Announcements

Features of the Day

REM:

• structure
• function
• meaning
  
  
• emic
• etic
  
  
• synchronic
• diachronic

• Growing up . . . in various psych-ology-ical worlds . . . including the spiri-t[us] world . . .
  
  
• Videos:
  
  
  • nlt 2:25 video: Magical Death
    (29 min., 1988, VC 1338)
    
    nlt 03:05: Children's Magical Death
    (8 min., 1988, VC 1337)
    
    
    
• On Day 25 we will be having a look at how things changed among the Yanomamö, with the video Ocamo is My Town
  (23 min., 1988 [1975], VC 1339)
  
  
  
• Old Business

Old Business

• Revew of "Major Schools and Approaches of Psychological Anthropology" (Bock 1982)
  (handout)
  
  
  
• Main Terms, Concepts, Ideas and People in Culture and Personality Studies
  
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• Methods: Studying Perception . . . Cognition . . . and . . . 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)
  
  

Assignments

• Read: Ch. 7, "Motives, Beliefs, and Values," pp. 214-226

Notes

• Monday 9 March 2009: Finished various perceptual worlds and Culturally Constituted Behavioral Environment, introduced Communications up to Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
• Wednesday 11 March 2009: Reviewed Old Business through "Basic Conceptions of Culture-Personality Relations" (after LeVine 1982) (handout), and viewed Birth Order and Its Effects (18 min., 1997, DVD 191)
• Monday 23 March 2009: Briefly reviewed "Major Schools and Approaches of Psychological Anthropology" (Bock 1982), (handout), and viewed Magical Death (29 min., 1988, VC 1338) Children's Magical Death