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School Books, New Sheets
I made it out to Big!Lots today with the intention of buying new sheets. I ended up with a bunch of groceries too. I have gnocchi to make! I love gnocchi.
I kind of wanted red, but these look pretty good too. I'm currently washing my comforters and everything will be totally fresh and clean tonight. That's a nice feeling, especially accompanied with a shower.
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I was going to write about my school books for the upcoming semester. I'm particularly excited by the ones for Anthropological Theory and History of Urbanization. With the GIS class I'm not so much excited by the book, but by the skillset. And Introduction to Archaeology should be fun, but it's not as directly relevant to my interests. Anyway, here's what I've got.
For Intro to Archaeology I have:
Brian Fagan's Archaeology: a Brief Introduction. It looks like a fairly typical introductory level textbook on theory and technique.
Kenneth Feder's A Village of Outcasts. This looks to be about a project of historical archaeology on a late 18th to mid 19th century site occupied by a community of Native Americans, formerly enslaved people, and outcasts from a European background. It sounds potentially neat.
For Cartography and GIS I have:
Jeremy Crampton's Mapping: a Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS. This seems again like a pretty typical introductory textbook on the topic. The "Critical" in the name is promising, and it has subheadings like "Truth and Power: Cartography as a Social Practice." Yay!
For Anthropological Theory I have:
Mark Moberg's Engaging Anthropological Theory: a Social and Political History. I've read the introduction to this one, and the author plans to take great pains to seat the development of the theories he talks about firmly in the society that the theorists knew and lived in. The historian in me looks forward to that, and it seems like a good approach to me.
Alan Sears' and James Cairns' A Good Book, In Theory: Making Sense Through Inquiry. I haven't cracked that one open yet, but the title is cute!
And for History of Urbanization in the US I have a treasure trove!
William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis. This book was already on my reading list, as it's not only about an urban space I'm personally tied to (Chicago), it's about how Chicago and the land around it exist in mutually influential symbiosis. I like that holism. This book was referenced by a geographer who led an infrastructure tour of the south side of Chicago that I attended while at the AAA conference, so I'm excited about reading it for numerous reasons.
Thomas Sugure's The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. This is another urban space I'm personally tied to. I miss being near Detroit sometimes. The topic of urban community, ethnicity, and inequality is also important to me both for personal idealism, and because they are forces that have strongly shaped the development of urban areas nationwide. This should be an enlightening book.
Timothy Gilfoyle's City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and Commerialization of Sex, 1790-1920. This looks like the sort of social history that I can really get excited about. I hope it gets its claws into me like Nan Enstad's Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure did. If I was going to write scholarly works as a historian, Enstad's book would be the kind of thing I'd like to write. Digging into the lived experience of everyday people, learning about how events in the larger historical context shaped more quotidian existences. I haven't paged through this one either, but I have high hopes. *smiles* But this (and the others) are a lot bigger than Ladies of Labor. I hope I don't get bogged down in them.
I kind of wanted red, but these look pretty good too. I'm currently washing my comforters and everything will be totally fresh and clean tonight. That's a nice feeling, especially accompanied with a shower.
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I was going to write about my school books for the upcoming semester. I'm particularly excited by the ones for Anthropological Theory and History of Urbanization. With the GIS class I'm not so much excited by the book, but by the skillset. And Introduction to Archaeology should be fun, but it's not as directly relevant to my interests. Anyway, here's what I've got.
For Intro to Archaeology I have:
Brian Fagan's Archaeology: a Brief Introduction. It looks like a fairly typical introductory level textbook on theory and technique.
Kenneth Feder's A Village of Outcasts. This looks to be about a project of historical archaeology on a late 18th to mid 19th century site occupied by a community of Native Americans, formerly enslaved people, and outcasts from a European background. It sounds potentially neat.
For Cartography and GIS I have:
Jeremy Crampton's Mapping: a Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS. This seems again like a pretty typical introductory textbook on the topic. The "Critical" in the name is promising, and it has subheadings like "Truth and Power: Cartography as a Social Practice." Yay!
For Anthropological Theory I have:
Mark Moberg's Engaging Anthropological Theory: a Social and Political History. I've read the introduction to this one, and the author plans to take great pains to seat the development of the theories he talks about firmly in the society that the theorists knew and lived in. The historian in me looks forward to that, and it seems like a good approach to me.
Alan Sears' and James Cairns' A Good Book, In Theory: Making Sense Through Inquiry. I haven't cracked that one open yet, but the title is cute!
And for History of Urbanization in the US I have a treasure trove!
William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis. This book was already on my reading list, as it's not only about an urban space I'm personally tied to (Chicago), it's about how Chicago and the land around it exist in mutually influential symbiosis. I like that holism. This book was referenced by a geographer who led an infrastructure tour of the south side of Chicago that I attended while at the AAA conference, so I'm excited about reading it for numerous reasons.
Thomas Sugure's The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. This is another urban space I'm personally tied to. I miss being near Detroit sometimes. The topic of urban community, ethnicity, and inequality is also important to me both for personal idealism, and because they are forces that have strongly shaped the development of urban areas nationwide. This should be an enlightening book.
Timothy Gilfoyle's City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and Commerialization of Sex, 1790-1920. This looks like the sort of social history that I can really get excited about. I hope it gets its claws into me like Nan Enstad's Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure did. If I was going to write scholarly works as a historian, Enstad's book would be the kind of thing I'd like to write. Digging into the lived experience of everyday people, learning about how events in the larger historical context shaped more quotidian existences. I haven't paged through this one either, but I have high hopes. *smiles* But this (and the others) are a lot bigger than Ladies of Labor. I hope I don't get bogged down in them.