Culture and Personality
(Psychological Anthropology)

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• REM: Presentations begin next time....
  
  
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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)
    
    
    • What was the newest item seen in The Amish: People of Preservation?
      
      
    • 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?
      
      
      • list of items
        
        
      • Amish Notes -- Tim Roufs
        
        
        
• 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.





"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."

• Menominee Indian Reservation
• The Menominee Indian Tribe official website
• Information on treaties between the United States and the Menominee
• "Menominee Termination and Restoration" from the Milwaukee Public Museum

-- Wikipedia

 

 



"Acculturation" (above) -- Cf., Text , ch. 11

• 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)
  • JSTORE:
    Revitalization Movements
    Anthony F. C. Wallace
    American Anthropologist > New Series, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Apr., 1956), pp. 264-281
    Stable URL:
    http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28195604%292%3A58%3A2%3C264%3ARM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
    
    

I.	Steady State
II.	The Period of Increased Individual Stress
III.	The Period of Cultural Distortion
IV.	The Period of Revitalization Mazeway Reformulation Communication Organization Adaptation Cultural Transformation Routinization
Varieties and Dimensions of Variation
1.	Choice of Identification revive import utopian
2.	Choice of Secular and Religious Means
3.	Nativism
4.	Success and Failure

Old Business

• Continue from Wednesday 16 April 2008: Anishinabe Curing (Slides) from gifts, #36

Assignments

• Read: Ch. 12, "Conclusions," pp. 324-329
  
  
• work on paper for in-class presentation

Notes

• Monday 21 April 2008: video: The Amish: People of Preservation (54 min., Revised 1996 edition, VC 3244)
• Wednesday 23 April 2008: Video: Ocamo is My Town (23 min., 1988 [1975], VC 1339), Anishinabe Curing (Slides) to no cure, #83

Announcements

For Topic 14 have a look at the Final Exam information at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth4616/cpexams.html#final>

Click on the various items for details

Review the materials...

in your text,

in your class notes,

on the video viewing guides

Assignment:

Make up one good question for the final exam
and post it on the the CPforum, and . . .

Briefly describe why you think your question is a good one

Note: The last day for this posting is Friday, 9 May 2008

Useful Information:

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notetaking
special facilities / arrangements
Text Assignments Summary for Weeks 08 - 15
basic information about the texts
Sample Exam Questions
extra help with exams

Old Business

• Continue from Wednesday 23 April 2008: Anishinabe Curing (Slides) to no cure, #83
  
  
• Cultural/Social Change: Amish/Yanomamö Review, Acculturation from Day 25
  
  
• "Acculturation" (above) -- Cf., Text , ch. 11
  
  
  • See also acculturation and social/cultural change, Week 13 Day 25

 

• Review of "Basic Conceptions of Culture-Personality Relations" (after LeVine 1982)
  (handout)
  
  
• Revew of "Major Schools and Approaches of Psychological Anthropology" (Bock 1982)
  (handout)
  
  
• Culturally Constituted Behavioral Environment (CCBE)
  • A.I. Hallowell
  • categorization
  • color research
    • freelisting
      
      
• Language and Linguistics and communication in general (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

Assignments

• CEforum
  
  
• Read: Ch. 12, "Conclusions," pp. 330-333
  
  
• work on final written draft of paper

Notes

• Wednesday 23 April 2008: Video: Ocamo is My Town (23 min., 1988 [1975], VC 1339), Anishinabe Curing (Slides) to no cure, #83