For finals, please come prepared with your honor killing source packet.  In addition, you have a supplementary packet:  biological roots, gossip, scandal, shame or intrafamily femicide.  Think about the questions that follow each of the sources, mark those you think it important for us to discuss, and be ready to go to the text.

Some interesting articles and graphics from the New York Times recently on the differences between Sunni and Shia Islam, relevant to Guests

Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?

Questions from Abu-Lughod's "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?"

-what are similarities & differences between the post 9/11 context of the article's publication and today's ISIS/Paris/SanBernadino world?

-Why does Abu-Lughod have a problem with "saving" Muslim women?

-What does Abu-Lughod mean by "colonial feminism?"

-What does Abu-Lughod mean by "imaginary geography of West versus East?" (784)

-What does Abu-Lughod mean by "we need to be suspicious when  neat cultural icons are plastered over messier historical and political narratives?" (785)

-What can we learn from this article about the history and politics of veiling in Afghanistan?

Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving : Anthropological Reflections of Cultural Relativism and Its Others, Lila Abu-Lughod

Homework:  Guests, chapter 4
While you read, answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper or within your class notebook:

1.  What's the trouble with the bridge?  What impact does it have on the women of El Nahra?
2.  What's the relationship(s) between the women of the town and the women of the tribal fellahin?
3.  What power did B.J. realize the women had - all of them?

Lia Lee's unofficial obituary in the NY Times

For extra credit, read the new forward to the 15th edition of The Sprit Catches You.  Applying what you have learned about the Hmong generally, or the Lee's or Yang's specifically, write a one-page response to the piece.

Between Two Worlds  this is part 1 of 3 total, the rest should play accordingly
The Split Horn in its entirety

Dr. Tamara Kaiser Caught Between Cultures: Hmong Parents in America's Sibling Society
Dr. Yer Thao American Education and the Transformation of the Mong Community