{"id":393,"date":"2016-09-24T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T19:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev-the-digital-silk-road.pantheonsite.io\/?p=393"},"modified":"2016-09-24T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T19:37:14","slug":"skys-the-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/team-sky\/skys-the-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky's the Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lets discuss methodology. We all have a certain way of doing things. As for me, when it comes to doing research projects\u00a0and presentations, I tend to\u00a0work backwards.\u00a0 By that I mean,\u00a0\u00a0typically I \u00a0visualize\u00a0the\u00a0final result\u00a0of the project\u00a0first, then build on the ideas in my head. With the digital silk road project, I’ve already completed the project\u00a0in my head, but the fundamentals are not coming together.\u00a0 For my group, pinpointing a location to research is much harder than we expected. Determining which era to closely examine is even harder. I did not foresee these challenges.\u00a0 Our group\u00a0has\u00a0considered researching\u00a0groups of\u00a0people near the Arabian Sea.\u00a0\u00a0Presently this land is designated to Iran, Saudi Arabia and parts of\u00a0Afghanistan . \u00a0The scope of the Silk Road is\u00a0so broad that one can find his or herself overwhelmed by the various societies, cultures, religions and so forth.\u00a0\u00a0Gathering information\u00a0is\u00a0vital for Team Sky at this point. My method for gathering information consists of\u00a0scouring through academic sources (print books, eBooks, journal articles etc.) \u00a0related to beauty and body images for Muslim women. \u00a0I started with Guilford’s library database. I searched for topics related to beauty and body images for Muslim women in addition to the perception of beauty in Islam. I searched for a variety subjects like: “Islamic feminism”, ” beauty in Arabia”, and the “history of women’s bodies” just to get a feel for what kind of information was out there. Now, even though there were plenty of sources for my topic, again I found the task I narrowing the subject down to a specific group of Muslim women very challenging. I read a few summaries that were interesting and I kept record of the ones relevant to my topic. Right now, I am in the beginning stages of \u00a0exploring \u00a0Persian art and literature. My intention is to make connections between the idea of beauty in Islam, specifically in locations near the Arabian Sea, and the influence the Silk Road had on those perceptions of beauty. The\u00a0 articles I have read\u00a0 are very engaging.\u00a0In addition to\u00a0the\u00a0books and articles, \u00a0art that is associated with the women and Islam is very interesting. Now, the\u00a0task will be tying all these wonderful things together with the Silk Road.
\nMethodology is super important with this project.\u00a0 The organization of this entire process will either make us or break us. Managing our time,\u00a0 compiling our evidence, presenting our findings and arranging our story map must be on our top priority list. Even though\u00a0deciding on a location and time period \u00a0supersedes all these things, Team Sky needs to come to solid consensus on these issues very soon. Am I worried? Not at all. We each have our own way of doing things. I am confident that my team members are busy digging for sources and information.\u00a0 I’m quite sure they find the task of\u00a0focusing\u00a0on a particular \u00a0society on or near the Silk Road\u00a0just a difficult as I do, but as a team we will prevail. So far, the information that Ive encounter is \u00a0relevant but solidifying one particular society is hard.
\nWhile finding a particular society to focus on is a task, on the other hand our class readings have been very helpful. The readings are long, but at the same time they contain vital names and dates of societies that thrived on the Silk Road. The reading,\u00a0Periplus of the Erythraean Sea<\/em> revealed the \u00a0names of some historical Persian societies that thrived on maritime Silk Road. It described the flourishing trade of \u00a0frankincense\u00a0\u00a0through\u00a0the Arabian\u00a0peninsula\u00a0and further into India. Even though the article did not talk about beauty and body images directly, I was able to get a sense of the culture on the Arabian\u00a0peninsula\u00a0and the maritime routes impact on the culture. \u00a0<\/em>
\nSo, as I close, I look forward to putting more pieces of together and making more connections between beauty and body images as it pertains to the Silk Road. In the near future I anticipate more correspondence with my Team about their methods and their individual findings. I embrace my Teams unique ability to get things done so, I hope the task of choosing a society and a time period is not to overwhelming. \u00a0If we find that it is too overwhelming, I hope that we can discuss our issues and try to resolve them together. I have a great feeling about our process and an even more better feeling about the outcome of our Silk Road project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lets discuss methodology. We all have a certain way of doing things. As for me, when it comes to doing research projects\u00a0and presentations, I tend to\u00a0work backwards.\u00a0 By that I mean,\u00a0\u00a0typically I \u00a0visualize\u00a0the\u00a0final result\u00a0of the project\u00a0first, then build on the ideas in my head. With the digital silk road project, I’ve already completed the project\u00a0in … Continue reading Sky's the Limit<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ds.guilford.edu\/projects\/silkroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}