Category: Anthropology

Write a 3-4 page double-spaced essay, 12 point font + references. The essay should address this prompt: 
Ethnography, as Renato Rosaldo argued, is produced by positioned subjects. What is “positionality” and how does it shape the practice of ethnography?
Writing Instructions for the paper
The  introduction should include a thesis statement and a clear roadmap for the paper. The thesis statement should address the prompt and you should develop and support it based on your fieldwork (fieldnotes I took while sitting in a public cafe) and course readings.
To support your thesis, substantively engage with at least two course texts and your ethnographic exercise (I WILL ATTACH ALL MATERIALS BELOW).
Unless something is common knowledge (“cats don’t like water”), you should include a citation. Outside references are welcome but not required. 
Use author-date style when citing within your text (Perez 2017: 4) and for your reference list at the end of the essay.

For the final project in this course, you are making recommendations for a museum exhibit on human evolution. As the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document explains, you will step into the role of a biological anthropologist who has been asked to consult on a museum exhibit geared toward younger patrons, specifically high school students. The museum exhibit is entitled “Understanding Humans: How Did We Get Here?” Before you start on Milestone One, be sure that you have read all details of the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric document.
The final project has four total critical elements that will be covered throughout the course. They are titled Impact of Primate Evolution, Hominin Evolution, Impact of Culture and Environment, and Deconstructing Race. For this first milestone, you will work on the first critical element, Impact of Primate Evolution. Your specific goal in this milestone is to teach museum visitors about the impact of Primate evolution on modern Primates.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Impact of Primate Evolution
Identify prominent examples that illustrate major trends in non-human primate anatomical evolution and provide a detailed explanation as to why you recommend the museum exhibit these primates. How do your chosen species demonstrate the major events of primate anatomical evolution?
Analyze the anatomy of your chosen primate species and discuss the relationship between anatomical evolution and modern primate behaviors. What connections can you see between the primate anatomy and modern primate behaviors?
Identify examples from the fossil record that illustrate evidence of the evolutionary split between apes and monkeys and, later, between apes and humans. How do these examples illustrate the major differences between apes, monkeys, and humans today? What are the behaviors of these extinct species?
What ethical considerations are involved in deciding what information or items to display? For example, would it be better to use captive live animals to demonstrate primate behavior versus videos of primates in their natural habitat? Why? Are there any ethical considerations related to how the museum might obtain Primate anatomical specimens or replicas?

Drawing on case studies and readings attached (you do not need to use all of them, you may use as many as you want to), provide evidence for how race and gender are socially constructed ideas rather than “natural” (biological) differences. How have ideas of race and gender come about?   
Videos about race:
The myth of race, debunked in 3 minutes 

What is Good Hair? Tyra (7 min) 

Preconceived Notions about Race, Tyra (7 min)

The Problem w/ White Beauty Standards

Aamer Rahman – Reverse Racism 

Videos about gender:
India’s Third Gender Movement (14 min)

The Third Gender: Muxes (10 min) 

She is My Son: Afghanistan’s Bacha Posh, When Girls Become Boys (26 min)

This is my Historical Archaeology Class. For my final research paper, I need to do 10 pages.
This is my introduction/thesis:
The transatlantic slave trade is one of the most dreadful chapters in human history, with millions of Africans forced to flee, brutalized, and exploited over centuries. While historical documents are crucial for understanding this time period, they frequently miss or downplay enslaved Africans’ agency and resistance. However, modern scholarship has increasingly recognized the need of looking into incidents of resistance and insurrection on slave ships as critical components of comprehending the lived experiences of those subjected to the horrors of the Middle Passage. Through an examination of archaeological evidence, this research paper aims to demonstrate that instances of resistance and revolt by enslaved Africans on board slave ships were pervasive and multifaceted. By analyzing material culture recovered from these ships, this study seeks to illuminate the lived experiences of enslaved individuals, the strategies they employed to resist oppression, and the broader implications of their resistance within the context of the transatlantic slave trade. Ultimately, this paper argues that archaeological evidence offers unique insights into the agency, resilience, and collective action of enslaved Africans during one of the darkest chapters in human history.
Must use fact checked scholary sources. I have added some sources that I would like to use.

This project will consist of a research paper derived from library research on the topic of your choice. But, naturally, the paper should have an anthropological approach appropriate to the area of study you will undertake.
The objective of this project is for you to improve your research, writing, and analytical skills. Although you may have already written papers for other courses, we will pay particular attention to the way anthropological papers are written. This includes a rather stereotypical structure, citation style, and the critical use of information derived from academic journal articles. In terms of structure and style, in the social sciences, we have particular values which include:
Clear expository style rather than use of symbolism, allegory, or metaphor
Concise expression of ideas
Repetition of information in the abstract, introduction, and conclusion
Attention to formatting, proper citations, and robust bibliography
Your research paper needs to present data and information drawn from your sources. However, a vital part of the paper is your analysis and interpretation based on the material you have read. Your paper needs to answer a question that you pose to the literature. A review of the literature in your paper should organize and summarize what is known about your topic. Then, you should interpret the data by providing a critical discussion of the topic and research question already covered. Using your own cognitive powers, analytical skills, and critical thinking, evaluate the issues revealed from your bibliography research. You should provide the reader with a new interpretation of the data, expose biases in the literature, or suggest areas for future research.
Do not merely “report” on what you have read. You must subject your bibliographic information to a careful study and think about the deeper meaning of the topic to the construction of anthropological knowledge.
Nuts and Bolts
An acceptable paper will be at least 2000 words in length (base line for a C). An excellent paper will be detailed, yet concise. You should aim for 3000 words at least for an A grade.
Use the Chicago style guide to format citations and the bibliography (link below)
Scholarly journal articles are the gold standard for bibliographic research. A solid review of the literature is required. This may require as many as 20 sources.
Paper sections
Abstract – a short overview of the paper
Introduction – present your thesis/research question posed to the literature. Here you are going to tell the reader what they will be reading.
Subsequent sections will present the information from your literature review and provide the context for your thesis. These sections are the “meat” of the paper. This is where you tell the reader what the issue/problem is in detail.
If you present competing theories, be sure to provide the evidence for each. Then evaluate the evidence. This is the creative element of the paper. This distinguishes the write as a researcher rather than just a reporter.
Discussion – in this section you should present your interpretation of the data/theories/issues. Suggest limitations of the data sets, alternative models, or perspectives.
Conclusion – wrap up the paper with summary points. No new information should be introduced here. The conclusion tells the reader what they just read – tell them what the major takeaways are from the paper.
End notes. Do not use bottom of the page footnotes. I don’t like them.
Bibliography with full information in AAA style.
Appendices: images, graphs, charts.
Source material
As indicated above, you need to rely on scholarly journal articles. These are peer-reviewed and vetted by the scholarly community. You are already familiar with the main peer-reviewed journals in anthropology:
American Antiquity
Current Anthropology
American Anthropologist
American Jn of Physical Anthropology
Annual Review of Anthropology (this is a good place to start since you will be crafting a paper similar to the kinds of articles found in this journal).
Evolutionary Anthropology
Of course, there are numerous journals that peer-reviewed and focus on more specific topics, such as:
Human organization (by Society for Applied Anthropology)
Feminist Anthropology
Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society
Religion and Society

Read and critically analyze “Eating Christmas in the Kalahari
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” by Richard Lee.  Natural History. 1969.  A scholarly essay (approximately 500-750 words) is to be constructed addressing the following questions.
To which field of anthropology would this article be assigned? Why? (one to two sentences)
Which other anthropology field could it be assigned? Why? (one to two sentences)
How does it apply to class lectures with specific and detailed examples? (six to ten sentences)
How can the information apply to your Personal or Professional, and Academic/Social experiences in the world? (four to six sentences)
Discuss a particular point that you found interesting. Why? (two to four sentences)  
While writing the essay, include the answers to the following questions and try to “think outside the box.” Do not limit answers to the obvious, superficial response. Stretch your intellect to explore other lecture areas and test to see if they apply to these particular articles. The expectation for the essay is coherent, logical, relevant arguments and insights to fully demonstrate the student’s mastery of the anthropological concepts discussed in this unit.
Guidelines
Essay assignments should conform to MLA formatLinks to an external site. and cite the associated reading/resource. 
Use a 12-point font.
Use double spacing, so there is room for me to write comments.
Include your last name in the filename (example: Unit-1 AS1 Smith.) 
It should be a Word (.doc or .docx) format file.

Explain three cultural practices to someone who has not encountered these cultures before. How would you explain these cultural practices from a cultural relativist perspective?
Provide (1) a detailed description and analysis of each selected case (How is this practice meaningful to the culture?)  
(2) explain the difference between an ethnocentric and a cultural relativist perspective.
Cultural practice #1: Young girls force fed in Mauritania 

Cultural practice #2: when brothers share a wife  
[reading attached]
Cultural practice #3: Divorce Iranian style: 

Source about cultural relativist perspective: 

I’m writing an essay about loris’ venom. I have 5 articles
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10536643/
https://jvat.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1678-9199-19-21#Sec2
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/science/slow-loris-venom.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/adorable-little-furballs-death-slow-lorises-use-their-venomous-bites-against-each-other-180976111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7076782/
I also started it.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mr4BzS2xIbdboQvosFND82IXcnCFiMmWyi6mVYWGvyY/edit?usp=sharing

Write a 3 page APA style format on recycling use on a college campus. Answer and attach three interviews from students. Follow instructions from attachments on knowledge and use of recycling. And use the questioners from assignment instructions.

Recruit a person who is not associated with this class for a brief 10-15 minutes interview. Your primary goal during the interview will be to learn how your informant defines  “culture” and what they think it’s most important elements or functions are. Take notes while conducting the interview. Use your notes to create an interview report. In your report include the following:
A brief description of your interview subject and how you know them. For example, “Bob is a 35 year old auto-mechanic who grew up in the Bay Area. We first met when…”. Protect their privacy by using only their first name when addressing them and do not provide any identifying information such their place of residence, work, etc.
Tell us what you learned about how your informant defines culture and what they think are its most important elements and functions. You can directly quote your informant, but the bulk of the writing/talking should be you explaining what your informant had to say. Don’t just create a transcript of what they said, but rather explain and interpret their response for us.
Include at least one direct quote of something your informant said in response to a question.
Tell us what you found to be the most interesting or challenging aspect of the interview process.