Week 8
Due: Saturday, 10/20, at 5pm, uploaded to your dropbox folder on Collab
This week please write a short essay considering the reading you have completed by Saussure and Levi-Strauss by answering --
1) What assumptions underlie these texts? Do the authors share any assumptions? Do their assumption diverge? Which assumptions are explicit? Which are implicit? 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.