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THE INDIVIDUAL AND CULTURE: PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

| Course Requirements | Schedule | TV Show Analysis | Term paper | Bibliography |

ANT 4432 Dr. Jay Sokolovsky

FALL 1997 Office: 214 CO, 553-1514

jsokolov@bayflash.stpt.usf.edu

Office Hours: T,TH 2-3:30, WED 4-5:15 or by appointment

Required Texts

1. Colin Turnbull. The Forest People

2. Margaret Mead. Coming of Age in Samoa.

3. Wade Davis. Passage of Darkness.

4. Bock, P. Psychological Anthropology, 2nd edition.

ADDITIONAL REQUIRED READINGS: AS INDICATED BELOW IN THE COURSE ASSIGNMENTS THERE WILL BE OTHER IMPORTANT READINGS AVAILABLE EITHER AT THE LIBRARY RESERVE AREA OR TO BE DISTRIBUTED IN CLASS. YOU CAN BE CERTAIN THAT THESE READINGS WILL BE AN IMPORTANT PART OF YOUR EXAM AND YOU CANNOT EXPECT TO DO WELL WITHOUT READING THEM CAREFULLY AND ON TIME. Note: You will find that keeping up with the readings and attending most classes will greatly enhance your grade.

Attendance: * Arriving on time and being prepared to discuss the readings will be an important part of your learning process. If you miss more than 4 classes it will be very difficult to get and A in the class.

Course Requirements top of page

- 2 in class exams = 40%

- 1 T.V. project (see appendix) = 10%

- Final Exam = 15%

- class work = 15%

- research project - 20%

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS BOTH AN EXIT COURSE AND A GORDON RULE COURSE, WHICH MEANS THAT YOU WILL BE DOING A GOOD DEAL OF WRITING IN THE FORM OF ESSAYS ON YOUR EXAMS, A SMALL T.V. PROGRAM ANALYSIS PROJECT AND A RESEARCH PROJECT DUE BY THE END OF THE SEMESTER. Plagiarism (using the words or ideas of others without proper citation) or cheating will not be tolerated on any work you do in this class - this will result in an automatic F on the specific work in question and a very likely F in the course.

1/5 INTRODUCTION top of page

1/7 Culture, Self, and Human Development

4. Prelude; Ch. 1

HANDOUT - A. Kleinman, "Prologue: Why Anthropology?" -

Write 1-2 paragraphs answering the question in the title of Kleinman's article - for class discussion.

ALSO FOR DISCUSSION: What were the earliest psychological issues anthropologists looked at?; how did they do it?

Is there a difference between cross-cultural psychology and psychological anthropology?

1/12 To symbol is to be human:

Handout: Conrad Kottak and Kathryn Kozaritis, "Unity and Diversity, Illustrated by "Star Trek," an American Myth" from On Being Different.

1. Ch.1

How does "Star Trek" connect with powerful symbols in American Culture?

1/14 To socialize is to be human - Video: The Harlow Experiments: Feral Children and the Wild Boy of Averyron. Film, Part I

Handout, selection from "The Wild Boy of Aveyron" by Jean Marc-Gaspard Itard

1/19 Part 2 of Genie, the Wild Child

1/21 Children of the Forest

1. ch.1,2,3 - Video - "Children of the Forest"

How is Turnbull's work different from 19th century researchers?

1/26 Children of the Forest

1. Ch. 4,5,7

1/28 1. Finish book

Web connections:

1) Ituri Forest Peoples Fund

www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/psych/Morelli/Iturifund.html

2)"Fathers Strongly Influenced by Culture", by Toni DeAngelis

www.apa.org/monitor/apr96/ - NOTE: GO TO SITE AND CHOOSE THE ARTICLE BY DEANGELIS.

2/2 To the South Seas - Film, "The life of Margaret Mead"

Seeing is Disbelieving- Video - Mead's Study of Animism

handout-M. Mead-"An investigation of the Thought of Primitive Children with Special Reference to Animism"

4. Ch. 1

2/4 Under the Palm Trees with M. Mead

2. 1,2

4. Ch. 3

2/9 Will the real Samoans Step Forward - Video - Margaret Mead and the Real Samoa"

2. 3-6

Take home Essay exam handed out: Due next week

2/11 Can Educators learn anything from Mead's work? Video on challenge to Mead's work

Gender and Culture

2. Finish the book

4. Ch 12 (p.197-205)

2/16 **MIDTERM EXAM - Take home exam due

2/18 Handout: "Anthropology and Race: The Bell Curve Phenomenon"

4. Pp. 180-83, "Race, Culture & Intelligence"

2/23 Gender and Culture - Beginning of Video "We are the Mehinaku"

Handouts: (1) "Gender", From On Being Different, Kottak and Kozaitis, (2) Robin Lakoff "Talking Like A Lady,"

2/25 Cultural Construction of Person and Gender - Video "We are the Mehinaku"

Handouts: S. Ortner, "Is Male to Female as Nature is to Culture?"

Handout: "Men's House" by Thomas Gregor

3/2 How many genders can humans produce?

Reserve: "Amazons of America: Female Gender Variance"

**Hand in 1 page outline of term paper and make appointment to see me about it.

WEB tie in:

We'what: Zuni Man/Woman: www.azstarnet.com/~gallae/wewha.htm

3/4 National Character and Mass Enculturation : Film, "Dance and Trance in Bali,"

Handout - M. Mead,"Children and Ritual in Bali"

4. Ch. 4, 5, 7

NO CLASS, 3/9-3/11 SPRING BREAK!!!

3/16 Japan versus the US, Sport, TV and Psyche

Video - Baseball in Japan

Handout on Baseball in Japan

4. Ch. 5

3/18 TV projects due.**

LIBRARY RESERVE-C. Kottak - "Anthropological Analysis of Mass Enculturation"

WEB tie-in: raising children to resist violence; violence on tv- NOTE: I will get the URL and give it in class

3/23 Beyond the Unconscious Film-"Holy Ghost People"

*3. Introduction

handout-"The Serpent-Handling Religions of W. Virginia"

4. Ch. 12, p206-9

3/25 Whose afraid of Zombies? Begin film on Voodun

3. 1,2 3

3/30 3. Skim, 4,5, read 6, Take home essays given out

4/1 Finish book

Handout: "Where the Spirits Feel at Home"

4/6 EXAM 2

4/8 Paranormal and extranormal behavior -

Video - The Amazing Randi versus the New Agers

Handout: C. Levi-Straus, "The Sorcerer and His Magic"

4/13 So you think I'm Crazy - Film, "What is Schizophrenia?"

4. 11

Handouts: (1) Jane Murphy "Psychiatric Labelling in Cross-Cultural Perspective":

4/15 Can community Cure Mental Health Problems: Possible Guest Lecture by Dr. Elzbieta Gozdziak, SAMHSA, Center for Mental Health Services, Refugee Mental Health Program, Public Health Advisor.

web connection: mental illness and culture www.mhsource.com/edu/psytimes/p950114.html

Handout: Thomas Lambo, "Psychotherapy in Africa"

Library Reserve: A. Lovell and N. Scheper-Hughes "Deinstitutionalization and Psychiatric Expertise: Reflections on Dangerousness, Deviancy, and Madness."

4/20 Can Community Mental Health work in the US? Slides: "Madness in Mid-town"

Library Reserve: Sokolovsky "Personal Networks of Ex-Mental Patients"

4/22 - Take home final given out, TERM PROJECT DUE:

- Final Exam - TBA

ANT 4432

SPRING 1999

TV SHOW ANALYSIS - DUE 3/18/99 top of page

You are to act as an anthropologist from a non-Western culture who has come to the United States to study the relationship between culture, values and personality in this country. One of your early observations is the large number of hours children spend watching television and that this must play an important part in shaping the personality of Americans. For this assignment you are to watch a TV program which is a series (e.g., soap opera, sit-com, law and order/detective show) and to analyze: 1. what types of symbolic information are being transmitted during the show (e.g., relation of men and women, use of aggression, morality, status of ethnic groups or various age groups; 2. How does what you find connect with different forms of mass enculturation discussed in the Conrad Kottak's "Anthropological Analysis of Mass Enculturation," and "Cultural Contrasts in Prime-Time Society." (These will be in the library reserve area in a couple of weeks).

Note that the paper is to be typed (double spaced) and between 3-4 pages in length.

Also note, on reserve in the library there are two examples of these projects: "Walker: Texas Ranger" (really good paper); and "Melrose Place" (average paper which needs improvement).

ANT 4432

SPRING 1999

Term Paper top of page

As part of the Gordon Rule requirements of this course you will be doing a research project. This paper should be at least 10 pages in length and typically not longer than 15 pages. This is to be double spaced typewritten pages and must be handed in by April 22. By March 2, I would like you to have handed in a sheet with the topic you are thinking of doing, how you will approach it and any resources you have looked at to date. This will allow me to assist you in carrying out the project. It can be on any topic linking anthropology and psychology. The project should ideally should consist of a combination of participant observation, select interviews and library research. However, pure library research may also be done. It will be important to carefully define a small area of investigation with a distinct question, problem or hypothesis to analyze. Examples of topics are: The relation of visual mass media on the expression of violence; the shaping of values by our educational system; The impact of culture on mental illness; cultural stress and cult or visionary movements (e.g. the Virgin Mary Image in Clearwater); Perception of personality types in high school; the development of gender roles in children; the shift from teenage to adult; the adaptation of non-Western background students to American culture; the changing nature of adult sex roles in our society; impact of the 1960's on personality of the "baby boomers"; the psychological implications of being old, e.g. (the impact of living in an age specific environment such as a nursing home or senior apartments); the function of fraternity/sorority groups and initiation ritual; the impact of ethnicity on values; the impact of TV on values and perception of the world by children.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1) ON RESERVE IN THE LIBRARY, UNDER MY NAME AND THIS COURSE, ANT 4432, YOU WILL FIND THREE EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS FROM OTHER STUDENTS. THESE ARE LISTED AS "FINAL PROJECTS 1-3." THESE ARE PROJECTS WHICH ALL RECEIVED AN "A" OR "B" GRADE. IT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL TO LOOK AT THESE PAPERS TO GET AN IDEA OF HOW TO THINK ABOUT AND ORGANIZE THESE PROJECTS.

2) WHEN YOU QUOTE A SOURCE IN THIS PAPER OR USE SOMEONE'S IDEAS, AT THE END OF THE SENTENCE GIVE A CITATION IN THE FOLLOWING FORMAT - (SOKOLOVSKY 1978: 126). THIS CITATION SHOULD BE LINKED TO A BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE, ALPHABETICALLY LISTED AT THE END OF THE PAPER. YOU CAN ALSO HAVE APPENDIX MATERIALS, WHICH FOR EXAMPLE MIGHT INCLUDE EXPANDED INTERVIEW MATERIALS FROM YOUR RESEARCH. YES YOU CAN USE THE INTERNET FOR SOME OF YOUR INFORMATIONAL SOURCES BUT YOU MUST CAREFULLY DOCUMENT WHERE THIS INFORMATION IS COMING FROM. NO, YOU CANNOT RELY ON POPULAR MAGAZINES, (TIME, NEWSWEEK), FOR YOUR REFERENCES.

3) I EXPECT TO SPEAK TO EACH OF YOU EARLY IN THE SEMESTER ABOUT THESE PAPERS. SO PLEASE MAKE AN APPOINTMENT OR DROP IN TO SEE ME DURING OFFICE HOURS.

HELPFUL BIBLIOGRAPHY top of page

Important Journals: Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry; Ethos; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Anthropology and Education Quarterly; Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. International Journal of Mental Health; Transcultural Psychiatry.

Special Issue of Journal of Community Psychology, "Asian American Mental Health", vol 32, #2, 1994.

Special Issue of International Journal of Mental Health, "The Unfinished Revolution in Italian Psychiatry" vol 14, #1-2, 1985.

Crapanzano, V. and V. Garrison (eds) 1977, Case Studies in Spirit Possession, NY: Wiley & Sons

Foulks, E. 1972. The Artic Hysterias.**

Foulks et al. Current Perspectives in Cultural Psychiatry.

Gregor, T. Anxious Pleasures.**

Harwood, R., J. Miller and N. Irizarry. 1995. Culture and Attachment: Perceptions of the Child in Context. New York: Guilford Press.

Heelas, P. and A. Lock, eds. 1981. Indigenous Psychologies

Hewlett, B. 1994. Intimate Fathers: The Nature and Context of Aka Pygmy Paternal Infant Care. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.**

Jackson, M. and Ivan Carp (eds) 1990 Personhood and Agency: The Experience of Self and Other in African Cultures, Smithsonian Univ Press.

Jahoda, G. 1999. Images of Savages.

Karp, I. 1986, "Deconstructing Culture-Bound Syndromes" Social Science and Medicine, 21:221-28.

Kleinman, A. Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture, 1980.**

Kleinman, A. 1988. Rethinking Psychiatry.

Kleinman, A. and B. Good. 1985. Culture and Depression.**

Kolenda, P. ,ed. 1988. Cultural Constructions of Woman.**

Kondo, D. 1995. Crafting Selves: Power Gender and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace.

Kottak, C. 1990. Prime-Time Society.**

Lawlor, R. Voices of the First Day: Awakening the Aboriginal Dream. 1991.

Lebra Culture Bound Syndromes, Ethnopsychiatry and Alternate Therapies.**

Lebra Transcultural Research in Mental Health: Vol II Asia and the Pacific

Leiderman, P, ed. 1977. Culture and Infancy: Variations in Human Experience. Academic Press.

Levine, R., P. Miller and M. West. 1989. Parenting Behavior in Diverse Societies. Jossey-Bass.

Lewis, I.M., 1971, Ecstatic Religion: An Anthropological Study of Spirit Possession and Shamanism, Penguin Books.

Marsela and White Cultural Conceptions of Mental Health and Therapy

Mathews. G. What Makes Life Worth Living, (Japan and US).**

Monroe, Monroe and Whiting. Handbook of Cross-Cultural Human Development

Nicholson, S. editor, Shamanism.

Reichel-Dolmatoff The Shaman and the Jaguar

Shore, Brad Culture in Mind, 1996; Oxford

Simmons, R. Boo! Culture, Experience and the Startle Reflex, 1996

Stigler, J., R. Shweder, Herdt, Cultural Psychology, Cambridge, 1990.

Turner, V. 1985. On the Edge of the Bush: Anthropology as Experience, Univ of Arizona Press.**

Whiting, B. and J. Whiting. 1975. Children of Six Cultures. Harvard Univ. Press.**

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