Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Mapping the Social: Questions to Ponder...

1. How does literature provide us w/an interpretive narrative of a culture? How successful or unsuccessful is it at letting us into another's "web of meaning"? (Rehash of our second class, I know - but I think it's good to reevaluate now that we're nearing the end of quarter).

2. How is the social (or social structure), much like the cultural (structure), "built" through popular media? How might this form of construction be cyclical? How might literature (specifically this Austen reading) be considered an example of ethnography through Geertz's theory?

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