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[crunkrubberduck]

I just sent in my midterm for my taped class, Theories of Culture. I'm... uneasy. Well, not uneasy. I don't really know how I'm feeling about it. I'm a little bit worried that it might not be what my professor expects, but it's hard to know. It consisted of three short essays and one long essay. I think my long essay ended up being about the same

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[c_of_exuberance]

omg Franz Boas!!!! *fangirls*

[c_of_exuberance]

p.s. that icon had nothing to do with the comment, i just like it.

[ninjasexpirate]

OMG kacie i love that icon!!! its so dry!

[crunkrubberduck]

I like both of those icons. Do you like mine? I do. Oh, Stephen is such a nerd. I wish he were an anthropologist so I could talk about him in classes and do my profile on him.

I think I might call you later today. Be available.

[ninjasexpirate]

OMG i didnt see the first icon. another amazing glory!

[crunkrubberduck]

omg I KNOW!!! I get to talk about him a lot. And Julian Steward... And Bronislaw Malinowski (I LOVE this name)... Oh, anthropologists.

[c_of_exuberance]

Are you talking about how Franz Boas is a Columbia man? Because he totally is! When you come up here, I'll show you, there's a display about him in Schermerhorn (the anthro hall).

[crunkrubberduck]

I don't know why it's not called Boas Hall. And, yes, I did know he was a Columbia man, as were his students, Alfred Kroeber, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Edward Sapir (of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis about language).

[c_of_exuberance]

Yes, I know about them as well. Mead was actually a Barnard woman (w00t!)

[crunkrubberduck]

That's true. I think the main reason she got into anthrpology in the first place was that she had a big lesbian crush on Ruth Benedict. I will quote to you from my book, Visions of Culture: "Mead was also facinated by Boas' teaching assistant, Ruth Benedict, who convinced Mead to pursue anthropology as a graduate student." It's like reading a romance novel!