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Blogging Domestication Amy Nelson Virginia Tech Living with Animals Conference Eastern Kentucky University March 22,2013

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Blogging DomesticationAmy Nelson Virginia Tech

Living with Animals ConferenceEastern Kentucky University

March 22,2013

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Course Overview and Objectives

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Read a range of things....

Jared Diamond, Edmund Russell, Stiner and Feeley-Harnick

Bulliet’s Hunters, Herders and Hamburgers

Tim Ingold

Julliet Clutton-Brock

Piers Vitebsky

Virginia DeJohn Anderson

Ken Shapiro, Jonathan Burt

(Donna Haraway & Natasha Fijn)

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Research Projects

A species for everyone

integrated history of a particular species and human society across the entire chronological expanse of their relationship

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Four Main Sections

1. Species’ Origins / Evolutionary History (starting ca. 66 mya)

2. When did your species’ ancestors begin interacting with humans? where? how? with what consequences (for the animals and for the humans)

3. How has domestication altered your species?

4. Three historical moments in which your species was especially significant to the development of human society

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Current Projects

Team Ungulate: ◦ Horse, Donkey, Reindeer

Team Fowl: ◦ Pigeon, Chicken

Team Random: ◦ Cat, Goldfish, Honeybees

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Blogginghttps://blogs.lt.vt.edu/domesticate/

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Beyond Reflection Papers

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Blogging Assignment

“You are required to blog at least once per week about the assigned readings, and you are required to comment on another person’s blog at least twice per week. There is no assigned length or format for your blogging. I just ask that you engage the readings thoughtfully and substantively, and that you explore and play with the many nuances of the blogging modality. You might comment on the author’s theoretical/methodological framework or relate the assigned text to other readings for the course, other perspectives you have encountered elsewhere, and the thoughts, questions, and responses of your classmates on their blogs. You may also respond to the text’s major arguments in more personal terms, as long as you engage those arguments carefully. Individual blog posts are not graded, but will be considered holistically as evidence of your general commitment to the course and its content.”

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Longer, more insightful, and lots more dialogue

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Four Lightbulbs

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1. Students write better for an audience of peers

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2. Full transparency: Post for your grandmother and Albert Einstein

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3. The instructor should blog too.

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4. Quality blogging makes for even richer face time discussions

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Blogs and the Research Projects

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Conclusion