good posts coming soon!

I have some really great ideas for future posts and I hope all of my readers will stay tuned for them after this semester is done.

On a good update note, the professor who teaches Human Origins (the only "missing" class I need to graduate aside from the one I registered for) emailed me and said she is teaching the class it just is not posted yet. Ok, cool beans. I need that one and History of Anthropological Thought. I have that one in my "cart" already.

Paper two is finished. I will make that one a blog post with pics and all. I compared two ethnographies. One was about Bulgarian tourism and one on Hawaii.

Hope to be back once my 20 page paper is done!

Tonight I made a channa curry with veggies and put it in a pie crust pocket. It was awesome!!

Taking a short hiatus

I know I do not write volumes here but what I do write will be on hiatus for about 5-6 weeks. I will not have time to read many other blogs either. Work, school, sleep, eat and get the laundry done and that stuff. I even suspended my movie subscription. That said...play nice kids. I may post papers but not until the grade comes out.

Salaams!

anthrogeek10

Grade for paper 1

Here is the grade/s and the professor's analysis of my paper. I am in a bad mood!! lol Now I am putting this out there for the world to view. :) She is a really really tough grader btw.

Tiffany George “Tourism and Commoditization: A Comparison of Two Ethnographies”
B+/A-
Generally through comparison of the two ethnographies. Good idea to examine the effects of commoditization on race and gender. Discussion of race is relevant and to the point. The addition of a brief explanation of gender is necessary but not sufficient, as the definition is not complete or correct: gender is not just about relationships that men and women have and the sexual division labor. Gender is an idea/ideal, about “masculinity” and “femininity,” in contrast to “real” men and women. Both components – the ideals of masculinity vs. femininity, as well as how this affects men and women -- comprise the study of gender. It was good to do a point by point comparison, but this could have been shortened. Minor writing problems. Title is weak (say something more interesting after the colon). The paper would have benefited from one more revision/edit. Good job on your first grad paper.

Blog looks like one hot mess

Who designed this mess? I will change it soon. Oh--I wanted to add "color". Not what happened. lol

Today I did some excavating. It was ok. The weather was amazing and I got to see Gunner the horse who eats our chips. Today, I hid the chips and brought him organic apples instead. What did we find? Lots of mortar building material, glass sherds, rusty nails and at the second level, we have 2 exposed fully intact bottles of some kind. Hopefully not modern ones. We shall see.
I am not going to be posting much at all until May! I will post my papers and thats about it. So long for now....
anthrogeek10

New paper coming soon

Ok, I am getting ready to begin paper two. I again need to compare 2 ethnographies. I did not choose well (in the beginning) from the four given soooo....these are a bit of a challenge. lol

Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World.
The Red Riviera (Post-socialist tourism in Bulgaria).

I have a few ideas and I wrote down some notes....
1. I can compare the two along gender lines such as the centrality of women in the tourist industry and 2).Comparing the styles of tourism in the post-socialist period vs. after capitalism/colonialism (Hawaii). I think number one I can run with but two needs work. lol I really only need two main comparative topics other than the authors' backgrounds.

Today I am upset. My disposal is broken and has been but they do not claim it to be broken. I am irritated. I clogged it purposely to prove my point. lol I am calling tomorrow.

There are some other things I want to discuss on this blog but I am not sure who is looking here. I do not know what to do.
Peace out folks
anthrogeek10

Missing my Dad

I wish I could go to Chicago to visit my family. I am sad, missing my Dad and sisters. This sucks. n:(

Sisterhood (not of the traveling pants!)

I am taking a break out of my crazy busy life to write up what I believe to be an important topic of interest, especially to women.
Lately I have been doing quite a bit of thinking about the concept of 'sisterhood'--both religious and secular. I always had an enormously difficult time making female friends. If I made them, I never usually kept them! I never liked relationships based upon superficiality and with women it is no exception. I have 4 blood sisters and I really am grateful for them even if we did have some rocky times over the years. I am super close to one in particular and I am currently not fighting with any of them. :-) With one sister in particular, I can be 100% myself and still feel loved/accepted. I find that that is what we are looking for in friendships/sisterhood. We all need someone to depend on, talk to, listen to, share with and have a "soft place to fall".


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I do not know why I have not made the kind of friendships with women that I desire. Do not get me wrong--I have some wonderful women in my life based upon Muslim sisterhood in particular (although not many at all). Not much out of that realm unfortunately. I find I am taken advantage of too much or we just do not stay in touch or even worse--we do not connect at all on a deep level. Maybe I do not know how to be a good friend. I am not a gossip and I stand by my word unless it is an emergency.





In my desperation for friendship, I thought I would reach out to a women who I know from the Oakland Nature Preserve . She has an unusual facination for animals of the buggy kind (bugs..lol) but whatever. She took me on a tour of the historic area where I am doing research. We went to the historic hotel, had lunch in a cutsey French Style Cafe but did not connect at the deeper level I wanted. She did send me some links which were relevant to my paper. I thanked her and told her it was really great spending time with her that day. She did not respond. Again, I feel shot down but not for long. lol I will say I envy the women who have the kind of friendship where it is ok to call in the middle of the night or when you have a flat tire and need a ride or just because.


I would like to make some more Muslim friendships but I find, not only through my research on converts but in my personal experience that identity plays a huge role within relationships such as this. I find I do not connect on a deep level with non-converts. Am I making myself clear? I hope so because sometimes I do not understand my own self. I am almost always the outsider looking in within the Muslim circle--unless I am among converts. That feeling is not unusual. I just do not know to work within these parameters.




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Finally, the above topic brings me to another arena where I cannot seem to make friends--anthropology circles! Maybe I am too weird even to them--who are "supposed" to be unusual by nature. I struggle to develop friends and go through periods of giving up. I am almost there now once again....

In closing...we have to love this quote from the mother of anthropology!


Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. ~Margaret Mead



Peace..
anthrogeek10