Anthropology

Describe an aspect of your own culture from an etic (outsider’s) perspective in Part I of the paper. Describe an aspect of another culture from an emic (insider’s) perspective in Part II of the paper. Apply cultural relativism in order to examine misconceptions about culture that may occur due to ethnocentrism. Keep the distinction between cultural relativism and moral relativism in mind as you write your final paper. Even if you do not personally agree with a cultural practice, explain how the practice makes sense in its cultural context. Avoid opinionated or judgmental language in your paper. Analyze your chosen aspect in terms of how it developed as part of a social system within both your culture and another culture. Analyze your chosen aspect in terms of its purpose as part of a social system both within your own culture and another culture.

This is an essay and requires multiple paragraphs to answer. Explain how humans evolved over the past 7 million years, Include the names of relevant species that are in our lineage and the particular attributes that they possessed.

The course will be assessed on the basis of a summative essay, of up to 3000 words. (1) Critically assess the contribution and potential of Funerary Archaeology to add to our understanding of SOCIETY in Later Prehistory. You may wish to consider, but are not limited to, themes such as memory, hierarchies and inequalities, social organisation, isotopes/aDNA evidence and mourning and grief. Choose one period, Neolithic Or Bronze Age Or Iron Age. Use case studies to support your arguments.  OR (2) Critically assess the contribution and potential of Funerary Archaeology to add to our understanding of IDENTITY in Later Prehistory. You may wish to consider, but are not limited to, themes such as age, sex, gender, grave goods and the treatment of the corpse. Choose one period, Neolithic Or Bronze Age Or Iron Age. Use case studies to support your arguments. Summative essay advice Two things will make your essay really stand out. Firstly the level of detail. Each case study you use to illustrate your answer should be fully discussed, and plenty of relevant detail given; you have to be very careful not to go into irrelevant detail. Secondly, your essay should have a very strong argument running all the way through it, demonstrating that you have really thought about the question. This is a formal piece of academic writing, and one of your last chances to practice the art before you submit your dissertation. For that reason, it is essential that you understand and apply all the key conventions. Thus, the essay should be written in good, scholarly English, be illustrated where relevant (with illustrations correctly accredited, and referred to in the text), and it must be fully referenced, following departmental guidelines. The difference between a 2.2 and a 2.1 is often whether there is a strong argument (description alone – however detailed – may only get you a 2.2). We are testing you on the breadth and depth of your learning and critical thinking. If you are in any doubt about what we mean by this look at the grade descriptors again, but also have a look at all the learning guides on the VLE on the skills tabs or the Academic Integrity website, which also has a variety of links to academic writing.

This assignment requires that you interview someone other than yourself about experiences of migration, globalization, assimilation, and exclusion. You will then write a summary and analysis of your interview, which will be what you submit. The ideal subject for this interview would be one of the following: A friend or family member who migrated to a country other than the country of their birth A friend of family member who is a second generation in a migrant family (their parents migrated, and they were born and raised in the new country) Someone who is not a migrant but who has spent a significant period of time living or working in a country that is not the country of their birth (i.e. studying abroad, working abroad, participating in a service program). Please note these are more significant engagements than your average tourist experience, which is typically too short to provide the depth of experience that we want to ask about here. Note that many of your classmates meet these criteria. If you do not have someone in your immediate friends or family who you would like to interview, you could post a request on the class discussion board to ask for a volunteer who would agree to be interviewed either in person or via skype.   Interview Instructions: Plan for the interview to take at least 30 minutes. You will want to ask about the following things: Their experiences crossing cultural boundaries How they compare the 2 different cultures How much they identify with either one (including why and how) What role do cultural symbols and practices play in establishing that identification The different ways that they experience assimilation and exclusion in the host culture. Whether they feel like they are part of a diasporic community (that is, a community of people who have a similar experience of cultural displacement)? If so, what is that community and how do they participate in it. Any other questions you come up with. You will want to take notes and maybe record the interview for reference. Be aware that people’s experiences of migration are incredibly diverse, and there might be immense variation in the responses from different interview subjects in this class.   Analysis/Writing instructions: Write a summary of the interview that includes an analysis exploring the interviewee’s experience in relation to class concepts. A good analysis will show competency in at least 2 concepts drawn from lecture, film, or reading, connecting these to the interview and explaining how they apply. Please be sure in your summary to identify your interview subject and explain how they meet the criteria for this assignment. Although the writing should be primarily about your interview subject, you may find it helpful to compare their experiences to the experiences of crossing cultural boundaries that you and your classmates described during in-lecture assignment in week 2. (It would be especially interesting to note differences and explore why such differences might exist). You will probably need at least 1 single spaced page to adequately cover the content. (2 page max). My family is Korean. I moved to America at first grade I’m only child (male) Please write a made up interview about my parent

Do humans have an innate tendency to oversimplify things? How might this be a problem and/or a benefit? And if we do oversimplify, is that tendency a biologically-coded human universal–baked right into the structure of our brains?

Activity 2 – FILM: !Nai: Story of a K! ung Woman  • INSTRUCTIONS  • After reading your chapters and watching the film as well as reviewing the lecture, please DESCRIBE in one paragraph (5-10 sentences) the following, Using as much TERMINOLOGY from lecture and readings as possible:  – What are the changes to the political and economic systems for Nai and her group?  – What cultural practices were lost among the !Kung people during this rapid development? Full points are awarded for correctly utilizing at least 2 concepts (designated in bold) from this Lecture or the corresponding chapters.

First of all, note that your essay needs to be global in scope, and should describe religion in the most simplest and universal terms. You are neither asked to describe what your religion is, nor which religion is the “one true religion”, but rather how we might define the term “religion” in a way that encompasses as much of the human experience as possible. Thus, you should make an honest attempt to define “religion” is a way that accounts for all religions (as far as your knowledge permits) and not just a few, and not just your own. Be sure to defend your argument. Based on what you know, why does your definition of religion make sense? Concrete examples from several specific religions may help illustrate your argument.The early reading assignments in Winzeler should help. I will expect you to incorporate some insights from the readings into your essay.Be sure to use “introduction-body-conclusion” format. Write 2-3 double-spaced pages with one inch margins in MS Word and submit through Turnitin in this module. Please review the information on the link for citing sources using AAA style (Chicago Style Author/Date).  The scores will be broken down as follows:  30 points for correct citations and style, 30 points for mechanics such as proper spelling and grammar, 40 points for content and organization. Please see the Rubric in the link provided for details.

Lab reports in this class will reflect academic publications. For each report you are required to write a brief introduction, materials/methods, results, and discussion/conclusion. Your report should be in the ballpark of 1,000 words. Introduction: This section should review the context of the lab, the research question, and significance. Essentially you will tell me what the research is about, what the goals are, and why it is of interest. This is not to be treated as bullet points. Introductions are designed to keep the readers interest.  Materials/Methods: This section can be a bit more cut-and-dry. Explain the research design (what is the procedure), what data is being used and why. Results: The results section is also straightforward. Simply report on the data. You do not need to interpret the data here, just express how it worked out. Discussion/Conclusion: Here is where you can interpret the data and pair it with your introduction. Thus, you will reflect on how your goals were achieved, the answer to your research question, and how the outcome is significant to our understanding of the larger context. In this section you will need to apply concepts from the previous readings/lectures of this unit. Please reflect on our lessons and identify where some concepts apply to this lab. For any concept you reference there should be a definition and an explanation of its application to the current study. Natural Selection and the Galapagos Finches Access the Lab Exercise from Lab 2: Genetics and Evolution of Human Populations. Read the background content and complete the lab exercise. I suggest taking notes through the whole process (it isn’t overly demanding). Pay attention to the context of the research, its significance, all dataset material, and the conclusions. You should ask yourself, “what did I learn from this?” and “how does this relate to our previous lesson?”.   In this activity, you are studying finch variation on Daphne Major during the 1977 drought. It becomes immediately apparent that some finches are dying from drought conditions while some are not. You want to know why. It has already been long established that finches are variable in beak size and so you want to determine whether or not beak size is influencing the survivorship of these birds. To do so, you begin measuring the beak depth of living and recently dead individuals.  After 35 measurements, you have a good idea of which beak shapes survived the drought and which ones did not. Thus, you have calculated what percentage of individuals with each beak depth survived. To convey the survivorship, you plot your data on a graph using a subsample of eight individuals. You plot each beak size from the subsample according to how many individuals (from the larger sample) survived the drought.  The results of this study should reflect a survivorship curve. This is a graphical representation of the number of individuals within a population that survive to a given age or through a catastrophic event. The data gleaned from the survivorship curve will then allow you to interpret how selection is acting on the Finch population of Daphne Major (the Lab material mistakenly labeled the island as Daphne Mayor…typos happen).  The results of your study must be conveyed in the format of a short academic paper. See the parameters above. I also have the lab video that could help

We might consider the origin, dispersal, and growth of Homo sapiens populations, such that our own species now occupies virtually all regions of the earth, to be the earliest form of globalization. Today, globalization is characterized by the movement of ideas and products between the individuals and societies that make up our worldwide population. How does the process of globalization affect human biocultural variation and evolution? (Hint: Think about the ways in which changes in nutrition and technology have an impact on health and lifestyle across a wide range of population settings.) *at the end of every paragraph please put the person’s name and years for every source you use.

The topic is broad. The Anthropology of Modern slavery around the world, wherever and however it exists today. human trafficking, child labor, domestic workers, forced labor, etc. The paper is for a cultural anthropology class. I did tell her I’d have a film source, but that’s not necessary. I also told her I was reading Modern Slavery by Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd, and Alex Kent Williamson, but again, not necessary to use this book as a source. She did not give me a specific amount of sources needed, so just however many you need for the paper should work. I definitely need sources though. I put 3 sources in the source box, just to make sure I have at least 3. This is her words: For the citation format, please use the AAA style guide (based on the Chicago Manual of Style), NOT MLA. Here is a link: https://www.americananthro.org/StayInformed/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=2044