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Wednesday 18 February 2009

Week 05 Day 09
 

 

Announcements

  • REM: Sign up for presentations (cf., below)

Today 02:10:

VC 2464
Stranger in the Mirror
(60 min., 1993)
moved from Day 10 for the 2009 Mardi Gras

02:10 video:
Stranger in the Mirror: An Examination of Visual Agnosia
(60 min., 1993, VC 2464)
[From NOVA ]

Book: The Man who Mistook His Wifefor a Hat, by Oliver Sacks.

Cognition = Perception + Conception



Blue book for exams.

 

Ask Marilyn banner.

Parade Column - February 24, 2008

We’re taught in school that we have five senses: vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Yet we also feel pain—and hunger, for that matter. Aren’t they senses too?
—Brian Dozier, Cincinnati, Ohio

In addition to the usual five that we’re taught, humans have receptors for pressure, temperature, pain, balance and motion. So we have a total of 10 senses. But hunger is not one of them. Rather, it’s a motivation or desire, like sex. Well, not quite like sex.

 

———————

A more conventional view...

cognition perception sensory vision "per-cepts"
hearing
touch
taste
smell
extra - sensory
(ESP)		 6th ?
"?"
conception

"con-cepts"

Cf., "Foundations of Cultural Knowledge," in Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), pp. 3-38.

 

 

CPforum Topic 1

Bluebook

Make up a Good Question for the Midterm Exam

Have a look at the the Midterm Exam materials at
<http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth4616/cpexams.html#midterm>

including the sample exam question format

including the optional take-home question that you can bring in with you

old exams online: Midterm f2006 (.pdf version) (.rtf version)
Click on the various items for details

Then review the materials so far covered this semester
in your text
in your class notes
on the video viewing guides

Recommendations on how to study and take exams:

How to write an essay exam
 OWL (Online Writing Lab) Purdue.
Purdue University Online Writing Lab

test taking strategies
learning styles
study strategies
study strategies
listening skills
notetaking
special facilities / arrangements
extra help

Assignment:

  1. Make up at least one good question for the Midterm Exam and post it on the the CPforum, and . . .

  2. Briefly describe why you think your question is a good one


 

Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
in the main window
to the current topic
[use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]

Set Folder Selector to Topic 1

REM: Set PCfolder to curent topic.

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the CPforum
or bring them up in class
 

Features of the Day

  2. Sign up for your class presentation:

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

      Assignment Calculator available online from the UMD Library.

       Term Paper is due by Friday, 30 April 2010, 11:59 p.m.,
      ( from today)

      Paper is due to WebDrop
      at
      <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>
  1. CPforum Assignment (above)
  1. Review of Video materials

  2. Controversies and Personalities and Schools of Thought

    • Freelisting Exercise: List the factors involved in the Mead - Freeman controversy

    • Discussion of the Mead - Freeman controversy
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    • "Qualitative - Quantitative Mix" -- Pertti J. Pelto


  1. Review of "Basic Conceptions of Culture-Personality Relations" (after LeVine 1982)
    (handout)

per-son-ality

Greek Theatrical Mask -- Dionysus.
Dionysus,
Greek Theatrical Mask


  2. Review and/or continuation of "Cross-Cultural Research: Scope and Methods" (time permitting)


  3. "Human Development and Informal Education" (time permitting)
 

Old Business
return to scheduled features of the day
 

Assignments

  • CPforum Assignment: Make up at least one good question for the Midterm Exam and post it on the the CPforum; see above for details


  • Read: Ch. 5, "Alternative Views on Human Competence: General Intelligence and Genetic Epistemology," 126-145
 

Notes

 

 

Monday 23 February 2009

Week 05 Day 10

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

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


moved here for the 2009 Mardi Gras


moved to Day 09 for the 2009 Mardi Gras
03:10 video: Stranger in the Mirror: An Examination of Visual Agnosia
(60 min., 1993, VC 2464)

  

 

Announcements

  • REM: The Midsemester Exam will be on Monday, 1 March 2010

  • If you haven't already done so, please post your exam question(s) on the CPforum

CPforum Topic 1

Bluebook

Make up a Good Question for the Midterm Exam

Have a look at the the Midterm Exam materials at
<http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth4616/cpexams.html#midterm>

including the sample exam question format

including the optional take-home question that you can bring in with you

old exams online: Midterm f2006 (.pdf version) (.rtf version)
Click on the various items for details

Then review the materials so far covered this semester
in your text
in your class notes
on the video viewing guides

Recommendations on how to study and take exams:

 

How to write an essay exam
 OWL (Online Writing Lab) Purdue.
Purdue University Online Writing Lab

test taking strategies
learning styles
study strategies
study strategies
listening skills
notetaking
special facilities / arrangements
extra help

Assignment:

1. Make up at least one good question for the Midterm Exam and post it on the the CPforum, and . . .

2. Briefly describe why you think your question is a good one


 

Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
in the main window
to the current topic
[use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]

Set Folder Selector to Topic 1

REM: Set PCfolder to curent topic.

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the CPforum
or bring them up in class
 

Features of the Day


moved here for the 2009 Mardi Gras

 

"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)

Wikipedia:
 Mardi Gras Indians
Tribes of the Mardi Gras Indian Nation

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)

 

 

[moved to Day 09 for the 2009 Mardi Gras]
02:10 video:
Stranger in the Mirror: An Examination of Visual Agnosia
(60 min., 1993, VC 2464)
[From NOVA ]

Book: The Man who Mistook His Wifefor a Hat, by Oliver Sacks.

Cognition = Perception + Conception


 

 
 

Old Business

  • next week
return to scheduled features of the day
 

Assignments

  • Read: Ch. 5, "Alternative Views on Human Competence: General Intelligence and Genetic Epistemology," 145-170
 

Notes



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