May Faulk

Anthropology is the study of human society from many perspectives and disciplines

Biology— Bones or tusks usedfor tools such as scrapers, awls

Sociology-customs and traditions from different cultures by anthropologists like Meade and Boas

Humanities arts and literature whether modern

or ancient

Literature Art Value system Traditions Beliefs Ways of living

together (Russell, 2009

p.106)

American society what are some books or writers we associate with American Culture? Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Robert Ludlam Movies ‘National Treasure’

Actors and actresses Pit and Jolie

Singers Brittany Spears ,Miley Cyrus

Values what do we regard as important? $ and status

Religions: Catholic Methodist, Islam, Protestant

Sports and festivals

Aborigines of Australiause dance and storytelling for leisureIn modern society acculturation--

exchange of cultural features because of long term contact between cultures

Yanomami prepare for a ceremony and are considered the least developed society in the world and yet…developed nations are infringing on their land for resources because of their marginal status in society

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW0Q6d8MrqI

Modern family using snowmobile for family recreation and transport

Drum dancer

The Inuit are a group of indigenous people who share common traits and inhabit the Artic regions to include Canada, United States, Greenland and Russia. Inuit means “the people” in the Inuktitut language Leisure : Story telling, mythology, dancing and music remain in their culture.

How is modernization changing their culture in regard to leisure?

Talk with a partner and think of three positive verses three negative aspects of tourism?

Think of the Sherpa in your book (Russell, 2009, p.113).

In America what cultures do we have within our own?

Creole people of Louisiana enjoy zydeco music and creole cooking is a

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDINSU7Q78Y

Gumbo

In the Middle East who is marginalized and a subculture?

Christians http://www.peacefaq.com/christians.html

How is leisure available for Korean society in Harlem?

One group will write a list of 5 ways that soccer in Brazil might shape that culture in regard to the World Cup. The second group will write how football and the Super bowl shapes American culture. Look at the sport from the perspective of the

• Economy- Education-Media-Politics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp2ErPgTJZA

The ancestor of soccer was the Chinese game of t'su chu, played in the third century B.C. The ball was made of leather; initially it was stuffed then later it was inflated to allow it to go farther.

http://www.inventions.org/culture/ancient/soccer.htmlMedieval picture of

soccer in Chinese garden

In medieval Europe it was played between villages with no rules so punching, flesh gouging, broken bones and death could result. In 1331, King Edward III outlawed it and Queen Elizabeth the I sent players to jail for a week to stop people from playing it.

Today it is the most popular sport in the world.

In America the equivalent game was lacrosse (bagataway) in Iroquois language.

Iroquois tribes of up to 500 would gather and play.

Two teams one painted their bodies black the other white

Using deer skin balls and hollowed sticks they would play and compete.

Medicine men were the goal posts and they wandered the field to make the game more difficult.

(Thorpe & James,1994, p. 555)

Ballplayer painting from the Tepantitla murals

From the culture of Teotihuacan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame

Ball court in Monte Alban in state of Oaxaca in Mexico

Ball court Chichen Itza Mexico

Teotihuacan murals 8th century

Modern player in loincloth

Codex Borgia 15 century from Aztec culture

Mesoamerican ballgame originated about 1400 BCE in Mexico in the low-lying tropical zones home to the rubber tree.

Origins: Oldest ball court was a Paso De la Amada about 1400 BC.

More than a dozen rubber balls were found near a sacrificial bog called el Manati by the Olmeca or “rubber people” because they used rubber trees. 1700-1600 BCE.

Mayans used hips to hit the ball and some games were part of ritual sacrifice according to accounts by Spaniards. Look at video of

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFpSeOxLah4

Originated from a similar game in China more than 2,600 BC and required using your feet to hit a small sack filled with hair. It was played by Imperial guards while on night duty.

In Malaysia the national sport is sepak takraw. It is played in most of the schools in Malaysia. The ball is made of bamboo or plastic and is light and hollow. Played through out Asia from Burma to Thailand.

Arrived in America in the 1970’s the sack was introduced by Mike Marshall originally made of leather now a crocket bag of rice initially called ‘hack the sack.’

Shared --values and standards of behavior held in common

Learned-- we learn it as we live it

Symbols– an example would be language

Integrated they merged into each other sports role models economy

Sepak takraw from Malaysia

Played and taught hands on

Visual images whether the ball or the score

The game becomes a part of the culture

A new individual to the system learns the symbols, language, characteristics of the new culture to allow that person to integrate into that society: Think of an exchange student.After many years of contact between cultures because of acculturation the subculture can adopt the new ways of the main culture by assimilation such as Navajo adopting ‘Catholic’ religion and at the loss of their own beliefs or Rejection of main culture as occurred with the Creole people rejecting the English language.

Diffusion

Write on a piece of paper three sports.

cross-country skiing, boxing, wrestling, speed-skating, curling, cycling, dancing, athletics, sledge-dog racing, handball, karate, orienteering, canoeing, rowing, sailing, shooting, weight- lifting, swimming football

How do you think it compares to United States is there too much competition in elementary sports teams that consist of football, volleyball, baseball? Discuss this in groups.

Does technology compete?

England history of crickethttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwk3bR8nHpw

Originated in

What American sport does this remind you of?

Household accounts of King Edward I in 1300 of a game much like cricket being played in Kent.

Originated in the sheep-raising country of the England in which a ball of rags was rolled toward a wicket-gate of the sheep paddock and a player would use a bat made from a shepherd’s crooked staff to hit it.

assimilation --adapt ways of main culture Integration --combine to form whole Acculturation --exchange culture features

result from prolonged contact between groups

Rejection avoidance of others Marginalization-place in an unimportant

status with little or no power within group such as many Indigenous cultures

http://www.inventions.org/culture/ancient/soccer.html soccer.html

http://www.koreasociety.org/special_events.html

http://www.peacefaq.com/http://indian-cultures.com/Cultures/yanomamo.html

christians.html http://www.proyanomami.org.br/v0904/

index.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Mesoamerican_ballgame http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit www.athleticsscholarships.net.ncaa-division-

11-news-1.htm

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/239757.html

James, P., Thorpe, N. (1994). Wonders of the past! ancient inventions. New York, NY: Ballantine Books.

Russell, R.V. (2009). The context of contempory leisure: Pasttimes.Champaign,IL:Sagamore.