HomeWork 1:
Read those two articles from The NY Times then answer the questions.
" Letting Your Kids Play in the Social Media Sandbox ".
"It's 10 P.M. Do You Know What Apps Your Children Are Using?"
1. What do you think about what these articles say? Comment as both a user of social media and as someone who in the future may have an impact on social media using technology.
2. What Social Media sites do you use?
3. Do you find yourself posting things that you wouldn’t say if you were speaking to someone in person?
4. Do you see other people posting things that make you uncomfortable, either because of something they say about you or about someone else?
HomeWork 2:
1) Read the RITUAL Lecture (attached) and watch the video links below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eEBuqwY-nE
2) Read Renato Rosaldo’s Grief and the Headhunter’s Rage and Tom Driver’s The Magic of Ritual (Attached)
Write a reaction paper, 1-2 pages maximum, comparing and analyzing these two readings – what connections can you find? Reference is needed.
Focus points and questions: **Please note you do NOT have to answer these focus points - just use them as stepping-off points if needed:
· According to Driver, are cultural rituals meant to remain “changeless”?
· What does Driver mean when he writes that when performing rituals, “opposition to change amounts to corrupted magic”?
· How can rituals act as “agents of change” within a culture?
· Ronaldo describes the Ilongot man’s reason for severing heads: “He says that rage, born of grief, impels him to kill his fellow human beings.” Describe and expand upon this statement.
· Viewing cultural anthropology through Rosaldo’s experience with the Ilongot Tribe, at what point can a person say that they have completed their learning or life experience?
· On pain of execution, the Ilongot convert to Christianity “as a means of coping with grief” Are the Ilongot happy with this change? How does it affect them?
· Explain this statement: “The failure to perform rituals can create anxiety”