2.5 pages. Pick one scholar whose name appears on this syllabus. Imagine you were going to write a letter to them. Imagine that this scholar was actually going to read what you are writing to them. Write the scholar such a letter/email in first person narration. A couple things to write about is: How would you introduce yourself? What inspired you to write to them? How do you relate to their writing? What would you want to know more about them and their work? What questions might you ask them? What might you thank them for?
A couple of the scholars I can choose from:
Key concepts: sensory ethnography, soundscape, performance
Kheshti, Roshanak. 2009. “Acoustigraphy: Soundscape as Ethnographic Field,” Anthropology News 50.4: 15-19.
Recommended reading: Kheshti, Roshanak. 2011. “Touching Listening: The Aural Imaginary in the World Music Culture Industry,” American Quarterly 63.3: 711-731.
Smith, Christen. 2016. “Interlude I: Culture Shock,” in Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil, University of Illinois Press, pp. 31-40
Key concepts: agency, organizing, resistance
Read before class: Paley, Julia. 2001. “The Founding of the Población,” Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 39-50 (an excerpt, not the whole chapter)
Read before class: Paley, Julia. 2001. “The Founding of the Población,” Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 39-50 (an excerpt, not the whole chapter)