Food for thought Symbolic Power LIS 610 Bair-Mundy

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Rows? Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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IQ test – Anglo-Americans ABCD Which object on the right is most like A?

IQ test - Australians ABCD Dog and tree were totemically related.

LC Classification BPhilosophy. Psychology. Religion GGeography. Anthropology. Recreation PLanguage and Literature M Music and Books on Music Where to class hula? N Fine Arts DHistory

LC Classification GVRecreation. Leisure Author: Seiden, Allan. Title: The art of the hula : the spirit, the history, the legends Call No.: GV1796.H8 S

LC Classification of Hula GV1796.H57 Hip-hop GV1796.H72 Huapango GV1796.H75 Huella GV1796.H8 Hula GV1796.H88 Hustle GV1796.J37 Jarabe GV1796.J6 Jitterbug

Dewey – Where is Hula? 793Indoor games and amusements 793.3Social, folk, national dancing Including belly, jazz dancing Folk and national dancing The art of hula / Ron Laes. by Laes, Ron

Table 5. Ethnic and National Groups The following numbers are never used alone, but may be used as required (either directly when so noted or through the interposition of notation 089 from Table 1) with any number from the schedules… SUMMARY —05–09[Persons of mixed ancestry…] —01North Americans… Where are Native American peoples of North America?

Table 5. Ethnic and National Groups SUMMARY —05–09[Persons of mixed ancestry…] —1North Americans —2British, English, Anglo-Saxons —3Germanic people —4Modern Latin peoples —5Italians, Romanians, related groups —6Spanish and Portuguese —7Other Italic peoples —8Greeks and related groups —9Other ethnic and national groups

Table 5. Ethnic and National Groups —1 North Americans —11Canadians —112Canadians of British origin —114Canadians of French origin —13People of United States (“Americans”) —2 British, English, Anglo-Saxons

Table 5. Ethnic and National Groups SUMMARY —05–09[Persons of mixed ancestry…] —1North Americans —2British, English, Anglo-Saxons —3Germanic people —4Modern Latin peoples —5Italians, Romanians, related groups —6Spanish and Portuguese —7Other Italic peoples —8Greeks and related groups —9Other ethnic and national groups

T5 Table 5. Ethnic and Nat. Groups T5 —9Other ethnic and national groups —91Other Indo-European peoples —92Semites —93Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic peoples —94Peoples of North and West Asian origin or situation; Dravidians —95East and Southeast Asian peoples —96Africans and people of African descent —97North American native peoples —98South American native peoples —99… Papuans, Australian native peoples; Malayo-Polynesian and related … What are we saying with this classification?