Mr. Raybeck
203A Morgan: Ext. 8514 (office hrs only)
Cell: 413/658-5171
E-Mail: draybeck@hamilton.edu
Office Hours:
MW
10:00-12:00
Serendipitous Circumstance
Others:
By Appt.
Spring
2008
Formal Requirements for
PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
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The formal requirements for this course are as follows: class participation, two outlines, and a variety of
in-class exercises, two-take home exams and a very ambitious research paper. Assigned readings should be
completed before the day they are due as the class topics will usually relate to them. Students who have
not done the reading and are found to be unprepared will be excused from class. Also, because a
significant amount of new material will be presented in class, I would appreciate regular attendance. Your
grade will depend on: class participation - 15%; outlines - 20 %; take-home exams - 25%, and research
project - 40%. You must learn to plan ahead and to be proactive. There will be no extensions. More than
three unexcused absences will reduce your final grade by a third for each extra class missed. Students who
arrive late may expect questions on the material. Finally, there is a penalty of 1/3 grade per day for all late
work. [All this may make it difficult to believe that I am a kind and helpful person, but I assure you such
is the case. Please remember that a good, easy teacher is an oxymoron.] Oh yes ... I reserve the right to
spring new readings on you.
COURSE TEXTS:
E.T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension
R.L. Munroe and R.H. Munroe, Cross-Cultural Human Development.
Selected Readings
PDFs and in-class handouts.
DATE
TOPIC AND ASSIGNMENT
Method and Theory
Sept.
7
Read:
ORIENTATION: SCOPE OF THE COURSE
White, "Culturological vs Psychological. . . ."
Bronowski, "The Character of Science"
Sept.
9
Read:
DISCUSSION OF COURSE CONCEPTS
Hayakawa, "How We Know What We Know"
Gould, “Just in the Middle”
Sept. 14
Read:
FREUD VS MALINOWSKI
Freud, Totem and Taboo, Part IV, pp. 100-161 or 165-265. (The Return of
Totemism... or The Infantile Recurrence of Totemism...)
Malinowski, Sex & Repression in Savage Society, Part I, pp. 1-77.
Sept. 16
CULTURE AND PERSONALITY: NEO-FREUDIAN PROGRESS?
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Read: Wallace, Culture and Personality, Chapter 1
Page 2
(difficult)
Sept. 21
THRENODIC THEORY THRESHING
Read: C.G. Hempel, Philosophy of Natural Science, pp. 3-18, 47-69. (difficult)
Sept. 23
THEORY AND METHOD
Read: Cole & Bruner "Cultural Differences and Inferences about Psychological
Processes."
Munroe & Munroe, Cross-Cultural Human Development , Chapter 1, pp.1 -6.
Sept. 28
METHODOLOGY: THE WHITING-YOUNG CONFLICT
Read: Whiting, Kluckhohn & Anthony, "The Function of Male Initiation
Ceremonies at Puberty."
Young, "The Function of Male Initiation Ceremonies: A Cross-Cultural
Test of an Alternative Hypothesis."
The Nature-Nurture Issue
Sept. 30
Read:
CRITICAL PERIODS AND PEOPLE
DeKeyser, “The Robustness Of Critical Period Effects In Second Language Acquisition.”
in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003, 22, pp. 499–533.
Munroe & Munroe, Cross-Cultural Human Development , Chapters 1, 2 &
3, pp. 7 - 49.
Oct.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENCE
5
Read:
Paillard, “Vectorial versus Configural Encoding of Body Space” in Body Image and Body Schema:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 2005, Knockaert & De Preester pp. 89-109.
Munroe & Munroe, Cross-Cultural Human Development , Chapter 5,
"Cognition" pp. 71 - 99.
Oct.
7
Read:
HUMAN BIOLOGY AND CULTURAL PARAMETERS
C.G. Tunnell, Culture & Biology (All – it’s short)
Research Paper Topic & Preliminary Outline Due in class, Oct. 7 th
(10% of grade)
Oct.
9-12
Fall Break
(You may well have earned it.)
Oct.
14
Read:
BIOGENETIC STRUCTURALISM: AN ANALYTIC MODEL
Wallace, Culture & Personality, Chap. 3, pp. 75-120.
(difficult-skim)
R. Ornstein, "The Split Brain and the Whole Brain" in Human
Nature,1978, I #5, pp. 76-83.
Gazzaniga, "Organization of the Human Brain" in Science, 1989, 245, pp.947-952.
Oct.
19
Read:
BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR
Schachter & Singer, "Cognitive, Social and Psychological Determinants
of Emotional State."
Hall, The Hidden Dimension, Chapters 2 & 3, pp. 7-40.
Oct.
21
DISCUSSION OF FIRST TAKE-HOME QUIZ
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QUIZ #1 DUE for class ... one grade penalty for absence & 1/3 for marked lateness.
Oct.
26
Read:
MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS: EMOTION & AGGRESSION
Schwartz, "Emotion and Psychophysiological Organization: A Systems
Approach"in Psychophysiology (M.G. Coles et al. eds.,) 1986, pp. 354-377.
Huesmann et al, "Stability of Aggression over Time and Generations" in
Developmental Psychology 1984, 20, pp. 1120 - 1134.
Oct. 28
Read:
SEX AND GENDER ROLES
Munroe & Munroe, Cross-Cultural Human Development , Chapter 7, "Sex
Role", pp. 115 - 133
Hampson, "Determinants of Psychosexual Orientation"
Imperato-McGinley et al, "Androgens and the Evolution of male Gender ...”
Nov. 2
Read:
STRESS AND POSSESSION
Kehoe & Giletti, "Women's Preponderance in Possession Cults: The
Calcium Deficiency Hypothesis Extended" in American
Anthropologist 1981, 83, pp. 549-561.
Raybeck, Shoobe & Grauberger, "Women, Stress and Participation in
Possession Cults: A Reexamination of the Calcium Deficiency
Hypothesis" Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1989 3:139-161.
AvRuskin, "Neurophysiology and the Curative Possession Trance: The
Chinese Case" in Medical Anthropology Quarterly 1988, 2, 286-302. .
Perception and Culture
Nov. 4
Read:
DIFFERENCES IN PERCEPTION
Bruner & Goodman, "Value & Need as Organizing Factors in
Perception"in J. of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1947, 42, pp.
33-44.
Tajfel, "Value and Perceptual Judgment of Magnitude." in Psychological
Review, 1957, 64, pp. 192-204.
M. Spiro "Ghosts: An Anthropological Inquiry into Learning and
Perception" in J. of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1953, 48, pp.
376-382.
Nov. 9
Read:
VISUAL PERCEPTION
D.T. Campbell,"On Cross-Cultural Studies of Perceptual Differences."- R
A. A. Pontius, "Spatial Representation Modified by Ecology." in Journal of Cross-Cultural
Psychology, 1993, 24, pp.399-413.- R
Munroe & Munroe, Cross-Cultural Human Development , Chapter 4,
"Language & Perception", pp. 64 - 70 only.
Motivation & Culture
Nov. 11
Read:
TWO APPROACHES TO ACHIEVEMENT
G. DeVos "The Relation of Guilt Towards Parents to Achievement and
Arranged Marriage Among Japanese." in Psychiatry, 1960, 23, pp.
287-301.
D. McClelland, The Achieving Society, Chapter 2, pp. 36-62.
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Rasheed, “Developing Entrepreneurial Potential in Youth…”, 2000, Unpubl.
Final Outline of Research Paper & Bibliography Due in class, Nov. 11th
(10% of grade)
Nov. 16
Read:
NEED ACHIEVEMENT AND CULTURAL RAMIFICATIONS
D. McClelland, "The Achievement Motive in Economic Growth" in
Hoselitz& Moore (eds.) Industrialization and Society, 1963.
DeVos, "Achievement and Innovation in Culture and Personality"
pp. 348-367.
Language & Culture
Nov. 18
Read:
LANGUAGE AS A SYSTEM
H. Hoijer, "The Nature of Language"
W. Goodenough, "Componential Analysis"
N. Munn, "Visual Categories. . ."
- THANKSGIVING BREAK -
Nov. 30
Read:
LANGUAGE AND THE BRAIN
Premack & Premack, "Teaching Language to An Ape."
N. Chomsky, "Language & the Mind"
N. Geschwind, "Language & the Brain"
Munroe & Munroe, Cross-Cultural Human Development , Chapter 4,
"Language & Perception", pp. 50 - 64 only.
Dec.
2
Read:
THE SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS
B. L. Whorf, "Science & Linguistics"
M. Black, "Linguistic Relativity"
D. Lee, "Lineal and Non-Lineal Codifications of Reality"
Dec.
7
Read:
CONCEPTS AND CODABILITY
Brown & Lenneberg, "Studies in Linguistic Relativity" in E. Maccoby, et
al (eds) Readings in Social Psychology, pp. 9-18.
V. de Munck, "What is Meaning?" in Culture, Self and Meaning, pp. 61-94
OPTIONAL QUIZ #2 DUE in class, Dec 7 th.
Dec
9
Read:
Dec
14
Read:
CAN MULTI-FACTORIAL ANALYSIS FIND TRUTH AND HAPPINESS IN COVERT
CULTURE?
Raybeck, & De Munck, 2010, "Values and Change Over a Generation: Kelantan, Malaysia." in
Cross-Cultural Research 44(2): 97-115.
D. Herrmann & D. Raybeck, "Similarities and Differences in Meaning in Six Cultures" In
J. of Cross-Cultural Psychology 1981, 12, pp. 194-206- R
D. Raybeck & D. Herrmann, "Antonymy and Semantic Relations: The Case for a
Linguistic Universal" in Cross-Cultural Research: The Journal of Comparative
Social Science 1996, 30: 154-183.
GETTING IT TOGETHER
Moore, Romney, Hsia & Rusch, "The Universality of the Semantic Structure of
Emotion Terms ..." in American Anthropologist, 1999, 101, 529-546.
Raybeck, Douglas,1998 "Toward More Holistic Explanations: Cross-
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Cultural Research and Cross-Level Analysis" Cross-Cultural
Research: The Journal of Comparative Social Science 32: 123-142.
RESEARCH PAPER DUE Dec 14th At 2 P.M.
PENALTY FOR LATE PAPERS
(1/3 grade/day )