readings:
Image/Word from The Alphabet vs. the Goddess
Turning the Belly, by Roger Lohmann (read all available pages ... Google Preview not giving all pages)

podcasts:
Laughter Epidemic in Tanzania - RadioLab podcast (skip to 42 minutes and listen for 16 minutes)



assignment:
based on what you have read, what is the future of religion? How might religion change in the age of YouTube, social networking, genetic engineering, etc.? Discuss on KSOL.

readings:
Jung's thought summarized
Campbell, Joseph. Bios and Mythos 1961
Questions of Re-formation: Darwin, Freud, and the Power of Myth by Phyllis Tickle (Chapter 4 of The Great Emergence)

podcast:
The Power of Myth Part One (on KSOL)

assignment:
tba

assignment:
analyze the Matrix (1st movie) based on what we have learned so far

readings:
The French Structuralist Lexicon (one page)

The Structural Study of Myth by Claude Levi-Strauss (read carefully up to "5.0" then skim after that)
Notes on The Structural Study of Myth (one page ... should be *very* helpful)
Needham, Rodney (1978) “Synthetic Images”

watch:
I Heart Huckabees

assignment:
join the discussion on KSOL about how I Heart Huckabees seeks to fulfill what Levi-Strauss calls "the purpose of myth" which "is to provide a logical model capable of overcoming a contradiction" What are the core contradictions in our culture & cultural logic, and how does I Heart Huckabees resolve them?

readings:
Geertz - Thick Description
Ira Glass - Radio

podcasts:
Dan Savage on This American Life: Return to the Scene of the Crime (go to 39:00)
This American Life: Heretics

assignment:
outline your final project for us on the KSOL message board

readings:
Deflem, Mathieu. 1991. “Ritual, Anti-Structure, and Religion: A Discussion of Victor Turner’s Processual Symbolic Analysis.” JSSR 30(1):1-25.
Bourdieu, Pierre (1977) short excerpt from Outline of a Theory of Practice
A Witch-Hunt in New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial by Michael Wesch


podcasts:
Emergence - RadioLab Podcast
The New Baboon - RadioLab Podcast (Short) (Start at 4:52)

assignment:
Brainstorm, based on what you now know about habitus, power, and emergence why Professor Wesch thinks Richard Wrangham is wrong about those baboons in Africa, or present a theory as to how and why the witch-hunt in New Guinea happened.

Watch all 6 parts of God in America (5 1/2 hours ... you can skip around a little bit if there are parts that are not relevant to you or your project)
The Century of Emergence: Einstein, the Automobile, and the Marginalization of Grandma by Phyllis Tickle (Chapter 5 of The Great Emergence)


assignment:
Discuss God in America and the reading, noting what insights and information you discovered help you with your project.