Week 2
Due: Saturday, 9/8, at 5pm, uploaded to your dropbox folder on Collab
This week your writing prompt is a series of questions that you will come to find very familiar. Over the course of the semester, we will ask you to return to these questions regularly as we engage with different theorists and ethnographers as a way of gauging, concretizing, and articulating their ideas.
Thus, this week, please write a short essay considering the reading you have completed by Tylor, Morgan, Frazer, and Hegel by answering --
1) What assumptions underlie these texts? Do the authors share any assumptions? Do their assumption diverge? Be careful to be specific about each author. A strong answer will never lump them together without reason.
2) What are the implications of the assumptions you have identified? How do taken-for-granted ideas matter, either in this writing or in the larger world?
See this page for tips and hints about writing a strong essay.