim
Legislative Body Representative, Social Studies II
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Medical Anthro Paper Outline
October 6, 2004
Yongho Kim
Medical Anthropology 239Paper Outline: Health insurance policy and the immigrant U.S. latino working class
During my summer volunteer work at Centro de Derechos Laborales [Workers’ Rights Center], a community program at Minneapolis focused in self-education, organization and mobilization for immigrant latinos’ rights as workers in the United States, I gained a quick glimpse on the state of the health insurance and worker’s compensation among immigrant workers in Minnesota.
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03/29/04 Forum on Hispanic Studies, Latin American Studies and Latino Studies
- Forum on HS LAS LS – transcribed
Spring 2004 – Ethnographic Interviewing with Diana Shandy
- “Ethnographic Interviewing #2” (both sides) – transcribed and on file
- “Interview 3” 03/04/04 – transcribed and on file
- “Intervie 5” 03/15/04 – transcribed and on file
- “Interview 6” 03/17/04 – transcribed and on file
- side B of “Forum on HS LAS LS” – interview #7 (date?) – untranscribed
Spring-Summer 2004 QuetzalCoatlicue Research
- Octavio Ruiz – 03/19/04 – transcribed and on file
- QE2.SL1 – 03/21/04 – partially transcribed and on file
- QE3.OR2 – 04/21/04. – transcribed and on file
- side B of “Ethnographic Interviewing – nous 6938” Interviewed Susie on religious symbols in Mexico – unstranscribed
Fall 2004 – Ethnographic Interviewing with Arjun Guneratne
- DW JB – 09/21/04 – Jessie Buendia on Diversity Weekend – transcribed and on file
- EI.FS – 09/27/04 – transcribed and on file
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Store had a plastic door (I think they changed it this week?) on the entrance. entered the design area and waited for Sarah to finish, which took about 30 extra minutes. it seemed like she was did not have control over time and work schedule, unless she was doing the work because it needed to get done before leaving the design area. there was a manager-looking person who seemed slightly disturbed that a stranger was there staring at things.
standing from Sarah’s bench – there is a washing tub to the left, with old sponge and jabon. I think the sponge doesn’t get used very often, it’s dry. informant used the tub while I was there, though. there are vases on exhibition at shelves to the right of the tub. then there is a door to a small room. to the right of the door is the exit to the clerk, or sales area. there is another bench to the right of the exit. on top of the bench, there is a long flat shelf that has many vases of different shapes and sizes. I thin kthey had size number stickers on them. the shelf extends over the corner to portion of the right wall.
in Sarah’s bench, there are several arrangements with tags hanging on one of their flower tallos. tags have a person’s name, and a code. the code is one letter and one number, I think. these arrangements are all on top of the bench, separated from the “inner” ones which are behind a small thin wall to sarah’s side. to sarah’s side is a phone and a computer (that’s why I thought she was a manager). she occassionally takes phone calls. most of the time she is running to different places, on a short term basis (like going to the next room) to the left, to the left of the tub is a doorless exit to a cubed office space.
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To Students at Social Sciences II (Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Geography and Urban Studies): I’ll use this space to introduce myself. My name is Yongho Kim and as of 2004 I am a senior graduating next may. I am korean and my parents were christian missionaries who were sent to Chile in 1990, where we stayed until I applied for college. Since then, my family is in Perú. I am christian and go to church every week. I was originally a philosophy and chemistry major until the end of my sophomore year, after which I decided to hop on to anthropology to get a job. In my junior year I took a human rights class with Nedelsky and ended up hating it because of my political beliefs, and thought about writing it since the tenure review committee had asked me for input but thought that that would be backstabbing a professor. Anyway back then I was really excited about human rights and volunteered in an NGO in Perú observing legal advocacy work being done with persons wrongly accused of affiliation with Sendero Luminoso [Shining Path] and denied the right to due process in the post-Fujimori era. I have worked at an immigrantion legal clinic, Twin Cities Religion and Labor Network and Centro de Derechos Laborales – doing the work-study at this last site, plus volunteering for Minnesota Freedom Ride. So that’s me and my interests. Although Roscoe and me are getting along quite well so far and we watched the Twins beat the New York yankees in baseball tonight while waiting for you guys to come to the info session, I have my firm political agenda. I disagree with the MacWeekly’s statement that LB members should serve the Macalester College. I believe any person in a public office should serve the greater good, and Macalester’s gains in any transaction should be secondary to what the society receives and in particular to the oppressed minority. Maybe I’ll write a bit more about that later. Anyway, I am taking ethnographic interviewing this Fall 2004 semester so you should be able to find me at the anthro lab at the core of our uterus or else at the cultural house. My email is ykim at macalester.edu and phone is 651-307-7937 for any of you who may want to talk about anything. Yongho
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Quietly and Mostly to Myself
macalester.edu/weekly/120701mock/quietly.htmlYup. We win.
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