University of Minnesota Duluth Welcome to Peoples and Cultures of Europe Tim Roufs.

University of Minnesota Duluth

Welcome to Peoples and Cultures

of Europe

Tim Roufs

http://www.d.umn.edu/~troufs/

What do I already know about the

Peoples and Culturesof Europe?

Introduction to You: Meet Yourselves

What would you like to know about your

profs?

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Minnesota Historical SocietyVisual Resources Database

Migrant, Green Giant, LeSueur, Minn. 1953Location no. AV1988.151.12

Photographer: Jerome Liebling Fine Art Photo Collection 1953

http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/search.cfm?bhcp=1

http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresources/search.cfm?bhcp=1

What do you expect to get out of this

class?

Textbooks

Course Materials

Course taught

“European style”

•Political Science Profs, University of Birmingham, 1984

•Mike Haralombos

•Sociology: Themes and Perspectives (Delhi: Oxford University Press,

1994.)

Texts:

www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth3635/cetexts.html#title

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth3635/cetexts.html

Texts:


Parman, Susan.Europe in the Anthropological Imagination.Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.(ISBN: 0133374602)


Texts:


Kurlansky, Mark.Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World.NY: Penguin Books, 1998.(ISBN : 0140275010)


Texts:


Gmelch, SharonNan: The Life of an Irish Traveling Woman, Revised Edition.Long Grove: IL: Waveland Press, 1991.(ISBN: 0881336025)


Texts:


Messenger, John C.Inis Beag: Isle of Ireland.Long Grove: IL: Waveland Press, 1983.(ISBN: 0881330515)


Texts:


Krause Elizabeth L.A Crisis of Births : Population Politics and Family-Making in Italy.Belmont, CA: Thompson Wadsworth, 2005.(ISBN: 0534636934)


Texts:


Friedl, Ernestine.Vasilika: A Village in Modern Greece.Belmont, CA: Thompson Wadsworth, 2002.(ISBN: 0030115450)(Thomson-Wadsworth Case Studies in Anthropology ISBN: 0534971652)


Texts:


Kurlansky, Mark.The Basque History of the World.NY: Penguin Books, 1999.(ISBN: 0140298517)


Syllabus . . .

www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth3635/index.html

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth3635/index.html

How do you findthe syllabus

and othercourse materials

on the web?

The Main UMD WebPage

www.d.umn.edu~troufs

http://www.d.umn.edu/

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Question:

How many European “countries” are

there?

Answer:

It depends on what you consider a

“country”.

But what happened to….

EnglandScotlandWalesGreenland … and the like?

www.aneki.com/europe.html

http://www.aneki.com/europe.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_population

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_population

http://travelocity.raileurope.com/us/rail/passes/eurail_selectpass_index.htm

http://travelocity.raileurope.com/us/rail/passes/eurail_selectpass_index.htm

Question:

How many “countries” are

there in the world?

The Times Atlas of the World: Eleventh

Comprehensive Edition(2005)

“There are currently 193 states recognized by the United

Nations — its 192 members and the Vatican City.”

[194 if you include Taiwan]

(“A state is an independent territory with a government, a population, and sovereignty over

these.”)

--Wikipedia

Wikipedia lists 245 countries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries

but only 193 states “with general international recognition”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries

Question:

How many European cultures are there?

WaloonsFlemish

www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1095/Belgium.html#title

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1095/Belgium.html

REM Question:

How many European “countries” are

there?

www.aneki.com/index.html

http://www.aneki.com/index.html


EnglandScotlandWales … and the like?


EnglandScotlandWales … and the like?

www.aneki.com/index.html

http://www.aneki.com/index.html

Other useful sites . . .

http://anthropology.tamu.edu/news.htm

Library Resources Include:

Other Library Informationwww.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pctext.html#infotrac

Assignments?

www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth3618/macal-f2007.html#title

Assignments?

Assignments?

University of Minnesota Duluth

And, once again…

Welcome to Peoples and Cultures

of Europe

Enjoy your stay!

University of Minnesota Duluth Welcome to Peoples and Cultures of Europe Tim Roufs.

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