Understanding Global Cultures

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• 4:30 Today: Brief Discussion with Team Presenting Thailand
  (Week 03 Day 05)
  
  

Resume: Introduction to cultural metaphors (slides) -- #13, Culture Counts

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• Methods of Analysis: Cultural Metaphors -- Introduction (slides)

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Assignments

• Read: Distant Mirrors, 3rd ed., Ch. 2 "The American Cultural Configuration" by Lowell D. Holmes and Ellen Rhoads Holmes"
  [American Cultural Anthropologists]

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• GCforum
  
  
• Sign-up check
  
  
• Questions about Midsemester Exams ?
  • UMD Study Strategies
  • Listening Skills
  • Notetaking
  • Learning Styles
  • Test Taking Strategies
  • Writing an Essay Exam
    (from OWL )
    
    
• 4:30 Today: Meeting with Team Presenting Thailand
  (Week 03 Day 05)

  and

4:30 Today: Brief Meeting with Team Presenting Japan
(Week 03 Day 06)

Resume: Introduction to cultural metaphors (slides) -- #19, Metaphors include . . .

Features of the Day

• Methods of Analysis: Cultural Metaphors -- Cont. (slides)
  
  
• Methods of Analysis: "A Four-Stage Model of Cross-Cultural Understanding" (slides)
  
  

• Other Methods and Areas of Analysis include:
  (These topics will be covered in subsequent weeks as time permits)
  
  
  • Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) / World Ethnographic Sample (WES)
  • Major Characteristics of Anthropology (slides)
  • Major Figures in Anthropology
  • Kinship and Descent
    • Kinship Symbols
  • Patterns of Marriage (including "Cross-Cousin Marriage") (slides)
    • functions of the family
    • Modes of Acquiring a Spouse
    • Divorce
  • Rites of Passage (Life Cycle Rituals) (Transition Rituals)
  • Political Organization and Leadership
  • communication (slides)
    • linguistics
  • cultural change (slides)

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Assignments

• Read: Understanding Global Cultures, 3rd ed., Ch. 2, The Thai Kingdom
  
  
• Read: Distant Mirrors, 3rd ed., Ch. 9, "The Young, the Rich, and the Famous: Individualism as an American Cultural Value" by Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel"
  [Thai Philosopher]