Lu Xing

Lu Xing           Lu Xing says that“Chinese rhetoric has  implicit rhetorical practices are contained in literary and historical texts” (Xing 2).  “There is, in fact, no single unified signifier, equivalent to the term rhetoric, in Chinese texts” (Xing 3).“In the…

5/5/09 Log-5870

Joel Manfredi natural cures for herpes Log for 5-5-09 Dr. De Vries Ferguson, “Don’t Believe The Hype”     Joel reads the Log   Adam remembers how the book “Dirt” got brought up… because it was from the four points…

Stoller comentary…

James D. Dyer Dr. DeVries Ethnography Spring 2009   In ethnographies, memoirs, novels, and films anthropologists tell other people’s stories. In so doing, as Adamu Jenitongo once reminded me, we also tell our own stories. Many scholars may well object…

Stoller Commentary

            In Ethnography/Memoir/Imagination/Story, Paul Stoller looks at ethnography from an anthropological perspective.  He notes that because he thinks of anthropology of the most personal of the human sciences, “the personal usually has a deep impact on the professional.  For me,…

Open House

Dr. Devries and Fellow Classmates, I will be conducting an “open house” ritual at my school tonight from 6:30-7:30.  My colleague is out ill and I will be marshaling her room as well as mine.  I will try to leave…