5.7 Going Deeper
Monica Olvera and Elizabeth B. Pearce
Having read about traditions, ritual, and culture, this page has some additional resources for you.
First, there are some resources that the authors used but could not fit into the chapter. If there was something that really piqued your interest and made you want to learn more, it may be listed in this table. This is also a resource for students who may have an assignment to research a particular topic or who need to identify a topic for a final project. Scan through “Want to Learn More?” if you are interested.
Next, you will see a set of reflective questions. You may be assigned these questions as a chapter review, or perhaps you will be using them as discussion questions in class. These questions are designed to help you apply the chapter concepts, develop your sociological imagination, reflect, and use an equity lens. Look over the “Reflective Questions” if you’d like to explore your own thinking more thoroughly.
After that, you will see the same list of key terms that appeared at the start of the chapter. They may help you with your additional exploration or research.
Finally, some chapters include activities that the instructor may use in the classroom.
Want to Learn More?
- For more in-depth discussion about the complexities and drawbacks of pan-ethnic labels, please refer to this resource.
- If you would like to explore coming-of-age rituals in more depth, this TED Talk explores historic and modern important rites of passage and how they can help young teens understand what it means to become an adult by teaching life skills and reinforcing character traits and values.
- If you would like to explore the topic of how culture and religion overlap in human lives, we recommend the TED Talk by anthropologist Wade Davis, “The Worldwide Web of Belief and Ritual.” Davis provides many examples of the deep familiarity and knowledge Indigenous communities develop and pass on to the next generations, with a focus on the Elder Brothers, a group of Sierra Nevada Native Americans.
- To further explore the different race, ethnicity, and origin categories used in the U.S. census, we recommend visiting this interactive resource by the Pew Research Center, “What Census Calls Us.”
- For further information about quinceañeras, we recommend visiting the following resources:
- “History and Traditions of Quinceañeras” from Mestizo.
- “The history of the Quinceañera: How generations of Latinas entered womanhood in Phoenix.”
- “Sick with leukemia, her grandfather wouldn’t make her quinceañera, so she brought the event to him.”
- For additional information on the topic of the revitalization of ‘ōlelo Hawai’i and the ripple effects of the movement, please explore the following resources:
- “He pūkoʻa kaniʻāina: Creating Pathways for Indigenous Language Vitality | Candace Galla”: an 11-minute TED Talk by Candace Galla about how the movement to revitalize ‘ōlelo Hawai’i inspired many other Indigenous language commu