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Wednesday 30 January 2008

Week 02 Day 03

nlt 03:42 Video: "Psychological Anthropology"
Faces of Culture Series, Part 5
(30 min., 1994, VC 2466, pt. 5)

  

Announcements

  • Question to think about for next Monday, 4 February 2008: What the heck does the Mardi Gras have to do with personality, and culture and personality?
   

Features of the Day

 

nlt 03:42 Video: "Psychological Anthropology," Faces of Culture Series, Part 5
[fka "Culture and Personality"]
(30 min., 1994, VC 2466, pt. 5)

Review of viewing guide for video: "Psychological Anthropology"

Other Culture and Personality presentations from the Faces of Culture Series include "Alejandro Mamani: A Case study in Culture and Personality," from the Faces of Culture I series, Part 6 (30 min., 1994), which we are scheduled to see on Wednesday, 2 April 2008

 

What's your personality type?

Great Pyrenean Mountain Dog.
Great Pyrenean Mountain Dog

What Breed of Dog Are You?

Other Personality Tests [for fun]

Find out with the "What Am I Like?" personality test -- BBC


  • Recommendations on studying for this course

    The midsemester exam will be on Day 13, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 rather than on Day 12, Monday, 3 March 2008

  • Discussion of the case study and term paper will be discussed next week, Day 05. In the meantime, have a look at the webpages below to get one or more ideas for your term paper.

for your research papers try the
 UMD Library > Research Tools and Resources > Assignment Calculator
<http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/assign/index.phtml>

 The Case Study is due by Friday, 28 March 2008, 12:59 p.m. ,
( from today)

 The Term Paper is due by Friday, 9 May 2008, 12:59 p.m. ,
( from today)

Papers are due to WebDrop
at
<https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>

 
 

Old Business
 

Assignments

  • Ch. 2, "Cross-Cultural Research: Scope and Methods," pp. 25-37
 

Notes

  • Wednsday 23 January 2008: Finished Introduction / Orientation to Culture and Personality, including (slides 01A)
  • Wednsday 30 January 2008: As scheduled

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Monday 4 February 2008

Week 02 Day 04

video: "New Orleans Black Indians: A Case Study in the Arts"

(30 min., 1994, VC 2466 pt. 23)

nlt 03:56 Video: Chimp Talk
(14 min., 1998, VC 3479)

  

Announcements

  • In the News:

Mid-April 2008 we're going to be talking about health, healing, and culture.
In the meantime here

   

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)


Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras Indians

carne-levare
(meat) - (to remove)
(from levare, to raise; rel. to levitate, levity, lever)
Do masks change one's personality?
masks: per-son-ality?


Mardi Gras Schedule

Vulcan -- St. Paul Winter Carnival

Mardi Gras in Mobilie, AL
(Chief Slacabamorinico)

Mardi Gras Indians -- Wikipedia

New Orleans Black Indian.
New Orleans "Black Indian"

 

Big Chief Allison

R.I.P. Big Chief Allison "Tootie" Montana -- Wikipedia

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

  • Big Chief: the leader of a particular Indian gang, and often the oldest member
  • Second Chief, etc.: many gangs have underlings of the Big Chief without specific roles, unlike:
    • Wild Man: member of the gang responsible for clearing a way through the crowd for the Big Chief, identifiable by horns on his suit and/or staff

    • Flag Boy, First Flag, etc: member that carries the large, usually feathered staffs who conveys contact with rivals gangs spotted by the Spy Boy to the rest of the gang

    • Spy Boy: member responsible for locating rival gangs and alerting his gang to their whereabouts, so a battle may ensue; often carries a decorated facsimile of a rifle

    • "Prettiest": the ultimate compliment of a Mardi Gras Indian's costume

    • "Pretty, pretty": see, "prettiest"

    • "New Suit": traditionally, Indians make a new costume for each Mardi Gras; in practice, many costumes are composed of pieces from past years' suits. Also a famous Indian song by The Wild Magnolias

    • Indian songs: there are many traditional Mardi Gras Indian chants that have been recorded by the Wild Magnolias, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, and the Golden Eagles. Some include "Meet The Boys On The Battlefront," "My Big Chief Got A Golden Crown," and "Handa Wanda"

    • Indian practice: usually weekly gatherings by Indian gangs at neighborhood bars where they practice their chants prior to Mardi Gras; costumes are not worn

     

video: "New Orleans Black Indians: A Case Study in the Arts"

(30 min., 1994, VC 2466 pt. 23)

 

 

nlt 03:56 video: Chimp Talk
(14 min., 1998, VC 3479)

    • Of Chimps and Humans

        • Do Monkey's Count?


 

 

  • Old Business


  • Introduction to Anthropology and Culture and Personality
    • Main Characteristics of Anthropology (slides)

      1. culture: as a primary concept
        • learned
        • shared
        • transmitted from generation to generation
        • symbolic
        • integrated

      2. comparative methods: as major approaches to the study of human behavior development and structure

      3. holism: or the study of "humankind" as a whole, as a primary goal of anthropology

        • 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.


  • 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
 

Notes

 
 
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