Category: anthropology

  • JC's place – progress report

    Mary Guerra Ben P. Johnson Yongho Kim Anthropology (248) of Religion October 29, 2003 Progress Report on Class Project We have chosen the JC’s place as our field site. JC’s place is (apparently) an inter-confessional youth program developed by the Emmanuel Christian Center that holds worship services on Wednesdays at 7:00 PM, consisting of praise…

  • Anointment

    Yongho Kim October 27, 2003 Anthropology (248) of Religion Members of the Holiness Church (the Sign Followers) of Eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, and elsewhere in the U.S., maintain that faith alone is not enough to prepare a believer to handle serpents, speak in tongues, heal through prayer, etc. Describe what is required of a believer…

  • Gender

    Yongho Kim Anthropology (248) of Religion October 20, 2003 Almost everywhere, religious beliefs and rituals blend with/reflect cultural constructions of gender. Why is this the case? And why is it so widespread that women are most vulnerable to accusations of harming others via their access to supernatural power? Try to analyze these puzzling situations using…

  • Obituaries

    Yongho Kim Anthropology (248) of Religion October 15, 2003 Choose any issue of the St. Paul Pioneer Press or the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper and read the Obituary Section. Describe any consistencies/commonalities that you observe across the majority of the obituaries. If there are any significant differences in one or more of the obituaries, describe…

  • Proposal: Self-image among Masaai youth

    Yongho Kim Anth258: African Societies Paper topic proposal: Self-image among Masaai youth The Masaai are a pastoral and patrilineal people who live mostly in southern Kenya but also in northern regions of Tanzania, constituting roughly 5% of the Kenyan population. Their means of subsistence has been cattle, goat and sheep herding. Social hierarchy is strictly…

  • Ethnographic Analysis: Facing Mount Kenya by Jomo Kenyatta

    Yongho Kim Anthropology 258: African Societies October 13, 2003 Jomo Kenyatta was a Gikuyu anthropologist trained in London under Bronislav Malinowski. He was pointed by the British colonial administration as the organizer of the Independence movements in Kenya and imprisoned for eight years, but was eventually released and became the first president of Kenya in…