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I will teach a course on Globalization in anthropological M.Sc. UADY. It's hard, knowing that I have only nine meetings, deciding what to include. At this point there are hundreds of papers on the anthropology of globalization. The classic books on topic could occupy all sessions of the course and would no longer room for anything else. It is also important to include in any course in anthropology the broader context of novels, music, movies that were in vogue when he began generated discussion on globalization.

The last time I taught this course in 2009, I decided to take 10 new ethnographies had not read and mark them all, one course per session. This recent books I read 10 I wanted to read. One problem was that they read the classic books on the subject but that only gave in two chairs that I gave at the beginning of the course. For the rest of the course each and every student read a few chapters of each of the new ethnography, and a presenter each book. Also it was I who in an earlier presentation novels and movies explaining what had inspired the various books and ethnographies.

and I found that students do not pay enough attention to the classics, and it cost them to understand the basics, they only heard me discuss them at first, and when their turn came to exhibit and had forgotten both the context as the context of theoretical works based on the imagination. The

and students complained that they were not clear about the basics, and they had to go through them every time they appeared in the texts, and because they had forgotten my discussion of these in my two initial chairs. I this happened because I will expose these concepts outside its original context ethnographies and then each author to give for granted.

This time I will try something different: I believe that the only way we can see at least some of the classics and some recent ethnographies is to have each person read something different, and then encouraging the collective discussion. ; Also, I'm thinking that each student will read at least one of the major novels that have influenced how we think anthropologically about globalization.

I am convinced that the anthropology of the twenty-first century must be based on the idea that several heads are better than one. It is time to implement this idea in a serious and systematic in my own courses. I also thought that the exhibition can enjoy fun: in sessions 7 and 8 each student will present an ethnography following the Japanese method Pecha Kucha. The performance of each ethnography will be as important as the content.

may thus enjoy more, collectively, both male and female students like me, the course we will have this summer on the anthropology of globalization: http://sites.google.com/site/antropologiadelaglobalizacion/