Announcements

• Paper topic statement due to WebDrop by Friday, 20 February 2009, 11:59 p.m.

• Focus: Problem (Term Paper)
• Topic: Personally selected topic relevant to culture and personality studies
  
  
• 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 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

Feature of the Day

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Assignments

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

Notes

• Wednesday 4 February 2009: Covered Major Characteristics of Anthropology (slides) three main debates. Finished reviewed concepts/terms from "Psychological Anthropology" Faces of Culture Series, Part 5 [fka "Culture and Personality"] (30 min., 1994, VC 2466, pt. 5).
• Monday 9 February 2009: introduced and viewed video: "Everything is Relatives: William Rivers" (52 min., 1990, VC 1759)