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2 Summer |
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Old Business / Announcements
- 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?
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.
A merican 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.
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"Revitalization Movements" -- Anthony F.C. Wallace
(American Anthropologist, Vol. 58, April 1956, pp. 264-281)
- "A reviatlization movement is defined as a deliberate, organized, conscious effort by members of a society to construct a more satisfying culture."
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Steady State |
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The Period of Increased Individual Stress |
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The Period of Cultural Distortion |
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The Period of Revitalization
- Mazeway Reformulation
(conception; mental image)
- Communication
- Organization
- Adaptation
- Cultural Transformation
- Routinization
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Varieties and Dimensions of Variation |
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Choice of Identification
- past (revival)
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imported
- utopian
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Choice of Secular and Religious Means |
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Nativism- not essential in reviatlization movements
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Success and Failure
- realism
- amount of opposition by opponents
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- "Intercultural Relations in a Shrinking World"
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cultural metaphors
- cultural metaphors (slides) (time permitting)
- review
- Reading Assignment
- Ch. 11, "Acculturation," pp. 299-323
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top of page / A-Z index
Old Business / Announcements
- acculturation
- Personality Tests for Fun
- Other Tests
- Methods: Studying Perception . . . Cognition . . . and . . . Semantic Domains
- "Free Listing" -- write down as many colors as you can think of that are expressed as one word (e.g., "light blue" does not qualify, but "navy" does)
- Reference: Systematic Data Collection. Susan C. Weller and A. Kimball Romney (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1988)
- "Everyday Cognition" – perception . . . cognition . . . and . . . and . . .
(discussion continued)
- Culturally Constituted Behavioral Environment (CCBE)
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