Culture and Personality (Psychological Anthropology) -- University of Minnesota Duluth

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

New Year's Day

many are eating lentils and other pulses today—for good luck in the New Year
In Texas they're going for black-eyed peas
and elsewhere it's
Vasilopita

Twelfth Night

Adoration of the Magi
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
17^th century

Dia de los Santos Reyes
Ephiphany
(Theophany)
(Woman's Christmas in Ireland)
Religion in Europe
Roman Catholocism in Europe
Christianity in Europe
Islam in Europe
Islamic holidays
Jewish holidays
Buddhism in Europe
Neopaganism in Latin Europe
Religion in the European Union

Mexican Food

Woman's Little Christmas
Ireland . . .

Plough Sunday
England

Plough Monday
England

Coming of Age Day
Japan

St. Knut's Day

Week 01 Day 01

Week 01 Day 02

Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day

"soul food"

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Brain Foundation Victoria

Week 1 — Introduction / Orientation
and Personality: All About Me

Welcome Memo
Week 1 Memo

handout:
First-Day Handout
"Online Calendar s2012"

Introduction
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free)
[see note on slide formats]

Day 02 nlt 04:12 Thursday 19 January 2012 video:

Personality: All About Me
(60 min., UM Duluth Library Multimedia BF698.3 .P37 2003 DVD)

(course viewing guide)

Image of brain areas.

The Brain: A Road Map to the Mind
MSNBC

Question: How much of what you see is British, and how much relates in general to being human?

nurture / nature inherited / learned biology / culture

Take the on-line BBC "What Am I Like?" personality test

UMD Birmingham, England, Postal Codes include B29 7JQ and B29 6QD

(course viewing guide: discussion)

(Cognitive Anthropology)
(Perception / Conception / Cognition)
(Early Childhood Studies)

For Week 1 Activities see

Week 1 Assignments
Read
Prelude. "All Anthropology Is Psychological," pp. 1-3

Ch. 1, "The Psychology of Primitive Peoples," pp. 5-24

(opitical illusions)

For Week 1 Activities see

Culture and Personality

January 2012

(course viewing guide: discussion)

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Week 02 Day 03

Week 02 Day 04

National Pie Day

At the Burns Supper
(Scotland)
they're offering the Selkirk Grace toasting the haggis
("Ode to the Haggis")

John Millington Synge's play The Playboy of the Western World premiered in Dublin, 1907

Australia Day -- Australian Food

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Anth 4616 Culture and Personality

Week 2 — Orientation to Anthropology

Week 2 Memo

handout:
Anthropology and Its Parts

Have a look at . . .

Points for Forum Posts and Project Updates
and
compare these points with official UMD Grading Policies

Forum Grading Samples

and if you have any questions about the points
or about grading in general . . . ask

brief review of
Personality: All About Me
(60 min., 2003, DVD 206)

Students in the past have commented that there is
TOO MUCH INFORMATION
available on the class Moodle and supporting WebSites.
Yes, there is a lot of information, no doubt about it, and it can be confusing at first. It’s helpful when starting out to remember that the required information for the course is contained in the middle panel of your HomePage. The information in the sidebars and many of the links are there should you find those interesting and/or helpful; that material is not required.

Orientation
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
[see note on slide formats]

Main Characteristics of Anthropology
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
[see note on slide formats]

(NOTE: This is a long slide set as it covers some very important background information that will be referred to often as we go through the semester. Please bear with it to the end. And it will take a little longer to load, so please bear with that also. There is no video presentation scheduled for this and next week as the base slide sets tend to be a little longer than "normal.")

the four fields of general anthropology
culture as a primary concept
- learned
- shared
- transmitted from generation to generation
- based on symbols
- integrated
comparative method as major approach to the study of human behavior development and structure
holism or the study of "humankind" as a whole, as a primary theoretical goal
- the approach used in this class emphasizes the "holistic" anthropological view which combines observations of "culture" and behavior with considerations of the physical and developmental aspects of humans
fieldwork as a primary research technique in gathering data, involving “participant observation”

WebPage Summary
"Anthropology and . . . It's Parts" chart

"Other Important Terms"
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
[see note on slide formats]
Units of Analysis
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)

[see note on slide formats]
Three Major Perennial Debates
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)

[see note on slide formats] (NOTE: This is a long slide set as it covers more than 2000+ years. Please bear with it to the end. Please bear with it to the end. And it will take a little longer to load, so please bear with that also. There is no video presentation scheduled for this and next week as the base slide sets tend to be a little longer than "normal.")

(more on metaphorical analysis Day 20)

A quick look at the Main Terms, Concepts, Ideas and People in Culture and Personality Studies: A CP Glossary in Historical Context (time permitting)
WebPage
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
[see note on slide formats]

(Psychoanalytic Studies)
(Dream Analysis)

Day 04 Thursday 26 January 2012 video:

"Psychological Anthropology"
(30 min., 1994, VC 2466, Part 5)

(streaming video)

course viewing guide

Margaret Mead sitting between two Samoan girls, ca. 1926

For Week 2 Activities see

Week 2 Assignment
Read
Ch. 2, "Psychoanalytic Anthropology," pp. 25-44

For Week 2 Activities see

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Culture and Personality

January 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Week 03 Day 05

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Culture and Personality

February 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Week 03 Day 06

Groundhog Day / Candlemas
groundhog recipes
Woodchuck au Vin

Setsubun 節分
bean-throwing festival
Japan

53^nd anniversary of Buddy Holly's death

Greetings from Punxsutawney!

Did Punxsutawney Phil Say Spring Will Come Early?

Wikipedia

NO!

"Groundhog Day 2012: Punxsutawney Phil sees shadow, 6 more weeks of winter"

<http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=8528357>
<link>

Phil's official forecast as predicted February 2nd at sunrise at Gobbler's Knob.

Groundhog.org

Past predictions

<http://www.examiner.com/net-buzz-in-national/2012-groundhog-day-punxsutawney-phil-says-another-six-weeks-of-winter>

Punxsutawney Phil: The Groundhog Behind the Myth
-- Live Science (01 February 2010)

Groundhog Day -- Wikipedia

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Superbowl XLVI 2011 Best and Worst Ads -- FOXSports

Week 3—Orientation (Cont.)
History/Theory/Methods of Culture and Personality Studies (Cont.)
Chimp Talk
"Everything is Relatives: Wm. Rivers"
Super Bowl Brains
What your Brain Doesn't See

Week 3 Memo

Main Characteristics of Anthropology
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
[see note on slide formats]

(NOTE: This is a long slide set as it covers some very important background information that will be referred to often as we go through the semester. Please bear with it to the end. And it will take a little longer to load, so please bear with that also. There is no video presentation scheduled for this and next week as the base slide sets tend to be a little longer than "normal.")

the four fields of general anthropology
culture as a primary concept
- learned
- shared
- transmitted from generation to generation
- based on symbols
- integrated
comparative method as major approach to the study of human behavior development and structure
holism or the study of "humankind" as a whole, as a primary theoretical goal
- the approach used in this class emphasizes the "holistic" anthropological view which combines observations of "culture" and behavior with considerations of the physical and developmental aspects of humans
fieldwork as a primary research technique in gathering data, involving “participant observation”

WebPage Summary
"Anthropology and . . . It's Parts" chart

"Other Important Terms"
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)
[see note on slide formats]
Units of Analysis
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)

[see note on slide formats]
Three Major Perennial Debates
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)
(Download PowerPoint Viewer Free) (Download Adobe .pdf Reader Free)

[see note on slide formats] (NOTE: This is a long slide set as it covers more than 2000+ years. Please bear with it to the end. Please bear with it to the end. And it will take a little longer to load, so please bear with that also. There is no video presentation scheduled for this and next week as the base slide sets tend to be a little longer than "normal.")

(more on metaphorical analysis Day 20)

Day 05 Tuesday 31 January 2012 video:

Chimp Talk
(14 min., 1998, VC 3479)

course viewing guide

Sundance festival documentary tells story of chimp raised as baby-- BBCNews (26 January 2011)
Project Nim: We Are the Real Chumps in This Chimp's Story -- Guardian (21 January 2011)

Super Bowl ads change your brains . . .

They ought to, for $3,500,000 per 30 seconds. We’ll have a closer look at that next week, but this week pay attention to what folks are saying about the Super Bowl ads.

Super Bowl XLVI
5 February 2012

It's Super Bowl Time . . .

Martin J. Gannon's Metaphorical Analsis of The United States:

The Super Bowl and Culture and Personality

Super Bowl XLVI
5 February 2012

Super Bowl XLVI
5 February 2012
New York Giants vs. New England Patriots

But who won the important Superbowl ADs Contest?

Superbowl Commercials 2011

"Thirty-second spots during Super Bowl XLVI are being sold for as much as $3.5 million."
Super Bowl XLVI Ad Sneak Preview
SUPERBOWL-ADS.COM

Who's Buying What in Superbowl 2011 -- AdvertisingAge
"Fox was seeking between $2.8 million and $3 million for 30 seconds of time during this year's game"

Watch the top Super Bowl Commercials from the past 13 years

Super Bowl XLIV
07 February 2010
New Orleans Saints 31 vs. Indianapolis Colts 17

The Brain: A Road Map to the Mind
-- MSNBC

BrainMapping.org

"Super Bowl ads: $2.7 million [2010 avg per 30 seconds or $90,000 per second] and worth it" [2009: $2.4-$3 million / 30-second slot; NBC said 30 January 2009 that their $206,000,000 advertising revenue for the game and $261,000,000 "for the day" set a record]
-- CNNMoney.com
" Brain scans reveal power of [2006] Super Bowl adverts"
-- NewScientist (07 February 2006)

Watching a woman playing American football with her friends in a Michelob beer ad
triggered the brain's empathy centre (shown by arrow) to fire in women only
(Image: Jonas Kaplan)
NewScientist
(07 February 2006)

Super Bowl Ads: GoDaddy Girl 1, Neuroscientists 0

Neuromarketing
(17 February 2006)

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Five Videos: Your Brain on [2009] Super Bowl Ads
-- Roger Dooley
EEG technology

Wonder what your brain looks like while watching commercials? Or, more to the point, what the electrical activity in your brain looks like? The folks at Sands Research have helped Neuromarketing readers by making available videos from five of the most engaging (by their metrics) 2009 Super Bowl.

EEG technology

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Complete Neuro-Ranking of 2008 Super Bowl Ads

Neuromarketing
(12 February 2008)

EEG technology

The ads which scored the highest and lowest are:

1. Pepsi – “Bob’s House”
2. Coke – “Balloons” (aka “It’s Mine”)
3. Bud Light – “Power to Fly”
4. Audi – “R8″ (Godfather satire)
5. Verizon – “Voyager”

…

55. Semi-Pro – Trailer
56. Bud Light – “Wine & Cheese”
57. Ice Breakers – “Carmen Electra”
58. G2 – “Jeter”
59. Anti-Drug – “Dealer”

Your Brain on Super Bowl Ads
-- Neuromarketing
(12 February 2008)

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Super Bowl ads [2007] fumble, brain scans show

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Super Bowl ads, which cost $85,000 per second during this year's game, fumbled overall as they failed to connect with viewers or just scared them, according to researchers who tracked people's brain activity. -- Debra Sherman (05 February 2007)

brain scans and superbowl ads

BrainMapping.org

Today and next week we're going to do historical background of Culture and Personality studies, and have a look at some basic terms / concepts as presented in three videos. The first is:

Day 06 nlt 4:20 Thursday 2 February 2012 video:

"Everything is Relatives: William Rivers"
(52 min., 1990, UM Duluth Library Multimedia GN21.R54 E88 2004 DVD)
[From the Strangers Abroad series]

course viewing guide


Torres Strait	Melanesia
Egypt	India Marriage Rules . . .

William Halse Rivers Rivers M.D.

joined the Torres Straits Expedition in 1898
"Colour vision." In Reports of the Cambridge anthropological expedition to Torres Straits (1901)

worked among the Toda people of south-west India in 1901–02
The Todas (1906)

—

Erika Schneider

Regeneration

News - Europe - 'Hottentot Venus' goes home -- BBC News
(29 April 2002)

Sigmung Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung, 1899 [postdated to 1900])

Thor Heyerdahl, The Kon Tiki Expedition, 1947

Multiple Deployments
Duffy 12/21/09
Duluth Budgeteer News (07 February 2010, p. 17)

For Week 3 Activities see

Week 3 Assignment
Read
Ch. 3, "Configurations of Culture and Personality," pp. 45-65

For Week 3 Activities see

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Culture and Personality

February 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Week 04 Day 07

Week 04 Day 08

Super Bowl XLV

Michael Pollan
b. 1955

Sami National Day

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Great Debates in Anthropology:

Week 4—Mead, and Mead & Freeman

Week 4 Memo

This week we're going to continue looking at the historical background of Culture and Personality studies, focusing on Margaret Mead and the controversy surrounding her early work in Samoa. We will also continue to have a look at some basic terms / concepts as presented the videos.

Day 07 nlt 4:20 Tuesday 7 February 2012 video:
"Coming of Age: Margaret Mead"
(52 min., 1990, VC 1755)
[From the Strangers Abroad series]

course viewing guide

Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa.

Rorschach test
Card 1

Thematic Apperception Test
(TAT)

Continuation of Margaret Mead
and the controversy surrounding her early work in Samoa . . .

Day 08 nlt 4:20 Thursday 9 February 2012 video:

Margaret Mead and Samoa

(51 min., 1988, VC 1314 )

(streaming video)

course viewing guide

Individuals:

Gregory Bateson ("National Character School")
Mary Catherine Bateson (Daughter)
Ruth Benedict
Franz Boas
Dr. Luther Cressman (First Husband)
Reo Fortune (Second Husband)
Robin Fox
Derek Freeman
Richard Goodman
Lowell D. Holmes (museum)
Barbara Honigmann Roll
Jane Howard (biographer)
Margaret Mead: archival film footage, biography
Rhoda Metraux (with Margaret Mead, The Study of Culture at a Distance, 1953)
Laura Nader
Dr. Benjamin Spock (Baby and Child Care)

Great Debates and Controversies in Anthropology Margaret Mead -- Derek Freeman
Margaret Mead		Derek Freeman

Mead Freeman Debate -- Cara Fraver
Samoan Notes -- Court Smith
Is Anthropology a Science? The Mead-Freeman Debate -- Ann Marie Leshkowich
Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman . . . and the Samoans -- Stan Strain
Much ado about nothing: the 'fateful hoaxing' of Margaret Mead - American anthropologist -- James E. Côté
- Freeman responds
Objectivity in Ethnography -- University of Manitoba

creation -- evolution
Lewis -- Redfield Debate
Mead -- Freeman Controversy -- Cara Fraver
Biological Determinism vs. Cultural Constructionism
( “nature vs. nurture”)
( “learned vs. inherited”)
slides (.pdf) (.pptx)
Ideationism vs. Cultural Materialism
slides (.pdf) (.pptx)
Individual Agency vs. Structuralism
(“free will” vs. “power structures”)
slides (.pdf) (.pptx)
Darkness in El Dorado Controversy
(Yanomamó)

Next Time: Review of the Mead Freeman controversy

For Week 4 Activities see

Assignment:
For next time
freelist reasons for the discrepancies
between Mead and Freeman

Freelists -- Steve Borgatti

Next Time: Review of the Mead Freeman controversy

For Week 4 Activities see

Week 4 Assignments
Read
Ch. 4, "Basic and Modal Personality," pp. 67-85

For Week 4 Activities see

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Culture and Personality

February 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Week 05 Day 09

Week 05 Day 10

Charles Darwin
1809-1882
Darwin Day

Meal Monday
Scotland

Valentine's Day

Send a Valentine card

Three hearts.

or better yet . . .

video Eating Insects

In Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan girls are giving "chocolate of love" and "obligation chocolate"

Thomas R. Malthus
1766-1834, in An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) argued population grows geometrically, food supply arithmetically

Thomas Malthus.

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Week 5—Cognition: Per-ception / Con-ception

Week 5 Memo

Forthcoming at a Later Date

Review

W.H. R. Rivers and Mead, Mead-Freeman Review
Units of Analysis (.pdf) (.pptx)
Three Major Perennial Debates (.pdf) (.pptx)

This week we're going to have a look at
an Introduction to
Cognition: Per-ception / Con-ception
by looking at how the process sometimes goes askwe

Synesthesia: Derek Tastes of Earwax
(re-scheduled because of Mardi Gras)
Visual Agnosia

normally scheduled for Week 06 Day 11 nlt 4:10 Tuesday, 21 February 2012
but moved to Day 09 nlt 4:10 Tuesday, 14 February 2012 because of Mardi Gras
video:
Wednesday Day 11

Synesthesia: Derek Tastes of Earwax
(50 min., 2005, DVD 1029)

course viewing guide


From BBC Science -- tests mentioned in Synethesia: Derek Tastes of Earwax

	Do You See What I See? Is Wednesday red? Take part in an experiment to test whether your senses overlap. Duration: 10 minutes
	Do You Hear What I Hear? Do melodies have a colour? Take part in our experiment to test whether you hear colours. Duration: 10 minutes

Science: Human Body & Mind -- Psychology Tests and Surveys

Synesthesia Test from ScienceNews

How one synaesthete sees "Saturday"

Hearing Colours, Eating Sounds -- BBC

ScienceNews 20 February 2011

Day 10 nlt 4:10 Thursday 16 February 2012 video:

Stranger in the Mirror
(60 min., 1993, VC 2464)

course viewing guide

Hearing Colours, Eating Sounds (synesthesia) -- BBC

cognition:

per-ception / con-ception

. . . an introduction

In order to understand personality
one must understand cognition

In order to understand cognition
one must understand per-ception and con-ception

in order to understand conception
one must understand language

in order to understand language
one must understand culture

in order to understand culture
one must understand
"culturally constituted behavioral environments"

in order to understand
"culturally constituted behavioral environments"
must one have look at the Culture and Personlity work of A. Irving Hallowell ?

Bear Ceremonialism in the Northern Hemisphere (1926)
The Role of Conjuring in Saulteaux Society (1942)
Culture and Experience (1955)
Contributions to Anthropology (1976)

in order to understand
the work of A. Irving Hallowell
one must have look at Anishinabe / Ojibwa / Chippewa Peoples

for e.g.,
Jimmy Jackson
(Week 11 Day 21)
Paul Buffalo
(Week 11 Day 22)
Anishinabe Curing
(Week 12 Day 23)
"Windigo Psychosis," one of many
"Culture-Bound Syndromes"
(Week 09 Day 18)

-- Tim Roufs

In order to understand personality
one must understand cognition

In order to understand cognition
one must understand per-ception and con-ception . . .

cognition = perception + conception

cognition

perception

sensory vision

"per - cepts"

hearing

touch

taste

smell

conception

"con - cepts"

Cf., "Foundations of Cultural Knowledge," in Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), pp. 3-38.

How many senses do we have anyway ? . . .

Parade Column - February 24, 2008

We’re taught in school that we have five senses: vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Yet we also feel pain—and hunger, for that matter. Aren’t they senses too?
—Brian Dozier, Cincinnati, Ohio

In addition to the usual five that we’re taught, humans have receptors for pressure, temperature, pain, balance and motion. So we have a total of 10 senses. But hunger is not one of them. Rather, it’s a motivation or desire, like sex. Well, not quite like sex.

cognition	perception	sensory	vision	"per - cepts"
			hearing
			touch
			taste
			smell
			pressure
			temperature
			pain
			balance
			motion
	conception			"con - cepts"

A more conventional view . . .

cognition	perception	sensory	vision	"per - cepts"
			hearing
			touch
			taste
			smell
		extra - sensory (ESP)	6th ?	"?"
	conception			"con - cepts"

Cf., "Foundations of Cultural Knowledge," in Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), pp. 3-38.

Let's look at just one . . .

cognition

perception

sensory
(eyes)

vision

"per - cepts"

Stranger in the Mirror: An Examination of Visual Agnosia
(60 min., 1993, VC 2464)
[From NOVA ]

The problems with visual agnosia
occur "between" the percepts and the "concepts" stages . . .

cognition

perception: vision
wife's face	wave / particle	eyes	brain	"per - cepts"

conception

"con - cepts"

Source: James P. Spradley (Ed.), Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), p. 9.

Cf., "Foundations of Cultural Knowledge," in Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), pp. 3-38.

For Week 5 Activities see

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wiki Assignment: Make up at least one good question for the Midterm Exam

Go to the "Magic Eye" page and look at the Image of the Week until you see the 3D image. Click on "Need Help Viewing 3D?" if necessary.

Magic Eye ©

Optical Illusions

For Week 5 Activities see

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Week 5 Assignments
Read
Ch. 5, "National Character Studies," pp. 87-107

(National Character Studies)

For Week 5 Activities see

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Culture and Personality

February 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Week 06 Day 11

Week 06 Day 12

International Mother Language Day

Mardi Gras 2012
and on Shrove Tuesday, it's Pancake Day in Great Britain

Ash Wednesday:
Lenten Food Regulations begin for Roman Catholics and others

The Holy See
(The Vatican)

Cognitive Sciences Laboratory
Put to the Test

Week 6—Cognition: Per-ception / Con-ception . . . Gone Wrong and Extra?
Black Indians of New Orleans

Wiki questions for the Midterm Exam are due by Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 11:55 p.m.

Week 6 Memo

Day 11 Tuesday, 21 February 2012
[moved to Day 14 for the 2011 Mardi Gras]
[moved to Day 11 for the 2012 Mardi Gras]

per-son-ality

Dionysus,
Greek Theatrical Mask

Lady in White
Carnival of Venice
Italy

Mardi Gras

for Mardi Gras --
Rites of Intensification

nlt 4:05 video:
"New Orleans Black Indians: A Case Study in the Arts"
(30 min., 1994 VC 2466, pt. 23)

(streaming video)
course viewing guide

and

analysis
(incl. post-Katrina update)

As mentioned earlier in the semester,
people live in multiple worlds . . . .
The analysis focusing on the New Orleans Black Indians
reviews some of those multiple worlds . . .

nlt 4:40 video:
Cultural Anthropology: Our Diverse World,
"Grouping by Gender, Age, Common Interests and Class"
(Part 11)
(30 min., 2008, DVD 1793, Pt. 11)

course viewing guide

Big Chief Allison "Tootie" Montana

cognition:
per-ception /
con-ception
. . . an introduction / review

How many senses do we have anyway ? . . .

The conventional view . . .

cognition	perception	sensory	vision	"per - cepts"
			hearing
			touch
			taste
			smell
	conception			"con - cepts"

Cf., "Foundations of Cultural Knowledge," in Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), pp. 3-38.

Parade Column - February 24, 2008

We’re taught in school that we have five senses: vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Yet we also feel pain—and hunger, for that matter. Aren’t they senses too?
—Brian Dozier, Cincinnati, Ohio

In addition to the usual five that we’re taught, humans have receptors for pressure, temperature, pain, balance and motion. So we have a total of 10 senses. But hunger is not one of them. Rather, it’s a motivation or desire, like sex. Well, not quite like sex.

cognition	perception	sensory	vision	"per - cepts"
			hearing
			touch
			taste
			smell
			pressure
			temperature
			pain
			balance
			motion
	conception			"con - cepts"

normally scheduled for Day 11 nlt 4:10 Tuesday, 21 February 2012
but moved to Day 09 nlt 4:10 Tuesday, 14 February 2012 because of Mardi Gras
video:
Wednesday Day 11

Synesthesia: Derek Tastes of Earwax
(50 min., 2005, DVD 1029)

course viewing guide


From BBCScience -- tests mentioned in Synethesia: Derek Tastes of Earwax

	Do You See What I See? Is Wednesday red? Take part in an experiment to test whether your senses overlap. Duration: 10 minutes
	Do You Hear What I Hear? Do melodies have a colour? Take part in our experiment to test whether you hear colours. Duration: 10 minutes

Science: Human Body & Mind -- Psychology Tests and Surveys

Synesthesia Test from ScienceNews

How one synaesthete sees "Saturday"

Hearing Colours, Eating Sounds -- BBC

ScienceNews 20 February 2011

For Week 6 Activities see

The CP Midterm Exam Live Chat will be the night before the exam from 07:00-08:00 CST, on Monday, 4 March 2013

The Culture and Personality Midterm Exam will be in class Week 7 Day 13 Tuesday, 5 March 2013

REM: Bring your Laptop
Laptop

Moodle Exams (and everything else on Moodle) works best with a Firefox

browser. If you do not have a Firefox browser on your laptop, download one (it's free).

Day 12 Thursday 23 February 2012

Making Sense of Sensory Information
with Dale Purves, M.D.
(Neuroscience Series)
(37 min, 2008, DVD 1945)

"What we see is not what the world really is and that is counterintuitive."

Context Makes the difference

Making Sense of Sensory Information -- Davidson Films
YouTube Trailer\

Making Sense of Sensory Information

John Locke -- Wikipedia
David Hume -- Wikipedia
George Berkeley -- Wikipedia

add René Descartes -- Wikipedia

What about ESP -- Extra - Sensory Perception ? . . .

cognition	perception	sensory	vision	"per - cepts"
			hearing
			touch
			taste
			smell
			pressure
			temperature
			pain
			balance
			motion
		extra - sensory (ESP)	6th ?	"?"
	conception			"con - cepts"

Day 12 Thursday, 23 February 2012 video:
Video clip
"ESP"
(13 min., 1998, not a UMD Library holding)

course viewing guide

Video clip: "ESP"
(13 min., 1998)
Sixth sense can come from within:
Our sense of position can rely on signals from the brain rather than the body
-- news@nature.com, 23 March 2006

For investigations on Paranormal Phenomena see . . .

James Randi Educational Foundation: An Educational Resource on the Paranormal, Pseudoscientific, and the Supernatural

cognition	perception	sensory	vision	"per - cepts"
			hearing
			touch
			taste
			smell
			pressure
			temperature
			pain
			balance
			motion
		extra - sensory (ESP)	6th ?	"?"
	conception			"con - cepts"

cognition:
per-ception /
con-ception

. . . Questions to Think About . . .

How man senses do we have?
- Wha's the nature of the concepts/percepts beyond the five "standard" senses?
With visual agnosia there were percepts but no visual concepts
With synesthesia there were percepts and concepts, except that the concepts got mixed up and didn't "match up" properly with the percepts
What about ESP--Extra-Sensory-Perception?
- Can we have concepts without percepts?
What is the role of whatever is already "in" the brain in concept formation?
- Remember the wheat fields in Personality: All About Me?
- And, more specifically, what is the role of language in concept formation?
  - And evenmore specifically, what is the role of linguistic categories (linguistic concepts) in concept formation?

Optical Illusions

Percepts are formulated into erroneous concepts

Correct Percepts and Concepts of non-existent "things"

e.g., one's mental processing of a galaxy in the sky

Pure fantasy

No percepts, but concepts

"Phantom Pain"

residual concepts, but no current concepts, but current pain

How can both the percepts and concepts be manipulated to create altered states of consciousness?

Altered States of Consciousness (ASC)
- ASC Typology

Culturally Constituted Behavioral Environment (CCBE) -- A. Irving Hallowell

A. Irving Hallowell.
A. Irving Hallowell
1892 – 1974
Culture and Experience, 1955

How does the space you live in affect your per-ception?
- Mike Robbins

An Excellent lecture on smell, from the Nobel Conference 46 Making Food Good Conference -- Gustavus Adolphus College (5-6 October 2010)
(archives are available online at <http://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2010/archive.php>)

Linda Bartoshuk
Fifth Lecture: "Variation in sensation and affect: We live in 'different taste worlds'"
view video on-line

For Week 6 Activities see

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Week 6 Assignments

Review: Materials for Midsemester Exam

After exam, for next time, read: Interlude. "The Crisis in Culture and Personality," pp. 109-116

James Spradley
1934-1982
Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps and Plans, 1972

For Week 6 Activities see

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26 February - 3 March 2012
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week -- sponsored by the National_Eating_Disorders_Association (NEDA)
UMD Events

UMD National Eating Disorders Week Poster.

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Culture and Personality

February 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Week 07 Day 13

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Culture and Personality

March 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Week 07 Day 14

St. David's Day
Wales
for the festival . . .
Caerphilly cheese
Welsh rarebit
Welsh Cakes

Beer Day
Iceland

National Pig Day

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Cognitive Sciences Laboratory
Put to the Test

Week 7—Midterm Exam
and
ESP: Extra-Sens-ory Per-cept-tion
and
Cog-nition: Do you See what I See?

Week 7 Memo
Week 7 Memo: Midterm On-Line Chat

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, by Ruth Benedict.

The Culture and Personality Midterm Exam will be in class Week 7 Day 13 Tuesday, 5 March 2013

REM: Bring your Laptop
Laptop

Moodle Exams (and everything else on Moodle) works best with a Firefox

browser. If you do not have a Firefox browser on your laptop, download one (it's free).

The CP Midterm Exam Live Chat will be the night before the exam from 07:00-08:00 CST, on Monday, 4 March 2013

Still More Questions
to
Think About

communication
slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)

Anth 4616 Culture and Personality

Moved for Mardi Gras . . .

Cognition: Per-ception / Con-ception . . . Gone Wrong and Extra?
Black Indians of New Orleans

Day 11 Tuesday, 21 February 2012
[moved to Day 11 for the 2012 Mardi Gras]

per-son-ality

Dionysus,
Greek Theatrical Mask

Lady in White
Carnival of Venice
Italy

Mardi Gras

for Mardi Gras --
Rites of Intensification

nlt 4:05 video:
"New Orleans Black Indians: A Case Study in the Arts"
(30 min., 1994 VC 2466, pt. 23)

(streaming video)
course viewing guide

and

analysis
(incl. post-Katrina update)

As mentioned earlier in the semester,
people live in multiple worlds . . . .
The analysis focusing on the New Orleans Black Indians
reviews some of those multiple worlds . . .

nlt 4:40 video:
Cultural Anthropology: Our Diverse World,
"Grouping by Gender, Age, Common Interests and Class"
(Part 11)
(30 min., 2008, DVD 1793, Pt. 11)

course viewing guide

Big Chief Allison "Tootie" Montana

cognition:
per-ception /
con-ception
. . . an introduction / review

How many senses do we have anyway ? . . .

The conventional view . . .

cognition	perception	sensory	vision	"per - cepts"
			hearing
			touch
			taste
			smell
	conception			"con - cepts"

Cf., "Foundations of Cultural Knowledge," in Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), pp. 3-38.

Parade Column - February 24, 2008

We’re taught in school that we have five senses: vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Yet we also feel pain—and hunger, for that matter. Aren’t they senses too?
—Brian Dozier, Cincinnati, Ohio

In addition to the usual five that we’re taught, humans have receptors for pressure, temperature, pain, balance and motion. So we have a total of 10 senses. But hunger is not one of them. Rather, it’s a motivation or desire, like sex. Well, not quite like sex.

cognition	perception	sensory	vision	"per - cepts"
			hearing
			touch
			taste
			smell
			pressure
			temperature
			pain
			balance
			motion
	conception			"con - cepts"


From BBCScience -- tests mentioned in Synethesia: Derek Tastes of Earwax

	Do You See What I See? Is Wednesday red? Take part in an experiment to test whether your senses overlap. Duration: 10 minutes
	Do You Hear What I Hear? Do melodies have a colour? Take part in our experiment to test whether you hear colours. Duration: 10 minutes

Science: Human Body & Mind -- Psychology Tests and Surveys

Synesthesia Test from ScienceNews

How one synaesthete sees "Saturday"

Hearing Colours, Eating Sounds -- BBC

ScienceNews 20 February 2011

What about ESP -- Extra - Sensory Perception ? . . .

cognition	perception	sensory	vision	"per - cepts"
			hearing
			touch
			taste
			smell
			pressure
			temperature
			pain
			balance
			motion
		extra - sensory (ESP)	6th ?	"?"
	conception			"con - cepts"

Day 12 Thursday, 23 February 2012 video:
Video clip
"ESP"
(13 min., 1998, not a UMD Library holding)

course viewing guide

Video clip: "ESP"
(13 min., 1998)
Sixth sense can come from within:
Our sense of position can rely on signals from the brain rather than the body
-- news@nature.com, 23 March 2006

For investigations on Paranormal Phenomena see . . .

James Randi Educational Foundation: An Educational Resource on the Paranormal, Pseudoscientific, and the Supernatural

cognition	perception	sensory	vision	"per - cepts"
			hearing
			touch
			taste
			smell
			pressure
			temperature
			pain
			balance
			motion
		extra - sensory (ESP)	6th ?	"?"
	conception			"con - cepts"

cognition:
per-ception /
con-ception

. . . Questions to Think About . . .

How man senses do we have?
- Wha's the nature of the concepts/percepts beyond the five "standard" senses?
With visual agnosia there were percepts but no visual concepts
With synesthesia there were percepts and concepts, except that the concepts got mixed up and didn't "match up" properly with the percepts
What about ESP--Extra-Sensory-Perception?
- Can we have concepts without percepts?
What is the role of whatever is already "in" the brain in concept formation?
- Remember the wheat fields in Personality: All About Me?
- And, more specifically, what is the role of language in concept formation?
  - And evenmore specifically, what is the role of linguistic categories (linguistic concepts) in concept formation?

Optical Illusions

Percepts are formulated into erroneous concepts

Correct Percepts and Concepts of non-existent "things"

e.g., one's mental processing of a galaxy in the sky

Pure fantasy

No percepts, but concepts

"Phantom Pain"

residual concepts, but no current concepts, but current pain

How can both the percepts and concepts be manipulated to create altered states of consciousness?

Altered States of Consciousness (ASC)
- ASC Typology

Culturally Constituted Behavioral Environment (CCBE) -- A. Irving Hallowell

A. Irving Hallowell.
A. Irving Hallowell
1892 – 1974
Culture and Experience, 1955

How does the space you live in affect your per-ception?
- Mike Robbins

An Excellent lecture on smell, from the Nobel Conference 46 Making Food Good Conference -- Gustavus Adolphus College (5-6 October 2010)
(archives are available online at <http://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2010/archive.php>)

Linda Bartoshuk
Fifth Lecture: "Variation in sensation and affect: We live in 'different taste worlds'"
view video on-line

James Spradley
1934-1982
Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps and Plans, 1972

For Week 6 Activities see

For Week 7 Activities see

Week 7 Assignments

Read

Ch. 6, "Cross-Cultural Correlations," pp. 117-138

HRAF
(Human Relations Area Files)

George Peter Murdock
1897-1985
Social Structure, 1949

For Week 7 Activities see

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Culture and Personality

March 2012

Visual cortext.
The Brain: A Road Map to the Mind -- MSNBC

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Week 08 Day 15

Week 08 Day 16

Celebrate Your Name Week

Middle Name Pride Day

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Anth 4616 Culture and Personality

Week 8—Real People . . . Real Places . . .
Cognition Review and Beyond . . .
Birth Order and Its Effects
Magical Death and Children's Magical Death

Week 8 Memo

Cognition Review and Beyond . . .

Per-cept--ual and Con-cept--ual Cog-ni[to]--tive Processes

Percept--ual and Concept--ual Cogni--tive Processes

REM: Cognition = Perception + Conception

Cogni-tion = Per-cept-ion + Con-cept-ion

Cogni-tion = Percept-ion + Concept-ion

.

REM?:

per-son-ality
through - the sound - the essence or quality of

Dionysus,
Greek Theatrical Mask

Cognition = Perception + Conception

Cogni-tion = Per-cept-ion + Con-cept-ion

Cogni-tion = Percept-ion + Concept-ion

Orientation to Cog-nition: Per-ception and Con-ception
- Cogito ergo sum
"Latin: 'I am thinking, therefore I exist', or traditionally 'I think, therefore I am') is a philosophical statement by René Descartes, which became a foundational element of Western philosophy. 'Cogito ergo sum' is a translation of Descartes' original French statement: 'Je pense, donc je suis', which occurs in his Discourse on Method (1637)."

René Descartes (1596–1650)

"Although the idea expressed in 'cogito ergo sum' is widely attributed to Descartes, many predecessors offer similar arguments—particularly St. Augustine of Hippo in De Civitate Dei (books XI, 26), who also anticipates modern refutations of the concept. (See Principles of Philosophy, §7: 'Ac proinde haec cognitio, ego cogito, ergo sum, est omnium prima et certissima etc.')." -- Wikipedia

Still More Questions . . .
(to think about)

How do you think (about thinking, or anything else) ?

What role does culture and learning play ?

More specifically, what role does language play ?

"Perceptual and Cognitive Processes":
- per-ception
  - ([late ME < L perceptiôn- (s. of perceptiô) comprehension, lit., a taking in]
- per-ceive
  - ([ME perceive(n) . . . per- PER- + -cipere, comb. form of capere to take]
    - re-ceive
    - re-cept-or
- per-cepts

"Perceptual and Cognitive Processes"
- con-ception
- con-ceive
- con-cepts

cognition	p e r c e p t i o n	sensory	vision	"per - cepts"	c o n c e p t i o n	brain states	"con - cepts"
			hearing
			touch
			taste
			smell
			pressure
			temperature
			pain
			balance
			motion
		extra - sensory (ESP)	6^th ?	" ? "

Cf., "Foundations of Cultural Knowledge," in Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), pp. 3-38.

The Formation of Percepts

Spradley's diagram of percepts.

Source: James P. Spradley (Ed.), Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), p. 9.

The Formation of Concepts

Spradley's diagram of concepts.

Source: James P. Spradley (Ed.), Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), p. 10.

And Still More Questions . . .
(to think about)

Species Specific
Behavioral Environment

(The original B-EYE site seems to be off of the web. An archived site, courtesy of Pandora: Australia's Web Archive, can be found at <http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nph-arch/1999/O1999-Sep-6/http://cvs.anu.edu.au/andy/beye/beyehome.html>

Image #1 . / Original of Image #1 .
Image #2 . / Original of Image #2 .
Image #3 . / Original of Image #3 .
Image #4. / Original of Image #4 .
- B-EYE-- Andrew Giger

Original Site:
Image #1 / Original of Image #1
Image #2 / Original of Image #2
Image #3 / Original of Image #3
Image #4 / Original of Image #4

B-EYE -- Andrew Gige

See the World As Your Pets Do

How does your pet experience its environment Understanding some differences between ... facts how animals perceive reallity See World Your Pets ... isn necessarily same what our pets do Here latest ... we may observe our pets shouldn dismissed simply ... animal human senses can offer insight world Sarah Wilson Brian read story (From October 15, 2006 Parade Magazine)

Animals Eyes
-- An "Topic in Depth" report from the NSDL Scout Report
(1 November 2002 -- Volume 1, Number 21)

Sex Specific
Behavioral Environment

Do men and women see color the same way,
or are women more sensitive to variation and intensity?
—Leo Campbell, Portland, Ore.

The only difference is that color blindness affects
about 20 times as many males as females.
(2 March 2008)

Creamer Color Chart -- John Creamer, M.D.

RICK SAPHIRE'S TEST

'Somatopsychological' factors

drug-induced states

"beer goggles"

"'Beer goggles' effect explained" -- BBC News

"Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder'" -- BBC News

beer warning

Culturally Constituted
Behavioral Environment
(CCBE)

A.I. Hallowell

"Special Effects"
Environments

Shrek 3D

Barack and Michelle Obama, along with their party, watch the commercials during Super Bowl XLIII in the White House theatre using ColorCode 3D.
Wikipedia

Pocket stereoscope with original test image. Used by military to examine stereoscopic pairs of aerial photographs.
Wikipedia

The Stereo Realist, which defined a new stereo format.

Wikipedia

3D Football

Consumer Reports

Summary:

Species Specific
Behavioral Environment

Sex Specific
Behavioral Environment

Special Effects Specific
Behavioral Environment

Culturally Constituted
Behavioral Environment
(CCBE)

And Back to the Question
of the Nature of Reality Itself . . .
an age-old question . . .

(and something else to think about . . .)
(and people have been thinking about it a long time . . .)

In Ancient Eastern Philosophy . . .

昔者莊周夢為蝴蝶，栩栩然蝴蝶也，
自喻適志與，不知周也。俄然覺，
則蘧蘧然周也。不知周之夢為蝴蝶與，
蝴蝶之夢為周與？週與蝴蝶則必有分矣。此之謂物化。

Zhuangzi dreaming of a butterfly
(or a butterfly dreaming of Zhuangzi)
Wikipedia

"Last night I dreamed I was a butterfly.

How do I know that I am not a butterfly now dreaming I'm a man ?"

"Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Zhuangzi. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuangzi. But he didn't know if he was Zhuangzi who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuangzi. Between Zhuangzi and a butterfly there must be some distinction! This is called the Transformation of Things." -- (2, tr. Burton Watson 1968:49)

[From The Taoist book "Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly" (莊周夢蝶 Zhuāng Zhōu mèng dié) -- Wikipedia]

莊子
Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)

(4th Century B.C./B.C.E.)

"Zhuangzi's philosophy was very influential in the development of Chinese Buddhism, especially Chán (also known as Zen)."

The Yin and Yang Symbol with white representing Yang and black representing Yin.

The Yin and Yang Symbol
with white representing Yang and black representing Yin.
Wikipedia

In Ancient Western Philosophy . . .

Plato, "Allegory of the Cave"

Plato's Cave.

Seminar in Epistemology: Knowledge, Truth and Mathematics -- Russell Marcus

Allegory of the Cave

The Republic/Book VII

Plato
428/427 B.C. – 348/347 B.C.

Plato, 428/427 B.C. – 348/347 B.C.

Wikipedia

Pheew!

The Reality of . . .

Optical Illusions

Stress Test

Optical illusion, circles.

Illusions -- Psychological A.R.T.S

Real People . . .
Real Places . . .

nlt 4:52 Day 15 Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Birth Order and Its Effects
(18 min., 1997, UM Duluth Library Multimedia BF723.B5 B57 2003 DVD)

course viewing guide

Birth Order

REM: People Live in Multiple Cultural Worlds

people live in multiple cultural worlds (roles)
- sex / gender
- age
- ethnicity
- race
  - Race: Can This Tenacious Concept Be Supplanted ?
    - continuous dimensions
    - illustrations
- class
- institutions
- common interest groups
  - "associations"
intergroup relations

Real People . . .
Real Places . . .

nlt 04:25/04:30 Day 16 Thursday, 8 March 2012
video:

Magical Death
(29 min., 1988, VC 1338)

(streaming video)

course viewing guide

Magical Death

nlt 5:05 Day 16 Thursday, 8 March 2012
video:

Children's Magical Death
(8 min., 1988, VC 1337)

(streaming video)

course viewing guide

Yanomamö Youth

On Day 25 we will be having a look at how things changed among the Yanomamö, with the video Ocamo is My Town
(23 min., 1988 [1975], VC 1339)

REM:

structure
function
meaning
emic
etic
synchronic
diachronic

Culturally Constituted Behavioral Environment (CCBE)

Growing up . . . in various psych-ology-ical worlds . . .
including the spiri-t[us] world . . .

Videos:

Magical Death
(29 min., 1988, VC 1338)
Children's Magical Death
(8 min., 1988, VC 1337)
- On Day 25 we will be having a look at how things changed among the Yanomamö, with the video Ocamo is My Town
  (23 min., 1988 [1975], VC 1339)
N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman
(26 of 59 min., 1980, VC 2371)
Latah: A Culture-specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex
(38 min., 1990, VC 4651)
"Alejandro Mamani"
from the Faces of Culture I series, Part 6
(30 min., 1994, VC 2466, Part 6)
The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America
(58 min., 2001, DVD 538)
A Gift to One, a Gift to Many / James Jackson, Sr.
(60 min., 1992, VC 2238)

Excerpts from Interview with Paul Buffalo
[excerpts transcript]
(18 min., 1971, VC 266 B)

Read: Read Buffalo, "Nature and the Concept of Power Among Mississippi and Lake Superior Ojibwa: Reflections of Paul Buffalo." From When Everybody Called Me Gah-bay-bi-nayss: "Forever-Flying-Bird" An Ethnographic Biography of Paul Peter Buffalo, Timothy G. Roufs.

Paul Buffalo (4 July 1900 - 28 June 1977)
Mediating Medicine

The Work of the Brazilian healer Arigo
[sound recording]
(45 min., 1971 PC 287)
Audiotape
(time permitting)

For Week 8 Activities see

Week 8 Assignments
Read
Ch. 7, "The Return of the Repressed," pp. 139-156

Read: Ch. 19 "The Sacrifice." From The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman (NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997), pp. 278-288.

Anne Fadiman
NY: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1997

"The Sacrifice" is available in your Moodle Folder
via the sidebar . . .
Course Resources > Electronic Reserve

For Week 8 Activities see

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Culture and Personality

March 2012

USA Daylight Savings Time – 1 hr. ahead

Spring
break

National Pi Day

White Day in Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan, and males who received "chocolate of love" on Valentines Day return the gift

Spring
break

Hōnen Matsuri
Japan

Spring
break

St. Urho
b. 1956
[have some grasshopper cookies today with your Kalamojakka]

Gary Paul Nabhan
b.1952

St. Patrick's Day
Roman Catholic fasting and abstinance food laws indult in effect
(in some diocese and all of Ireland, except next in A.D. 2160)

National Corndog Day, U.S.A.

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Culture and Personality

March 2012

Week 09 Day 17

Week 09 Day 18

Swallows return to San Juan Capistrano

xxx San Giuseppe,
and in Sicily they're eating zeppola, and in Rome, Italy, they're eating Bignè di S. Giuseppe

Mr. Roger's
birthday

International Francophonie Day

Equinox

Spring equinox in Teotihuacán

World Water Day

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Week 9—Research / Real People . . . Real Places . . .

Meet Jani Farrell-Roberts, Abigail and Brittany Hensel,
N!ai "Short Face" Little Squirrel, and others . . .

Week 9 Memo

In-Class Small Groups Project

Design a research project . . .

In groups of 3-5
with at least one laptop per group
when you are finished copy your results to the class project file, Week 9
with the names of your group members included in the report

Your Mission . . .

Design a research project
on birth order
and its effects on adult personality
of males and females . . .
and hermaphrodites,
a universally occurring group of individuals who live in special cultural worlds

intersexuality = 0.018% = 18/100,000, but this can include genotypical-only individuals
individuals with phenotypical M/F traits have been estimated at ca. 1/200,000-1/250,000 in the U.S.A.

Kim Smyth Roufs, Jani Farrell-Roberts, Marjorie Blagburn, Bristol Harbour, England

Kim Smyth Roufs, Jani Farrell-Roberts, Marjorie Blagburn
Bristol Harbour, England

The Seven Days of My Creation: Tales of Magic, Sex, and Gender by Jani Farrell-Roberts.

Farrell-Roberts, Janine.

The Seven Days of My Creation: Tales of Magic, Sex, and Gender.
Lincoln, NE: Writers Club, 2002 / Exposure Publishing, 2006.

REM:
- birth order = a cultural "universal"
- sex is a "universal": male / female / hermaphrodite
  - gender is not a universal
- methods question:

How do you deal with something that has a
frequency occurrence rate of 0.018% = 18 / 100,000,
including genotpic traits,
and about 1 / 200,000 — 1 / 250,000 for phenotypic traits ?

REM:
- structure

function
meaning
emic
etic
synchronic
diachronic

Also consider:
- "normal"
- "abnormal"
- "deviant"

1. freelist the variables
you need to consider in your research

2. formulate a hypothesis
(expected relationship) for your research

3. outline the research methods
you would use in your study

budget:	$150,000 for this project your budget does not have to be itemized Your project just needs to be "do-able" within the general budget

duration:	12 months

location:	anywhere in the world

Materials that might be helpful:

Birth Order and Its Effects (18 min., 1997, DVD 191)

Children's Magical Death (08 min., 1988, VC 1338)

N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman (26 of 59 min., 1980, VC 2371)

"Coming of Age: Margaret Mead" (52 min., 1990, VC 1755)

Ch. 9 Focusing on Behavior

Six Cultures

Human Ethology

Attachment, Separation, and Crowding

Sociobiology

Supplement, 1999

Ch 10. Cognitive Anthropology

Ethnosemantics

Cognitive Development

Stages

Styles

Maps

Race, Culture and Intelligence

Supplement, 1999

Ch. 12. Emotions and Selfhood

Role, Self, and Identity

Psychology and Cultural Change

Supplement, 1999

Ch. 13 Some Newer Approaches

Evolutionary Psychological Anthropology

Cultural Psychology

About The Body

Person-Centered Ethnology

Into Century Twenty-One

Supplement, 1999

results from other years

REM: People Live in Multiple Cultural Worlds

people live in multiple cultural worlds (roles)
- sex / gender
- age
- ethnicity
- race
  - Race: Can This Tenacious Concept Be Supplanted?
    - continuous dimensions
    - illustration
- class
- institutions
- common interest groups
  - "associations"
intergroup relations

Reports on In-Class Small Groups Projects

Hensel Twins, cover of Life Magazine

Abigail and Brittany Hensel, b. 1990

Abigail and Brittany Hensel at 18
<http://listverse.com/2008/09/09/10-extraordinary-tales-of-extraordinary-twins/>

Abigail and Brittany Hensel
-- Wikipedia

Extraordinary People: The Twins Who Share a Body
-- Channel Five (UK), One North (19 February 2007)

Joined for Life: Abby and Brittany Turn 16
-- The Learning Channel (17 December 2006)

results from other years

Real People . . . Real Places . . .

Day 17 Tuesday, 20 March 2012 nlt 4:45
N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman
(26 of 59 min., 1980, VC 182)

course viewing guide

N!ai.

Day 18 Thursday, 22 March 2012

review of

In-Class Small Groups Projects

Design a research project . . .

Your Mission . . .

REM:
- structure

function
meaning
emic
etic
synchronic
diachronic

Also consider:
- "normal"
- "abnormal"
- "deviant"

1. freelist the variables
you need to consider in your research

2. formulate a hypothesis
(expected relationship) for your research

3. outline the research methods
you would use in your study

budget:	$150,000 for this project your budget does not have to be itemized Your project just needs to be "do-able" within the general budget

duration:	12 months

location:	anywhere in the world

Materials that might be helpful:

Birth Order and Its Effects (18 min., 1997, DVD 191)

Children's Magical Death (08 min., 1988, VC 1338)

N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman (26 of 59 min., 1980, VC 2371)

"Coming of Age: Margaret Mead" (52 min., 1990, VC 1755)

Ch. 9 Focusing on Behavior

Six Cultures

Human Ethology

Attachment, Separation, and Crowding

Sociobiology

Supplement, 1999

Ch 10. Cognitive Anthropology

Ethnosemantics

Cognitive Development

Stages

Styles

Maps

Race, Culture and Intelligence

Supplement, 1999

Ch. 12. Emotions and Selfhood

Role, Self, and Identity

Psychology and Cultural Change

Supplement, 1999

Ch. 13 Some Newer Approaches

Evolutionary Psychological Anthropology

Cultural Psychology

About The Body

Person-Centered Ethnology

Into Century Twenty-One

Supplement, 1999

results from other years

REM: People Live in Multiple Cultural Worlds

people live in multiple cultural worlds (roles)
- sex / gender
- age
- ethnicity
- race
  - Race: Can This Tenacious Concept Be Supplanted?
    - continuous dimensions
    - illustration
- class
- institutions
- common interest groups
  - "associations"
intergroup relations

Real People . . . Real Places . . .

"Culture-Bound Syndromes"

Handout: Culture-Bound Syndromes
course WebSite: Culture-Bound Syndromes

nlt 4:37 Day 18, Thursday, 22 March 2012
"Latah"
(38 min., 1978, VC 4651)

course viewing guide

web pages:
Culture-Bound Syndromes

Folk Medicine and Curing

Culturally Constituted Behavioral Environments -- A. I. Hallowell

Growing up . . . in various psych-ology-ical worlds . . .
including the spiri-t[us] world . . .

Videos:

Magical Death
(29 min., 1988, VC 1338)
Children's Magical Death
(8 min., 1988, VC 1337)
- On Day 25 we will be having a look at how things changed among the Yanomamö, with the video Ocamo is My Town
  (23 min., 1988 [1975], VC 1339)
N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman
(26 of 59 min., 1980, VC 2371)
Latah: A Culture-specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex
(38 min., 1990, VC 4651)
"Alejandro Mamani"
from the Faces of Culture I series, Part 6
(30 min., 1994, VC 2466, Part 6)
The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America
(58 min., 2001, DVD 538)
A Gift to One, a Gift to Many / James Jackson, Sr.
(60 min., 1992, VC 2238)

Excerpts from Interview with Paul Buffalo
[excerpts transcript]
(18 min., 1971, VC 266 B)

Read: Read Buffalo, "Nature and the Concept of Power Among Mississippi and Lake Superior Ojibwa: Reflections of Paul Buffalo." From When Everybody Called Me Gah-bay-bi-nayss: "Forever-Flying-Bird" An Ethnographic Biography of Paul Peter Buffalo, Timothy G. Roufs.

Paul Buffalo (4 July 1900 - 28 June 1977)
Mediating Medicine

The Work of the Brazilian healer Arigo
[sound recording]
(45 min., 1971 PC 287)
Audiotape
(time permitting)

For Week 9 Activities see

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Week 9 Assignments
Read
Ch. 8, "Social Structure and Personality," pp. 157-174

For Week 9 Activities see

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Culture and Personality

March 2012

Week 10 Day 19

Week 10 Day 20

Lady Day

EU Summertime – 1 hr. ahead

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Hmong shaman's cymbal.
Hmong shaman's symbol
Txiab neeb

Week 10
Meet the Mamami and Thao Families

Week 10 Memo

Real People . . . Real Places . . .

nlt 4:40 Day 19 Tuesday, 27 March 2012
"Alejandro Mamani"
(30 min., 1994, VC 2466, Part 6)

Meet the Mamami Family

course viewing guide

Aymara -- Wikipedia

nlt 4:12 Day 20 Thursday, 29 March 2012

The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America
(58 min., UM Duluth Library Multimedia BL2370.S5 S65 2001b)

Meet the Thao Family

course viewing guide

web pages:
Hmong

Paja and Yer Vang Thao

Chai Thao

Real People . . . Real Places . . .
review

Videos:

Magical Death
(29 min., 1988, VC 1338)
Children's Magical Death
(8 min., 1988, VC 1337)
- On Day 25 we will be having a look at how things changed among the Yanomamö, with the video Ocamo is My Town
  (23 min., 1988 [1975], VC 1339)
N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman
(26 of 59 min., 1980, VC 2371)
Latah: A Culture-specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex
(38 min., 1990, VC 4651)
"Alejandro Mamani"
from the Faces of Culture I series, Part 6
(30 min., 1994, VC 2466, Part 6)
The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America
(58 min., 2001, DVD 538)
A Gift to One, a Gift to Many / James Jackson, Sr.
(60 min., 1992, VC 2238)

Excerpts from Interview with Paul Buffalo
[excerpts transcript]
(18 min., 1971, VC 266 B)

Read: Read Buffalo, "Nature and the Concept of Power Among Mississippi and Lake Superior Ojibwa: Reflections of Paul Buffalo." From When Everybody Called Me Gah-bay-bi-nayss: "Forever-Flying-Bird" An Ethnographic Biography of Paul Peter Buffalo, Timothy G. Roufs.

Paul Buffalo (4 July 1900 - 28 June 1977)
Mediating Medicine

The Work of the Brazilian healer Arigo
[sound recording]
(45 min., 1971 PC 287)
Audiotape
(time permitting)

For Week 10 Activities see

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Week 10 Assignments
Read
Ch. 9, "Focusing on Behavior," pp. 175-190

For Week 10 Activities see

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Culture and Personality

April 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Week 11 Day 21

Week 11 Day 22

Cold Food Festival
China

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Week 11—Real People . . . Real Places . . .

Anishinabe and Brazilian Healers

Week 11 Memo

Day 21 Tuesday, 3 April 2012

A Gift to One, a Gift to Many / James Jackson, Sr.
(60 min., 1992, VC 2238)

course viewing guide

Jimmy Jackson (1913-1992) and Kelly Lovelace

Day 22 Thursday, 5 April 2012
"Paul Buffalo excerpts"

view streaming video
(in Moodle only)

[excerpts transcript]

(18 min., 1971, VC 266 B)

Paul Buffalo (4 July 1900 - 28 June 1977)
Mediating Medicine

Day 22 Thursday, 5 April 2012
audio

The Work of the Brazilian Healer Zé Arigó
Audiotape
(PC 287)

Aviso: The

selections below contain graphic material

Arigó by Puharich Part 1.mp4 -- Silent 8 movie shot by Dr Andrija Puharich on expedition in Brazil while investigating Arigo the famous Brazilian healer. Part 1

Arigó by Puharich Part 2.mp4 -- Silent 8 movie shot by Dr Andrija Puharich on expedition in Brazil while investigating Arigo the famous Brazilian healer

course viewimg guide

REM: Culturally Constituted Behavioral Environment (CCBE)
A. Irving Hallowell

Real People . . . Real Places . . .
review

Videos:

Magical Death
(29 min., 1988, VC 1338)
Children's Magical Death
(8 min., 1988, VC 1337)
- On Day 25 we will be having a look at how things changed among the Yanomamö, with the video Ocamo is My Town
  (23 min., 1988 [1975], VC 1339)
N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman
(26 of 59 min., 1980, VC 2371)
Latah: A Culture-specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex
(38 min., 1990, VC 4651)
"Alejandro Mamani"
from the Faces of Culture I series, Part 6
(30 min., 1994, VC 2466, Part 6)
The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America
(58 min., 2001, UM Duluth Library Multimedia BL2370.S5 S65 2001b)
A Gift to One, a Gift to Many / James Jackson, Sr.
(60 min., 1992, VC 2238)

Excerpts from Interview with Paul Buffalo
[excerpts transcript]
(18 min., 1971, VC 266 B)

Read: Read Buffalo, "Nature and the Concept of Power Among Mississippi and Lake Superior Ojibwa: Reflections of Paul Buffalo." From When Everybody Called Me Gah-bay-bi-nayss: "Forever-Flying-Bird" An Ethnographic Biography of Paul Peter Buffalo, Timothy G. Roufs.

Paul Buffalo (4 July 1900 - 28 June 1977)
Mediating Medicine

The Work of the Brazilian healer Zé Arigó
[sound recording]
(45 min., 1971 PC 287)
Audiotape (play)
(time permitting)

Aviso: Some selections below contain graphic material

Arigó by Puharich Part 1.mp4 -- Silent 8 movie shot by Dr Andrija Puharich on expedition in Brazil while investigating Arigo the famous Brazilian healer. Part 1
Arigó by Puharich Part 2.mp4 -- Silent 8 movie shot by Dr Andrija Puharich on expedition in Brazil while investigating Arigo the famous Brazilian healer

For Week 11 Activities see

Week 11 Assignments
Read

Paul Buffalo

"Nature and the Concept of Power Among Mississippi and Lake Superior Ojibwa: Reflections of Paul Buffalo"

from When Everybody Called Me Gah-bay-bi-nayss: "Forever-Flying-Bird" An Ethnographic Biography of Paul Peter Buffalo -- Timothy G. Roufs
<http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/Buffalo/28power5.html#title>

Read
Ch. 10, "Cognitive Anthropology," pp. 191-208

(Conception / Perception / Cognition)
(Linguistics)

For Week 11 Activities see

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Culture and Personality

April 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Week 12 Day 23

Week 12 Day 24

International Day of the Roma

Western
Easter

Send a card

Black Day,
and in Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan single people are eating jajangmyeon

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Day 23 Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Week 11—Anishinabe Curing Part I

Week 12 Memo

slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)

Chippewa medicine man singer with ceremonial turtle clan drum.
Photograph Collection, 1900
Visual Resources Database
Minnesota Historical Society
Location No. E97.37 p20 Negative No. 21120

Day 24 Thursday, 12 April 2012
The Amish: A People of Preservation
(BX 8129.A6 2000 DVD, Revised 2006 edition, 56 min.)
(Revised 1996 edition, 54 min., UM Duluth Library Multimedia BX8129.A6 A45 2000 DVD)

Course Viewing Guide

Amish Notes

list of items

Assignment:

Freelist the things that the Amish control in order to control the rate of change and thus the forces and conditions that might result in a change in personality and/or world view.

You do not have to turn this list in, but keep it handy.

Freelists -- Steve Borgatti

For Week 12 Activities see

Week 12 Assignment
Read
Ch. 11, "Shamans, Alternative States, and Schizophrenia," pp. 209-222

(Altered States of Consciousness ASC)

For Week 12 Activities see

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Culture and Personality

April 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Week 13 Day 25

Week 13 Day 26

Eastern
Easter

Ukrainian Easter egg

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s2013 Your Extra Credit paper is due by the end of Week 13, Friday, 26 April 2013, 11:55 p.m.

AVISO: Late Extra Credit Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date. Why?

Week 13

Real People . . . Real Places . . .
Yanomamó Change /Anishinabe Curing (continued, time permitting)

Presentations

Week 13 Memo

Day 25 Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Jessica Sweeney

Minnesota United for All Families

Day 25 Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Ocamo is My Town
(22 min., 1988, VC 1339)

course viewing guide

What things have changed among the Yanomamö since the filming of Magical Death and Children's Magical Death?
Will this likely change the modal personality of the Yanomamö?
Can adult personality change?
- If so, what kinds of experiences will result in an adult change of personality?
Compare the things the Amish control to control change with those same items in the Ocamo Yanomamö culture
- What didn't the Ocamo Yanomamö control?
- What are the apparent consequences of that?
Remember how the Amish consciously select the items they want to change, rather than let technological change or any other kind of change overcome and overwhelm them. And in doing that they control lots of things in order to control the rate of change and thus the forces and conditions that might result in a change in personality and/or world view. How is the situation different among the Ocamo Yanomamö?

Yanomamö education
Yanomami-HIlfe

(change, cultural / social)

Anishinabe Curing Part II
(time permitting)

slides: (.pdf) (.pptx)

Chippewa medicine man singer with ceremonial turtle clan drum.
Photograph Collection, 1900
Visual Resources Database
Minnesota Historical Society
Location No. E97.37 p20 Negative No. 21120

Student Presentations I

see

schedule for details

Day 26 Thursday, 19 April 2012

For Week 13 Activities see

Week 13 Assignments
Read
Ch. 12, "Emotions and Selfhood," pp. 223-239

Work on paper for in-class presentation

Work on final written draft of paper

For Week 13 Activities see

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Culture and Personality

April 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Week 14 Day 27

Week 14 Day 28

International Mother Earth Day
[Geophagists'
holiday??]

National Jellybean Day

it's the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist,
in Venice and they're eating risi bisi

DNA day

Administrative Professionals' Day
(fka Secretary's Day)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir,
Le dejeuner, 1879

Arbor Day
Question: What trees do we eat?

xxx Ely Eel Day
England

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Your CP Term Paper is due by the end of ~~Week 14, Friday, 3 May 2013, 11:55 p.m.~~ Week 15, Friday 10 May 2013

AVISO: Late Term Papers will not be accepted unless (1) arrangements for an alternate date have been arranged in advance, or (2) medical emergencies or similar extraordinary unexpected circumstances make it unfeasible to turn in the assignment by the announced due date.

Wiki questions for the Final exam are due by Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 11:55 p.m.

Week 14

Week 14 Memo

Student Presentations II

see

schedule for details
Day 27 Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Student Presentations III

see

schedule for details
Day 28 Thursday, 26 April 2012

For Week 14 Activities see

Week 14 Assignments
Read

Ch. 13, "Some Newer Approaches," pp. 241-254

Work on final written draft of paper

Review Chs. 1 - 5 for Final Exam

Wiki questions for the Final exam are due by Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 11:55 p.m.

For Week 14 Activities see

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Culture and Personality

April 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Culture and Personality

May 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Week 15 Day 29

Week 15 Day 30

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Week 15

Week 15 Memo

Week 16 Memo

End of Term Memo

Lady Justice (Iustitia, the Roman Goddess of Justice.

Course Evaluation Anth 4616 - 001
Course Call #	=	64779
Semester	=	5 Spring
Year	=	12

Wiki questions for the Final exam are due by Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 11:55 p.m.

The Culture and Personality Final Exam is scheduled for Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 4:00-5:55 p.m. in Cina 214

REM: Bring your Laptop

Moodle Exams (and everything else on Moodle) works best with a Firefox
browser. If you do not have a Firefox browser on your laptop, download one (it's free).

The CP Final Exam Live Chat will be the night before the exam from 07:00-8:00 CST, on Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Student Presentations IIII

see

schedule for details

Day 29 Tuesday, 1 May 2012

Student Presentations V

see

schedule for details

Day 30 Thursday, 3 May 2012

Anishinabe curing
(as time allows)

Review of Final Exam

The CP Final Exam Live Chat will be the night before the exam from 07:00-8:00 CST, on Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Details of Final Exam
<http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth4616/cpexams.html#final>

For Week 15 Activities see

Week 15 Assignments

Read
Postlude. "All Psychology Is Cultural," pp. 255-258

Read
"Personal Epilogue, 1999," pp. 259-262

Work on final written draft of paper

Review Chs. 6 - 13 for Final Exam

Review In-Class Materials for Final Exam

Wiki questions for the Final exam are due by Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 11:55 p.m.

For Week 15 Activities see

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Culture and Personality

May 2012