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Jessica Hester’s article would not open for me. It kept popping up “youve gone off the map”. However the other two articles I could open and found them to be full of useful information.

The article by Rathje was about how people don’t know what they use. Rather described the garbage project and how when studying people’s waste after asking them…[Read more]

I went to Stonewall after class during the week.  It was somewhat empty, there were about 10 people there maybe. However, I could tell this place still held importance to the LGBT community.  Both the inn and the park across the street were decorated with rainbow flags and people were gathered in the park. As I walked in and out of the in I saw g…[Read more]

Obviously all the articles this week had something to do with sexuality. Each article talked about a different aspect of sexuality however the two articles that were linked most closely were the Voss and Rubin articles.

Voss’ article was about comparing colonial San Francisco, when the Spanish arrived, and the culturally colonial market street…[Read more]

The Three articles talk about gender and how class affects the way genders are viewed. The data used in the Wall article seems a bit lacking. The author even mentions that two sites aren’t enough to make a good case for how women socialize in different classes. I don’t think merely mentioning that there isn’t enough data makes it ok to continue on…[Read more]

Gehl and Svarre discuss how to get information on how society works through a variety of surveys.  They talk about mapping, teaching, following, listening, counting and so on. While these various methods give us a good idea on what society is like they do have their setbacks and flaws.  For one, it would be very difficult to count the actions of e…[Read more]

The article by Michael Foucault was about Bentham’s Panopticon. Through the article Foucault describes how the building is used and the reason for its use. He also gives reasons for why it works. According to Foucault the Panopticon is a “marvelous machine” that “produces homogeneous effects of power. Foucault’s image of the Panopticon is that of…[Read more]

The article by Kent and Gandia-Ojeda is a way for us to look back at the social and geographical structure of that small town in ohio. In their article they give specific information about Lorain, Ohio in 1999. In the case of their article the 20 year gap between when it was written and now serves as a unique perspective on how Puerto Ricans…[Read more]

The three papers by Gonzalez-Ruibal, Harrison and Smith all articulate the same tone in different ways.  They all write about how archaeology can be used to make sense of the present through proper documentation and analysis.    Monica L. Smith’s view is that archaeologists can use the connections they find between the codependency between urban…[Read more]

“Native American Historical Archaeology and the Trope of Authenticity” by Craig Cipolla and “Race and Prosaic Materiality: The Archaeology of Contemporary Urban Space and the Invisible Colour Line” by Paul Mullins both touch on the same themes.    These two pieces of writing deal with viewing how society dealt with ideas in their past and how w…[Read more]