“…even if our hopes are misplaced, however, and the specific disease control and health outcomes we seek are not achieved, fundamental requirements of the ecosystem approach for open and democratic communication, tolerance, negotiation, and ecological awareness will surely have made the effort worthwhile” –David Walter-Toews (2001, 21)
besides the shoddy powerpoint i just whipped together for tomorrow afternoon, i am officially done with ISP.
which is nice. im mildly content with that i ended up writing, which is more than most of the group is expressing. or at least, those who actually turned it in today...
this means my friday night, saturday, sunday, and monday are my last free days here. when the hell did that happen? sunday theres some last minute shopping to be done. but...gah.
will be in the philly airport in a week. how weird. wrestling tournament? philadelphia? west chester? fennarios? cheessteak? hot wings? some element of patience? people who say excuse me instead of "pstttt"?
no but i really will miss brazil. i miss it already, with the knowledge that i really dont have much free time left and most of what is left is ISP or group sitio time. but also, thinking back, there is so much i have seen and done in the past 3 months. its almost mind boggling. ive lived in5 major amazonian cities. traveled all over. the boat trip seems like months ago, but it wasnt at all. even the time in sao luis seems so far away. i ate a turtle! that was so long ago. and what i have are the greatest little fragments of memories.
on another note, i am officially in 2 of my classes. below are the course descriptions for them
Anth 322 Cultural Technologies of Memory
This course is organized around several practices and technologies that produce collective and personal memory. The class will explore a distinction commonly made between 'memory' and 'history', asking on what basis this distinction is made and how it maps on to our ideas about foreign places and people. The techniques and technologies of public memory we will examine may include ancient "memory palaces," historical writing, oral narrative, ritual, myth, monuments, museums and archives. We will also explore how radio and photography are used to produce national and familial representations of the past. The focus in each section will be on how the particular medium of remembering shapes the content of what is remembered. We will address who has access to memory practices, stressing the link between the production of particular memories and their political uses. The class will give students a theoretical base to write a final research paper that situates a contemporary memory practice in its specific cultural and historical context: the recent proliferation of family genealogies, Holocaust testimonies and/or museums, the truth commissions, local histories are among a few possible examples.
Hist 164 Hooke's Micrographia
A monument of natural philosophy and scientific illustration, Robert Hooke's Micrographia (1665) was the first laboratory manual in microscopy. A great experimentalist, Hooke developed his research as a Fellow of the newly founded Royal Society of London. Hooke and his colleagues intended the work to be a manifesto of experimental method and faith in progress. They also hoped Hooke's observations would lend credence to atomism, a notorious ancient philosophy that was being rehabilitated in the seventeenth century. The work's descriptive and experimental language suggests objectivity, as does the author's recourse to geometric principles. Yet Hooke's treatise is also permeated with a theological agenda. We will read the Micrographia, examining its philosophical antecedents and experimental foundations. We will also investigate Hooke's life and work, his association with the Royal Society and contemporary savants, as well as the links between science and society during the Scientific Revolution.
right now im just waiting on GIS, Ecology&Evolution, and Nonfiction writing. Considering auditing a class on...something.
today i ate country fried steak in brazil with my host family. ..
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