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      • Our own oral traditions
        09/26/07
        During this class, I have often wondered how oral traditions influenced my own culture. I know I had to read the Odyssey in high school, but I guess I didn't realize the impact it had on who I am until now.
        While I was in Berlin, I visited the Pergammon, an ancient art, architecture and

      • Mapping and miming while traveling
        09/23/07
        I'm sitting in the Berlin airport with less than 10 minutes of battery power and a flight home to catch in 30 minutes. So I decided to use the minute, and the remaining time I bought from a T-Mobile HotSpot, to read this week's reading. I find it serendipitous that it covered the differenc

      • Online folklore relies on similar traditions as oral poetry
        09/16/07
        I've thought quite a bit about an e-mail my father-in-law, a man I respect greatly, forwarded me last week. I can understand why he did it. In our frustration and confusion, we all wish we could say the things it said sometimes. And it seemed like it came from a reliable source. Heck, it kind o

      • Immanent Art and the Internet
        09/12/07
        One reason it took me so long to start blogging regularly (without the compulsion of a class) is I worried about whether my entries were skilled enough. Would I have the time to edit them completely for spelling and grammatical errors? Would they even make sense? When readers noticed, would they dis

      • My ethnopoetic experience
        09/10/07
        I wish I had something more profound to say about ethnopoetics, but really the best I can say is that I enjoyed the theory because it really seemed to make sense to me. I did some serious head-scratching about why it took ethnographers, anthropologists and linguists so long to come up with it. In fa

      • Convergence in a flat world
        09/04/07
        I don't really have the time now, but I started reading Friedman's "The World is Flat" over the summer, and I'm determined to finish it. I've had the book for so long, in fact, that I'm glad the Columbia Public Library doesn't charge late fees any more. At thi

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