Class Two

25Jun09

Step one: Review your annotations of Norberg-Hodge’s _Ancient Futures_ and underline what you think are the key points or comments that you made are you annotated.

Step Two: Once you have reviewed your writing, I want you to spend the next 10 minutes explaining the significance of what you have underlined in terms of how it reflects your current understanding of the Ladakh people. Write in complete sentences and paragraph. DO NOT STOP WRITING UNTIL I TELL YOU TO.

I will organize you into groups of four. In your groups I want you to discuss the following question. Each group will be responsible for coming up with a one paragraph (6-8 sentences) response to the following question: What are you finding to be the most interesting facts about the Ladakh people? You must be prepared to defend your group answer, as I am going to challenge it.

Mini-lecture: (10 minutes)

The Major Categories:

The Category of Kinship relates to the ordering of families. It can be, but does not need to be, biological.

The Category of Materials relates to the bare minimum “things” that a culture needs to sustain itself and its identity.

The Category of Values relates to the basic rationales a culture uses to justify its actions to itself and to other cultures.

The Category of Social Structure relates to the kinds and types of relationships that define communal interactions.

The Category of Sustenance relates to the kinds of foods that a culture uses to sustain itself.

The Category of Subsistence relates to the basic practices followed by members of community to ensure their survival.

Read and annotate Norberg-Hodge’s Ancient Futures to page 71.
In complete sentences and paragraphs, describe at least three possible entries for each of our categories as you have discovered them so far. In each category, at least two of your examples must come from the assigned reading for this class.

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