Field trip: Becoming a fish out of water
This assignment is designed to send you on a cross-cultural field trip where you become a minority of one. The worship part is not the central issue. The central objective of this assignment is to find yourself as a minority in a situation where you feel out of place and where you may be uncertain what is expected of you.
In your one to two-page report, don't tell me how you discovered people can worship in any culture. In fact, don't focus on the worship event itself.
I'm looking for what you felt. I want you to process whatever uncomfortable moments you felt. What took you out of your comfort zone? You may tell me that you did discover that God speaks more than one language.
Do not report on an experience you had months or years ago before this course began. It must be an experience you have had since starting this Cultural Anthropology course.
-- Howard Culbertson
Cultural Anthropology course
resources: Cultural Bingo icebreakers
Bwanda Fusa game
Cultural Anthropology case studies
Christianity and culture Course
home page
Culture shock
Ethnocentrism and monoculturalism Exam
study guides Iceberg and concentric
circles models of culture
Light bulb illustration: What do you see?
Missions and culture My own
culture shock
PowerPoint presentations used in class
Reading report Reentry:
Coming home Research paper
topic suggestions