Culture and Personality
(Psychological Anthropology)

Announcements

• Term Paper Problem Statement / Proposal due Friday, 22 February 2008
  
  
  
• "HF2652, filed today by Rep. Steve Drazkowski, R-Greenfield
  Township....designates English as the official language of Minnesota,
  whose state motto is 'L’etoile du Nord.'" -- JB Anderson
  
  
  
• News - Europe - 'Hottentot Venus' goes home -- BBC News
  (29 April 2002)
  
  
  

• Focus: Person (Case Study)
• Topic: A Culture and Personality Personality
  
  
• Focus: Problem (Term Paper)
• Topic: Personally selected topic relevant to culture and personality studies
  
  
• REM: Term Paper Problem Statement / Proposal due Friday, 22 February 2008
  
  
  • Brief check on topics and problem statements for term paper . . .
    
    
• You should have by now picked out an area to work on for your paper and looked at some sources of information.
  
  
• If you are still having trouble, page through the text



• If you still need to zero in on a topic after that have a look at the informaton listed on WebSites Related to Culture and Personality
  
  
• If that does not work, and you are still having difficulty defining your paper project topic stop by the office sometime this week; or e-mail, or call in
  
  
• Due Friday to WebDrop at <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>
  
  
• call your file your e-mailname assignment name
  • e.g., rouf0013 problem statement
  • your email name is your University of Minnesota Internet ID (X.500 user name)
    
    
• avoid sending your file as a .wps document
• if in doubt, turn in your paper as a RTF (Rich Text Format) document

Features of the Day

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Assignments

• Read: Ch. 4, "Perceptual and Cognitive Processes," 94-107

Notes

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