Week 7: Anthropology 11--Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Outline for Chapter 5:

Growing Up Human  (118-147)

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Professor John Wolford
Department of Anthropology
University of Missouri-St. Louis

Email: wolfordj@msx.umsl.edu


 
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The important questions Haviland cites for you to consider while reading this chapter:
 

What is enculturation?

What is the effect of enculturation on adult personality?

Are different personalities characteristic of different cultures?

Do cultures differ in what they regard as abnormal personalities?
 

Notes for William A. Haviland, 

Cultural Anthropology, 10th edition: 

Chapter 5:  Growing Up Human  (118-147)

[INTRODUCTION]


The Self and its Behavioral Environment
The Self
The Behavioral Environment  
  • The Penobscot
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    ORIGINAL STUDY:  THE BLESSED CURSE
    Personality The Development of Personality  
    Important People: Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
     
  • Dependence Training
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  • Independence Training
  • Combined Dependence/Independence Training
    •      Group Personality Modal Personality

    National Character

     
    Important People: Ruth Fulton Benedict (1887-1947)
  • The Japanese
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  • Objections to National Character Studies
    •      Normal and Abnormal Personality  
    ANTHROPOLOGY APPLIED: 
    ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND MENTAL HEALTH
     

    last revised: February 21, 2002
    this revision: February 24, 2002