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Wednesday 26 March 2008

Week 09 Day 17

03:05 video: N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman
(26 of 59 min., 1980, VC 2371)
or

03:05 video clip: "Arranged Marriages: N!ai"
(10 min., 1980, VC 182 / VC 2371)

  

Announcements

  • 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)
 

Features of the Day

03:05 video: N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman
(26 of 59 min., 1980, VC 2371)
or

03:05 video clip: "Arranged Marriages: N!ai"
(10 min., 1980, VC 182 / VC 2371)

N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman.

"N!ai tells her own story ... [about] her resistance to her marriage to /Gunda at the age of eight; and her changing feelings about her husband when he becomes a healer. "


 

REM: People Live in Multiple Cultural Worlds

  • people live in multiple cultural worlds (roles)
    • sex / gender
    • age
    • ethnicity
    • race
      • Race: Can This Tenacious Concept Be Supplanted?
    • class
    • institutions

  • intergroup relations

 

 

In-Class Small Groups Project

In groups of 3-5

Design a research project on birth order and its effects on adult personality of males and females ...
and hermaphrodites.

(intersexuality = 0.018% = 18/100,000, but this can include genotpyical-only individuals; indiividuals with phenotypical M/F traits have been estimated at ca. 1/200,000-1/250,000 in the U.S.A.)

Kim Smyth Roufs, Jani Farrel-Roberts, Marjorie Blagburn.

Kim Smyth Roufs, Jani Farrell-Roberts, Marjorie Blagburn
Bristol Harbour, England

The Seven Days of My Creation: Tales of Magic, Sex, and Gender by Jani Farrell-Roberts.

The Seven Days of My Creation: Tales of Magic, Sex, and Gender, Jani Farrell-Roberts


  • REM:

    • birth order = a cultural "universal"

    • sex is a "universal": male / female / hermaphrodite
      • gender is not a universal

    • methods question: How do you deal with something that has a frequency occurrence rate of 0.018% = 18/100,000, including genotpic traits, and about 1/200,000-1/250,000 for phenotypic traits?

  • REM:

    • structure
    • function
    • meaning

    • emic
    • etic

    • synchronic
    • diachronic

  • Also consider:

    • "normal"
    • "abnormal"
    • "deviant"

 
    1. freelist the variables you need to consider in your researchy

    2. formulate a hypothesis (expected relationship) for your research

    3. outline the research methods you would use in your study

    budget: $150,000
    duration: 12 months
    location: anywhere in the world

     

    Materials that might be helpful:

    • Birth Order and Its Effects (18 min., 1997, DVD 191)
    • Children's Magical Death (08 min., 1988,  VC 1338)
    • N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman (26 of 59 min., 1980, VC 2371)
    • "Coming of Age: Margaret Mead" (52 min., 1990, VC 1755)

    • Human Behavior in Global Perspective: An Introduction to Cross-Culutural Psychology, Second Edition
      • Ch. 2. Cross-Cultural Research: Scope and Methods

        • A Conceptual Framework for Cross-Cultural Psychology
        • The Social and Cultural Context: Basic Concepts
        • Cross-Cultural Psychology's Paradigm: A Balanced Approach
        • An Antecedent of the Eco-Cultural Framework: The Culture and Personality School
        • Methodology in Cross-Cultural Research: Some Problems and Some Solutions
        • Conclusion

      • Ch. 3. Human Development and Informal Education

        • Why Study Developmental Psychology Cross-Culturally?
        • The Developmental Niche
        • Informal Education
        • Adolescence, Life Span, and Old Age
        • Conclusion

      • Ch. 8. Males and Females and the Relations between Them

        • Why Study Sex and Gender Cross-Culturally?
        • Psychological Differences between the Sexes
        • Differing Socialization for Boys and Girls: Why and with What Consequences
        • Gender Identity: Self-Perceptions of Men and Women across Cultures
        • Sex Role Ideology: Culture and Male-Female Relationships
        • A Sociocultural Theory of Human Sexuality
        • Conclusion.

results

 
 

Old Business

Systematic Data Collection, Susan C. Weller and A. Kimball Romney.
 

Assignments

  • Read: Ch. 8, "Males and Females and the Relations between Them," pp. 227-237
 

Notes

 
     

 

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Monday 31 March 2008
Week 09 Day 18

nlt 3:32 video: Latah: A Culture-specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex
(38 min., 1990, VC 4651)
or
nlt 4:02 video [Clip]: "Latah"
(8:25 min., 1978; orig. 39 min., 1978)

  

Announcements
 

Features of the Day

[NOTE: The UMD Library copy of this video, VC 4651, from the University of Indiana has a false start at the beginning. The actual video starts a couple of minutes after the blank section which follows the false start.]

or

  • nlt 4:02 video clip: "Latah"
    (8:25 min., 1978; orig. 38 min., 1978)
  • (see Latah WebPage for film guide and study questions)

 

Handout: Culture-Bound Syndromes <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth4616/cpculture-bound_syndromes.html#title>

 

  • Disease is universal

    • compare: etic

  • Illness is culturally specific

    • compare: emic

Thumbnail map of Malaysia.

 

 

REVIEW

Your research project on birth order and its effects on personality

  • REM:

    • birth order = a cultural "universal"

    • sex is a "universal": male / female / hermaphrodite

      • gender is not a universal

    • methods question: How do you deal with something that has a frequency occurrence rate of 0.018% = 18/100,000, including genotpic traits, and about 1/200,000-1/250,000 for phenotypic traits?
  • REM:

    • structure
    • function
    • meaning

    • emic
    • etic

    • synchronic
    • diachronic

  • Also consider:

    • "normal"
    • "abnormal"
    • "deviant"

    • .
      1. freelist the variables you need to consider in your researchy

      2. formulate a hypothesis (expected relationship) for your research

      3. outline the research methods you would use in your study

      budget: $150,000
      duration: 12 months
      location: anywhere in the world
    • materials that might be helpful:
    • Birth Order and Its Effects (18 min., 1997, DVD 191)
    • Children's Magical Death (08 min., 1988,  VC 1338)
    • N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman (26 of 59 min., 1980, VC 2371)
    • "Coming of Age: Margaret Mead" (52 min., 1990, VC 1755)

    • Human Behavior in Global Perspective: An Introduction to Cross-Culutural Psychology, Second Edition
      • Ch. 2. Cross-Cultural Research: Scope and Methods

        • A Conceptual Framework for Cross-Cultural Psychology
        • The Social and Cultural Context: Basic Concepts
        • Cross-Cultural Psychology's Paradigm: A Balanced Approach
        • An Antecedent of the Eco-Cultural Framework: The Culture and Personality School
        • Methodology in Cross-Cultural Research: Some Problems and Some Solutions
        • Conclusion

      • Ch. 3. Human Development and Informal Education

        • Why Study Developmental Psychology Cross-Culturally?
        • The Developmental Niche
        • Informal Education
        • Adolescence, Life Span, and Old Age
        • Conclusion

      • Ch. 8. Males and Females and the Relations between Them

        • Why Study Sex and Gender Cross-Culturally?
        • Psychological Differences between the Sexes
        • Differing Socialization for Boys and Girls: Why and with What Consequences
        • Gender Identity: Self-Perceptions of Men and Women across Cultures
        • Sex Role Ideology: Culture and Male-Female Relationships
        • A Sociocultural Theory of Human Sexuality
        • Conclusion.

    results

     

      • Question for today: On the other hand how do different practices in different cultures produce "Culture-Bound Syndromes," which are unique psychological correlates?

        [NOTE: The UMD Library copy of this video, VC 4651, from the University of Indiana has a false start at the beginning. The actual video starts a couple of minutes after the blank section which follows the false start.]


         or

        • video Clip: "Latah"
          (8:25 min., 1978; orig. 38 min., 1978)
        • (see Latah WebPage for film guide and study questions)


        • Disease is universal

          • compare: etic

        • Illness is culturally specific

          • compare: emic


      • Continue to incubate on the Question: "How do Alterted States of Consciousness (ASCs) fit in?"
      • REM: "Everyday Cognition" – perception . . . cognition . . . and . . . and. . . . 
        • (Total discussion includes Altered States of Consciousness [ASCs], ESP [including short video clip], dreaming, color . . . Anthropac. . . .
          • we will have a closer look at ASCs Week 10 Day 19)

          • Culturally Constituted Behavioral Environment (CCBE)
    • Old Business