CULTURE KITS
The South Asia Program has kits for India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka which can be picked up at our offices at 170 Uris Hall, Cornell University, 255-8493. In addition, an extensive kit around water awareness and issues surrounding them in Nepal that combine Science, Social Science (Culture) –great for those interested in global climate change--see the description and downloadable curriculum on our website.
PRESENTERS
(dependent upon speaker availability)
INDIA--Oral History, Migration, Ethnic Minorities and World Music Interactive Presentations
Barbara C. Johnson, an Anthropologist, former Associate Professor at Ithaca College, experienced Grades 2-14 presenter, is currently a visiting scholar (2008-2009) at the South Asia Program. Barbara offers an interactive ethnography of Jewish communities in India. She is available for middle, high school and college presentations, using slides and video excerpts to discuss the history, life, music and culture of Jewish communities that have migrated to the South Asia region from the Middle East centuries ago, initially making their lives in India, and in the 1950s and 1960’s returning to Israel to settle and make new lives in that country.
Class /course unit matches: Barbara is interested in doing presentations which she can orient appropriately towards your course units on interviewing techniques anthropologists use for oral history projects (she is the author of just such an oral history book), or orient her interactive presentation for your class units on migration, ethnic minorities, or world music research—all using the Jews of India as her example.
Class /course unit matches: Barbara is interested in doing presentations which she can orient appropriately towards your course units on interviewing techniques anthropologists use for oral history projects (she is the author of just such an oral history book), or orient her interactive presentation for your class units on migration, ethnic minorities, or world music research—all using the Jews of India as her example.
INDIA—Cooking Class
Emme Edmunds, Cornell Development Sociology graduate student and a long time Ithacan is willing to teach simple recipes from different regions India with your class in an interactive and culturally enriching class session. This would be accompanied by some basic Hindi language examples, including a few phrases and the spellings of students names in Devanagri script, and some stories about the cultures and religions in selected regions. These are geared for any level K-12.
Available: Fall 2008, Spring 2009, except during exam periods
Class /course unit matches: Social Studies, cooking classes or clubs, cultural enrichment programs
Available: Fall 2008, Spring 2009, except during exam periods
Class /course unit matches: Social Studies, cooking classes or clubs, cultural enrichment programs
INDIA—Dance Presentations or mini-workshops
DANCE—Odissi Dance (Central East Coast India)
Durga Bor, Visiting Dance Lecturer at Cornell (2008-2009), offers a multimedia program for students of all ages, which includes classical Indian dance in the form of a performance, lecture-demonstration and/or workshop for K-12 and Post-Secondary levels 13-16.
Class /course unit matches: Music, Dance or Social Studies courses, cultural enrichment programs, school assembly programs, or as part of a school-wide festival of international culture or study of India or Asia.
Class /course unit matches: Music, Dance or Social Studies courses, cultural enrichment programs, school assembly programs, or as part of a school-wide festival of international culture or study of India or Asia.