Culture and Personality
(Psychological Anthropology)

Announcements

• Papers due to WebDrop at <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>
  
  
  

  for your research papers try the UMD Library > Research Tools and Resources > Assignment Calculator <http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/assign/index.phtml> The Case Study is due by Friday, 28 March 2008, 12:59 p.m. , ( from today) The Term Paper is due by Friday, 9 May 2008, 12:59 p.m. , ( from today) Papers are due to WebDrop at <https://webdrop.d.umn.edu>





• Questions about the final examination?
  
  
  • The s2008 Final Exam will be on Tuesday, 13 May 2008, at 4:00-5:55 in Cina 214
    
    
  • make-up-your-own take-home question

Feature of the Day

Student Research Papers, Session #4
Time	Presentor
03:00	Emily S

• Course Evaluation

• Review and "Conclusions"
  
  
  
• 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:
  
  
  • 11. Acculturation

    Culture Change
    Acculturation
    Psychological Acculturation
    An Acculturation Framework
    Some Possible Applications

    
    
• See also acculturation and social/cultural change, Week 13 Day 25
  
  
  
• "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




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

• Review, with emphasis on materials since the midsemester exam, Chs. 6-12 for exam

Notes

Announcements

Feature of the Day

• Old Business

Old Business

Assignments

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