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Announcements
Mid-April 2008 we're going to be talking about health, healing, and culture.
In the meantime here
- A postscript to yesterday:
- Question: What the heck does the Mardi Gras have to do with personality, and culture and personality?
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Features of the Day
"You can not separate the dancer from the dance."
"Psychological Anthropology," Faces of Culture Series, Part 5
(30 min., 1994, VC 2466, pt. 5)
Easter
"The canonical rule is that Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the 14th day of the lunar month (the nominal full moon) that falls on or after 21 March (nominally the day of the vernal equinox ). For determining the feast, Christian churches settled on a method to define a reckoned "ecclesiastic" Moon, rather than observations of the true Moon like the Jews did." -- Wikepedia
Lent
". . .The forty days before Easter, not including Sundays." -- Wikepedia
(In Judaic, Christian and Islamic tradition: the tag Forty days and forty nights describes the period for which rain fell during Noah's flood, the period Moses spent on Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments and the period Christ spent in the wilderness.)
and in Great Britain on (Shrove Tuesday)
it's
Pancake Day
Mardi Gras
The New Orleans Black Indians are like the
Hungarian Enthusiasts
map -- The World Factbook
Rites of Intensification
video:
"New Orleans Black Indians:
A Case Study in the Arts"
(30 min., 1994, VC 2466 pt. 23)
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American Routes With Nick Spitzer
This Week on American Routes:
February 22-28, 2006
"Mardi Gras in New Orleans"
"Mardi Gras has been a part of Louisiana culture since 1699. Parades have rolled in New Orleans and Mobile since the early 1800's, and it's the 150th anniversary of the first official Mardi Gras krewe parade in New Orleans. We take the occasion to remember the life and passing of the leader of the Yellow Pocahontas, Allison “Tootie” Montana, the Chief of Chiefs who passed away in June of 2005.
Mardi Gras Indian Glossary
video: "New Orleans Black Indians: A Case Study in the Arts"
(30 min., 1994, VC 2466 pt. 23)
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nlt 03:56 video: Chimp Talk
(14 min., 1998, VC 3479)
- Of Chimps and Humans
- 99+% [96%?] genetic
- tool using / tool making / language
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- Old Business
- Introduction to Anthropology and Culture and Personality
- Main Characteristics of Anthropology (slides)
- culture: as a primary concept
- learned
- shared
- transmitted from generation to generation
- symbolic
- integrated
- comparative methods: as major approaches to the study of human behavior development and structure
- holism: or the study of "humankind" as a whole, as a primary goal of anthropology
- A quick look at the Main Terms, Concepts, Ideas and People in Culture and Personality Studies: A CP Glossary in Historical Context (time permitting)
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Assignments
- Ch. 2, "Cross-Cultural Research: Scope and Methods," pp. 37-52
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