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Wednesday 26 July 2006
Day 16

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Course Call # = 88296 
Quarter = 2   Summer
Year = 06

 

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  • 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.

 


 

  • "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."

    • I. Steady State
      II. The Period of Increased Individual Stress
      III. The Period of Cultural Distortion
      IV.

      The Period of Revitalization

      1. Mazeway Reformulation
        (conception; mental image)

      2. Communication

      3. Organization

      4. Adaptation

      5. Cultural Transformation

      6. Routinization

       


       

      Varieties and Dimensions of Variation

      1.

      Choice of Identification

      • past (revival)

      • imported

      • utopian
      2. Choice of Secular and Religious Means
      3. Nativism
      • not essential in reviatlization movements
      4.

      Success and Failure

      • realism

      • amount of opposition by opponents

       


     

  • "Intercultural Relations in a Shrinking World"

 

 

cultural metaphors
  • cultural metaphors (slides) (time permitting)

  • review


  • Reading Assignment
    • Ch. 11, "Acculturation," pp. 299-323

 

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