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• REM: Term Project (term paper/class presentation) Abstract, Outline, and Bibliography
  
  
  • Term Paper (1) bibliography and Term Paper (2) promissory abstract due to WebDrop by Friday, 5 March 2010, 12:59 p.m.
    <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>

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

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

• Great Debates and Controversies in Anthropology:
  
  

  • Margaret Mead -- Derek Freeman

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  Margaret Mead

  Derek Freeman

  
  

  • video: Margaret Mead and Samoa
    (51 min., 1988, VC 1314 )
    
    
  • Mead Freeman Debate -- Cara Fraver
  • Samoan Notes -- Court Smith
  • Is Anthropology a Science? The Mead-Freeman Debate -- Ann Marie Leshkowich
  • Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman . . . and the Samoans -- Stan Strain
  • Much ado about nothing: the 'fateful hoaxing' of Margaret Mead - American anthropologist -- James E. Côté
    • Freeman responds

  • Objectivity in Ethnography -- University of Manitoba
    
    
    
    
    
• Rashomon Effect" -- Wikipedia

"The Rashomon effect is the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it."

"It is named for Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon, in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways. The film is based on two short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke."

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• "Qualitative - Quantitative Mix" -- Pertti J. Pelto

Per-cept--ual and Con-cept--ual Cog-ni[to]--tive Processes

Percept--ual and Concept--ual Cogni--tive Processes

REM: Cognition = Perception + Conception

Cogni-tion = Per-cept-ion + Con-cept-ion

Cogni-tion = Percept-ion + Concept-ion

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REM?:

per-son-ality
through - the sound - the essence or quality of


Dionysus,
Greek Theatrical Mask

Cognition = Perception + Conception

Cogni-tion = Per-cept-ion + Con-cept-ion

Cogni-tion = Percept-ion + Concept-ion

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Questions...


• How do you think?
  
  
• What role does culture and learning play?
  
  
• More specifically, what role does language play?
  
  
• "Perceptual and Cognitive Processes":
  
  
  • perception
    
    
    • ([late ME < L perceptiôn- (s. of perceptiô) comprehension, lit., a taking in]
      
      
  • perceive
    
    
    • ([ME perceive(n) . . . per- PER- + -cipere, comb. form of capere to take]
      
      
      • re-ceive
        
        
      • re-cept-or
        
        
  • percepts
    
    

• "Perceptual and Cognitive Processes"
  
  

  • con-ception
    
    
  • con-ceive
    
    
  • con-cepts
    

Species Specific
Behavioral Environment

(The original B-EYE site seems to be off of the web. An archived site, courtesy of Pandora: Australia's Web Archive, can be found at <http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nph-arch/1999/O1999-Sep-6/http://cvs.anu.edu.au/andy/beye/beyehome.html>

• Image #1. / Original of Image #1 .
• Image #2. / Original of Image #2 .
• Image #3. / Original of Image #3 .
• Image #4. / Original of Image #4 .
  • B-EYE-- Andrew Giger

Original Site:		Image #1 / Original of Image #1 Image #2 / Original of Image #2 Image #3 / Original of Image #3 Image #4 / Original of Image #4
		B-EYE -- Andrew Gige

• See the World As Your Pets Do
  
  How does your pet experience its environment Understanding some differences between ... facts how animals perceive reallity See World Your Pets ... isn necessarily same what our pets do Here latest ... we may observe our pets shouldn dismissed simply ... animal human senses can offer insight world Sarah Wilson Brian read story (From October 15, 2006 Parade Magazine)

• Animals Eyes
  -- An "Topic in Depth" report from the NSDL Scout Report
  (1 November 2002 -- Volume 1, Number 21)
  
  
  

Sex Specific
Behavioral Environment

Do men and women see color the same way,
or are women more sensitive to variation and intensity?
—Leo Campbell, Portland, Ore.

The only difference is that color blindness affects
about 20 times as many males as females.
(2 March 2008)




• Creamer Color Chart -- John Creamer, M.D.
  
  




RICK SAPHIRE'S TEST

Languages / Linguistics
and
Communication
(slides)

• phonemics
  • the study of basic sounds
• phonetics
  • the study of sound units
• morphemics
  • the study of how sound units combine to form "words"
• syntatics
  • the study of rules of sentence and phrase structures
• semantics
  • the study of meaning
• kinesics
• the study of "body language" -- motion
• proxemics
  • the study of "body language" -- space

• categorizing (stereotyping)?
  
  
• Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
  
  
• William Isaac Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, Polish Peasant in Europe and America (5 vols., 19l8-1920)
  
  
  • both Znaniecki and Sapir emphasized studying the individual
    
    
• semantics
  
  
  • ethnosemantics?
  • ethnoscience?
  • "componential analysis"?
  • semantic domains
    
    
• Anthropac? -- Analytic Technologies
  

  
  

  • Research Methods in Cognitive Anthropology -- H. Russell Bernard
    
    
    • Representations of Mind -- Stephen Borgatti
    • Dressler's research report -- William W. Dressler
    • Freelists -- Stephen Borgatti
    • Free listing with ANTHROPAC -- Gery Ryan (PDF)
    • "Bad words" -- free list data from Stephen Borgatti
    • "Foods available at McDonald's" -- free list data from Gery Ryan
    • Pile sorts - from Stephen Borgatti's Elicitation Techniques
    • Borgatti's pile sort data on animals, crimes, and emotions
    • Triads -- fromStephen Borgatti's Elicitation Techniques
    • MDS -- by Stephen Borgatti
    • How to Explain Hierarchical Clustering - Stephen Borgatti, in Connections 17(2):78-80
      
      
      

"Free Listing" -- write down as many colors as you can think of that are expressed as one word (e.g., "light blue" does not qualify, but "navy" does)

per-son-ality


Dionysus,
Greek Theatrical Mask

Ch. 6, "Everyday Cognition"

• Non-Everyday Cognition: Parapsychology includes...
  
  
  • Psychokinesics
    
    
    • "movement from the mind"
      
      
    • aks telekinesis
      
      
      • "distant-movement"
        
        
  • ESP
    • video clip: "ESP"
      (13 min., 1998)
      • Dr. Edwin May, "Remote Viewing" Houston experiment
      • with visual agnosia you have percepts without concepts
      • with ESP do you have concepts without percepts?
        
      • For investigations on Paranormal Phenomena see
        • James Randi Educational Foundation: An Educational Resource on the Paranormal, Pseudoscientific, and the Supernatural
          
          
          
• Everyday Cognition