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Doing Research and Drafting Your Paper

Pick one or two writers in the area of culture and personality and write a paper summarizing and discussing their contributions to the field.

• You may pick your own individual(s)
  
  
• Suggestions include, but are not limited to, the following:

A list of notable anthropologists -- Wikipedia

• Victor Barnouw
• Gregory Bateson
• Ruth Benedict
• Brent Berlin (and Paul Kay)
• Franz Boas
• Philip K. Bock
• Erika Bourguignon
• Broca, Paul Pierre
• Noam Chomsky
• Cora Du Bois
• Emile Durkheim
• George M. Foster
• Derek Freeman
• Sigmund Freud
• Ward Goodenough
• Geoffrey Gorer
• A. Irving Hallowell
• Francis L. K. Hsu
• Abram Kardiner
• Clyde Kluckhohn
• Florence Kluckhohn
• Richard Kluckhohn
• Weston La Barre
• Dorothea Cross Leighton
• Robert A. LeVine
• Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
• Claude Lévy-Strauss
• Ralph Linton
• Margaret Mead
• George P. Murdock
• Jean Piaget
• Naomi Quinn
• A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
• W. H. R. Rivers
• Edward Sapir
• Marshall H. Segall
• Louise Schaubel Spindler
• Melford E. Spiro
• Julian Steward
• Sir Edward B. Tylor
• Anthony F.C. Wallace
• Leslie White
• John W. M. Whiting (and Beatrice Blyth Whiting and Irvin L. Child)
• Benjamin Lee Whorf

• UMD Library Catalogue
• Other Library Catalogues
• also try getting information from JSTORE, and other elelctronically stored journals
• have a look at one or more of the daily newspapers to see what they're reporting
  
  

• Try getting more information by looking at sites on the web:
  • Try surfing the web by searching with the search engines found by clicking on the Web "Search" button found on the upper righthand corner all of the course WebPages
    
    
    • this will take you to the course Search Engines Page
    • use the "Advanced Search" option

     

  • Hint: When you do a search on an item that has more than one word, like "culture and personality," use the "phrase" option of the search engine
    
    
    • otherwise it will search out everything with "culture" and everything with "personality," and the list of "hits" could get quite large

  • These keywords might be useful to your project:
    
    • culture and personality,
    • personality
    • modal personality
    • basic personality
    • psychological anthropology
    • cognitive anthropology
    • national character
    • ethnoscience
    • ethnosemantics
    • language and culture
    • cross cultural psychology
    • cross cultural psychiatry
    • cultural psychology
    • life history
    • projective tests
    • perception
    • cognition, motivation
    • evolutionary psychology
    • emic / etic
    • acculturation
    • dream analysis
    • cross cultural psychiatry
    • unobtrusive measures
    • abnormal behavior
    • abnormal psychology
    • altered states of conscience
    • spirit possession
      
      
  
  
  • See the "Preparing the Final Draft" section of the Sociology - Anthropology Writing Guide to see the details of what your Case Study report should look like when you hand it in
    
    
  • Due to WebDrop <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>
    
    
  • This Case Study counts for 200 points, or 10.5% of your final grade
    • Unexcused late Case Study papers will result in a loss of 2.5% of the final course grade
      
      
• Criteria for Grading College Writing
  
  
• Suggestion: Don't put off the Case Study assignment. The web doesn't always work when you want it to, and the library does not always have the book when you need it most.

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Format Information

For more help see Paradigm On-line Writing Assistant and / or
The Soc-Anth Department Writing Guide

[more information on your title] Raising Hell in Texas: Margaret Mead's Contributions to Understanding American Adolescence by George Bush, Jr. Anthropology 4616 Culture and Personality Case Study Professor Roufs 17 May 2008

Basque Personality  Nn  Works Cited Your "References" or "Works Cited" information should go on a separate page. See "Citing Electronic or Internet Resources" for information on how to cite items from the web.