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Real People...Real Places...
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Week 13 Day 25
nlt 03:50 Video: Ocamo is My Town
(23 min., 1988 [1975], VC 1339)
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Announcements
- REM: Presentations begin next time....
- Term Project questions?
- If you need any special facilities, or plan to do something like PowerPoint, please let TR know in advance.
- If you are going to use something like PowerPoint, sent TR the file as an attachment and he will pre-load your presentation for you.
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Features of the Day
- Review of the list of items that the Amish people try to control in order to control the rate of change in their society
- Reference: Systematic Data Collection. Susan C. Weller and A. Kimball Romney (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1988)
- "Qualitative Quantitative Mix"
- Pertti Pelto Projective Pictures (PPPP), TATs, FIAT . . .
- Review of video: The Amish: People of Preservation
(54 min., Revised 1996 edition, VC 3244)
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What was the newest item seen in The Amish: People of Preservation?
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If you want to control the effect of social change on your culture, or at least control the rate of change, what do you need to do?
- nlt 03:50 Video: Ocamo is My Town
(23 min., 1988 [1975], VC 1339)
- What things have changed among the Yanomamö since the filming of Magical Death and Children's Magical Death?
- Will this likely change the modal personality of the Yanomamö?
- Can adult personality change?
- If so, what kinds of experiences will result in an adult change of personality?
- Brief introduction to "Acculturation" (time permitting)
- See also Text , especially Ch. 11:
- 11. Acculturation
Culture Change
Acculturation
Psychological Acculturation
An Acculturation Framework
Some Possible Applications
Source: Spindler, George & Spindler, Louise. Dreamers Without Power:
The Menomini Indians
(NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971), p. 5.
Cf ., Spindler, Louise. Menominee Women and Culture Change.
American Anthropological Association, vol. 64, no. 1, pt. 2, February, memoir 91.
Menasha, WI: Banta and Sons, 1962, p. 28.
Cf ., Spindler, George & Goldschmidt, Walter. "Experimental Design in the Study of Cultural Change,"
Southwestern Journal of Anthropology , Vol. 8, Spring, 1952, p. 73.
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"The Menominee (also spelled Menomini) are known as Mamaceqtaw, "the people" in their own language."
"The tribe has a reservation which is conterminous both with Menominee County, Wisconsin and with the town of Menominee, Wisconsin. They operate a number of gambling facilities and speak the Menominee language...."
"The tribe originally lived in what is now upper Michigan around Mackinac. After selling their lands to the U.S. government in 1854, they were moved to their present reservation. Although their customs are quite similar to those of the Chippewa (Ojibwa), their language has a closer affinity to those of the Fox and Kickapoo tribes."
"An Eastern Woodlands tribe, the Menominee belong to the Algonquian language branch of North America. They were known as "folles avoines" by the early French. The Menominees formerly subsisted on a wide variety of plants and animals, with wild rice and sturgeon being two of the most important foods; feasts are still held annually at which each of these is served. The five principal Menominee clans are the Bear, the Eagle, the Wolf, the Crane, and the Moose."
"Menominee mythology is rich with ethical meaning and interrelated in complex ways with the sacred literature of Native American people."
"The Menominee have a college called the College of the Menominee Nation."
-- Wikipedia

- The Menominee -- Louise Spindler and George Spindler
(units of analysis)
- A. I. Hallowell also compared three levels of acculturation among Ojibwa Indians at different localities (using Roschach tests)
- "Revitalization Movements" -- Anthony F.C. Wallace
(American Anthropologist, Vol. 58, April 1956, pp. 264-281)
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Steady State |
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The Period of Increased Individual Stress |
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The Period of Cultural Distortion |
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The Period of Revitalization
- Mazeway Reformulation
- Communication
- Organization
- Adaptation
- Cultural Transformation
- Routinization
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| Varieties and Dimensions of Variation |
| 1. |
Choice of Identification
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| 2. |
Choice of Secular and Religious Means |
| 3. |
Nativism |
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Success and Failure |
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Old Business
- Continue from Wednesday 16 April 2008: Anishinabe Curing (Slides) from gifts, #36
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Assignments
- Read: Ch. 12, "Conclusions," pp. 324-329
- work on paper for in-class presentation
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