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Thursday, January 31, 2013 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (CST)
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Matt Costa will perform a free concert to KXT Members on January 31 in the Foundation Room, adjacent to the House of Blues. Doors at 5:30pm and the event ends at 7:00pm.
Please have your KXT Member card ready when you order your ticket.
Parking is valet, in surface lots in the area or at meters nearby. Cash bar.
The Foundation Room is located at 2200 North Lamar Street in Dallas.
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House of Blues - Foundation Room
2200 North Lamar Street
Thursday, January 31, 2013 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (CST)
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Carter said the city is working to find ways to catch young people during their formative years in an effort to teach the skills city leaders said many people are lacking.
but its ok to be shipped off to war and fight for our country two years later. think about what you just said! i have had my driving lisence 11 years i am 26..with NO ACCIDENTS. but we can just stop giving drivers lisences to kids at 16 but let the carry guns and shoot people overseas. awesome comment cac2009.
saintswrath....I agree 100%. You cant help who you fall in love with or who your happy with. Let them have the benifits. We are fighting for the land of the free....prove it. And let these individuals have happiness as well.
This is sad. As a teenager...I can remember racing friends down the Houma shortcut. You never think something bad can happen to you. God Bless these families.
Pleople are crazy! This is very sad. God Bless these families.
These parents should not get custody of there son. Where were they when there daughter got eaten to death. How do you not know this is happening. Save the little boy....these are BAD PARENTS!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree with KSchmill. People shooting people left and right and this kid gets 10 years for theft. He was 17 and stupid. Its a damn shame graduating form school he has to start his future in jail. Probation and community service for the next 5 years yes but 10 years in jail...its B**lS**t.
She deserves life in prison.
The court system is sooooo F@#K'D UP. There are people serving longer sentences....BEHIND BARS for lesser offences. This is BULL!!!! A woman I know in Covington...got 5 years for an ounce of pot while on probation....where is the justice? This scumbag gets PROBATION. Once again this is F@#K'D UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am a white woman....and I agree with cmmnsens! It is a shame. This dosnt happen in all cases...but most. It's sad that we are all not equally treated.
So sad. God Bless his family and rest his soul.
marvinvernon....you are right, but sometimes i feel murderers should get life in prison...rather than a swift death because it must be miserable living among four wall, no windows, fights, all the time in the world to think about what you have done, just all the bad stuff and lack of freadom that comes with jail.
NOsFUTURE- Ignorance humors me!
This is bullshit. This man has already served his time. I would fight it untill the end. How can you expect anyone to get ahead when the state will take every dime he makes....very unconstitutional.
exfidefortis----Good for you! I 100% agree with what you said. I am a white female and this racist stuff needs to stop. white people are just as bad. I ts just rarely talked about when whites f**k up!
People so young are dying over ignorance....sad, very sad!
It's sad to say..but everyone should carry a gun and use it on these idiots if need be. Good for you shooter!
The evidence is the boy's saying this happend...that's enough for me as a parent. Lock this bastard up for life! Sick freak's....our babies are not safe anywhere...it's a damn shame.
Pour woman....she was obviously running from something. She just needed a friend. R.I.P Mrs. Chang.


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Jefferson City, Missouri -- Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan announced today that Commissioner of Securities, Matt Kitzi, ordered a Texas-based company named Petro-America Producing Oil and Gas Wells, Inc. to stop unlawfully courting investors in Missouri.
The Securities Division in the Secretary of State's office received a complaint from a concerned Missourian who responded to an advertisement in The Wall Street Journal. The ad, made by Petro-America, offered opportunities to invest in four functional oil wells and five gas wells and asked for an initial investment of $12,500. After inquiring about the ad, the Missouri resident was told he could earn "a couple of grand a month," and that the oil and gas wells were expected to produce nine barrels a day.
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Giving thanks.
I cannot express how grateful I am for the blessings in my life. Not in words anyway. But I'll try.
My parents. Without them, there's no me. My parents provided a blueprint from which I work from everyday on how to be a man, a husband, and a father. My mom's unconditional love.
Momo and Dado (my in-laws) for their patience and love.
I am thankful for great neighbors, who support me by helping my family in my absence. Chad, Rae, Morgan, Bobby Hyatt, Robert, Bethany, Father Chris, and all the parishioners at St. Lawrence Church in Lawrenceburg, thank you.
I am thankful for pain. You read that right, pain. Pain has made me stronger, physically and mentally. And I've had many times in my life where a weaker version of myself wouldn't have been able to handle what I've been through.
I'm thankful for the people who have broken my heart. If it wasn't for them, I would never realize how much love I get from my amazing wife, who has since mended my heart.
I am thankful for rude people. Thanks to them I know how to be kind, patient and caring to others.
I am thankful for every teacher I've ever had. Whether in a classroom, aboard a ship, or on a field. Thank you for helping me and challenging me to grow.
I am thankful for sports.
I'm thankful for my Kentucky Wildcats, for showing the Louisville Cardinals how to win, and be gracious and humble champions. Although Louisville teams may not win as much as Kentucky teams, when they do at least they'll look good doing it. After all, they will have learned from the best.
I'm thankful for my sister for always making me laugh.
I'm thankful for my brother for always giving me something to make fun of, see, there I go again.
I am thankful for my children, my beautiful children, Kenadee and Trey. I never knew how much my parents loved me until I had my own children, now I get it.
I am thankful for my wife Lindsay. It's easy to take advantage of, and not truly appreciate, the things you have in your life every day.
Lindsay, I hold you as the thing I treasure the most in this world. I love you and the children with all my heart. YAMWW.
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Choice missing 'important time of year,' Garrett says
Former Cowboys coach Bill Parcells had no patience with players who missed training camp because of injury. "This is the time of year when football players play football," he said often during camp when the subject of a sidelined player was brought up. While current Cowboys coach Jason Garrett isn't as blunt, he made it clear […] [Read More]
Cowboys 'choice' could be to keep Miller, deal Tashard
Lonyae Miller's performance at training camp is making Tashard Choice look expendable. Choice, who has missed all of camp with a calf strain, is a forgotten man of sorts. You see him around, but you don't hear him or hear anybody talk about him. Unless, of course, the conversation centers around Miller. The first-year running […] [Read More]
Cowboys great set to be in town Tuesday for autographs
Cowboys great Drew Pearson will be in town Tuesday for an appearance on "The Chris and Jason Show" on KZDC-AM's ESPN 1250 The Zone. The show will air from 3 p.m.-7 p.m. at Rio Rio Cantina on the River Walk, where Pearson will also sign copies of his books' "Hail Mary" and "Remember Texas Stadium," […] [Read More]
Rookies put best foot forward in Blue-White scrimmage
Several rookies stood out in Sunday's Blue-White scrimmage. Coach Jason Garrett praised first-round right tackle Tyron Smith for holding his own against linebacker Anthony Spencer. "It seemed like he didn't seem in awe of the situation in any way," Garrett said. "He's been blocking these guys throughout camp, so it seemed like he responded fairly […] [Read More]
Dez dishes on morning tacos, return duties
Dez Bryant took advantage of having Sunday morning off by venturing outside of downtown to eat at Taco Garage on Broadway. The Cowboys WR gave the joint a thumbs up in a Twitter review. "I just finished eating at taco garage in San Antonio tx..by far the best Mexican restaurant I ever ate at," Bryant […] [Read More]
Report: Pearson to enter Ring of Honor
A player will be added to the Cowboys' Ring of Honor this season, owner Jerry Jones told reporters Saturday at the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Citing an anonymous source, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's web site reported the player will be Drew Pearson, who played for Dallas from 1973-83 and had 489 catches […] [Read More]
Ratliff getting time off to heal
Cowboys nose tackle Jay Ratliff didn't participate in Saturday's afternoon practice because of a sore hip. Ratliff said he would participate in Sunday afternoon's scrimmage, but coach Jason Garrett indicated that the Pro Bowler likely wouldn't see any action. With Ratliff out, second-year player Josh Brent worked with the first team at nose tackle. [Read More]
Cowboys rookie Smith a 'serious' sort
At 20 years old, Dallas Cowboys rookie right tackle Tyron Smith was the youngest player in the 2011 NFL Draft. But you'd never know it from talking to him and watching the way he works. Seemingly mature beyond his years, Smith speaks in a low tone and never passes up an opportunity to receive post-practice […] [Read More]
Cowboys set to scrimmage Sunday afternoon
The "Blue-White Scrimmage" is returning to Cowboys training camp. Although the Cowboys have held scrimmages at recent camps, they haven't labeled it as such in some time. But coach Jason Garrett said he's planning on holding a "Blue-White Scrimmage" Sunday afternoon. "We are going to do a little Blue-White situational football and scrimmage tomorrow in the afternoon," […] [Read More]
Cowboys draft pick 'bouncing back' nicely
First-round draft pick Tyron Smith continues to take his lumps while trying to block outside linebackers DeMarcus Ware and Anthony Spencer. The good news: He isn't hanging his head or looking for a place to hide. "He's had to block 94 (Ware) and 93 (Spencer) a lot," Jason Garrett said. "He's challenged every time he […] [Read More]
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Social Sciences: Anthropology, 2011-12
At Haverford we teach social and cultural anthropology. Social and cultural anthropologists study the family, gender and social organization; modes of subsistence and exchange practices; politics and power; ritual and religion; and all forms of expressive behavior. Once anthropologists primarily studied small-scale indigenous communities (so-called "primitive societies") and rural populations, but now we also study state societies, urban communities and globalization. Our method of research is called ethnography. The ethnographic method requires us to live in the communities that we study for extended periods of time. Through observation of local practices, interviews and informal conversations, participation in local events and general immersion in the lifeways of a particular people and place, sociocultural anthropologists build a framework for analysis that integrates both an insider's and an outsider's perspective. Two core principles inform our ethnographic research. First, we are comparative. Anthropologists want to know what is unique and distinctive about the subject we are studying and what generally tends to be true about that sort of thing. Therefore we compare social and cultural phenomena in one place to those in others, and examine the particular features of a specific people and place in light of general theories about humans and human societies. Second, we are holistic. We do ethnography to get a sense of the context in which a particular incident or practice is occurring, as a way of developing a fuller understanding of that specific practice, and of that place and those people and how things work there.
Associate Professor Zolani Ngwane, Chair
Assistant Professor Nikhil Anand
Professor Maris Boyd Gillette
Stinnes Professor of Global Studies and Professor Laurie Kain Hart
Assistant Professor Jesse Weaver Shipley
Visiting Assistant Professor Banu Nilgun Uygun
Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Zainab Saleh
John R. Coleman Professor of Social Sciences Wyatt MacGaffey, Emeritus
Affiliated Faculty at Bryn Mawr College:
Professor of Growth and Structure of Cities Gary McDonogh
Visiting Assistant Professor of Growth and Structure of Cities Jun Zhang
Faculty of the Department of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College
Major Requirements
Students are required to take a total of 11 courses in the major, including six required courses within the department. Individual programs require the advisor's approval.
- ANTH 103a, Introduction to Anthropology, preferably in the first or second year.
- ANTH 303a or b, History and Theory of Anthropology, before the senior year.
- One course focused on an ethnographic area, such as ANTH 241, Mediterranean; ANTH 245, Africa; ANTH 244, China; or a similar course on another campus.
- One other 200 level course in this department.
- One 300 level course in this department, before the senior year.
- A two-credit, intensive Senior Thesis Seminar, during the fall and spring semesters of the senior year (Anthropology 450/451).
All major programs require the approval of the major advisor. No more than one biological anthropology or archaeology course may be counted for the Haverford major. The remaining courses may be courses offered in the department, in an anthropology department on another campus or in approved related fields. Students are expected to familiarize themselves with the use of e-mail, Blackboard, Tripod and the storage server.
Minor Requirements
The minor in anthropology consists of six courses, including: ANTH 103a, Introduction to Anthropology; ANTH 303, History and Theory of Anthropology; an ethnographic area course; and three other courses at the 200 or 300 level, including one course at the 300 level. A minimum of three courses must be taken in the Haverford department. Students are expected to familiarize themselves with the use of e-mail, Blackboard, Tripod and the storage server.
(Note: When required courses are not offered, equivalents will be designated.) Students are expected to familiarize themselves with the use of e-mail, Blackboard, and the faculty server.
Requirements for Honors
Honors are decided at the discretion of the faculty in the department of Anthropology. They are based upon overall excellence in the major. "Excellence" is defined by three criteria: outstanding work in the senior thesis (final written work and oral presentation), strong cumulative performance in all anthropological coursework (typically a grade point average of 3.7 or higher) and a record of consistent intellectual commitment and participation in the department. High Honors will be awarded, upon occasion, for exceptional contributions in all areas.
103 Introduction to Anthropology SO
An introduction to the basic ideas and methods of social anthropology. Examines major theoretical and ethnographic concerns of the discipline from its origins to the present, such as family and kinship, production and reproduction, history and evolution, symbolism and representation, with particular attention to such issues as race and racism, gender and sexuality, class and ethnicity. Prerequisite: Not open to students who have completed BMC Anthropology 102.
155 Themes in the Anthropology of Religion SO (Cross-listed in Religion and African and Africana Studies)
What is it that rituals actually do? Are they enactments (affirmations) of collective ideals or are they arguments about these? Are they media for political action or are they expressions of teleological phenomena? The course is a comparative study of ritual and its place in religious practice and political argumentation. Concrete case studies will include an initiation ritual in South Africa, the Communion Sacrament in Christianity, a Holocaust commemorative site in Auschwitz and the cult of spirit-possession in Niger. Emphasis on writing, frequent essays. Enrollment limited to 20. Preference to Freshmen and Sophomores.
202 Among Men: Construction of Masculinities SO (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies)
A comparative exploration of the socio-cultural politics of gender, with particular reference to masculinity, the course combines an intellectual historical approach (i.e., how the related notions of maleness, manhood and masculinity have featured in the history of social thought) and a thematic focus on issues such as the men's movements, popular culture, queer movement, etc. While the course will be grounded on an anthropological notion of the social basis of power, culture and identity formation, the readings will nonetheless be interdisciplinary—including historical narratives, literature and film ethnographies (from Africa and the United States) and critical work from fields such as queer, feminist and postcolonial studies. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103. Offered occasionally.
204 Anthropology of Gender SO (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies)
The cultural construction of gender and sexuality, kinship, inheritance, and marriage; the performative dimensions of sexual identity; the cultural politics of motherhood; myths of matriarchy; ideologies of masculinity and femininity. Not open to students who have completed Anthropology 216b or Bryn Mawr Anthropology 106. Offered occasionally.
205 Social Anthropology: Artisans in Global Context SO
In this course we examine artisanal and artistic production, and how such productive systems intertwine with other aspects of social organization, such as kinship and gender, and are affected by large-scale forces, such as marketization and globalization. Students will conduct independent research on a small-scale producer in the Philadelphia area. Prerequisite: Anthropology 102 or 103. Offered occasionally.
206 Anthropology of Art SO
This course looks at the social and cultural foundations of a category of things referred to as "art." We examine the properties of these things and of the people who make, trade, exhibit and look at art, and ask why they (we) do that. This involves a) understanding, and making theory about, the general development of the concept and uses of "art" in European civilization, as well how and why objects from "exotic" (that is, colonized) societies (in particular Africa, Native America and Australia) have been identified and collected as a particular kind of art ("primitive art"), and b) exploring the "power of images" in diverse societies and social contexts. These questions allow us to challenge our received conceptions of what art is and does and to broaden our understanding of human creativity beyond conventional notions of art, taste, value and power. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or consent of the instructor. Offered occasionally.
207 Visual Anthropology SO
Examines the history and development of anthropology's relationship to the visual, focusing particularly on ethnographic film. Explores the relationship between ethnographic texts and visual ethnographic materials in socio-cultural anthropology. Visual ethnography investigated as a mode for representing culture and a site of cultural practice. Special attention paid to questions of collaboration and documentary for social change. Students produce ethnographic films in crews for final projects. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 at Haverford or 102 at Bryn Mawr. Typically offered in alternate years.
208 Museum Anthropology SO
What kinds of uses, values and meanings do people attribute to objects? Why do museums exist as special sites for housing objects? What do museums do to objects, how and why? This course is a comparative and historical introduction to museums and objects, and an overview of the kinds of things anthropologists do in and around museums. Students conduct research on museums (museums as the object of research) and do museum research (research as museum professionals). Offered occasionally.
209 Anthropology of Education: State of the Debate SO
Education and schooling in anthropological literature. We will compare the concepts of "socialization" in British Social Anthropology with "cultural transmission" in American Cultural Anthropology to look for the different ways in which the role of education in social reproduction and transformation has been framed over time. In addition to basic works by thinkers such as Durkheim, Malinowski, Mead, Benedict and Boas, we will read a selection of ethnographies of schooling from the United States, Africa and Japan. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 and one course in Education. Offered occasionally.
216 Women and Power in Comparative Perspective SO (Cross-listed in Gender and Sexuality Studies)
This course explores issues of power and its operation through examining women and women's experience. Course readings combine theoretical materials on power and women's empowerment with ethnographic studies that allow us to investigate theoretical questions in specific contexts. We consider the nature of power, the sources of social inequality, and the potential for powerful action on individual and collective levels. Offered occasionally.
220 Storytelling and the Ethnographic Imagination SO
From anthropology's inception as a discipline, anthropologists have experimented with the relationship between ethnographic writing and storytelling. Even early anthropologists who were deeply committed to the idea of anthropology as a science, such as the founder of ethnography Bronislaw Malinowski, nevertheless tried to entertain, excite and emotionally engage readers by using storytelling techniques for ethnographic monographs, "Imagine yourself suddenly set down, surrounded by all your gear, alone on a tropical beach close to a native village, while the launch or dinghy which has brought you sails away out of sight". In this course we explore ways to combine ethnography with techniques from dramatic writing. Students read classic and contemporary works by anthropologists who enrich ethnographic writing with techniques from dramatic writing; conduct individual ethnographic research projects; and experiment with story-telling techniques to present their findings. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 or permission of the instructor. Offered occasionally.
225 Anthropology of Postcolonialism SO
An examination of cultural and social transformation in the former USSR, Central/Eastern Europe, China and Cuba through readings in recent ethnography. How do socialist-era institutions and ideologies continue to influence people's contemporary efforts to create a new kind of society and market? In what sense can we speak of shared national histories and cultures as determinative of these processes—or is it culture itself that is changing? Prerequisite: Anthropology 102 or 103. Offered occasionally.
235 Social Practice of Media SO
This course will examine cross-culturally how the mass media, print and electronic, old and new, have become critical to the constitution of subjectivities, collectivities and histories in the contemporary world and are the primary means for the circulation of symbolic forms across space and time. Attention is paid to how the production, reception and circulation of media forms and technologies are integrated into social practice at the local, national and transnational levels. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 or consent of professor. Offered occasionally.
236 Language and Electronic Media SO
20th century politics and culture were intimately linked to the rapid development of radio, television and film. These electronic media have creatively engaged with local cultural practices around the world in reshaping the nature of artistic expression, national, gendered and racial difference, and political power. This course uses anthropological notions of language to examine cultures of electronic media around the globe. We will create a theoretical frame that will allow us to look at radio, video/film, television, the internet and mobile phone technologies as forms of social mediation. Mass media will be considered in relation to the formation of new types of embodiment, value, production and consumption. In particular, we will trace how actor-centered performance approaches to language, reference and authority give insight into the making of contemporary, electronically-mediated ways of understanding the world. This class draws together the fields of philosophy of language, linguistic anthropology, media studies and various approaches to performance studies. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 or consent of the professor. Offered occasionally.
241 Anthropology of the Mediterranean SO (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature and Latin American and Iberian Studies)
This course focuses on pluralism and cultural interaction in circum-Mediterranean societies. It includes such topics as: orientalism and the problematics and politics of ethnographic production in and on peripheral societies; the use and abuse of concepts of cultural continuity; ethno-religious interaction in rural and urban settings; imperial legacies and nation-state ideologies in 21st century cultural politics; local and transnational economic systems; migration patterns, conflicts and contemporary social transformations. Typically offered in alternate years.
244 Anthropology of China SO (Cross-listed in East Asian Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies)
This course is a basic introduction to the anthropology of China. The scope of our inquiry is about one century: we begin with traditional China and end with the present. Our primary site is the Chinese mainland (rather than Taiwan, Hong Kong or the Chinese diaspora). Our goals include learning specific information about China, Chinese society and Chinese culture; examining a range of diverse anthropological approaches to the study of human beings; exploring the political dimensions of representation; and reflecting on the relationship between political systems, the economy and social formations. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or East Asian Studies. Typically offered in alternate years.
247 Anthropology and Literature: Ethnography of Black South African Writing 1888-2008 SO (Cross-listed in African and Africana Studies)
Through analysis of the development of writing in colonial and apartheid South Africa this course examines the "crisis of representation" of the past two decades in literature and anthropology. We will consider debates about the textual status of ehtnographic monographs and the more general problems of writing and social power. Specifically, we will look at how such writing contributed to the construction and transformation of black subjectivity. Course material will include 19th and 20th century texts by black South Africans including life narratives, particularly collaborated autobiographies by women in the 1980s. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103. Typically offered in alternate years.
249 Colonialism, Law, Human Rights in Africa SO (Cross-listed in Peace, Justice, & Human Rights and African and Africana Studies)
This course examines the colonial legacies of contemporary discourses of human rights and development as they are relevant in contemporary global politics. By taking an historical approach to the idea of rights we will make connections between sovereignty, the rule of law, and the rights of citizenship. We will use a critical eye to explore the conditions of possibility that allow states, development organizations, donor agencies and individuals to unwittingly reproduce centuries old tropes of poverty, degradation and helplessness of non-Western peoples. Using historical descriptions of the encounters between Europeans and Africans in West Africa and South Africa we will unpack assumptions about African societies. We will also explore liberalism and it connections to British colonialism its contemporary incarnations. Prerequisite: One course relating to Africa, African politics or African literature.
252 State and Development in South Asia SO (Cross-listed in Peace, Justice, and Human Rights)
How does government actually work? In this class, we will focus on everyday work of government in South Asia—the way in which its routines make particular kinds of states and citizens. We will focus on the kinds of political authority produced by the everyday work of states, particularly as they are created through the plans and programs of development. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103.
254 Diseased Bodies: AIDS, Culture and the Anthropology of the Body SO
A study of discourses of cultural and medical management and stigmatization of the diseased human body. We will look at how cultural perceptions of disease generate binaries of taboo/restoration, sin/redemption, dying/living, decay/heal. We will look at how responses to HIV/AIDS embody this ambivalence of the diseased body in ideologies of social subjectivity. The course will be informed by an approach to this problem which views the human body as society's investment in its cultural and material reproduction while also serving as an ideological frontier separating socialized subjectivity from potentially antisocial libidinal forces of the biological self. Within this framework we will pursue the question: in what specific ways does disease, HIV in particular, represent a breach of the boundary between the body as social order and the carnal forces of its disruption? With HIV as an organizing problematic, the course will be structured around themes, including religious notions of the body, sin and redemption; Western philosophical opposition of the body to the faculty of reason; interventionist technologies of modern medicine and the secularization of illness; African notions of the social body and disharmonies of disease. We will conclude the course reflections on how my work on HIV prevention in South Africa has addressed these cultural issues in local communities. Prerequisite: At least one 100 level course in Social Sciences and consent of the professor.
256 Political Anthropology SO
This course considers politics as what groups of people do to affect their social conditions, and examines how their ability to affect those conditions is organized and controlled. Through the reading of ethnography and anthropological theory, we will raise questions about how "leaderless" societies organize social action, about the interrelations of gender, bodies and politics, and about the ways in which power is exercised and contested in different societies. We will discuss how modern states arose and what impact they have had on the peoples they incorporate and on options for political action in contemporary complex global political systems. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103. Offered occasionally.
257 Ethnic Conflict SO
The comparative study of ethnic identity and collective violence. Ideological systems of classification and differentiation, such as kinship, race, class, ethnicity and nationality. Case studies of contemporary struggles and conflicts, informed by classic and recent anthropological theory. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or permission of the instructor. Offered occasionally.
258 Politics of Culture and Identity SO (Cross-listed in Peace and Conflict Studies-Bi Co Conc)
This course will examine how "culture" and "identity" have become increasingly important frameworks through which claims to resources, rights and power are articulated. Drawing on a diverse set of case studies, we will ask how we can approach politics of culture and identity ethnographically, and what role anthropology might have to play in such struggles. Prerequisite: Anthropology 102 or 103. Offered occasionally.
259 Ethnography of Islam SO
Comparative ethnographies of Muslim societies. Islam as a field of anthropological inquiry and theorizing. Ethnographic representation and the construction of ethnographic authority. Islam in the western imagination. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or consent of the instructor. Typically offered in alternate years.
261 Memory, History, Anthropology SO
The social aspects of memory. Collective representations and memorial genres. Institutional memory and the effects of institutions on individual memory. Memory in oral and literate societies. Memory as a political act and a tool of political legitimacy. Mourning and trauma. Role of narrative in memory and the relationship between non-narrative forms and memory. How memory relates to the present and to the past. The course will examine a number of influential theoretical texts on memory and look at selected case studies. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or consent of the professor. Offered occasionally.
263 Anthropology of Space: Housing and Society SO
Space, place and architecture in anthropological theory; the contributions of anthropology to our understanding of the built and imagined environment in diverse cultures. Topics include: the body and its orientation in space; the house, kinship and cosmology; architecture as a communicative/semiotic system; space and sociopolitical segregation and integration; space and commodity culture. May be taken for Bryn Mawr Cities credit. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or Growth and Structure of Cities. Offered occasionally.
270 Psychoanalysis and Anthropology SO
This course will trace areas of convergence of anthropology and psychoanalysis from the beginnings of the discipline of anthropology to the present through selected topics, including kinship, society and the self; sexual difference; the interpretation of dreams; anthropological hermeneutics; ethnographic fieldwork and clinical practice (listening, transference, countertransference); magic and fetishism; individual and collective violence. Prerequisite: Anthropology 102 or 103. Offered occasionally.
281 Nature/ Culture: An Introduction to Environmental Anthropology SO (Cross-listed in and Environmental Studies and Peace, Justice, and Human Rights)
An introduction to the ideas and methods central to environmental anthropology. Topics covered will include political ecology, crises and uncertainty, indigeneity and community management. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 or Environmental Studies 101, Case Studies.
303 History and Theory of Anthropology SO
The development of anthropological thought in the West. Enlightenment theories of society and the human subject, the study of social organization in 19th and early 20th centuries (including Marx and Durkheim), social anthropology and cultural anthropology. Structuralism, Marxist anthropology, postmodernism and the crisis of representation in the 1980s and 1990s. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103.
310 Modes of Thought SO
Anthropology as a discipline concerned with the translation of cultures. Propositions concerning "modes of thought" or "belief" in traditional and modern societies, debates about rationality and models of social and cultural evolution. Prerequisite: One other course in Anthropology, Sociology or Philosophy. Offered occasionally.
315 Human Rights, Gender and Knowledge: The Truth And Reconciliation Commission in South Africa SO
Reflection on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission from the perspective of rural women's testimonies. Reports and scholarly reflections on the TRC often reflect the perspectives of elite groups. Based on first-hand research funded by the CPGC, the course will have students read testimonies based on collected submissions by women from poor rural communities who lost members of their families during the struggle against Apartheid. We will try to understand the role of gender in testimonies to the TRC and how knowledge was distributed unequally between men and women. We will situate women's testimonies within the larger context of human rights discourses. We will read critical theories of human rights and Truth Commissions. We will also discuss taped interviews I carried out in 2008/9 with the same women, family members and other members of the community. These testimonies and recorded interviews will form primary readings for the course. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 and at least one 200 level class in Anthropology. Offered occasionally.
322 Ethnographic Methods SO
Qualitative research methods, with a focus on participant-observation. Theoretical debates, ethical questions and practical issues concerning the craft of ethnographic field work will both be addressed. Students will conduct several small-scale field exercises and design and implement a larger ethnographic project. Prerequisite: Anthropology 102 or 103. Preference to Anthropology majors/minors. Typically offered in alternate years.
327 Ritual and Performance SO (Cross-listed in African and Africana Studies)
This course examines theories of performance and practice as a way for understanding how specific events and actions relate to social structure, history and memory. We will explore how bodies become produced and contested in the performance of political and personal productive and sensuous activity. The course's central thematic explores the tension between theories of performance and theories of practice which highlight key philosophical issues within anthropology and social thought more generally: power and its enactment, the relationship between personal experience and macro-sociological processes, the nature of consciousness, structure versus agency and stasis versus change. Prerequisite: Anthropology 303. Offered occasionally.
350 Social and Cultural Theory SO (Cross-listed in Peace, Justice, and Human Rights)
This class is an intensive reading workshop on contemporary ethnography with an emphasis on questions of the anthropological representation of marginalized groups and on the predicaments of contemporary life in the context of globalization and social change. Among other things, we will discuss how the craft of anthropology draws on its disciplinary resources to address these predicaments and to communicate its insights. The intention of the course is to deepen students' understanding of the history, theory and uses of anthropology through its application in ethnography, and to develop students' capacity to read deeply and learn from ethnographic work that treats subjects and lives unfamiliar to them. Prerequisite: Two courses in Anthropology, one of which must be Anthropology 303. Offered occasionally.
351 Writing and Social Construction of Subjectivity SO (Cross-listed in Comparative Literature)
This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of writing as a social institution, personal ritual, cultural artifact and a technology. Beginning with some debates in the social sciences concerning the place of literacy in individual cognitive development and social progress, we will proceed to explore some core assumptions about speech and writing in Western thought from Plato to recent French feminist theory. The goal of this course is to offer students a genealogical account of anthropological ways of thinking about the human being as a creative agent and a social subject. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 and Anthropology 303.
355 Anthropology and the New Faces of Modernity SO
An examination of recent trends in reflection on modernity in the human and social sciences. This course addresses questions about social subjectivity, globalization and the endurance of modernity through a number of ethnographic snapshots from different parts of the world. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 and one 200-level course in Anthropology. Offered occasionally.
358 Anthropology of Capitalism SO
This course explores capitalism from an anthropological perspective. We combine study of theoretical work on capitalist processes and the nature of capitalism with ethnographic studies of how capitalism operates in particular places at particular times. Our work includes examining and producing materials in multiple media, including written texts, film, and oral presentations. Students will conduct ethnographic studies of capitalisms over the course of the semester, and will work together in crews to make films about capitalisms. Each crew will produce at least two short films. Prerequisite: Anthropology 207 or 303. Offered occasionally.
361 Advanced Topics in Ethnographic Area Studies SO
Prerequisite: One course in an appropriate ethnographic area or consent. Offered occasionally.
365 Advanced Readings in Visual Anthropology SO
This is an advanced course in visual anthropology which explores the history and development of anthropology's relationship to visual practices both as a mode for representing culture and as a site of cultural practice. One of the central themes of the course is the relationship between representation, power and knowledge as manifest in cross-cultural representation. Prerequisite: Anthropology 207. Offered occasionally.
415 Research Seminar in the Material Culture of China: Producers and Collectors of Chinese Ceramics SO (Cross-listed in East Asian Studies)
This course focuses on the production and collecting practices of Chinese porcelain. It provides a basic introduction to research on material culture, Chinese high-fired ceramics, and the practices of collectors and porcelain producers. Students who complete this class will gain a good basic understanding of the technical and social aspects of Chinese ceramic production, forms and decoration of Chinese ceramics, the porcelain center of Jingdezhen, and the political and cultural aspects of Chinese porcelain consumption. In addition to engaging with course materials, each student will design and complete a major independent research project related to ceramics or an aspect of Chinese material culture. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology, East Asian Studies or permission of professor. Offered occasionally.
450 Senior Seminar: Research and Writing SO
M.Gillette, L.Hart
Students research and complete a thesis in socio-cultural anthropology over the course of two semesters. The seminar includes course meetings and individual consultations. Prerequisite: Senior standing in Anthropology at Haverford. Typically offered every Fall.
451 Senior Seminar: Supervised Research and Writing SO
Supervised Research and Writing is the second in the two-course sequence for seniors in Anthropology. Students will complete a thesis using primary sources and/or fieldwork and will participate in a thesis writing workshop. Prerequisite: Senior standing in Anthropology at Haverford. Typically offered every Spring.
460 Teaching Assistant SO
Discussion leader and course assistant in Anthropology 103, Anthropology 110 or other selected Anthropology courses; includes responsibility for selected tutorials. Final Paper. Typically offered every Semester.
480 Independent Study SO
Offered occasionally.
Course Offered at Bryn Mawr College
- 101-102 Introduction to Anthropology
- 203 Human Ecology
- 208 Human Biology
- 209 Human Evolution
- 220 Methods and Theory in Archaeology
- 223 Anthropology of Dance
- 236 Evolution
- 240 Traditional & Preindustrial Technology
- 281 Language in Social Context
- 303 History of Anthropological Theory
- 316 Anthropology of the Body
- 322 Anthropology of the Body
- 330 Archaeological Theory and Method
- 333 Anthropological Demography
- 359 Urban Culture & Society-Global Suburbia
- 185 Urban Culture and Society
- 218 Topics in World Cities: Contemporary Chinese Urbanism
- 306 Advanced Fieldwork Techniques: Places in Time


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Pretty simple just some shims on the pivot bolt.
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Pretty simple just some shims on the pivot bolt.
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As-you-like-it chopped salad
By Sarah Cook
Cooking timePrep: 15 mins No cook
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 6 - 8
Please everyone with a mixed platter of cucumber, beetroot, radish, carrot, sweetcorn, avocado and onion
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Healthy
Nutrition per serving (6)
- kcalories
- 178
- protein
- 5g
- carbs
- 14g
- fat
- 13g
- saturates
- 2g
- fibre
- 7g
- sugar
- 12g
- salt
- 1.1g
- 1 red onion, very thinly sliced
- 100g radishes, quartered
For the cucumber & beetroot
- 1 tbsp toasted poppy seed
- zest and juice 1 lemon
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp golden caster sugar
- 1 cucumber, halved lengthways, seeds scooped out, then sliced
- 250g pack cooked beetroot, chunkily diced
For the carrot
- 2 large carrots, coarsely grated
- juice ½ orange
- ½ tsp ground cumin
For the corn
- 340g can sweetcorn, drained well
- 1 red pepper, deseeded and diced
- squeeze lime juice
For the avocados
- 2 quite ripe avocados, halved, peeled, stoned and diced
- squeeze lime juice
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- For the cucumber and beetroot, mix the poppy seeds, lemon zest and juice, oil and sugar. Tip half into a bowl with the cucumber, the other half into a separate bowl with the beetroot, and mix each.
- Mix the carrot ingredients together, the corn ingredients together and the avocado ingredients together.
- Pile the different elements in strips across a large platter. Cover and chill for up to 2 hrs, or serve straight away.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2013
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Comments, questions and tips
I'm from California in the US. The chopped salad originated at the "Brown Derby' restaurant in Beverly Hills in the 1950's. Although this is indeed a chopped salad and looks delish a "Cobb Salad" consists of: Chopped lettuce, chicken, bacon, egg, avocado,tomatoe and blue cheese crumbles. Presented in lines as shown for this salad. It was served tableside by the waiter and tossed as a presentation to the guest. Some of those waiters had quite a show! I had my first chopped salad there in 1975. The restaurant has been gone for a few years but...my memories as a teenage young lady "Doing Lunch" will always be remembered.


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Season 3 of The New Shit Show will start this FALL!
Season 3 of The New Shit Show will start this FALL!
GET TIX FOR OUR JULY 18 & 19 Entertainment for People Mainstage shows >>> HERE!
OUR Entertainment for People [E4P]: New Shit Show has been going gangbusters — we even have regulars who come monthly — hooray! E4P: New Shit Show is a monthly variety show featuring, as the title suggests, never before performed new shit. Music, videos, comedy, raucous readings, sketch, — and very likely some straight up weird stuff. EVERY SECOND MONDAY at DISJECTA. Only $8 to attend! Just buy tickets at the door! No fees, we aim to please.
JUST ANNOUNCED…we'll have our bigger E4P: Mainstage shows on JULY 18 + 19 @ DISJECTA! Your favorite and ours, the host of THE MOTH podcast, DAN KENNEDY, will return to host and perform for these shows! And…other E4P favorite, BETH LISICK will join the show as a special guest on the 19! Each night performers will do different stuff — so why the hell not come twice?? Tickets available >>> HERE.
Who performs each month (and will also be featured in the Mainstage shows) in the E4P: New Shit Show? An ensemble cast of some of Portland's most performing performance-y types. Folks like Singer/Songwriter *Laura Gibson, McSweeney's Author and Emmy-Nominated filmmaker Arthur Bradford, Moth StorySLAM host + PICA and TBA festival regular Andrew Dickson, Standup Comedian extraordinaire Amy Miller, Writer/Actor Vin Shambry, Professional Poet Mindy Nettifee (pictured), Writer and Veteran of the Bands Shee Bee Gees and Eux Autres Heather Larimer, and McSweeney's/Hobart contributor, video maker and creator of Entertainment for People B. Frayn Masters.
Each show will feature collaborations and surprises from ensemble members plus special guests! For our MAY SHOW 12 we welcome ROBERT DUNCAN GRAY performing as COLDGOLDCHAIN.
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| 7:30PM SNACKS/DRINKS – 8PM SHOW DISJECTA | 8371 N INTERSTATE AVE Just $8 so you'll come back every month! (21+ only). Will there still occasionally be "Main Stage" Entertainment for People shows, with special guests like Dan Kennedy, Beth Lisick, and Lauren Weedman at bigger venues and a higher ticket price? Yes, in fact, we're gunning for a show this summer that will part of the first Entertainment for People West Coast Tour! These shows will feature some of the "best of" from the new shit shows.
The time has come to grab up your tickets for the next E4P! This show will be at the Blue Monk, so just a little more than half as many tickets are available than usual! (And we've sold out our last 4 shows..so get thee to the brown paper tickets!)
This show is put on in partnership with WORDSTOCK, and is priced at the low low price of $6 (reg. $10), so that afterwards you will go visit our friends at the IPRC to support them in their annual TEXT BALL fundraiser! With an E4P ticket you'll be able to get in for $10 (reg. $15) and you'll get a free drink and you'll support an AWESOME local organization.
DERRICK BROWN is a poet, and creator of WRITE BLOODY PUBLISHING, master of the super fun band SPIDER HILL DANCE PARTY (Hot Sluts in the Applebees) and lover to all.
BETH LISICK is half of sketch comedy duo CAROLE & MITZI, the NEW YORK times best-selling author of EVERYBODY INTO THE POOL, and of her newest book Yokohama Threeway: And Other Small Shames, Michael Ian Black says, "…the ultimate joyride for those of us who enjoy cringe-worthy embarrassment, genuine pathos, and an overdosing amount of schadenfreude." She's also the star of indie Film EVERYTHING STRANGE and NEW.
Vocal synthesizer, sound mimic, beatbox mastermind FOGATRON is gonna blow your mind with his beatbox skills. He is endorsed by Soy a clothing company out of Seattle, and in 2004 he won the Portland Mercury Pizzaz competition alongside local rapper Manic D. The New York Times calls Fogatron "The Portland legend."
ALISSA NUTTING is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at John Carroll University, and author of Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls and Tampa. She once grabbed Gene Simmons' left butt cheek, and after her epidural kicked in during the birth of her first and only daughter Sparrow, she ate an orange popsicle while she waited to dilate from 8cm up to 10.
CHELSEA MARTIN is an author and illustrator living in Oakland, CA. Her book Even Though I Don't Miss You will be published by Short Flight/Long Drive in fall 2013.
DIANE GASPERIN is living proof that wearing a bolo tie makes you funnier. Being a total dweeb with an hysterical Hungarian mother doesn't hurt, either. A self-proclaimed late-bloomer and talented pet-matchmaker, Diane attended the first Lez Stand Up show in 2010 and has been performing with the Portland-based comedy show ever since.
B. FRAYN MASTERS is a writer and the Executive Producer and Host of Back Fence PDX & Entertainment for People.
WOOSH! Thanks to everyone who came out last night, to all the behind the scenes crew and most of all to our performers who put on a kick ass show!
LET's look ahead to what's up NEXT! On OCT 4 at BLUE MONK we'll have a special show in partnership with Wordstock. It'll be a quick and dirty 75 minute awesome variety show from 7:00-8:15.
Hosting + Performing: DERRICK BROWN (AUS, pictured) + B. FRAYN MASTERS (PDX)
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WEDS AUGUST 28 @ DISJECTA — 8371 N Interstate Ave
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HOSTING and PERFORMING…from New York City, DAN KENNEDY
Dan is a longstanding host and performer with The Moth in New York City. He is author of the books Loser Goes First: My Thirty Something Years of Dumb Luck and Minor Humiliation and Rock On: An Office Power Ballad, which The Times of London named a Book of The Year. Of his new novel, American Spirit, Publishers Weekly says, "(Starred review) The humor and struggle within contain a healing brand of cynicism. Kennedy has far surpassed the creation of character and conjured an entity so alive in its knowledge of impending death that we're captured in a new idea of what it's like to live." Kennedy is a longstanding contributor at McSweeneys.net, and his essays also appear in GQ magazine, and in several anthologies including The New Yorker humorist Ian Frazier's collection, Humor Me: An Anthology of Funny Contemporary Writing.
With DELIGHTFUL MUSIC by… RITCHIE YOUNG
Ritchie and viola-ist Amanda Lawrence will sing and play a few songs.Ritchie is the founding member of Loch Lomond, a music collective from Portland. Loch Lomond involves a carousel of contributions from upwards of 30 musicians and is currently touring the world in promotion of its latest release entitled Dresses (Chemikal Underground Records) which will be released as book in 2014.
Ritchie is the founding member of Loch Lomond, a music collective from Portland. Loch Lomond involves a carousel of contributions from upwards of 30 musicians and is currently touring the world in promotion of its latest release entitled Dresses (Chemikal Underground Records) which will be released as book in 2014.
Emmy-nominated director of 6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park, ARTHUR BRADFORD, will tell stories about working with Matt Stone & Trey Parker — interspersed with never before seen documentary footage.
Arthur is an O Henry Award winning writer. His writing has appeared in Esquire, McSweeney's, Vice, Men's Journal, and many other publications. His first book, Dogwalker, was published by Knopf and Vintage paperback in 2002, and has been translated into ten languages. His latest book, Benny's Brigade, is a children's book, was published by McSweeney's in September of 2012.
Bespectacled and jubilant BARBARA HOLM is vying to both steal your heart and piggyback last years award by being of the best things about (standup) comedy in 2013.
Barbara has performed at the San Francisco Sketchfest, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Bumbershoot Arts festival, and the Women in Comedy Festival in Boston. She has written for IGN, The Portland Mercury, Hahajk, and the Huffington Post. She has been awarded Time Out New York's Joke of the Week and was named "one of the best things about comedy in 2012″ by the Comedy Bureau. Her comedy has been described as clever, unique, idiosyncratic, and exuberant. Seattle City Arts Magazine called her a "comedy wizard" and Seattle Stranger Newspaper described her as an "adorable wunderkind" and she describes herself as "running away from this question to hide under the desk right now."
Reprising his performance from the Slingshot Comedy series at Portland Center Stage, WM. STEVEN HUMPHREY reveals, through song, dance, and visuals his very real pop star crush.
Steven has been the editor-in-chief of The Portland Mercury since its birth in 2000. He's also the author of the nationally syndicated column I Love Television. He recently killed it in ROAD HOUSE: The Play!.
The 2013 Best American Essays contributor KEVIN SAMPSELL will get your juices flowing with passages from his soon-to-be-released Tin House novel, This is Between Us.
Kevin is the editor of Portland Noir, a bookstore employee at Powell's, and author of the memoir, A Common Pornography. He has contributed to salon.com, goodmenproject.com, numerous printed and literary journals, and written something for most every Portland printed and online media source.
A recent transplant to Portland, Professional Performance Poet MINDY NETTIFEE will lay down some stanzas with accompaniment by RITCHIE and AMANDA.
Mindy was featured in the critically acclaimed poetry concert documentary, The Drums Inside Your Chest, and she co-founded the non-profit poetry organization Write Now Poetry Society with actress Amber Tamblyn. Mindy is also Pushcart nominated writer and author of the full-length collections Sleepyhead Assassins, and Rise of the Trustfall, and a collection of essays on writing Glitter in Blood—A Poet's Manifesto for Better, Braver Writing.
As the producer of E4P and also a regular performer, B. FRAYN MASTERS will saw into your mind with some fiction tidbits.
Frayn is the Host of both the live and radio versions of the storytelling series Back Fence PDX. Her writing has appeared in places suchs McSweeney's, Hobart, Girls Gone Wild Magazine, and Airplane Reading. She was once voted Audience Favorite in an air guitar contest.
A regular at E4P, JASON ROUSE will steal your heart with a brand new video he made with pal and collaborator B. FRAYN MASTERS, collectively known as Masters & Rouse.
Rouse writes for LIVE WIRE! RADIO, stars in the band CAKE's MOUSTACHE MAN video, and is a member of the popular sketch group SWEAT. When his hair is slicked back, you can hear doves cry.
Those of you in Portland…your patience shall be rewarded!
DAN KENNEDY is coming to town to host and perform in E4P on AUG 28 at DISJECTA! He'll be joined by emmy-nominated filmmaker ARTHUR BRADFORD showing never shown before footage of Trey Parker & Matt Stone (of SOUTH PARK fame) and sharing behind the scenes stories, WM. STEVEN HUMPRHREY will delight you with hilarious narrative of his unrequited crush, BARBARA HOLM (pictured) will knock your socks off with her standup comedy prowess, KEVIN SAMPSELL will read snippets from his upcoming novel, THIS IS BETWEEN US…and MASTERS & ROUSE will bring forth some brand new video shorts.
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Report: Montreal rejects Avs' offer of Parenteau for Rene Bourque
Jan 27, 2014, 7:18 PM EDT
Earlier today reports surfaced that Colorado Avalanche forward P.A. Parenteau was on the trade market.
Now it looks like Colorado's willingness to move him might have gotten serious.
The Avalanche were reportedly willing to ship Parenteau to Montreal in exchange for forward Rene Bourque, but the Canadiens rejected that offer, according to TVA Sports' Louis Jean.
Both players are under contract through 2015-16 and Parenteau comes with a marginally higher annual cap hit at $4 million instead of roughly $3.3 million. Bourque enjoyed a few solid seasons with Calgary, but he's struggled offensively since coming to Montreal. Parenteau has been far more productive, although he is projected to be a healthy scratch tonight.
It's worth adding that Montreal's assistant coach J.J. Daineault is very familiar with Parenteau after they both spent time with the AHL Hartford Wolf Pack.
This also isn't the first report or only source to link Parenteau to Montreal. It has been suggested that Colorado is looking for a defensive upgrade and any deal between the two teams might ultimately involve one of Montreal's blueliners.
Update: RDS' Francois Gagnon's sources suggested that it was the Avalanche who refused the player swap.
- hosewater2 - Jan 27, 2014 at 7:22 PM
Too bad, would've been entertaining to watch Roy try to motivate Bourque.
- pfhockey - Jan 27, 2014 at 7:27 PM
That is pretty surprising. Parenteau is much better offensively than Bourque.
- nach0mancandysandwich - Jan 27, 2014 at 7:30 PM
we'll give you our bourque for him!
the new york rangers
we should have never have him up.
- martysbetter - Jan 27, 2014 at 7:31 PM
Mark Fayne for PA Parenteau – do it Lou.
- martysbetter - Jan 27, 2014 at 7:33 PM
Nvm, brain fart and thought Rene Borque was a Dman.
- nj666 - Jan 27, 2014 at 11:01 PM
thats dumb for soo many reasons, why would you trade one of the best defensemen on the team for what you thought was another defenseman? this team needs offense and you suggest moving a piece that shouldn't be moved.
- martysbetter - Jan 28, 2014 at 6:47 PM
Huh? Parenteau isn't a dman.
Out of our MOVABLE dmen (see: not Salvador/Volchenkov) Fayne makes the most sense to move to an Avs team that needs a solid player on their blue line. Fayne and Parenteau are both UFAs at season end.
- jernster21 - Jan 27, 2014 at 7:33 PM
I don't know which is crazier…the Avs wanting Rene Bourque, or Montreal turning down that trade. Either way it's ridiculous – what happened between Saturday and today where now the Avalanche suddenly want to trade a guy who lead the team in goals last year? Makes no sense.
- tommyv7401 - Jan 28, 2014 at 12:08 PM
The differance this year is Roy. Obviously P.A. has been in his dog house the majority of the year and they want to change things up. I guarentee the offer was not 1 for 1 Bourque for PA. It was likely Emelin and Bourque for PA and a prospect. If it was 1 for 1 Marc Bergevin needs to be fired
- bsaures - Jan 27, 2014 at 7:41 PM
Im guessing Colorado must have wanted beaulieu or tinordi as well which would have been a no go
- joey4id - Jan 27, 2014 at 8:30 PM
Hmm! You think the Avs asked for Bourque plus on of the Habs 1st round pic d men for a 30 year old Pareanteau. idk
- bsaures - Jan 27, 2014 at 8:40 PM
It wouldnt be unreasonable to think thats what they would want. Bourque for Parenteau straight up makes no sense for Colorada they would want a sweetner and both Bealieau, Tinordi, and even Pateryn could play on Colorado's d this year and re still growing
- joey4id - Jan 28, 2014 at 8:59 AM
Is Bourque and, Tinordi (1st round pic) or Beaulieu (1st round pic) for Parenteau (30 years old) reasonable if you're the GM in Montreal?
- lowenni - Jan 27, 2014 at 7:52 PM
What? That would've been a horrible trade for Colorado, I think. Bourque is an enigmatic, constantly underachieving bad influence while Parentau can really produce next to the right linemates. Confusing offer, surprised they didn't go after a defenseman.
- mikebel11 - Jan 27, 2014 at 7:59 PM
According to Louis Jean who broke the news, the avalanche wanted a second player, likely a defenceman. That's why Bergevin turned it down. I know that's only in the French version of the tweet, but now that I've translated it for you that would be a nice little update to the story here Ryan….
- lowenni - Jan 27, 2014 at 8:30 PM
Interesting, Montreal has plenty of D-men to spare and Parenteau would've been a nice pickup for them. Guessing Colorado didn't just want some depth D-man though. Thanks for the translate, mikebel11
- jernster21 - Jan 28, 2014 at 1:28 AM
What does this mean?
Selon mes informations, le #CH était prêt à céder Rene Bourque à l'Avalanche en retour de PA Parenteau, mais c'est le Colorado qui a refusé
According to Adrian Dater that translates as the Avs turned down the Habs for the trade, not vice versa. That would make a hell of a lot more sense if it was just player for player. Plus, it seems like Montreal have been scouting the Avs lately – why would the Avs make an unsolicited trade offer if they hadn't been scouting the Habs but they were scouting us? They sure as hell haven't seen anything from Rene Bourque to offer up PA Parenteau unless PA just straight up pissed off the front office.
- crazemastercraze - Jan 27, 2014 at 8:27 PM
Yeah, no one wants Rene Borque……
- cjnbsc - Jan 27, 2014 at 8:32 PM
Not possible. Colorado wouldn't make such a bad offer and Montreal would never reject it.
- valoisvipers - Jan 27, 2014 at 9:14 PM
The Aves offer,The Habs refusal = Dumb and Dumber
- storminator16 - Jan 27, 2014 at 9:36 PM
This report has been shot down by multiple folks in the know. Also, would be more pieces involved than anyway so what is to debate here?
- icelovinbrotha215 - Jan 27, 2014 at 10:51 PM
I can't believe this is true. I mean isn't PAPs better than Rene? I don't see why the Habs would reject the trade.
- devilzzz2014 - Jan 28, 2014 at 11:42 AM
I can't comment on Parenteau's defensive ability but I know that Montreal has made a huge effort to be a more defensive team this year and so if Parenteau can't fit into that then he won't be with the Habs. Montreal will want two way forwards in a trade unless it is some sort of super, ridiculous talent they can get that they just can't refuse … star player quality.
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Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
Once a "safe bet," mutual funds are facing a rocky future as investment managers come under fire for such mismanagement as arbitrage trading. These alleged double dealings will end up costing investors a bundle in the long run. Are we witnessing mutual funds' swan song?
Summing Up
What Will it Take to Save the Managed Mutual Fund?
In this month's column, I purposely took what I assumed was an extreme position in asking if this was the twilight era for the managed mutual fund. The responses the column generated from individual investors, heads of organizations representing groups of investors, and from those in the U.S. and other countries—if at all representative—provide what is for me a rather sobering assessment of the future of these funds.
At one end of the spectrum are the feelings largely of investors. As Chris Lee put it, "As a small individual investor, I feel powerless to control or even understand how my mutual funds operate." Anupam Bordia comments, "the mutual fund scandal will shift public trust towards index funds."
There is also a suggestion that the job of the money manager may change. Remarking, "we have probably seen the beginning of the decline of the actively managed mutual fund," Charles Broming expressed the hope that "money management will become another technical job and compensation will reflect its real added value."
Part of the problem may be the perception created in press coverage of mutual fund management misdeeds. And part may be in the general ignorance about how funds are managed and investors charged for the services. Whatever the cause, according to William Donoghue, "The financial McCarthyism of the press coverage of anyone who ... proactively manages money as a vile 'market timer' is a sad commentary on how inflexibly the mutual fund industry is viewed by academics, regulators and distributors."
Richard Eckel suggests that both perceptions and real problems will be addressed when, among other things, interests of managers and investors are aligned. As he says, "Linking management fees/rewards to fund performance would be very attractive to investors: Who can argue with shared ambition?"
The importance of these questions lies in the heavy reliance that so many people deep into saving for retirement will place on others to manage their savings, particularly in a future in which Social Security will account for a smaller share of retirement income. How can their options best be preserved? Is the managed mutual fund worth saving? If so, what needs to be done? And how fast must the industry move to correct investor perceptions that appear to have been formed over a number of years? Or is all of this just an overreaction to phenomena that will recede in perceived importance to investors and money managers alike as other concerns crowd them out in our collective consciousness? What do you think?
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Since their creation in the 1920s, mutual funds have progressively become the cornerstone of most individuals' investment portfolios, providing the diversity that is generally agreed to be an important element of any investment strategy. But in recent weeks, fund managers have increasingly come under fire, casting a shadow over the entire industry.
The alleged problems include managers of fund families who allocate investments among individual funds in which they may have a management or ownership stake. This allows some investors (particularly hedge funds) to trade in and out of funds quickly while prohibiting others from doing so, presumably in return for favors. Some favored international funds managers with investments spread across time zones who have a continuing stream of fresh investment information participate in after-hours "arbitrage" trading at prices set just once a day.
The net effect of much of this alleged activity is to tax long-term investors in order to reward short-term investors. In a two-year-old paper, "Who Cares About Shareholders? Arbitrage-Proofing Mutual Funds," Eric Zitzewitz, assistant professor of strategic management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, estimates that the total cost to long-term mutual fund investors of just the latter of these practices is about $5 billion per year.
John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard family of mutual funds, suggests that mutual fund investment management is just as problematic as fund governance. Some time ago he concluded that mutual fund investment managers: (1) through their investment decisions destroy as much value for investors as they create—a view for which there is a great deal of evidence—and (2) through their behaviors destroy value for investors by running up high management fees, in part for their own enrichment. As one might imagine, he is not popular with many of his peers in the mutual fund industry. To combat these practices, he has been perhaps the strongest advocate for indexed (vs. managed) funds as well as management incentives for minimizing costs to investors.
At a recent discussion of Professor Zitzewitz's ideas, one academic in the audience commented, "Why is this such a moralistic issue? Maybe the time of the mutual fund has simply passed, and we should just use other instruments."
What is the answer to allegedly poor mutual fund governance practices? Can mutual fund directors, often responsible for dozens of funds in a fund family, be expected to exercise adequate oversight? Or must practices be corrected through added regulation? Or is the problem, as Bogle suggests, deeper than this, extending to actual fund investment management? If so, what could be done to align managers' interests with those of investors? Or is this really the beginning of the twilight era of the managed (vs. the computer-administered indexed) mutual fund business? If so, does it present an opportunity for mutual fund entrepreneurs to devise new vehicles for investors seeking diversification? What do you think?
- Anonymous
I've invested in Putnam, Templeton, and Fidelity, but found that all three were always very obscure about the fees they charged; and when I did figure out the fees, I thought they were pretty high given that I seldom bought or sold except to continuously reinvest dividends back in my holdings. The bulk of my pension funds were with TIAA/CREF. Its fees were much lower and it had a board of overseers who were professors with some knowledge about finance and investing as well as a stake in good performance in the TIAA holdings. My level of trust in the other mutual funds was very low, and I turned out to be right that they were not trustworthy. Business leaders and managers who can't recognize public and investor trust as a fundamental requirement of their business should be fired or barred for life.
- Anonymous
Management of a stock should be more about mid- and long-term ownership of a company than the inefficient, quick positioning of a day trader (institutional or otherwise) trying to beat out each news cycle. Traditional Wall Street votes its feelings about the management of a company with its feet—selling. Maybe a money manager can increase focus on improving management by voting their shareholders' rights. A new role for money managers, possibly with industry expertise, could appear; and they could earn their keep as fiduciaries by effecting changes from within a company. What type of returns will everyone see if everyone is in the index funds?
- Ernest
As soon as I can beat the market on my own, I'm out of mutual funds.
- Anonymous
I think the mutual fund program is still a good program for the guy who does not have time to do all of his research. Why should a few of the big apples spoil the bushel? My feeling is that in this day and age we have people in high positions who lack morals and make bad decisions.
- David Ellison
- Sydney, Australia
Professor Heskett's is a very interesting and thoughtful comment on funds. The points raised have been turning over in my mind for some three years now, but I can see I will have to apply myself a little more conscientiously to the problem. The fees that the funds are taking out here in Australia for what is abysmal performance are a real cause for concern.
Unfortunately, a federal government financial instrument for retired persons, an allocated pension, is almost forced on you by the tax laws. The impact of the last few years in financial markets, when allied with the tax laws, has destroyed the capital base of a good many retired Australians.
It seems to me that either index funds or a self-managed share portfolio are the sensible approaches. Anyway, thanks to [this] thoughtful article, I will be giving the question a great deal more thought.
- Chris Lee
- VP, MLD Consulting
As a small individual investor, I feel powerless to control or even understand how my mutual funds operate. I believe fund managers generally have others' interests, including their own, ahead of mine. Most importantly, I am skeptical of the ability of fund managers to consistently beat the market.
- Charles Broming
- President/CEO, Association of Angel Investor Clubs, LLC
I believe that we have probably seen the beginning of the decline of the actively managed mutual fund. The record of such funds is poor. About 15 percent achieve or exceed the "placebo" rate of return over any long-term holding period.
The number of fund users who will understand the basic inefficacies of this model will grow as their returns continue to be less than overall market returns. And the heroes and myths of this period (Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Ned Johnson Sr.) will be viewed, in retrospect, as "six sigma events" that merely reflect a rare combination of diligence and luck. Hopefully, money management will become another technical job and compensation will reflect its real added value.
- Anupam Bordia
- Pr. Engineer
The mutual fund scandal will shift public trust towards index funds, which have been the direction lately.
- Richard A. Eckel
- President, Systems Synergy, Inc.
Mutual funds are the only opportunity for small investors to do better than the market average without disproportionate expenditures and risk. That individual life earnings are at stake demands investment vehicles not run by a club of thieves. If individual funds are to survive their scandals, they must acknowledge culpability and refund customer losses out of their own profits. The attraction is that atonement and enhancement will add vigor to the return of small investors to the funds market, and capital to the market as a whole.
The question you raise was never a one of investment acumen. In any market, certain strategies and sectors will be successful, and their complements equally unsuccessful. The market will square the success and failures of investment strategies as reflected by redemptions and deposits. Investors intrinsically understand the relationship and accept the risk (commitment) balanced against the possible rewards (opportunity).
What is in jeopardy is the confidence of the investor, the little guy, in the investment instrument that he or she chooses. When presented with a set of rules for an instrument, the customer has every expectation that the rules will be respected and enforced equally. It becomes a moralistic issue when those in whom trust has been placed abrogate their duty in devotion to a higher self-interest.
Application of technology to control order dating or calculate share prices dynamically would significantly reduce arbitrage but not the neglect of enforcement. Linking management fees/rewards to fund performance would be very attractive to investors: Who can argue with shared ambition? Fund administration will benefit from tightened enforcement and modifications to management incentives, but these will never be driven from within an industry that is profitable, even when its patrons are not.
- William E. Donoghue
- Chairman, W. E. Donoghue & Co., Inc.
The mutual fund industry and its shareholders have been hurt more by the revelation of the impact of its unwillingness to innovate or be responsive to its shareholders' needs and its obsession with distribution at all costs than anything in the current scandal. The financial McCarthyism of the press coverage of anyone who trades mutual fund and proactively manages money as a vile "market timer" is a sad commentary on how inflexibly the mutual fund industry is viewed by academics, regulators and distributors.
I share your concern about the future of the managed mutual fund industry because it directly effects the one single demographic concern that faces us all: "How will the baby boomers be able to afford to retire with dignity if mutual fund families continue to keep growth funds from growing, value funds from adding value, and mutual fund managers from managing efficiently?"
Successful market timers simply use sector funds and ETFs to follow the trends of the market. My firm is such an example, as we have had three of our portfolios ranked #1 in their categories at Morningstar Principia Pro Separate Accounts in the past year, two for five-year performances. I mention this not to brag but to indicate that there are strategies beyond buy-and-hold and fund portfolios that do not benefit from investing in tight Morningstar style-boxes. In fact, Morningstar has only recently added a "bear" market category, showing how much pressure there has been to deny investor the information to succeed.
Academics agree that the stale pricing that created the "market timing" advantage reported by the press is limited to a few international funds and has literally been stopped in its tracks by an over-vigilant press looking for easy answers.
So why is Congress trying to impose redemption fees on domestic stock and bond funds and the SEC trying to force an inappropriate, draconian 4:00 PM cutoff time on mutual fund trades that will only hurt small investors with staler and staler values by forcing them to submit trades earlier in the day?
Mutual funds are still the best vehicle for many investors' savings. However, the institutionalization of fund distribution methods and the politicization of fund selection by 401(k) and fund managers are getting in the way.
- Rod Morley
Mutual funds, at their origin, offered investors access to the world equity markets with ready-made diversification, neither of which were available to them in any other form.
Since then the world markets have become more transparent and accessible through the Internet, while at the same time, as the mutual fund industry matured, two thirds of "active" mutual fund managers fail to beat a passive index, as management fees and portfolio turnover costs subtract value from the investor's account.
As the majority of an investor's return is predetermined at the asset allocation level, an investor seeking equity exposure should get pure equity beta exposure at lower cost through owning stock index tracking shares rather than a mutual fund.
Hedge funds are focused on exploiting market inefficiencies that should in time be arbitraged away. Whether certain forms of arbitrage are ethical or not is down to the personal tastes of the hedge fund manager; but when mutual funds collude in illegal forms of trading, they highlight how a few bad apples will try to find ways of extracting personal gains from an industry those time, they know, has passed.


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Middle East carriers' revenue suffers as local troubles impact passenger numbers on flights in the region
The ongoing turmoil in parts of the Middle East and North Africa continues to affect airline traffic in the region, as IATA estimates the troubles resulted in a 1% loss in global traffic in February. While overall passenger traffic grew 6% and freight levels rose 2.3% in February over the same month in 2010, growth was sharply down over January's respective figures of 8.4% and 8.7% - although the fall in cargo also reflects factory shutdowns as the Chinese new year ran into February.
Passenger traffic growth for Middle East carriers slipped from 12% in January to 8.4% in February. IATA says political unrest in Bahrain, Yemen and Syria, representing around 6% of Middle East traffic, is expected to impact the region's markets in March.
Some local carriers have outlined the impact of the continuing unrest across the region. Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar Al Baker warns in this month's cover interview that the airline's financial performance in its 2010/11 fiscal year (ending 31 March) has been affected.
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Ibrahim Abdulla Alhamer, chief executive of low-cost carrier Bahrain Air, says that revenue has fallen because of the events. "There has been a fall in traffic due to reluctance by of businessmen, workforce and visitors to travel to the region," he says.
Alhamer is dismayed at government directives against travel to the country and the wider Middle East, and also blames what he calls the "negative and exaggerated media coverage" about the events.
This has come at a time when the airline has suffered a drastic increase in costs, which, he says, "has reached more than 35% due to the increase in fuel and insurance at some airports, to the extent that the revenue from some destinations does not even cover the direct [operating] costs".
As a result, Alhamer says, Bahrain Air has been forced to reschedule flights on a minimum frequency to Damascus and Amman until June, and has suspended flights to Najaf, Baghdad, Beirut and Mashad.
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Hmm... a black metal fan, don't see too many of those on this particular forum.
Watain's new album was good, perhaps a tad generic though, certainly no Casus Luciferi.
Personally I don't like the NWOBHM (New wave of "black" heavy metal).
A lot of black metal artists, particularly those that have been around since the 90s are taking too much of traditional metal and painting it black stylistically.
Too many throw backs, too much unoriginal song writing, the same old tricks/riffs regurgitated to a new 100 page lyrical booklet.
Under all their theatrics, Watain are one of the prime examples of this trend, I just wish Black Metal bands would continue to push forward instead of looking backwards.
Norway's Cor Scorpii are a band I feel are moving in the right direction. Wolves in the Throne Room and Cobalt from the USBM scene as well.
I guess it all depends on what type of bm you listen to. Watain for me seems to be far from any trend, their new album has gone a lot further away from their old influences and developed their own sound (not to say their old stuff was unoriginal). I don't mean to be rude, but speaking of unoriginal song writings I would say Cor Scorpii is a prime example. I don't mind their stuff, but it sounds like a mock of Windir, considering half their members are from the band, they just seem to be one of those "we can't accept the fact that Windir is done" bands.
There are plenty of great BM bands with original music, it's just not easy to pick them out amongst all the shitty bands that are out there. One example would be Nyktalgia, all their instruments are played really well and their music is very original.
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