User talk:Paul James

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Good luck! -- Herby talk thyme 08:05, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Enthnomedicine
Hi - I'm guessing as an original contributor to this you may be interested in looking at the comments (constructive ones!) made on the VfD page for your book. Certainly there are some issues there that you should be aware of and maybe they will help to improve the book and the grades Votes_for_deletion - regards -- Herby talk thyme 08:26, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

The VfD did offer some good ideas, disclaimer etc. The book should probably be divided up into sections. There has been an increase in references and a re-framing of the intended use. A learning experience all around. --Paul James 08:38, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * That is great - there was no way it should have been deleted but some of the comments looked useful - regards -- Herby talk thyme 08:40, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Pilgrimage
I have had difficulties with all the coding and steps. Thank you for your help editing.

I have added my content but forgot to not it in the summary section when i submitted. I hope that you look to my contributions page as a proof that I did indeed contribute. Thank you! talk

Abbreviations
Hi, IMO = in my opinion, sorry about the confusion! I probably shouldn't use abbreviations like that but that one slipped. Have a good day! Regards, Mattb112885 (talk) 15:21, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Cultural Anthropology
Hi Paul James,

Just in case you hadn't noticed, I wanted to bring a comment I left at Talk:Cultural Anthropology to your attention. Happy editing! --Swift (talk) 23:08, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

Effective Student Organization
new class project May - June 2009 --Paul James (talk) 23:04, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Editor and Approval of Revisions
Hello, I've replied to your question on Swift's talk page. Unusual? Quite TalkQu 22:59, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I am not happy with the gestures, haptics and sports section of the symbolism and communication, but i can't find the talk for the students who wrote the sections. in general I feel that it gets off topic, and might be a little inappropriate, so I will edit it a little. Malina 

Re: Ticker
Hello Paul, The ticker was an attempt by me to get page hit data about wikibooks posted here on the wiki. I wrote a bot to scrape data from an external hit counter website and post the results on that wiki page. The hit counter website I was using has since gone offline and the source code to my bot has been lost to the sands of time. The best source for hitcount data is now located here: http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikibooks/en/. I have no plans to try and update the ticker using this new website, however. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 20:03, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Question
How final is the work Cultural Anthropology, is it a class project that is still ongoing ? I have taken notice of the section relating to Cultural Anthropology/Human Rights, and I strongly disagree with the view point expressed there (as expressed in my post at Talk:Cultural Anthropology/Human Rights). --Panic (discuss • contribs) 18:13, 25 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi Panic the book still needs significant editing and I have not had students work on it for about a year. I agree with your concern over the lack of clarity of the cultural imperialism paragraphs but at the same time I am not sure what you are proposing as an alternative.

Cultural imperialism occurs when one, often more powerful, culture imposes itself on another culture. It is tied to theories of ethnocentrism, power and hegemony and is somewhat important in an introduction to cultural anthropology. If you want to learn more maybe check out the google books page for Tomlinson, J., 2001. Cultural imperialism: a critical introduction, Continuum International Publishing Group. p22 He puts together a compelling argument about cultural imperialism as it relates to Western media imperialism. To understand how it relates to globalization check out Kearney, M., 1995. The Local and the Global: The Anthropology of Globalization and Transnationalism. Annual Review of Anthropology, 24, pp.547-565. http://www.uam-antropologia.info/texto_kerney.pdf

Feel free to give a shot at improving any of the book just try and back it up with citations from recent anthropological literature. --Paul James (discuss • contribs) 20:26, 25 July 2011 (UTC)