Dr. Joseph DeChicchis
Professor, School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University
 

KGU SPS course description (シラバス)
 

IMPORTANT DATES:

• The comprehensive exam for this class will be held during the final class meeting of the semester, on Wednesday, 6 January 2016, in the regular classroom at KSC. You must take this exam to get credit for this course. The exam will be a multiple-choice exam. You may use a dictionary during the exam, but you may not consult your notes during the exam.


• There will be no lecture on 4 November. Please watch the Lawrence Lessig lecture about read-only and read-write cultures.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• KGU has changed its intranet access policy, so that this page can not be easily updated. Please check for updates to this page, and note the revision date at the bottom.

Follow these links to class NOTES:

• lecture notes, page 1
• lecture notes, page 2
• lecture notes, page 3
• lecture notes, page 4
• lecture notes, page 5
• lecture notes, page 6
• lecture notes, page 7
• lecture notes, page 8
• lecture notes, kinship supplement
• lecture notes, page 9
• lecture notes, page 10
• lecture notes, page 11
• lecture notes, page 12
• lecture notes, all pages (i.e., §§ 1-10)

 
• popular books about culture:
  • The Human Mosaic
  • Fundamentals of The Human Mosaic
  
   
• URLs for further study:
  • Wikipedia Culture
  • human culture tutorial (Palomar College)
  • cultural anthropology tutorials (Palomar College)
  (norms)
  • tips on Japanese cultural norms
  • blogging about Japanese cultural norms
  • Japanese etiquette wiki
  • mini-shocks of Japanese culture
  • Japanese laws influence norms
  • Morocco rough guide
  • Kenya rough guide
  • tips for immigrants to Canada
  • Italian etiquette
  • Mexican etiquette
  • Iranian cultural profile
  • Culture Crossing
  • shoelace knots
  • granny knot
  (culture in other species)
  • Imanishi's legacy [PDF]
  • European disdain for Imanishi [PDF]
  • chimpanzee culture
  • arbitrary conventions of chimpanzees
  • Spread of arbitrary conventions among chimpanzee [PDF]
  • chimpanzee conformity to norms
  • multigenerational transmission of chimpanzee knowledge
  • Transmission of Multiple Traditions within and between Chimpanzee Groups [PDF]
  • TED talk on consolation (empathy, compassion), prosocial action, reciprocity (fairness)
  (taboos)
  • McDonald's in India
  • Thai taboos
  • kashrut: kosher, treif
  • halal haraam mushbooh
  • halal haraam mushbooh -- Somali list of common ingredients
  • Ghanaian taboos
  • How to French Kiss
  • French Kissing Lesson
  • FYROM-Macedonia name taboo
  • FYROM's pseudo-Makedonism
  • Allah taboo for non-Muslims
  (linguistic determinism)
  • Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
  • Whorf's gun cleaning example, Whorf's "empty drum" fire example, Whorf's "spun limestone" fire example, Whorf's "glow heater wall switch" fire example, Whorf's "pool of water" fire example, Whorf's "scrap lead" fire example, Joseph, Love & Taylor commentary on Whorf
  • linguistic relativism and determinism
  • technological determinism
  (read-only and read-write cultures)
  • Lawrence Lessig lecture (19 minutes)
  (Birdwhistell, Knapp, Ekman)
  • Birdwhistell and Knapp readings
  • Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
  • micro expressions
  • Paul Ekman analyzing witness testimony
  • FBI expert lie detector
  • BBC fake smile spotting test
  (handedness)
  • ice-age handedness (BBC)
  • handedness in horses
  • horse handedness and facial whorls [PDF]
  • handedness in whales
  • amphibian bilateral asymmetry [PDF]
  • embryonic handedness
  • enantiomeric biomolecules [PDF]
  • handedness in mediaeval Britain
  • handedness and brain lateralization
  • left-handedness
  • clinical trait profile: handedness versus homosexuality [PDF]
  • The Throwing Madonna
  • Wikipedia article: Handedness
  • Wikipedia Talk about Left-handed
  (kinship)
  • kinship
  • kinship terminology
  • Turkish village organization
  (counting)
  • Journal of Mathematics and Culture
  • comments on counting systems
  • base-20 numbers in French, Danish, and Mayan
  • Danish counting
  • French counting
  • Ainu base-20 counting
  • calendars
  • recent UAE Islamic New Year dates
  • scientific symbols and icons
  (Maya dress)
  • cloth samples
  • weaving hair sashes
  • long history of motifs
  • the woman's huipil (shirt)
  • woven symbols
  (Ryukyuan and Ainu textiles)
  • bingata dyeing and weaving
  • Shuri Ryusen
  • Okinawan kariyushi shirts
  • Ryukyuan and Ainu textiles
  (body art)
  • traditional Ainu lip tattoos
  • traditional African hair styles
  • african hair styles Google search
  • traditional and modern face piercings
  • modern decorative dental inlay (gold star)
  • Roma tattoo and earring worries
  
   
   
  (This page was last updated on 16 December 2015.)