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Today I learned:
So the University that I am attending, is one of only two universities in the US that has a forensic research institute AKA body farm
And apparently the institute takes on student volunteers who are waiting to meet requirements for internships!
I could not be more ecstatic at this possibility
1/24/19. 2/100
Today I discovered there is an Einstein's Bros. Bagels in my university library!
Rocking out some Geology chapters with my avocado bagel and chai tea. Good way to spend time between classes
1/22/19. 1/100
First day of the spring semester! Lots of nervous energy!
And since i got a little slacky with my 100 days of productivity, I'm starting over.
Gonna do this shit right!
Book haul!
The other day, my brother and I went to lunch on Main Street, and I absolutely had to stop at my favorite local bookstore.
Where I found these:
I already tore through Invitation to Anthropology, and I absolutely cannot wait to read The Human Odyssey!
I also went to the college bookstore and got 3/4 of my textbooks for the semester.
Needless to say, I am excited to dive into these babies.
Have not posted in a while! My life got super chaotic, but I'm back at it!
First off, I hope everyone had a splendid holiday and a great new years!
I recently got my official grades from the Fall semester, and I'm pleased to say I passed both my honors classes!
And today I registered for my Spring 19 classes! Yay!
This semester I will be taking:
Introduction to Anthropology
Human Geography
Geology of Colorado
Art History: prehistoric to renaissance
Needles to say, I am excited!
I wish everyone luck this year!
I thought I would share a book for some of those who would be interested, especially those studying or interested in Anthropology.
Lissa is an ethnography in graphic novel format. It is a powerful story set in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. It looks at politics, culture differences and similarities, and how American and Egyptian cultures look at and deal with death and disease.
That's all I'm going to say because I dont want to ruin it for anyone interested.
And, today in my Cultural Anthropology class, we did a Skype Q&A with one of the authors, Professor Hamdy, where the class got to asks questions about this book. It was an amazing experience, she had so much information to share and you could just feel her passion!
Recently I went on a mini vacation to Seattle Washington. On the trip, I went to the Art Museum and I thought I would share with you all some of the cultural art that stuck out to me.
If you ever get the chance to go to Seattle, I highly recommend visiting this museum. It is absolutely amazing!
Beneath each picture, I have added info about them from the museum.
Turban Cloths
Cotton with brocade border - Jodhpur 20th Century
Mehrangarh Museum Trust
Men chose their turbans carefully - a wrapped headdress is said to be akin to an unspoken language. Each social group in Marwar has a distinctive style of tying the long cloth and might add accents with ornaments that say more about who they are. Men also wear turbans for specific seasons, ceremonies, or moods. The wave pattern seen here is worn during the monsoon season, when the coming of rain is celebrated. In the harsh summer months, a turban is a shield against the blazing heat. It can also be a form of protection in battle. Many rulers wear turbans that are like crowns, loaded with jewels, which denote their rank in court society.
Masks of the Animal Kingdon Dance
Performances featuring masked dancers are the birthright of particular families and derive from long-ago auspicious encounters between human ancestors and supernatural beings, in the guise of animals or unique spirits. The “Dance of the animal kingdom” represents a heroine ancestor’s adventures among the animal beings who in turn bestow the dance and masks upon her for use by her family and subsequent generations.
Drum with skull painting - 1991
Animal hide, acrylic, wood, bone
Art by: Susan Point - Canadian, Musqueam
The First People
Red cedar, yellow cedar
Art by: Susan Point - Musqueam band
The homelands of the Musqueam of the Fraser River Delta are punctuated by meandering pathways as the Fraser reaches the Strait of Georgia. The faces within the tendrils represent the hereditary bloodlines that connect the families in the region, and the waterways that were lifelines yielding food resources, sustaining the Delta people from time immemorial.
Food bowl: Frigate bird with shark - 20th century
wood, mother-of-pearl shell
Melanesian, Eastern Solomon
Men in the Solomon Islands consider fishing or skipjack bonito (a member of the tuna family) to be a sacred endeavor. The fishermen watch for frigate birds feeding off of schools of smaller bait fish and observe the bonito that follow, in a season that lasts from November to April. Sharks swarm this whirlpool of frothy activity and devour what they need to survive. This vessel features two predatory creatures merging together to suggest the cycle of consumption, with the humans who eventually feast on the bowl’s contents completing the cycle.
Pyramidion of Hori - 1350 B.C
Limestone, pigment
Egyptian, Abu Tig. New Kingdom
18th Dynasty
10-23-18. 20/100
My cultural anthropology professor approved my survey and interview questions today!
I can officially start my research for the honors project!
I'm so excited! It's a step closer to being an actual anthropologist 😍
10-19-18 19/100
Overall today was a pretty good day!
I had orientation for my new job this morning! Afterwards, I cam home and read for a while before working on my personal narrative assignment.
I’m almost done with all my assignments for the next two weeks so I can have a stress free vacation!
10-17-18. 18/100
The end of this week is going to be extra busy!
I am going on a mini vacation starting next week and I'm trying to cram 2 weeks worth into three days so I'm not missing out on my vacation to stay on top of classes.
This includes:
An Essay on The Great Gatsby
A quiz on The Great Gatsby
An Essy on an American Icon (I chose Neil DeGrasse Tyson)
A personal narrative essay
My second Anthro test
Three chapters of my Cultural Anthropology textbook
Creating survey and interview questions for my honors Anthro project
So needless to say I will be exhausted by the end of it, but it will be worth it when I have a worry and stress free vacation!
10/13/18. 17/100
The semester is already halfway through!
How did this happen?!
In celebration I will be spending my morning reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari and working on my first honors essay for English.
Eight more weeks to go!
Accidental Overachiever
Welp...it has happened.
In my Cultural Anthropology class I have officially become the person who raises their hand so much that the teacher asks, "anyone else have an answer?"
But it kinda makes me feel like Hermione.
10-10-18. 16/100
I thought I would share this little chart of Kinship diagram symbols from my cultural anthropology textbook.
Kind of want to make a little kinship diagram of my own using these.
10-10-18. 16/100
I thought I would share this little chart of Kinship diagram symbols from my cultural anthropology textbook.
Kind of want to make a little kinship diagram of my own using these.
Things my Anthro teacher says
"We are corn people."
10/2/19 15/100
I used to hate doing research and reading long articles, but I've been really enjoying it the last couple of days. I'm preparing my research for my Honors Anthropology project and I have found some pretty neat articles.
The current one I'm reading is about how video gamers have better cognitive processes than non-gamers do.
I wish I found this article when I first started playing so I could have convinced my mom to let me play more lol.
Anywaaaaaays....
If anyone is interested in some neat articles about video games, let me know and I will share the links
🎮🕹
9/30/18. 14/100
I'd like to day that I am always organized and always have a clean working space but that's 100% false.
This is how my desk looks on a light homework load.
And that is my other fur baby Fetch
09/28 13/100
Learning about Subsistence Patterns and all the different ways cultures get (or have gotten) their food, and thought I would share a little.
This table shows some features of the major food-procurements. I thinks it's interesting that the more a culture relies on industrialized agriculture, the more separation of class becomes a part of that culture.
This is a map of known Hunter-gatherers throughout history. I wish this map also stated which were nomadic or semi-nomadic.
My Cultural Anthropology Professor shared this with our class today, so I thought I would share with you guys.
We were talking about silent language today and how some gestures we (Americans) used may not be carried out in the same context in other countries.
09-26-18. 12/100
Spending the afternoon reading various anthropological articles and writing summaries. And as usual my fur baby is keeping me company 😺😻
9-23-18. 11/100
Got my next essay all outlined and (kinda) ready to go. I have to have it finished by tomorrow, but all I really want to do is decorate for Halloween!
9-23-18. 11/100
Got my next essay all outlined and (kinda) ready to go. I have to have it finished by tomorrow, but all I really want to do is decorate for Halloween!
Today I went to a Viking Festival!
And I got some goodies!
From top to bottom:
Coyote mandibles that say Odin's Wolves
A carved deer antler
A turtle collar bone
And a deer toe
Some ADORABLE earrings
And I got a bunch of information on Norwegian naming practices and some geneology sheets and websites!
9-21-18 10/100
Desk layout...even though it won't stay like this for long!
No class on Fridays! But I still have a lot of work to do today. Chapters to read and essays to write.
But first, I'm going to ease into it with my current fun read: The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert. Accompanying me is my baby girl Dill and a chai coffee in my awesome Lord of the Flies mug.
Today's gonna be good!
9-20-18 09/100
I always feel both really confident and really nervous when I finish a test in a short amount of time.
Had my first Cultural Anthropology test today and got done in about 30 minutes. 25 multiple choice question and five short essay responses.
"I'm going to not buy any more books until I finish all my other books"
Biggest lie I tell myself
Day 02/100
Today I finished up some slideshow notes for Antropology and the outline for my first essay for my English class.
And my cat Dill kept me compay
