Response Paper 5

Cultural Products
5.2 Artifacts
Artifacts are like the objects or “things” that belong to the culture. Many artifacts are unit in a culture, and can be used for many different purposes, and for any kind of people.

Questions
1) Product: What is it? Where do you find it?
My artifact is a flying mean of transportation, and it can be found in the stations.

2) Practices: How do you use it? When?
You just have to go to the station and get in to it; a professional pilot will drive it. You can use it at any time

3) Persons: Which people use this?
If you need to get faster to your destiny, you can use it when there is a very heavy traffic on the road.

4) Communities: Which groups of people will use this object?
People who need to get faster to their jobs.

5) Perspectives: Why people use this?
People use this because they believe that time is priceless, so they don´t want to waste time stuck on traffic.

5.3 Maps
My house has on the first floor 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1 living room, 1 dinner room, 1 kitchen, 1 backyard, and it has on the second floor 1 office. In the bedrooms the most important object is the bed because we all love to sleep, and also the T.V because it is the way we entertain ourselves. The kitchen is a very important room because there we not only have all the food, but we also have all the appliances to prepare it. The office is also very important in our house because there we have the computers which we use to do all the work.

5.4 Flowchart
Getting a driver´s license
-Buying the training book
-Reading the book
-Doing the written test
-Taking driven lessons
-Doing the practical driving test

Getting medical treatment
-Having an insurance from the CCSS
-Going to the medical center of your neighborhood at 6am
-Asking for an appointment
-Waiting a couple hours to meet with the doctor
-Taking your medicines off

Reporting a crime
-Calling 911

Establishing a law
-I will never end if I answer this question

Getting married
-Getting engage
-Establish the wedding date
-Looking for the place
-Doing the guest list
-Buying all that you need for the wedding
-Having a ceremony
-Going to the “Registro Civil” to register as a marriage


Getting a bank loan
-Giving the bank all your personal and financial information
-Choosing the loan plan to establish the terms of it.

Religious rituals
-Catholic people only have to go to church on Sundays. Listening to the priest and eating the blessed bread are the most important rituals of his religion.

Paying taxes
-Finding an accountant who can help you with this.


5.5 Personal relationship with the cultural content. I believe that to be able to teach art forms of a culture you need to study first what is behind or what is the real meaning of certain piece of art; could be literature, painting, music, etc. Therefore, you have to get involve with the culture to teach it a lot much better.