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Expressing Anthropology |
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The site you are currently engaged with began as an assignment in partial completion for my degree. The class was professed by Dr Robert Leonard of the University of New Mexico's Department of Anthropology and was created to help the anthropologist-in-training become better acquainted with writing for the public. I hope my public responds... |
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Matthew Traucht
Graduate
Ethnology
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM |
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View the webpage for the class and read other writings by my peers and Professor Leonard |
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Last Updated: 2-10-04 |
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[email protected] |
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| Nature Boy: Personal stories from the field from an anthropologist's perspective. |
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| Semiotics In the News: An analysis of any old random news article with no particular problem with the author or the publication implied. |
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| Space, a Communicative Frontier: Proxemixs written with Professor Leonard's radio show "The Human Experience" in mind. |
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| I Hate Americans: Part one of a two part observation and participation experiment. |
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I Do Not Really Hate Americans: Part two of an observation and participation experiment. |
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| Bus Ride: Screenplay for a film based on experience. |
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| Home Security: A short essay on safety. |
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| Private Thoughts In Public Places: Writing for radio about restroom graffiti. |
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| Interpretation Extrapolation: A bit of poetry linking the tourist attraction of Petroglyphs in New Mexico to the tourist detraction of graffiti in Albuquerque. |
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| Yrtne Dezirohtuanu On: A fictional work about repatriation and museums. (With photographs) |
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Decoration or Desecration?: An anaylsis of regional style and function in expressive writing. |
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Monkey Bars |
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| Link to the PDF version of the report "The Next Generation's Image of Americans: Attitudes and Beliefs Held by Teen-Agers in Twelve countries" which is the background and inspiration for I Hate Americans. |
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| Link to the University of New Mexico's Department of Anthropology |
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| Link to the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance |
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| Link to the NY Times article highlighted in Semiotics in the News |
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| This photo accompanied the article "The War Against the Fur Trade Backfires, Endangering a Way of Life" that was the source of my analysis in Semiotics in the News. The photograph was taken by David Watt and is not necessarily associated with the article: Instead it belongs to a fifteen year old archive of Canadian photographs composed of "personalities from all walks of life... politicos, entertainers, business people, authors, artists, chefs, and noisemakers in every field of endeavour..." But with its connectedness to the text of the article, the reader might assume that it is somehow descriptive as a result of it's indexicality. How does the image effect you? What do you think might be the actual experience of the man on the sled as he looks upon the refinery in the distance? How might the photo-editor of the NY Times think that this visual is an aid to the story? How do you interpret this sign? |
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Link to the website for klixpix, copyright holder of above photo. |
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