From Round to Square (and back)

For The Emperor's Teacher, scroll down (↓) to "Topics." It's the management book that will rock the world (and break the vase, as you will see). Click or paste the following link for a recent profile of the project: http://magazine.beloit.edu/?story_id=240813&issue_id=240610

A new post appears every day at 12:05* (CDT). There's more, though. Take a look at the right-hand side of the page for over four years of material (2,000 posts and growing) from Seinfeld and country music to every single day of the Chinese lunar calendar...translated. Look here ↓ and explore a little. It will take you all the way down the page...from round to square (and back again).
*Occasionally I will leave a long post up for thirty-six hours, and post a shorter entry at noon the next day.

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Round and Square Syllabus, Autumn 2018

[a] Round RF
Round and Square Syllabus
All Classes
Autumn 2018
Robert André LaFleur                                                   Office Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 206                                                       Tuesday      4:00-5:30
363-2005                                                                          Thursday    4:00-5:30           
lafleur@beloit.edu                                                           ...or by appointment               
NYRB and Round and Square readings are due on Tuesdays, and will be a part of both the quiz and class discussion on those days (unless I specifically inform you otherwise).
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Week One—August 30 (Thursday This Week)
Syllabic Cycles—Introduction, a-d (read all four posts, not just the first one). 
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). Scroll down until you see it!

Week Two—September 4
Quotidian Quizzes—Introduction, a-h (skim the first four posts, but read the last four carefully (they get to the heart of our course).
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). Scroll down until you see it!

Week Three—September 11
Fieldnotes From History
LaFleur, "Smoke Hole at the Center of the Universe" (.pdf)
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). Scroll down until you see it!

Week Four—September 18
Theory Corner—Bricolage, a-c (read all three posts, not just the first one).
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). Scroll down until you see it!

Week Five—September 25
Styling Culture: Chicago-style Footnotes and Endnotes
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Week Six—October 2
Seinfeld Ethnography Posts:
Introduction  
George Eats Trash
Elaine Exclaims
Needle's on Empty
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Week Seven—October 9
Howard Becker readings (.pdf—reread for ANTH 206)
This will be on the quiz for everyone (and the test for ANTH 206)

Week Nine—October 23 
Rob's Writing Guide (.pdf file)
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). Scroll down until you see it!

Week Ten—October 30
Prairie Ethnography—The Thousand Ask Question, a-c (read all three posts)
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Week Eleven—November 6 (HIST 190: 11/6 quiz and discussion on 11/8).
LaFleur, "NEH Proposal" and "Marcel Granet" (.pdf)
Check the lunar calendar every day (posted at midnight). Scroll down until you see it!

Week Fourteen—November 27
"Divine Entrepreneurs" and "Religiosity Spent" (.pdf files)
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 Week Fifteen—December 4
Structure, History, and Culture (it is important this week that you read both posts. Please understand that the perspective in these posts will play key roles in the rest of our work.
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[b] Square RF
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