FALL 2009

ANTHROPOLOGY OFFICE HOURS – FALL 2009

Dr. Hank Delcore            Phone>278-2784            Office>PB257                        Office Hrs>                        TH            1:00-4:00

ADVISOR                                                                                                                                    by appointment

70844                        123            Peo Cult SE Asia            9:30-10:45                        TTH            SS210

70854                        105W            Applied Anthro            2:00-2:50 p.m.                        MWF            SS210

77159                        111A            Intro Ethno Fldw            6:00-8:50 p.m.                        TH            FFS209

77158                        105W            Applied Anthro            DGT CAMPUS            ARR

hdelcore@csufresno.edu

Dr. Walter Dodd            Phone>278-4899            Office>PB252                        Office Hrs>                        MWF            12:00-1:00

70627                        161            Bio-Bhav Evl Hum            8:00-9:15                        TTH            SS203                        TTH            11:00-12:00

70951                        161            Bio-Bhav Evl Hum            11:00-11:50                        MWF            FFS314

70883                        161            Bio-Bhav Evl Hum            12:30-1:45 p.m.            TTH            ED173

70903                        161            Bio-Bhav Evl Hum            6:00-8:50 p.m.                        W            SS207

wdodd@csufresno.edu

Dr. Roger LaJeunesse            Phone>278-4900            Office>PB258                        Office Hours>            TTH            7:00-8:00

70824                        030            Crit Think Anth            8:00-9:15                        TTH            S143                       

70902                        030            Crit Think Anth            9:30-10:45                        TTH            S143

70826                        030            Crit Think Anth            11:00-12:15                        TTH            S141

70828                        030            Crit Think Anth            12:30-1:45 p.m.            TTH            S143

rogerla@csufresno.edu

Dr. Jim Mullooly            Phone>278-7574            Office>PB254                        Office Hours>            W            9:50-2:50

70901                        002            Introd Cult Anth            9:00-9:50                        MWF            S143

70626                        100            Concept + Applica            6:00-8:50 p.m.                        T            S143                       

70975                        105W            Applied Anthro            DGT CAMPUS            ARR

jmullooly@csufresno.edu

Dr. Franklin Ng            Phone>278-5167            Office>PB255                        Office Hours>              MW            12:00-1:00

70634            AS AM110            AS-AM Community            8:00-9:15                        TTH            SS112                        TTH            9:30-10:35

70846            AS AM015            Intro Asian Amer            10:00-10:50                        MWF            SS204

70635            AS AM110            AS-AM Community            11:00-11:50                        MWF            FFS211

71061            ANTH 125            Trd Chg Chin Jpn            12:30-1:45 p.m.            TTH            IT290

Franklin_ng@csufresno.edu

Dr. John Pryor            Phone>278-5150            Office>PB385A            Office Hours>            TTH            2:00-4:30

CHAIR                                                                                                                                    (McL212/ 278-5452)

ADVISOR

70974                        003            Intro Prehist & Pa            9:30-10:45                        TTH            SS112

71062                            161 Bio-Bhav Evl Hum 11:00-12:15                        TTH            ED173

johnp@csufresno.edu

Part- Time instructors

Dr. Charles Ettner            Phone>278-8831            Office>S144                        Office Hours>            MW            9:00-10:30

70823                        116W            Anthro Religion            8:00-8:50                        MWF            S143                        W            5:00-6:00

76706                        116W            Anthro Religion            11:00-11:50                        MWF            SS110                       

70821                        116W            Anthro Religion            12:00-12:50 p.m.            MWF            SS105

70876                        116W            Anthro Religion            6:00-8:50 p.m.                        W            S143

charlese@csufresno.edu

Shayla Padget-Weibel            Phone>278-8831            Office>S144                        Office Hours>            MW            12:50-2:00

70825                        030            Crit Think Anth            11:00-11:50                        MWF            S143                        by appointment

70827                        030            Crit Think Anth            12:00-12:50 p.m.            MWF            S143

sweibel@csufresno.edu

Kristina Roper            Phone>278-2380            Office>PB256                        Office Hours>            TTH            1:00-2:00

71226                        161            Bio-Bhav Evl Hum            2:00-3:15 p.m.                        TTH            S143

70629                        161            Bio-Bhav Evl Hum            DGT CAMPUS                        ARR

70628                        161            Bio-Bhav Evl Hum            DGT CAMPUS            ARR

70878                        161            Bio-Bhav Evl Hum            DGT CAMPUS            ARR

ckroper@csufresno.edu

Penny Verin-Shapiro            Phone>278-8831            Office>S144                        Office Hours>            MW            11:30-1:00

71123                        105W            Applied Anthro            10:00-10:50                        MWF            SS209B

71059                        105W            Applied Anthro            6:00-8:50 p.m.                        M            S143

71060                        105W            Applied Anthro            6:00-8:50 p.m.                        W            S209B

pverin@csufresno.edu

Rev. 8/20/09

57: Contents

Salutations everyone. Here is what we have in this months issue.

1. AnthroClub Minutes by Selena Farnesi

2. TheAnthroGuys Blog post by anthroguy, aka Dr. Delcore

3. EmpFresnoState Blog post by Dalitso Ruwe

4. SWAA 2009 by Ashlee Dotson

5. Darwin Awards

57: AnthroNews:TheAnthroGuys Blog

AnthroNews:TheAnthroGuys Blog
By theanthroguy (aka Dr. Delcore)

My last few postings have been about ArcHop and plans for developing more affordable, high-density living spaces in downtown Fresno. But now that the Feb. 5 exhibit is over and we’re in data analysis mode on that one, I’m back to having the library on my mind more than ever.
Fresno State just opened a new library this month – find it on facebook by searching “Henry Madden Library.” But already for the last six months, The Anthro Guys and our students have been studying student life for the library. Dean Peter McDonald commissioned the study last year. His goal is to increase student usage, enhance the experience of all users, and make the library central to campus life. That’s a tall order, but when we met him, Dean McDonald was already aware of Nancy Fried Foster and Susan Gibbons’ “Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester.” Rochester anthros Foster and Gibbons, in collaboration with their campus librarians, probed student study and paper-writing habits and translated the results into design insights for library services. Dean McDonald saw the potential for an ethnographic study of Fresno State students to help him achieve his goals for library services, and the study was off and running.
What are we doing? Over the next few weeks, I’ll try to post about our actual research activities. Last fall, we attended the Participatory Design Conference at Indiana University and came away with a wealth of new methodological ideas. Most are united by the reality that merely asking people what they want in products and services is woefully inadequate to inspiring better design for rich user experience. In general, people simply can’t tell you what they want from something as complex as “the library.” However, they do know – at some level – what makes for a rich experience. The challenge is to get that out of them, find the design insights, and translate them into actions and policies. Consequently, one thing we’re deep into right now is Student Theater. In Student Theater, we direct some student participants in the first half of a skit that implicates the library somehow, then invite other student participants to direct the players toward a conclusion.

[This is not the end of the blog, for the rest of it, and others go to theanthroguys blog here: http://theanthroguys.com/2009/03/02/the-library-study/]

57: AnthroNews: EmpFresnoState Blog

[The following is from the blog of the Anthropology, Engineering, and Entrepreneurship]

TOURING WITH THE BAND
by Dalitso Ruwe
Have to admit, I felt it was going to be a daunting task when I was asked to coordinate a design workshop for our potential target audience for our product. Sure the folks at IDEO made it look easy when we watched their video in class but things often are different in reality than what we see on the screen. Nevertheless, I welcomed the challenge as an aspiring Social Scientist/Entrepreneur.
Using ethnography techniques I have been exposed to in class, Dr. Delcore and I were able to come up with three ideal prompts for our pilot workshop. For the first workshop we solicited eight local musicians who are pretty well established in town and have been acquainted with each other either through a mutual friend or played at the same venue. As the attendees began to come in and converse about various projects they are all working on, I began to realize that whichever marketing guru ever said “Your customers don’t know what they want” must have been in a closed room working as a “lone genius” trying to come up with the next best marketing idea. Listening to the conversation going on in the room it was apparent that no one knows more about your product than your customers who interact with the product on a daily basis and often cover up their frustration with the products by finding innovative ways to supplement what the original product lacks or go buy a different product.

http://empfresnostate.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/49/

57:AnthroNews: SWAA 2009

By Ashlee Dotson
Seven students from this years ethnography class will be attending the Southwestern Anthropological Association’s conference in Las Vegas April 30th to May 3rd to present a panel in the style of Pecha Kucha regarding various studies done by the students and the IPA. Pecha Kucha is a fast and to the point way of presenting; the presentations averaging about 6 minutes each. The title of the panel is “The Institute of Public Anthropology: Practicing Relevant Methodologies for the San Joaquin Valley.”
The first four presentations are related to the Library and the work done so far on the study; Ashlee Dotson will be presenting on “Inspiration vs. Confirmation: Navigating the Treacherous Waters of Ethnographic Methods.” While Alecia Barela focuses on “Renovations: The Remodeling of a Library and Reshaping of Student Scholarship” and Kimberly Arnold takes “A Glimpse into Student Life: Student Ethnography.” Dalitso Ruwe will discuss “Reverence vs. Reference Theory.” Felicia Salcedo and Jaime San Andres will be presenting on ArchHop and the work they did. Elfego Franco looks at “Ethnography in Business” and David Moore focuses on “Interdisciplinary Classes and Anthropology.”
So, wish them luck and a safe trip! And expect to hear all about it upon their return to Fresno.

57: DarwinAwards

Taken from Darwinawards.com
Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.

Modus Operandi Misfires:

(01 March 1998) Randy Nestor, 28, was a considerate car thief. When the stolen cars became hot, he didn’t just abandon them, he torched them. Setting the cars on fire, he reasoned, helped the owners collect insurance on their vehicles. This criminal habit became his downfall. After a 10-year career of theft, Randy burned to death in Pittsburgh, PA in a van which he had set fire to from the inside. He hadn’t realized that the door handle on the driver’s side was broken. Friends tried to release him, but the door was locked. His burned body was found inside the van on Sunday.

56:AnthroNews:TheAnthroGuys Blog

By theanthroguy (aka Dr. Delcore)

On Feb. 5, the Anthrogeek[Dr. Mullooly], six anthro students and I were down at this month’s ArcHop exhibit, a full-scale model of a small efficiency unit that, if built in a proposed development here, could be the first stop for people leaving homelessness in Fresno. We were there, with architect/collaborators Kiel Famellos-Schmidt, Shaunt Yemenjian and Mike Pinheiro, for opening night, as members of the public came through to view the model and give us their thoughts on high-density, affordable downtown living. The event was a success, crowded and bustling, with plenty of people willing to blab to our students who were on hand with notebooks, pens and cameras rolling. This past Feb. 14-15, we started Phase II of the project, with two participatory design workshops for homeless people who might eventually end up in these units. On Saturday, anthro student Elfego Franco, Kiel and I went down to Roeding Park where the folks at Food Not Bombs put on lunch for homeless people on the southwest end of Fresno every Saturday. Al Williams, a local homeless advocate and former homeless person himself agreed to recruit some folks for a workshop the next day at 2pm. We then met Mike and went to the downtown homeless encampment known as “Little Tijuana” to recruit for the 10am workshop. This means we went up to about 15 homeless people, sight unseen, to explain the project and see if anyone was interested. Despite some wary looks, most were, and we agreed to see them the next day.

[That's not the end! To read the rest, and other blogs, go to: http://theanthroguys.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/bored-in-fresno-become-an-anthropologist/]

56:AnthroTerm

Anthro Term of the Fortnight
By Chrystall Kinsella

Aquatic foraging:
A specialized subsistence pattern that concentrates on fish and/or marine mammal hunting. Aquatic foraging is usually a far more reliable and productive strategy for obtaining food than the diversified hunting and gathering of most foragers who live away from the coasts and major rivers. The most well known aquatic foragers lived on the Northwest Coast of North America from the Klamath River of California to the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. These societies specialized in salmon fishing along the rivers and hunting seals and whales off the coast. The word “aquatic” is derived from the Latin word aqua, meaning water.

http://anthro.palomar.edu/tutorials/cglossary.htm

56: Central California Research Symposium

30th ANNUAL CENTRAL CALIFORNIA RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM|

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS DEADLINE  MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2009

Please submit abstracts online at: Central California Research Symposium.

The purpose of the Symposium is to share recent research with community investigators in various fields, college students, and faculty as well as to encourage research activities in the Central Valley. All fields of research will be considered for presentation to exchange further ideas among investigators and the general public.

via Central California Research Symposium.

55:Greetings!

The first issue of the Spring ‘09 semester has arrived! Here’s what we have for you.

1. AnthroClub Minutes

2. Anthropologist of the Fortnight

3. AnthroNews: TheAnthroGuys blog

4. UpcomingEvents: Darwin Day/Anthro Day

5. UpcomingEvents:Lecture Series

Comments are welcome and encouraged, we would love to hear from you! Also, please email the editor at pinkmonkeycaru@gmail.com with any ideas or submissions.