preparation for class

Below is a breakdown of the reading and preparation required for each session. You should check here regularly for changes and updates. Any item that begins "??..." is not yet confirmed and could well change. More detail on the assignments will be given in class and on the assigments page.

abbreviations

ME: Mathematics Elsewhere by Maria Ascher
AF: African Fractals by Ron Eglash

Mon 11th September

“Anthropology and the Philosophy of Arithematic” by Gary Urton. In The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Ontology of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic.
writing assignment: a math-autobiographical essay

Thu 14th September

Mon 18th September

selection from the chapter “Through the Supermarket” in Cognition in Practice by Jean Lave.
reading from M. Nestle on What to Eat
assignment in supermarket

Thu 21st September

Mon 25th September

chapter 2 in ME
?? additional reading from mathland

Thu 28th September

Mon 2nd October

chapter 3 in ME
selected readings on Maya calendar systems, from Barbara Tedlock (Time and the Highland Maya, chapter 4 “The Calendar”) and Linda Schele and David Freidel (A Forest of Kings, “The Shape of Time” pp. 77-84).

Thu 5th October

Mon 9th October

chapter 1 in ME
?? “Bamana Sand Divination” by Ron Eglash (in American Anthropologist 99(1): 1997. Available on-line through the library’s subscription to AnthroSource)

Thu 12th October

Mon 16th October

chapter 4 in ME
“Iconic Devices: Toward an Ethnography of Physics Images” by Sharon Traweek. In Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies, edited by GL Downey and Joseph Dumit)
?? something from Edward Tufte (Yale, statistics) His books include: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and Envisioning Information (in library). A chapter from one of these??

Thu 19th October

Mon 23rd October

No class - Hendricks weekend.

Thu 26th October

Mon 30th October

?? Amer

Thu 2nd November

Mon 6th November

?? Alhambra

Thu 9th November

Mon 13th November

?? a chapter from my Weaving Identities book

Thu 16th November

Mon 20th November

chapter 6 of ME

Thu 23th November

No class - Thanksgiving

Mon 27th November

AF, chapters 2 and 3

Thu 30th November

Mon 4th December

Eglash article in American Anthropologist, June 2006
?? T.M. Porter “A World of Artiface” in Trust in Numbers. (includes a section entitled “Making Knowledge Impersonal” OR a chapter from Overcoming Math Anxiety

Thu 7th December

Mon 11th December

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