You're going to myth me when I'm gone

It looks like I won't win the prize for best title on the Anthropology term papers this semester. That honor will probably go to the person whose title adorns this blog entry. The same person was also the high scorer in the class tests and term paper. As a prize he won this tile trivet:

Regarding the anthropology class, it has certainly been one of the better classes I've taken at American River College. It filled in a segment of my education that I purposely (but foolishly) left open when I was in college the first time. The class was specifically about Archaeology and could best be described as a survey in that it covered a lot of territory but only superficially. It could have been as dry as the bones described in the text were it not for Professor Kristina Casper-Denman and her efforts at entertaining us and keeping us awake until 9 pm each Thursday. She projects a passion for the subject, a quick wit, a tough exterior and a phony "couldn't care less" attitude about students. She, in fact, does care about the students and the students care about her. They all seem to enjoy the banter and the put-downs that make her a favorite, almost a peer of the students. She has a following of loyal groupies that any teacher would be envious of.

I have new-found respect for the science of Archaeology, ironically one of the newest sciences, still struggling to make itself respectable. Technology is making it easier to catalog and discover archaeological artifacts at the same time that population growth and expanding development is making it more important that we capture information about past civilizations before they're forever lost. Archaeologist themselves are torn between the desire to study and know everything there is to know about the archaeological record while at the same time respecting the cultural customs and sacred practices of those who are descendants from the people who once inhabited such record sites. Archaeologists want to balance the record. History is written by the winners while archaeology is more evenhanded, representing as it does both the winners and the losers.

So I'm wondering again as I have after every enjoyable class, what can I take next semester that won't be a let down? Stay tuned.