Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id FAA15607 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 20 Dec 2000 05:14:52 GMT Message-Id: <200012200511.AAA29678@mail0.lig.bellsouth.net> From: "Joe E. Dees" <joedees@bellsouth.net> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 23:17:13 -0600 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: A 6000 level uni course in memetics X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
I have been busy, and when you read this, I believe that you will
agree that my relative absence from many discussions here has
been in the service of a noble cause.
I have persuaded Terry Prewitt, a talented scholar and the head
of the anthropology department, to chair a seminar in Cultural
Memetics this spring at the University of West Florida. I will of
course be present, and I have suggested as readings for the class
Brodie, Lynch, Blackmore and the upcoming collection
DARWINIZING CULTURE: The Status of Memetics as a Science,
as well as papers from Memetics on the Web and the Journal of
Memetics site. I felt that his department (or the sociology
department) was more appropriate than the philosophy or
psychology departments at this stage of the game (although I have
arranged for the head of our philosophy department - Nick Powers -
to attend the course).
Terry's publications follow (he is a noted semiotician, and
among other achievements, has decoded both the Delaware Indian
hogan ceremony and the kinship system in the biblical book of
Genesis; I'm given credit within the latter work for my assistance).
It's a kind of payback - He introduced me to semiotics, and I've
introduced him to it's complementary discipline in the
synchronic/static/structural vs. diachronic/dynamic/functional
sense. I was (and am) also a prochoice activist and furnished him
with inside skinny for his co-authored (with the excellent Dallas
Blanchard) work on the abortion issue. The class is one of the first
(and perhaps THE first) entirely memetics-focused graduate-level
course to ever appear. It's certainly the first of which I am aware.
1. German American Settlement in an Oklahoma Town: Ecologic,
Ethnic, and Cultural Change
Terry J. Prewitt ~ January 1989 ~ ISBN: 0404194664 ~
Hardcover
click here to compare the book price ...
2. Religious Violence and Abortion: The Gideon Project
Dallas A. Blanchard,With Terry J. Prewitt ~ April 1993 ~
ISBN: 0813011930 ~ Hardcover
click here to compare the book price ...
3. Religious Violence and Abortion: The Gideon Project
Dallas A. Blanchard,With Terry J. Prewitt ~ April 1993 ~
ISBN: 0813011949 ~ Paperback
click here to compare the book price ...
4. Semiotics 1989
John Deely (Editor),Terry Prewitt (Editor),Karen Haworth
(Editor) ~ September 1990 ~ ISBN: 0819178403 ~ Hardcover
click here to compare the book price ...
5. Semiotics, 1988
Terry J. Prewitt (Editor),John Deely (Editor),Karen Haworth
(Editor) ~ October 1989 ~ ISBN: 0819174785 ~ Library Binding
click here to compare the book price ...
6. Semiotics, 1991: Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual
Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America
John Deely (Editor),Terry J. Prewitt (Editor) ~ ~ ISBN:
0819188700 ~ Library Binding
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7. The elusive covenant :a structural-semiotic reading of Genesis
Prewitt, Terry ~ ~ ISBN: 0253345995 ~ HARDCOVER
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The meme meme is alive and well and making academic progress.
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