Text Assignments Summary

Week 01

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• Read: Distant Mirrors, 3rd ed., Chs. 1,"One Hundred Percent American" by Ralph Linton
  [American Cultural Anthropologist]
  
  
• Read: Distant Mirrors, 3rd ed., Ch. 3. "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" by Horace Miner
  [American Cultural Anthropologist]
  
  
• Review countries in text, and for the next class be prepared to select the cultures you personally would like to work on this semester
  
  
• Read: Understanding Global Cultures, 3rd ed., Ch. 1, "Understanding Cultural Metaphors"
  
  
• Read: Distant Mirrors, 3rd ed., Ch. 13. "Pais de Mis Suenos: Reflections on Ethnic Labels, Dichotomies, and Ritual Interaction" by Gisela Ernst
  [Peruvian Anthropological Linguist]

• Read: Distant Mirrors, 3rd ed., Ch. 2 "The American Cultural Configuration" by Lowell D. Holmes and Ellen Rhoads Holmes"
  [American Cultural Anthropologists]
  
  
• Read: Understanding Global Cultures, 3rd ed., Ch. 2, The Thai Kingdom
  
  
• Read: Distant Mirrors, 3rd ed., Ch. 9. "The Young, the Rich, and the Famous: Individualism as an American Cultural Value" by Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel"
  [Thai Philosopher]
  
  
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• Prepare for Exam #1

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• Prepare for Exam #2

• Review, and prepare for the Final Exam

xxxFinal Exam: The final exam will be cumulative in a general sense, although Chs. xxx will be covered in the same detail as the quizes.

Pick up exams at Cina 215

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