CUNY Academic Commons | Jared West | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/jawest5/activity/ Activity feed for Jared West. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 c830b145a91acc66046dccc3a9ca7c45 Jared West replied to the topic Week 13: Graffiti: Leaving a Mark on the Urban Landscape in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=81217 Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:57:43 -0500 For the reading assigned this week it was split between the 4 people who were presenting, and so for this week the reading that I chose was Frederick K. Ursula’s piece entitled <i>Revolution is the New Black:Graffiti/Artand Mark-making Practices</i>, which talks about graffiti in Australia.

The first part of the article talks about how…[Read more]

]]> dbbfbd45eb6e7aacffa4949d59a4c5ca Jared West replied to the topic Week 11: Dystopia: Archaeologies of Urban Disaster in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=80748 Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:32:05 -0500 The three articles that were for this week all focused around disaster with 2 of the 3 focusing on Hurricane Katrina and the devastating effects it had on Louisiana.

The first article that I read was entitled After the Storm, Destruction and Reconstruction: The Potential for an Archaeology of Hurricane Katrina written by Margaret Bagwell. This…[Read more]

]]> 0c0ac50858a0b1ca12463639d4dee9e9 Jared West replied to the topic Week 10: Stonewall Field trip in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=80483 Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:27:15 -0400 Going to the Stonewall Inn was quite a trip for me as it’s a little over an hour away from my house back in Long Island. Despite that, I had a really nice time. I got to see a piece of history as well as have a good time meeting new people and just soaking up the history in general. The Stonewall Inn is a really important part of LGBTQ history. In…[Read more]

]]> 03d7511ddc22303ff0ced127977bfc90 Jared West replied to the topic Week 10: Queering America in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=80479 Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:01:18 -0400 This weeks readings were a bit difficult for me to follow as I feel it was written for scholars and not the everyday public.

The first reading that I did was Barbara L Voss’ The Scale of the Intimate which was about the multiples scales of intimacy and sexual politics by discussing the Spanish “discovery” and later the settlement of Chinese…[Read more]

]]> a3f3d16adbb14fb1fd6479c6e74b4959 Jared West replied to the topic Week 8-Ethnographic Methods: How to Study Urban Space in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=79832 Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:38:12 -0400 How to Study Public Life written by Gehl and Svarre, and Robert Weiss’ piece entitled Interviewing “In learning strangers” are two pieces with a central theme between them, that being how to study the enviroment around you. Starting with Weiss’ piece, he gives a few examples of the people that he has interviewed; a man with HIV, and a divorced dad…[Read more]

]]> f5544f2a6feed6e9f0e0e345daf4fcfc Jared West replied to the topic Week 5-CRM, Historic Preservation and Advocacy in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=79052 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:14:37 -0400 The first reading entitled Bending The Future talks about what historic preservation can learn from Ferguson. The central idea of this piece talks about what can be considered a historical site and how in the case of Ferguson that could be troublesome. In 2014, Michael Brown was shot outside of a convenience store which would spark a riot. The…[Read more]

]]> 93fb4979425591e5e685ec9766519d26 Jared West replied to the topic Week 4:Architecture and Urban Plans as Technologies of Control in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=78639 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:24:02 -0400 I must admit that this week’s reading went over my head, as I had a difficult time understanding both of the readings but nevertheless I will try and do my best. The first reading, written by Michael Foucault starts off by talking about the plague. Foucault goes into depth about how a city would police themselves during an outbreak of the plague;…[Read more]

]]> 14406585a931a4e221cbd0287021d80b Jared West replied to the topic Week 3: Consumption, Conspicuous or Otherwise in the forum ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=78215 Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:05:08 -0400 In Pearson and Mullins article  entitled “Domestic Barbie” they go into the history on the now omnipresent doll, more specifically the roller coaster of subservience and independence. Barbie at her creation was a doll that some parents complained as being to “pin up like” for their children as her figure did not shy away from her breasts. Over…[Read more]

]]> 7a6c5fc92c92b7287824bf9b004cd004 Jared West joined the group ANTH 3420 Urban Archaeology OER https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/592405/ Sun, 08 Sep 2019 23:31:15 -0400 1fa57f5cc19a01caa1ddffccbb16650c Jared West became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/592371/ Sun, 08 Sep 2019 20:42:37 -0400