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Welcome to Anthropology 4616 Culture and Personality Spring 2013
(Psychological Anthropology)

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This will be a great course, and a great experience. You will see. . . .

Interest in personality and cross-cultural psychology and its relation to culture and to biology has never been higher. You can see that in the news and editorial pages of the weekly papers and the other news media. Lots of things are happening in personality research . . . virtually every week.

I am looking forward to meeting you in class on the 17^th. In the meantime, you might want to have a look at the information in your  folder at <https://moodle2.umn.edu/>, or at the Culture and Personality syllabus, which you can find on the web at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth4616/cpcal-s2013.html#title>.

Right off the bat you might be interested in the textbook for the course . . .

Rethinking Psychological Anthropology: Continuity and Change in the Study of Human Action, Second Edition (1999), by Philip Bock, which is available online new for $30.95 (+ s/h, but currently with "free" shipping from Amazon.com), or used from $5.17 (plus standard-rate shipping and handling).
(5 December 2012)

More information on the text for Culture and Personality can be found at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth4616/cptext.html>.
(5 December 2012)

Textbooks are available from the following vendors . . .

Some excellent classic books in many fields are also often available online free. For example, the full text of Sigmund Freud's first major work, The Interpretation of Dreams (3rd Edition, 1911), Trans. by A.A. Brill, is available online at <http://www.psywww.com/books/interp/toc.htm>.

More textbook information in general can be found at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/tr/trtextbooks.html#title>.

The exams will be open-book essays, so it would be a good idea for you to have your own copy of the text, and it is a good idea that you take your reading notes right in your copy of the text itself. Midterm exam information is at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth4616/cpexams.html#midterm>, and the final exam information is at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth4616/cpexams.html#final>.

One thing that you should keep in mind when approaching these readings, which I will talk more about as the class progresses, is that, as mentioned above, the exams are open-book. And for that you should normally just need to read the text carefully and be able to discuss the materials therein intelligently. That is, you should read the text as if you had picked it up at an airport or neighborhood bookshop on the way to Austria or the South Seas because you were interested in the subject and wanted to know more about it.

PLEASE NOTE: Some students are used to principally memorizing facts in classes. This class is not one where that is the focus.It is about investigating new topics, reading, listening, synthesizing ideas, thinking, exploring, and becoming familiar enough with the various subjects, peoples and places to carry on an intelligent conversation in modern-day society.

Please keep that in mind when thinking about, and getting ready for, the exams.

One of the four main characteristics of American Anthropology is fieldwork, "a primary research technique, involving “participant observation," which usually means living among the people one is interested in learning from and about. It would be wonderful if for anthropology classes we could just charter a plane or rent a coach and take off for a year or more to learn first-hand from the people themselves. Money, time, and practicality prohibit that, so the next best things—when it comes to studying anthropology—is going to places and viewing subjects by video. So we’ll do that. More information on Visual Anthropology is available online at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1604/visual_anthropology.html#title>.

With all of these materials you will be expected to share your ideas and comments with others in the Class Forum and wikis. I'm looking forward to that.

You will find that there is "an awful lot" of material online—maybe even too much!

But don't worry. You will find the required materials center stage in your  folder. Most of the rest of the materials are optional, but you may find those materials useful in working on your class project and extra credit paper.

Where to start?

Probably the best place is with the "First Day Handout," online at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth4616/cphandout_first-day.html>.

Then have a look at your Gradebook folder, which gives a nice listing of the actual requirements and due dates for the course. (You'll find the link for that in the upper-left-hand corner of the top of page one of your Moodle folder.)

Then have a look at the "Course Overview" in Block 1 (the top of page one) of your folder.

My office hours (and regular schedule information) can be found at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pcoffice.html>.

Finally, laptops are welcome in the classroom; in fact, we encourage you to bring your laptop.

A word of caution.  recommends that you use the Firefox browser (available free at <http://firefox.com>). The Windows Internet Explorer (IE) occasionally will not display items on your screen. These items will simply not be there on IE when they are fine on Moodle or even on Chrome. Microsoft Word should likewise not be used to cut and paste things to Moodle; bad things can happen to your file if you do—randomly. Almost every time you are asked to enter text in Moodle, you will see the message, “Please do not copy/paste text directly from Microsoft Word. See explanation here <http://www1.umn.edu/moodle/issues.html#10>.” Please pay attention to that request.

If you are new to the world of "technology" in general or  in particular, don't worry too much about that. Things may not "work" for you at first, but hang in there and we'll help you along. (And they will work better in Firefox and if you do not cut and paste from your Word documents.)

So once again, welcome to Anth 4616 Culture and Personality. This will be a great course, and a great experience. You will see. . . .

If you have any questions right now, please do not hesitate to post them on the  "Messenger" or e-mail troufs@d.umn.edu.

Have a great Christmas-Hanukkah-Kwanza, Boxing Day and New Year’s Evening and New Year’s Day and a great New Year.  And have a good Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as well.  See you on the 21^st of January.

Best Wishes,

Tim Roufs
Duluth, MN
5 December 2012

Rethinking Psychological Anthropology: Continuity and Change in the Study of Human Action, Second Edition (1999), by Philip Bock, which is available online new for $30.95 (+ s/h, but currently with "free" shipping from Amazon.com), or used from $5.17 (plus standard-rate shipping and handling).
(5 December 2013)

• The Psychology of Primitive Peoples
• Perception, or "Do You See What I See?"
• Motivation, or "The Natives Are Restless Tonight"
• Cognition, or "Thinking Can Make It So"
• Supplement, 1999

Psychoanalytic Anthropology

• Elements of Psychoanalysis
• The Origins of Psychoanalytic Anthropology
• Totemism and Exogamy
• Psychoanalysis and Clothing
• Summary and Critique
• Supplement, 1999

• Configrations of Culture
• To and from the South Seas
• Summary
• Supplement, 1999

• Basic Personality Structure
• The Modal Personality Approach
• Projective Tests: Rorschach and Thematic Apperception
• Applications of Projective Tests
• Summary
• Supplement, 1999

• The Yellow Peril
• On the Western Front
• The Slavic Soul
• The Lonely Crowd
• And Elsewhere
• Summary
• Supplement, 1999

• What Next?
• Supplement, 1999

Cross-Cultural Correlations

• The Yale Synthesis
  • Human Relations Area Files (HRAF)
• Correlations and Customs Galton's Problem
• Male Initiation Rites
• Causes of Incest Taboos
• Summary
• Supplement, 1999

• Instinct and Culture
• Symbolic Wounds
• Insight and Identity
• Psychohistory and the Interpretation of Myth
• Psychosocial Adaptation
• Summary
• Supplement, 1999

• Materialist Approaches
• Positionalist Approaches
• Interactionist Adaptation
• Summary
• Supplement, 1999

• Six Cultures
• Human Ethology
• Attachment, Separation, and Crowding
• Sociobiology
• Supplement, 1999

Cognitive Anthropology

• Ethnosemantics
• Cognitive Development
• Stages
• Styles
• Maps
• Race, Culture and Intelligence
• Supplement, 1999

Shamans, Alternative States, and Schizophrenia

• Alternative States of Consciousness
• Mental Illness and Society
• Supplement, 1999

• Role, Self, and Identity
• Psychology and Cultural Change
• Supplement, 1999

• Evolutionary Psychological Anthropology
• Cultural Psychology
• About The Body
• Person-Centered Ethnology
• Into Century Twenty-One
• Supplement, 1999