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Monday 13 April 2009

Week 11 Day 22

nlt 02:05 video : Excerpts from Interview with Paul Buffalo
(18 min., 1971, VC 266B)

nlt 02:28 audiotape: The Work of Brazilian Healer, Arigo, Dr. Henry Puharich
(45 min., 1971, PC 287)

Announcements

• Because of the change of schedule do to the speaker on 1 April 2009 we will be doing Old Business primarily today: viewing the video A Gift to One, a Gift to Many / James Jackson, Sr. (60 min., 1992, VC 2238)
  
  
• Questions on term papers?
  
  
  • Schedule of Class Presentations
  
  
  
• Nexty Week:
  • illness/sickness healing/curing

Features of the Day

• Old Business

Old Business

• in-class design project, and materials from Week 9 (s2009)
• Culture-bound syndroms
• Altered States of Consciousness

Assignments

• Read: Ch. 10, "Intercultural Relations in a Shrinking World," 290-298
  
  
• Read: REM: Paul Buffalo paper, "Concept of Power among Mississippi and Lake Superior Ojibwa"
  
  

Notes

• Monday 6 April 2009: Finished Culture-bound syndroms and viewed video: "Alejandro Mamani: A Case study in Culture and Personality" (ca. 30 min., 1994, VC 2466)
• Wednesday 8 April 2000: viewed The Split Horn: Life of a Hmong Shaman in America (58 min., 2001, DVD 538), and introduced (for next time) A Gift to One, a Gift to Many / James Jackson, Sr. (60 min., 1992, VC 2238)