myth markets
and cultural activism
still fascinated by circuit of culture

http://www.emorymi.com/holt.shtml
re building of iconic brands

as brands cultivate group identities or impersonate activisms
or condescend ethnographically in ill-formed ad campaigns .  . .

alternate ethnographies:
hasidic jewish angelenos
LACC students' digital divide compared to stanford//or university digital divides generally
people who believe in copyright
people with disabilities on campus

academic administrative culture mechanisms of information distribution/firewalls
marital rape protection law and whether anyone knows about it and what they think of it
smog and smog devotees, why people stay in heinously polluted areas, what motivates them, is it a worthy sacrifice of health
bronchitis in los angelelenos---severity, prevelence and experience, coping mechanisms

identity celebrity democratized
via social nets
exploitation of egotism as diversionary
yet empowering
identity myth and myths

http://www.emorymi.com/holt.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_of_culture
new culture theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_of_culture
new culture theory

chinga loaded term freight contra
spiritually conquistador
lamilinche
viva mexico
hijos de la milenche
from guerrero

corina edu re: chicano

stickam for video conference
http://www.stickam.com/

listening to malinowski and matrilineality wikipedia entries with text to speech technology.

CEDAW applications for matronymic equity interesting.

speaking to earic peters tomorrow at 9am re: fundraising for a trip and ASO guidelines.

study group 1pm wednesday

read about niger delta oil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Delta

cultural relativism
ethnocentrism
emic etic

belief systems
experience
emic---insider

etic --outside

kinship and marriage
bilateral

unilineal
subdivides
matrilineal
patrilineal

know effects and differences
uncles sons husbands wives
endogamous
exogamous

polyandry
polygyny

begin with economic organization
of society
forage---hunter gatherer
kinship: bilateral neolocal nuclear monogamous

look at chart in textbook

industrial
neolocal bilateral monogamous

moka---kinship system---
do not regurgitate
big family
patrilineal

re:moka

the legal concept of consideration to make a contract valid.
exchange.