Week Eight Class Notes: DUE by MIDNIGHT on MONDAY, OCTOBER 16!
NOTE: This week you should write a short response (300-500 words) to the assigned article using the questions below:
If you were to meet Elizabeth McAlister, the author of this week’s reading, what would you say to her about her chapter “A Sorcerer’s Bottle”?
- First, write a short summary (1-2 sentences) of what TO YOU is the main point of the chapter.
- Second, identify an idea, argument, passage, claim, example, etc. in the chapter that you find intriguing, confusing, or worth talking about with McAlister. Explain what more you want to know, what you agree or disagree with, what you are confused by, and/or what you found especially enlightening. Another approach to take here would be to make a connection between McAlister’s chapter and one of our previous readings on religion in Haiti (McCarthy-Brown, Thompson, Costentino), using that connection to ask McAlister to expand on her discussion.
- Third, add an additional question for McAlister, one that connects your discussion of her chapter to one of our class concepts (diaspora, syncretism/hybridity, altars).
You can access the Class Notes for week 8 by following the link below: