Swidden horticulture in China

http://www.natureproducts.net/Agriculture/shifting_cultivation.html

Nice paper on swidden horticulture in Europe

This paper talks about traditional swidden agriculture in Northern Europe, something not usually mentioned in discussions of today's mostly tropical swidden agriculture:









http://www.fire.uni-freiburg.de/programmes/natcon/natcon_1.htm

Wyoming Ranching & Land Use

PDF on Wyoming land use

http://www.uwyo.edu/openspaces/docs/community-service.pdf

Changes in Eskimo Family Life

Limited view of changes in Eskimo family life

http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic28-2-86.pdf

Dad is Mom?

In this article it talks about how the modern views on each role of parenting is currently changing. It was cool to read this writers views on the subject compared to the views of the traditional family that were shared in class the other day. http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/08/20/p.meet.modern.dad/index.html?iref=allsearch.
Here is another article about the Afghanistan view on children. particulary about how boys are more cherished than girls. The family will sometimes dress up the girls as boys because of social pressures to have a boy in the family.  Definatly alot different than my own upbringing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/world/asia/21gender.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Boys%20liked%20more%20than%20girls&st=cse

Hindu Ceremonies effect enviroment negetively

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/09/26/green.ganesh.eco/index.html?hpt=C2
This is a cnn article about how different India ceremonies affect the enviroment. In an attempt to make it more enviromentally friendly the government offered a contest to the people that built the most enviromentally friendly staue. It ais a stark difference on how different governments view unwanted ceremonies (such as the potlatching). I find an article that can also help us as americans for our enviromentally unfriendly holiday, Christmas. It was pretty interesting read. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/340938_greenshopping24.html

What are they wearing on their, uhhh....

After watching some of the videos, I found myself wondering, "what are the Dani men wearing?" you know what I am talking about. And even more, is there a reason they are wearing them? Well there is an entire website dedicated to answering my question with some strange cultural implications. Like protecting the men from ghosts that would enter their living body through the unprotected orifice. Wowser.

http://members.shaw.ca/penisgourd/default.html

~GOOD LUCK~

Good Luck on the Test Everyone, sorry my study tips post didn't work out as well as I had hoped but hopefully you are all studied up and ready to go.

Remember to breath and not over think anything.

If it helps to relax (before or after the test) watch this link, I find laughter is always good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTasT5h0LEg

You tube Video on Potlatching

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/potlatch-scenes/3699ae0b7364e33417723699ae0b7364e3341772-136485995087?q=Potlatching&FROM=LKVR5&GT1=LKVR5&FORM=LKVR


There is the above link to watch a portion of the potlatching ceremony. Something that was not mentioned in the video was that potlatching was also banned in the united states as well, in the late nineteenth, for the same reasons as the Canadians. Some more information can be found on the link below.

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Potlatch

cultural emotions

Cultures around the world are all so different! I find it interesting that one thing all cultures seem to have in common are emotions. The few basic emotions there are (ie. Happy, Sad, Angry) are actually very similar across all cultures. Here are some links of different cultures showing the same emotions..

http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/indigenous-tribe.html

study it up

since group 16 turned out to be so cool, we plan on all doing our study guides on our own, then meeting as a group and going over THE ENTIRE THING with each other. comparing and contrasting our answers. way to go group 16, which i will be referring to from now on as "the cool group".

Study Tips

Hey Everyone!
I noticed since we are in class only one day a week it is a little bit harder to stay motivated to study and decided it would be both helpful for everyone and interesting to see the different study habits and tricks of everyone in the class. I will share with you what I have been doing and encourage all of you to write comments to this post on what it is that you are doing (or should be doing).

I took the study guide that was given to us and instead of just finding the difinitions to all of the words from the back of the book I found them throughout the reading and highlighted the definitions and any relivant information along with that topic. I took it a step farther and then re-typed all of what I highlighted into a sort of bulleted list, but going back and looking at the highlighted stuff is also a great way to mix things up!

Good Luck to All and I Hope to Hear from You!

Animal Sounds in Other Languages

After talking about it in class I though it would be fun to see what other cultures use for animals sounds. So I found a few websites, enjoy!

Only gives words for the other sounds:
http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/animal.html

Gives sounds:
http://www.bzzzpeek.com/