Posted: December 28th, 2014

book: guests of the Sheik

book: guests of the Sheik

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Questions for Guests of the Sheik
1.    You are Fatima, a middle-aged, middle-class woman in El Nahra,Iraq in 1954. You have met an American woman for the first time in your life, and have come to know

her pretty well. But you just cannot understand how she can be happy living according to the American customs she has described to you. Construct Fatima’s argument for

why the customs of Iraq, especially as they relate to gender roles and gender relationships, are vastly superior to those of the United States.
2.            Although veiling and the seclusion of women are presently associated in Westerm minds with Islam, these phenomena were present in the Middle East

centuries (probably millennia) before Islam gave them new meaning. Explain some of the NONRELIGIOUS reasons that veiling and seclusion of women could develop in the

area. Why did veiling and seclusion NOT develop among the (precontact) Kung? NOTE: climate is not an issue (it gets to be l20 degrees in El Nahra in the summer);

property and subsistence are.
3.            Explain the Brahmin problem in general terms. How does the Brahmin problem operate in El Nahra? Why is it particularly severe during the time described

in Guests of the Sheik? There are at least two reasons.

Nisa and how to take an essay exam
Author: McKee, Nancy
Score:
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Greetings from Fort Worth, Texas.
My husband and I just arrived this afternoon fter a three and a half day drive from Pullman.
Perfect weather, but from eastern Colorado to Fort Worth it is a truly boring drive.
The reason we made the trip is that our
daughter, Hannah, is a second year medical resident at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth.
Second year residents do not
get Christmas off.
They do not get Thanksgiving off.
So if you want to spend holiday time with your doctor daughter, you go to
her.
We did the same thing last year, when she was a first year resident (aka intern).
She works (right now she
’
s on the labor
and delivery night shift), my husband reads mysteries and does repairs and yard work, and I work on a book manuscript and this
class.
For me, it
’
s a lot like transporting Pullman to Fort Worth.
I hope you have got started on
Nisa
by now.
It
’
s not the longest reading we have, but it
’
s a great way to start thinking about
gender variation, and it
’
s
kind of a soft entrance into a three week course.
A l0t of students tell me when they first start reading
Nisa
that they don
’
t like her.
They find her
“
spoiled.
”
If you have the same feelings, let me offer two suggestions.
First:
give
Nisa a chance; I
’
m virtually certain she
’
ll grow on you.
And second: remember that the Kung have a different philosophy of child
rearing from the one most Americans have.
It
’
s not that the Kung have no system of morality.
Of course, they do; ALL human
groups have a system of morality.
It is just a bit different from ours.
For one thing, they don
’
t think children have much of a
moral instinct.
As they say,
“
their sense hasn
’
t come to them yet.
”
So they don
’
t expect much from very small children.
They
may get mad at them and yell at them.
They may even threaten them with gross bodily harm.
But they don
’
t actually hit them or
hurt them.
They may say something like
“
If you don
’
t quit doing that I
’
ll beat you until you shit.
”
But they don
’
t.
By contrast,
Americans are inclined to think saying something like that to a child is terrible, but on the other hand, some Americans believe it is
acceptable (or even beneficial) to hit children.
Anthropologists, as far as I have read, universally report that Kung children are
well balanced and cheerful.
This is an illustration of one of the most fundamental insights of anthropology: that people across the
world are both remarkably different (in specific cultural practices) and profoundly the same (in their fundamental desires and
goals).
On another topic entirely, and even though we are still at the very beginning of our super compressed winter session, I wanted to
give you some pointers on how to take an essay exam.
Except in linguistics, where students have to do problems, I give only
essay exams.
Even though they re a tremendous, time
–
consuming drag to grade, I am unalterably convinced that they result in
more lasting knowledge for the student.
But many faculty do not use essay exams, which means that many students are unfamiliar
with them.
Because of that, I have written up a few pointers for you.
Although you have a while yet before you have to turn in
your first exam, I wanted to make sure you had these pointers to think about as you read.
HOW TO TAKE AN ESSAY EXAM
The two most common ways of losing points, aside from just blowing off the whole exam, are not answering the whole question
and not providing specific, concrete examples.
Read the whole question, which may be long.
Then answer each part of it.
Then
read your whole answer again.
Then read the question again and ask yourself if you have answered each part of it.
As you read
your answer, ask yourself if you have provided plenty of specific, concrete examples for every point you make.
Remember that
general statements are empty and not persuasive without specific examples, and lists of specifics without a coherent framework to
organize them are meaningless.
Every essay answer needs to contain the following material:
a framework of clear, general statements
specific, concrete evidence that supports these statements
analysis and discussion of the material presented
a coherent summary conclusion, indicating the significance of what you have said
Write your answers in essay form, not as lists.
This is not
“
padding,
”
as one student once told me, but a way of indicating that
you know how the information fits together.
Write in standard, academic English.
Use Spell Check and be sure you ALSO proofread your answers.
There is no excuse for
university students to maker errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar, or usage.
If you have writing problems, consult a good
writing handbook.
If you make many errors, you can lose up to five points.
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If English is not your native language, regardless of where you were born, let us know.
You should still do your best, but you will
not be held to the same mechanical standard as native speakers of English.
This is only fair, considering how tolerant other
countries are of Americans who study abroad.
Don
’
t bother to restate the question, but do make sure you number each one.
Whatever some long ago teacher might once have told you about topic sentences, avoid the stupid, vapid ones like
“
the study of
linguistics is very interesting,
”
or
“
there are many differences between Americans and the Kung.
”
A topic sentence should contain
REAL INFORMATION.
There is no minimum official length for an answer, but if all you are coming up with is a paragraph, you are not providing enough
material.
The pint of a take
–
home exam is completeness and complexity, not brevity.
CITE YOUR SOURCES.
When you refer to material that isn
’
t part of the general stock of common knowledge,
GIVE
CREDIT TO THE SOURCE.
For the purposes of exams you will write for me, this will mean your lectures and your assigned
readings.
After you refer to a specific piece of information, credit the video lecture as (Class lecture #4)
—
in parentheses.
For
the readings, credit them as (Jones 1997: 43), giving the author, date of publication, and page number.
You may use other
sources, but it is emphatically not required to do so to score 100, and I advise against it.
There is a lot of fantastic material on the
Web, and I use it all the time.
But there is also a lot of crap out there.
The problem is that you will not necessarily know whether
material on the Kung or on the Sapir
–
Whorf Hypothesis is accurate.
If you cite inaccurate information, regardless of the source,
you will lose points.
If you d use additional resources, electronic or print, you must cite them.
And regardless of whether you use
only assigned sources or additional sources, you must list them on a page titles
“
References Cited.
”
You may use any style you
are familiar with for your References Cited page, as long as all the necessary information is there.
Don
’
t cheat.
This has not usually been a big problem with distance students, but recently there have been a few problems.
You
may ask a friend for help in proofreading, but not in supplying information.
Do not be tempted by the vast quantities of
information on the Web to lift a large quantity material and present it as your own.
This is cheating, and it will result in a zero and
my sending your name to the Dean of Students.
It
’
s embarrassing and horrible, so please don
’
t do it.

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