Cultural Identity Assignment

Cultural Identity Assignment

Bring an object which you feel represents part of your cultural identity. Talk about it for no less than 2 minutes.

Bring an object to class that represents your cultural identity.  It could be one of the following objects: Think carefully about your selection and be prepared to show and discuss how this object represents something about your values, your rituals, your beliefs, your heritage. Relate your talk to some of the cultural concepts we discussed in Jandt Chapter 1.

Cultural Artefact Task 1 :

Some guiding questions to help::

1. What is the object?”bukhoor”
2. Why does it represent an aspect of my cultural identity?
3. Why is it special to me?
4. How does it relate to the some of the cultural principles we discussed in Chapter 1 of the Jandt text (e.g. symbol, ritual, heroes etc.; or, religion, nationality, gender, class, civilization etc.)