I am home again after another tiring but rewarding trip to
New York to teach at Columbia. Next week
I am carrying out a multi-media pedagogical experiment. The reading is large chunks of Edwin Wilmsen’s
brilliant ideological critique of the work of ethnographer Richard Lee and associates,
and by extension of the entire field of Cultural Anthropology. However, I shall not be lecturing. Instead the students are instructed to watch
on YouTube four of the ten lectures I posted on Ideological Critique – the four
devoted to Wilmsen – and then to come into class with questions and comments. This is the first time I have tried
this. We shall see whether it works.
Very good idea, imho.
ReplyDeletePlease make more content for YouTube. Not all of us can exactly come to the lectures!
ReplyDeleteOooh they're in for a treat! Those particular lectures were the best in any series of yours I've watched.
ReplyDeleteA flipped classroom!
ReplyDeleteI agree with the last Anon - those lectures are incandescent.
ReplyDeleteI wonder, though, whether Mannheim really did identify 4 types of Utopian or only 3. The revolutionary and the chiliast look rather similar to me.