Week 3

Context
This plan was submitted in the third week of class for Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States, by Henry Glassie. The theme for this week was geography.

Comments
I had to leave class early this week as I was performing in the noontime concert/lecture series at the Archives of Traditional Music.

Plan
1. Do we agree with Glassie's description of culture at the very beginning of his book? He writes, "Culture is intellectual, rational , and abstract " (2). Why did he pick those three particular adjectives? Do people agree? I am particularly curious as to the inclusion of "rational."

 2. Does Glassie ever define "pattern?" See also

Franz Boas

James Deetz