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Sep. 17th, 2014 10:57 pmI just read an article (Margaret Rodman, Empowering Place: Multilocality and Multivocality, American Anthropologist 94:3 September 1992) that I'm quite sure I want to apply to my own interests and research. But it's also at the edge of my ability to really grok what she's getting at, since I don't have the really thorough grounding in theory that I'd like to have. More reading.... I think I need a copy of this: it was mentioned in class by my advisor. Foucault for Beginners. And you know, I bet some of the other books in this series would be great introductions too.
I've realized that if, as everyone who's been there has told me, I won't have time to do a real, thorough reading of everything I'll need to assimilate in grad school, there's no reason to feel like I have to do a deep, thorough reading of everything I'm trying to get through now. I did read the entire body of Setha Low's Behind the Gates, an ethnography of gated community dwellers. And I've read through whole articles in the first third or so of a reader I have from the library called The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture. But it's occurred to me that what I really ought to do is go through the book and read the introductions and conclusions, then read the whole piece of it looks really interesting and/or relevant. Which is how I ended up reading this piece by Rodman. *grins* I think that's a much better way to approach the amount of literature I want to be at least a little more familiar with.
While I was talking to the proprietor of the used and rare book store that bought my Dickens books a while back, Danae was looking for books for me. She found one that might be the next on my reading list; David Harvey's Spaces of Global Capitalism. It's bite-sized compared to the book he's best known for, and I really want to do some reading in the area of Marxist geography. This looks like a good introduction.
I really wish I could get all this stuff in audio format....
Thanks to Danae's friend Sneha, I've been doing my reading tonight while listening to a live audiolization (Kind of like a visualization; get it?) of Wikipedia being edited. You can find that over here: http://listen.hatnote.com/. It's pretty cool!
I've realized that if, as everyone who's been there has told me, I won't have time to do a real, thorough reading of everything I'll need to assimilate in grad school, there's no reason to feel like I have to do a deep, thorough reading of everything I'm trying to get through now. I did read the entire body of Setha Low's Behind the Gates, an ethnography of gated community dwellers. And I've read through whole articles in the first third or so of a reader I have from the library called The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture. But it's occurred to me that what I really ought to do is go through the book and read the introductions and conclusions, then read the whole piece of it looks really interesting and/or relevant. Which is how I ended up reading this piece by Rodman. *grins* I think that's a much better way to approach the amount of literature I want to be at least a little more familiar with.
While I was talking to the proprietor of the used and rare book store that bought my Dickens books a while back, Danae was looking for books for me. She found one that might be the next on my reading list; David Harvey's Spaces of Global Capitalism. It's bite-sized compared to the book he's best known for, and I really want to do some reading in the area of Marxist geography. This looks like a good introduction.
I really wish I could get all this stuff in audio format....
Thanks to Danae's friend Sneha, I've been doing my reading tonight while listening to a live audiolization (Kind of like a visualization; get it?) of Wikipedia being edited. You can find that over here: http://listen.hatnote.com/. It's pretty cool!
