For Tuesday, September 7, by noon

For Tuesday, you are responsible for two posts:

1. The first is your revision of the Barthes/Mead summary, originally posted for Tuesday, September 2. Please revise according suggestions in Behrens. Remember, the first line of the summary must be an accurate representation of the author's thesis. Use the form of the example summary given in Behrens. In addition to focusing on the thesis, be sure to track the stages of thought. This requires careful, active reading, and a thorough (though not full) understanding of the text being summarized. Post your revision as a comment to your original post.
2. The second assignment requires that you choose two of the three required readings (Levi-Strauss, Harris, Douglas), do a summary of both, and then perform a brief comparison of the two. This is the basic action for any comparative projective. Before the comparison can take place, a summary of the things being compared must be made. What you will notice is that your summary will have to serve your comparison, so the details you choose to compare will first appear, in some way, in the summary. Before reading or writing for this assignment, please read the assigned readings in Behrens on comparison (pp. 179-81). Keep in mind that the focus of this assignment should be quality summaries. At this point the comparison is a secondary matter. Please post your response as a new post.

If you have any questions, please let me know. Please post your questions as comments to this post, so we can, if necessary, have a running dialog and record of the questions asked.