Culture and Personality
(Psychological Anthropology)

Announcements

• REM: CP Personality Case Study on a figure in Culture and Personality studies ("Culture and Personality Personality?") due to WebDrop <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>. The Case Study is due by Friday, 28 March 2008, 12:59 p.m.
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  for your research papers try the UMD Library > Research Tools and Resources > Assignment Calculator <http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/assign/index.phtml> The Case Study is due by Friday, 28 March 2008, 12:59 p.m. , ( from today) The Term Paper is due by Friday, 9 May 2008, 12:59 p.m. , ( from today) Papers are due to WebDrop at <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>

  

Features of the Day

• Old Business

Old Business

• linguistics and communication (cont.) (slides)
• Monday 10 March 2008: Finished linguistics and communication to #39 "Degeneration" (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
    
    
    
• Optical Illusions
  
  
  
• Review of "Basic Conceptions of Culture-Personality Relations" (after LeVine 1982)
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• Revew of "Major Schools and Approaches of Psychological Anthropology" (Bock 1982)
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• Main Terms, Concepts, Ideas and People in Culture and Personality Studies

• 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. 198-214

Notes

• Monday 10 March 2008: Finished linguistics and communication to #39 "Degeneration" (slides)
• Wednesday 12 March 2008: Finished Linguistics and communication, and viewed video Birth Order and Its Effects (18 min., 1997, DVD 191)