Review Class no. 1
GOALS

• Wednesday, April 14, 1999
• keep you calm about the exam
• explore what you know
• refine what you know
• get evaluations out of the way

strategies

• what will the exam be like
• look at handout together
• key themes
• writing and ideas
• missing concepts
• evaluations
• wrap-up

what will the exam be like

• half take-home essay
• half in-class

remember how I teach

• not linear, BUT . . .
• not giving and retrieving facts
• learning through dialogue
• learning through building and refining ideas

methods and skills

• "how to study culture"
• WHAT DOES CULTURE MEAN???
• Is IT and IT???

giving you access to new languages

• conceptual vocabulary
• vocabularies of ngoma
• primary sources
• facts

vocabulary you know well
vocabulary you know less well

• translation
• bilingualism
• syncretic
• creolization
• hybridity, hybridization
• history as a process of contradictions

handout based on your statements

• key themes
• are there missing themes???

Writing and ideas

• problems with passive voice

chronology "a nice microcosm of history"

• those you know well
• those we need to think and talk about more
• what "African worlds" have we studied??

how Saartje has "stuck with me throughout the course"
women and gender: the contradictions
people=wealth

• the triangle for a lineage
• work this through "Everyone’s Child"
• matriarchal??
• Sign of wealth??

Conflicts between medical systems

• where are these conflicts, how do we locate them??
• Efficacy on the ground in Africa??

Evaluations

• collaborative research track?
• 4 credits and breakout sections?
• How important to retain discussion in lecture sessions?
• Technology: powerpoint, the web
• the "non-linear" approach??