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CF 3333 Clash of Cultures

Third Essay Assignment

1. Your essay is due at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, 4 December. Unless otherwise prohibited by your section instructor, late papers will be accepted, but will penalized one letter grade for each day after the due date (e.g., B to C). No exceptions to this policy will be granted unless there is a legitimate (documented) excuse. Papers must be handed to your instructor.

2. Your essay should be no more than five pages in length.

3. Please follow the instructions found in the “Format for Out-of-Class Papers” found on pages xi-xii of the SourceBook. Review those instructions and the assignment with care. Your essay should open with a “thesis paragraph” which presents the major ideas of your analysis; it should be a summary of that analysis.

4. Define the terms you use. Be sure to explain important terms, concepts, and ideas to support your major points with specific factual and/or documentary evidence, e.g., citations.

Assignment

1. The general topic for this essay is: Industrialization, Europeanization, and Revitalization Movements.

2. Give attention to the definition of a revitalization movement included in Mr. Phinney’s handout on November 6. A more extended definition is to be found on the course web site: Wallace, “Recurrent Patterns in Social Movements.” This article should be cited as Wallace, On Line. No page number is  needed. You may also use an abbreviated form: Wallace, OL. After pondering the definition re-read Wallace’s “Handsome Lake Religion” and review your notes on the film version of Shaw’s Major Barbara. Adler can provide the historical context.

3. Then compose a coherent, well-focused essay in which you:

 a. discuss the institutional changes resulting from Europeanization for the followers of Handsome Lake;

b. describe how the Handsome Lake religion, a famous revitalization movement, sought to solve the loss of social unity for the Iroquois, a loss caused by these challenges;

c. note the institutional challenges that resulted from industrialization for the Britain portrayed by Shaw in his Major Barbara;

d. consider how both the Salvation Army and the ideas and practices of Andrew Undershaft might be considered revitalization movements that attempted to deal with those challenges;

e. analyze why  both industrialization and Europeanization are the kinds of threats to social unity that create revitalization movements.