Megan Little's Instructor Page

Welcome to Literature and Ethnography! Click here to read more about this class. During the first couple days of class, we'll go over what this course is about, I'll show you where all the materials are on this website, and I'll also cover all the boring policies and requirements. We'll also do a couple short exercises on close reading--the most important skill we'll be practicing in this course, one that seems to bridge the disciplines of English and Anthropology.

For the first week of class, please buy the course reading packet at Jenn's Copy Center (south location), and your books from either the Co-op or online: Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Zora Neal Hurston's Mules and Men and Their Eyes Were Watching God. (We won't be reading these books until the second and third units, so there's time for shipping.)

The first reading we'll be discussing is an excerpt from Geertz's Interpretation of Cultures, in your reading packet. We start on this text the second class meeting, so please get your packets as soon as possible!