1-25-05

If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

Europe:
a specific European country or city: 52
Asia (specific country) 11
Africa 9 + 1 for Kenya
Latin America: 7
a specific country in L.A. 8
Middle East -- Egypt 5, Morocco 1
Australia -- 24
New Zealand -- 3
Hawaii -- 2
US/Canada -- 6

Studying for tests: tips

Reading: all words in bold -- know what they are and an application of the term.

Names of cultural groups -- learn them if the author (Kottak or article writer) uses the name 3 times or more. Always learn WHERE (the country) they live too.

Everything written on the board.

CULTURE (WITH A CAPITAL C) IS PATTERNS OF LEARNED SHARED BEHAVIOR, THOUGHT AND EMOTION.

culture (lower case c) IS THE PARTICULAR SET OF CULTURE (CAPITAL C) CHARACTERISTICS PRACTICED, BELIEVED AND EXPRESSED BY A PARTICULAR GROUP

ASPECTS (or domains) OF CULTURE:

Economic Organization
Political Organization
Ideology
Social Organization
Technology
Language
Esthetics--the expressive Arts

SALT PIE or PILATES

 

SYMBOLIC

INTEGRATED AND HOLISTIC

ADAPTIVE & MALADAPTIVE

ETHNOCENTRISM & CULTURAL RELATIVISM

CULTURAL UNIVERSALS

A GUINEA PIG STORY (from Saraguro)

About THE CUY (CUYES = PLURAL)

THE SACRED RAC