Culture and Personality
(Psychological Anthropology)

Announcements

• Questions about the final examination?

  The s2008 Final Exam will be on Tuesday, 13 May 2008, at 4:00-5:55 in Cina 214

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

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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:

UMD Study Strategiestest taking strategies
learning styles
listening skills
notetaking
special facilities / arrangements
Text Assignments Summary for Weeks 08 - 15
basic information about the texts
Sample Exam Questions
extra help with exams

Feature of the Day

• Old Business

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
      
      
• "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

Assignments

• work on final written draft of paper
  
  
• Review Chs. 1 - 6 for final exam

Notes

• Wednesday 30 April 2008: Student Papers