Category: Anthropology

lease remember that the field notes should be attached with your Week 7 paper, and the 3-to-4-page double-spaced paper is in addition to the page or pages of the field notes.
Assignment Instructions
Why do so many researchers still treat race as a scientific concept? For your assignment this week, you will ask respondents about their definitions or understandings of race. In this article, an anthropologist asked scientists, too, for their definitions of race: 
https://slate.com/technology/2019/05/race-science-angela-saini-new-book-superior-deconstructed.htmlLinks to an external site. 
For this research assignment and paper, you will first survey 20 adult people of your choosing to ask them about their attitudes about race. Do not survey or interview children, inmates, or anyone else who cannot give legal or voluntary consent.
Please tell your adult respondents that you are completing a research project and paper for your online Cultural Anthropology course on people’s understandings of, and attitudes about, race.
Important: Your respondents must remain anonymous. To maintain their confidentiality, in your field notes, you must codify them and not list their names. You may number each subject or use initials instead, but no first or last names should be included.
Explain no more. If respondents do not understand any of the five questions, please ask them to simply answer to the best of their ability and understanding, and explain that you are unable to discuss the question any further, according to assignment requirements. 
Ask each of the 20 people the following 5 questions, and no more, and record their responses in your field notes, which you will submit with your paper: 
1) How many races are there? 
2) What are those races? (Please list them.) 
3) What is your race? 
4) What is your gender? 
5) What is your age? 
Then, in a 3-to-4 page double-spaced paper, in Times New Roman 12 point font, no longer and no shorter, explain your results.
Do you observe any patterns of responses based on respondents’ cultures, sub-cultures, or any particular socioeconomic background?
What about gender?
What about age?
Do people of particular age groups respond in a similar way?
Why do you think you observed the responses that you did? 
How do the responses compare to the anthropological understanding of race, or to what you have learned in this course in the weekly lessons or in the textbook? 
Be sure to include quotations or paraphrases from the textbook and/or weekly lesson and parenthetical in-text citations to support your points in the paper.

invention that made peace with lions. This talk by a young Maasai youth Links to an external site. demonstrates innovation and it is an uplifting journey and excellent last discussion which ties in many of of the elements of this

paper should:
Summarize and explain what you think the main arguments are in the Document attached. This should not be a paragraph-by-paragraph repetition of what the reading states. Instead, you should focus on providing a “big picture” overview of the reading that explains the arguments or ideas that you think are particularly important for understanding what the author is trying to communicate in the assigned pages of the reading. This section should be roughly 1/2 of the paper.
Include a reflective discussion on the assigned pages of the reading. This section should be roughly 1/2 of your paper. A reflective discussion explains your thoughts and impressions on the reading:
A discussion of how the arguments in the reading connect to other ideas in our course, other courses you’re taking, or to issues and events outside of class. 
My experience with some passages in the reading. (Globalization has had a big impact on my life, especially through my parents’ immigration from Mexico. Their journey to the United States was tough and full of sacrifices, which taught me a lot about strength and determination. They didn’t share many details about their crossing, but my dad mentioned tunnels and my mom almost getting hit by a delivery truck while crossing a highway. These stories show how risky their journey was for a better future.
When we arrived in San Jose, my parents lived in a small, basic shed. We often drive by that place, and they remind us how hard it was to start a new life. Since my parents only spoke Spanish, I had to learn English at school and was often teased for mispronouncing words. This experience, though hard, made me more determined and adaptable.
My parents worked wherever they could, often leaving my brother alone at home. Eventually, my mother became pregnant with my sister, the first U.S. citizen in our family. Despite their struggles, they took English classes at CET to gain citizenship, and I had to translate documents and conversations for them as a young child.
Looking back, I feel lucky for my family’s sacrifices. Their hard work not only gave us opportunities but also taught me to appreciate our cultural heritage and family strength.)
Reflection Paper should incorporate at least two quotes from the assigned pages of the reading as supporting evidence for your summary and/or reflections on the material. These quotes should serve as supporting evidence for your arguments.

Please watch “The Women’s Kingdom” which is a video about a matrilineal group in China and this video will give you an insight into a very different marriage pattern that most students are familiar with. After you have watched the video, research and post on a marriage pattern of a particular culture that is different from your own culture’s or the Mosuo culture and describe that marriage pattern. Include the location (where they live and also the name of the peoples), what type of marriage pattern they practice and all other relevant information on the particular culture as it relates to marriage.

PLEASE NO AI SOFTWARE OR COPY ANYRTHING ON INTERNET
Start your post with a favorite quote from this week’s readings. Include the citation and tell us why you chose that quote.
Choose one of the following to write about (100-200 words): (Make sure to tell us which you are doing so we know what you are writing about) 
What is the emic explanation for death without weeping, passive infanticide and the high infant mortality rate? Look through the article and find ONE quote that represents an emic perspective. Type the quote (include the page number) and a few sentences explaining what that quote means, or why you chose it, how it helps explain death without weeping, etc.
Ask a discussion question for the class using a vocabulary/key term we have learned this week and incorporating this week’s materials.

This video discusses and gives a background of the 5 Major Religions of the World. After watching the video Please post on the following questions.
It appears that religion has been around in one form or another for most of human history. Do you think it is getting stronger, dying out, or staying about at the same level of importance? Why?

The instructions for your Discussion Board post indicate that you must include 3 references (or cites) to the assigned reading material, and 3 references to the audiovisual material (which includes the weekly lectures, and, for weeks that you are assigned YouTube videos, you can use references to those as part of your three-cite requirement.)
*The powerpoint slides are considered audiovisual*
1. The Tarnoff newspaper article about coding, the Paul Farmer essay about Haiti, and the Sidney Mintz book on sugar (described in the lecture on how Marxism is used in Anthropology) do not say that they are taking a historical materialist perspective or ever mention Marx’s or Wallerstein’s names.  Select 2 of the 3 case studies just mentioned. What evidence can you find in their writing that indicate that Marx’s or Wallerstein’s theories have been influential to their analyses? For example, you can discuss their approach to the topics they discuss and/or certain key vocabulary words (like exploitation, conflict theory, modes of production, capitalism, or World Systems Theory) that you heard in the videos or lectures that described these theories. 
2. Compare and contrast the ways that the two cases studies that you selected in #1 draw on Marx and/or Wallerstein. Do they use the theories to come to very similar conclusions, or very different ones? Use specific statements the authors make as examples to support your analysis. 
Readings and Audiovisual 
Marx and Engels PDF pages 18-22 
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/coding-education-teaching-silicon-valley-wages

Your upcoming week 7 assignment requires that you do quick interviews with at least 20 people.  This is essentially your semester paper.  The class was designed to be more intensive in the beginning of the semester and also to avoid weeks we know you are more busy with your nursing requirements.  It may not perfectly line up, but we tried. 
I would start working on this now so that you can plan ahead.  It will be very difficult for you to interview 20 people if you wait until the week it is due.
Instructions:
Please remember that the field notes should be attached with your Week 7 paper, and the 3-to-4-page double-spaced paper is in addition to the page or pages of the field notes.
Assignment Instructions
Why do so many researchers still treat race as a scientific concept? For your assignment this week, you will ask respondents about their definitions or understandings of race. In this article, an anthropologist asked scientists, too, for their definitions of race: 
https://slate.com/technology/2019/05/race-science-angela-saini-new-book-superior-deconstructed.htmlLinks to an external site. 
For this research assignment and paper, you will first survey 20 adult people of your choosing to ask them about their attitudes about race. Do not survey or interview children, inmates, or anyone else who cannot give legal or voluntary consent.
Please tell your adult respondents that you are completing a research project and paper for your online Cultural Anthropology course on people’s understandings of, and attitudes about, race.
Important: Your respondents must remain anonymous. To maintain their confidentiality, in your field notes, you must codify them and not list their names. You may number each subject or use initials instead, but no first or last names should be included.
Explain no more. If respondents do not understand any of the five questions, please ask them to simply answer to the best of their ability and understanding, and explain that you are unable to discuss the question any further, according to assignment requirements. 
Ask each of the 20 people the following 5 questions, and no more, and record their responses in your field notes, which you will submit with your paper: 
1) How many races are there? 
2) What are those races? (Please list them.) 
3) What is your race? 
4) What is your gender? 
5) What is your age? 
Then, in a 3-to-4 page double-spaced paper, in Times New Roman 12 point font, no longer and no shorter, explain your results.
Do you observe any patterns of responses based on respondents’ cultures, sub-cultures, or any particular socioeconomic background?
What about gender?
What about age?
Do people of particular age groups respond in a similar way?
Why do you think you observed the responses that you did? 
How do the responses compare to the anthropological understanding of race, or to what you have learned in this course in the weekly lessons or in the textbook? 
Be sure to include quotations or paraphrases from the textbook and/or weekly lesson and parenthetical in-text citations to support your points in the paper. 

For your Week 3 paper, explore American foodways related to the Thanksgiving holiday, and compare and contrast them to the foodways of one named society of your choosing among foragers, horticulturalists, or pastoralists.
•    To remind you, foodways are described on page 97 of Chapter 5 in the textbook.
•    What “must” be in your own family’s Thanksgiving meal? What is typical in an American family’s meal? What “can’t” be in your own family’s Thanksgiving meal? How much of the Thanksgiving meal is produced/cultivated/grown by the people eating the meal, either in your family or in a typical American family? What is the gender division of labor of a typical American family’s Thanksgiving meal? How does that compare with the gender division of labor of your family’s Thanksgiving meal?
•    Compare and Contrast these observations regarding an American Thanksgiving meal with observations of foodways of a foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society of your choosing. The society you choose must be a specific named society of only foragers, horticulturalists, or pastoralists, preferably named in the Week 3 textbook reading (Shearn, 2020). What does a typical meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society look like? What does a celebratory meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society look like? How much of the typical or celebratory meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society is produced/cultivated/grown by the people eating the meal? What is the gender division of labor of a typical meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society?
•    Create a 1-to-3-page, double-spaced paper describing the foodways. The paper must be formatted in APA Style, with an APA-Style title page, page numbers in the upper right, headings, parenthetical in-text citations, and a reference page. The headings must be centered on the line and formatted in bold and in title case. Include at least the following headings: Thanksgiving Holiday American Foodways, Foodways of (name the foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society), and Conclusion.
•    Paraphrase or quote and cite from the textbook and from at least one additional scholarly, outside source to support your points in the paper.

Week 3: Assignment – Cultural Anthropology Foodways Paper
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For your Week 3 paper, explore American foodways related to the Thanksgiving holiday, and compare and contrast them to the foodways of one named society of your choosing among foragers, horticulturalists, or pastoralists.
•    To remind you, foodways are described on page 97 of Chapter 5 in the textbook.
•    What “must” be in your own family’s Thanksgiving meal? What is typical in an American family’s meal? What “can’t” be in your own family’s Thanksgiving meal? How much of the Thanksgiving meal is produced/cultivated/grown by the people eating the meal, either in your family or in a typical American family? What is the gender division of labor of a typical American family’s Thanksgiving meal? How does that compare with the gender division of labor of your family’s Thanksgiving meal?
•    Compare and Contrast these observations regarding an American Thanksgiving meal with observations of foodways of a foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society of your choosing. The society you choose must be a specific named society of only foragers, horticulturalists, or pastoralists, preferably named in the Week 3 textbook reading (Shearn, 2020). What does a typical meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society look like? What does a celebratory meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society look like? How much of the typical or celebratory meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society is produced/cultivated/grown by the people eating the meal? What is the gender division of labor of a typical meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society?
•    Create a 1-to-3-page, double-spaced paper describing the foodways. The paper must be formatted in APA Style, with an APA-Style title page, page numbers in the upper right, headings, parenthetical in-text citations, and a reference page. The headings must be centered on the line and formatted in bold and in title case. Include at least the following headings: Thanksgiving Holiday American Foodways, Foodways of (name the foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society), and Conclusion.
•    Paraphrase or quote and cite from the textbook and from at least one additional scholarly, outside source to support your points in the paper.