1.

For this module, you are to read Charles Frake’s “How to ask for a drink in Subanun” and James Spradley and Brenda Mann’s “How to ask for a drink at Brady’s”

Please answer TWO of the following questions about the Frake and Spradley & Mann articles.

• What (BESIDES the fact that they both involve alcohol) do these two types of speech events have in common?
• What do you think is the most striking difference between them?
• Based on these readings, what do you think is the most interesting difference in focusing linguistic analysis on a “speech event” rather than on a “language”?
• What kinds of drinking events do you participate in, and what is one function they might serve as a speech event? (Don’t answer this in regard to alcoholic drinks if you are underage as I cannot guarantee who might see it and what uses they might put it to–all electronic data is forever!)

2.

For this module, you are supposed to read Anne-Marie Brisebarre’s “The Sacrifice of ‘Id al-Kabir” and Abigail Adams “Dyke to Dyke.”

Please answer one of the following questions on Brisebarre:

• Why is it difficult for French Muslims to practice the ‘Id sacrifice?
• What do immigrant Muslims say about the differences between sacrificing in France and in their countries of origin?
• It is nearly 20 years since this study was done. Now that Islam is the second largest religion in France, and most Muslims are born in France rather than being immigrants, should France’s laws regarding animal sacrifice be changed? Why or why not?

Please answer one of the following questions on Adams:

• How would allowing women’s participation change the nature of SEMI rites of passage?
• What does the SEMI alum mean when he says of the school “‘The very thing that women are seeking would no longer be there’ if women were admitted”? Do you agree of not? Why?
• Why, at a school dedicated to heterosexual men, does its major ritual recall childbirth and its central rite involve a symbolic childbirth?

3.

For this module, you are supposed to read Kenneth Jost’s “Understanding Islam,” Cherry Lindholm & Cherry Lindholm’s “Life behind the Veil,” and Lila Abu-Lughod’s, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?” Please answer one study question on each reading:

Please answer ONE of the following questions on Jost’s “Understanding Islam”:

• What are the main points of contention regarding the strained relationship between the Christian West and the Muslim World?
• Does Islam encourage violence? Explain.
• Is Islam compatible with secular, pluralist societies? Explain.
• Does Islam need a “Reformation”? Explain.

Please answer ONE of the following questions on Lindholm & Lindholm’s “Life behind the Veil”:

• In Pakhtun society the chador and the concept of purdah are interrelated. What is purdah, and how is it reflected in the chador?
• The Lindholms discuss Pakhtun men’s dear of female sexuality and the ideology of male dominance. How is women’s sexuality viewed among the Pakhtun? How is the ideology of male dominance and the treatment of women a reflection of these fears?
• Despite purdah, women in urban areas have a lot of freedoms that their counterparts in rural areas do not have. What are these freedoms and how do women employ them?
• How are purdah, protection of the patriline, and the Pakhtun view of women interrelated?
• Why and how is hostility built into the institution of marriage by the structure of Pakhtun society?

Please answer ONE of the following questions on Abu-Lughod’s “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?”

• What was “colonial feminism”? Why was it problematic?
• Why might some women choose to wear a veil? What do you think when you see a woman wearing a veil?
• In this selection, Abu-Lughod asks, “Can we only free Afghan women to be like us, or might we have to recognize that even after ‘liberation’ from the Taliban, they might want different things than we would want for them? What do we do about that?? How would you answer this question?
• Why is it problematic to associate feminism with the West?
• How might Americans try to help Afghan women in ways that do not involve ‘saving’ them?