Anthropology

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_f8DmU-gQQ Jeffrey Jensen Arnett: Emerging Adulthood Watch the following video, then answer the questions below completely. All resources should be correctly cited in APA format.  We have often heard the statement, “Thirty is the new twenty.” What do you believe this to mean, particularly in the 21st century? Are you meeting the milestones in life you thought you would at your age? If not, what are you doing to change your path? Use support from the video and your book and the internet to support your response.

This assignment asks you to engage in applied medical anthropology regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the articles and review the slides. Then write an essay of 800-100 words that analyzes the articles provided. You may include any other materials you wish.   You should have an in-text citation from the articles in each paragraph. This will help you support your argument and keep you on topic.  The essay should incorporate answers to the following questions: Why applied medical anthropology to view the crisis? Is this the best theory to apply to NYC? Why or why not? How does the theoretical orientation apply to NYC?  How might emotional states of individuals contribute to symptoms?   Have you noticed changes in yourself, and those around you, supported by the literature? Include interview information about these changes (or lack of) from two other people. These individuals may be members of your household, friends, coworkers, or anyone else you choose. (you can make these up Q’s and Answers, doesn’t matter) Attached are the articles and powerpoints to refer to.

Essay Topic How has the environment been a factor in human evolution?  How has the environment transformed humans and their ancestors, both biologically and culturally?   You will be graded on your understanding of the readings and your ability to integrate the information.  Good anthropological writing is based on details.  Make your answer as completely as possible.  This essay is worth 14% of your total grade- more than two quizzes and more than several blogs.  Do not underestimate the significance of this assignment for your grade. deMenocal,  Peter B., 2019, ‘Climate Shocks’, Scientific American, special edition- Fall 2019: 10-15. Marean, Curtis W., 2019, ‘When the Sea Saved Humanity’, Scientific American, special edition- Fall 2019: 25-31.   Write the essay.  The essay should be written professionally and cleanly.  You can use any editing style that you feel comfortable with or have used in the past.  No bibliography is needed for this essay.  It would help if you focused your writing on the assigned readings.  Be sure also to support the essay readings with information from the classified section on ‘Human Evolution.’  You must demonstrate to me your overall comprehension of human evolution. No quotations!  Your overall score will be lowered by 10 points for each line of quotes.   The essay has no word minimum or maximum.  It would help if you wrote an essay long enough to complete the assignment thoroughly.   You need to discuss the specifics of the two articles.  Three-time periods are reviewed in the article: 2.9 to 2.4 million years ago 1.9 to 1.6 million years ago 195,000 years ago until 123,000 years ago  Describe what happened in each time period! What were the environmental changes?  You need to discuss four different species: Australopithecus afarensis, Paranthropus sp., early Homo, and Homo sapiens.  Discuss all four. Which one fits with which time period?  Tell me how they changed physically, behaviorally, and culturally.  Submitting your paper for grading: You will access “Turnitin” on the class Blackboard.  Upload your essay to this program.  I will not accept the essay in any other form.  The program will not work with Apple Safari.   Do not copy text from another source. This website allows a comparison of your work with internet sources, published articles, and the papers of millions of other students throughout the U.S. and Europe.  The information is private and can only be accessed by the student and your professor.  It is a straightforward program.  After the analysis, Turnitin will submit a score and list similar sources.  If the score is over 18%, I will review the paper carefully for plagiarized materials.     Grading Rubric for Essays Content: 50% Clearly understands the assignment. Covers to all aspects of the assignment. Information and support for the information are accurate and integrated.  Claims and ideas are supported and thoroughly discusses  Alternative perspectives are carefully considered and represented.   Thinking: 30% Connections between and among ideas are made. Analysis/synthesis/evaluation/interpretation is effective and consistent. Independent thinking is evident. Creativity/originality is evident.   Presentation: 20% The objectives and rationale are consistent. The final presentation shows evidence of careful preparation. The student has demonstrated care with punctuation, grammar, and spelling.   If you have any questions or concerns about this project, please email me.

Please note that the deadline is one hour and 30 minutesPlease answer all the questions belowq1. Some anthropologists argue that linguistic suppression can be equated with cultural suppression.  Explainq2. Cultures vary in how they understand how the body works.  Compare and contrast the personalistic versus the naturalistic explanation of disease and illness, health and well-being.  Explain how these two perspectives inform different health practices and customs.q3. Using examples from around the world, discuss why anthropologists choose to view gender as a continuum rather than as a binary model.q4. When reflecting upon what you learned, discuss how this course has made you examine aspects of your own culture that you had previously deemed ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ and now understand as ‘cultural’. 

In this week we met the members of the genus Homo, our genus. We watched over millions of years as species changed in response to climate and environmental factors. Our species is quite special. We are so intelligent and so innovative, that we have certainly outsmarted natural selection in some ways. For instance, if you have light skin you don’t have to stay in the north, you can simply wear sunscreen. Or if you are tall with long limbs, you don’t have to avoid cold climates, you can simply wear warm clothes. This has caused many people to assume that our species has stopped evolving, but is this true? It certainly is not! For this discussion, please research one example of how our species is still currently evolving. It must be a real example based on the scholarly reading. By scholarly I prefer peer-reviewed from the library, but it must at least have an author and a reference list. How does the article suggest we are evolving? What evidence do they present? Explain why we would be evolving in this way. Provide a proper reference in APA for your resource

This should be a review paper, where the writer can search for literature regarding mega-development projects under the umbrella of China Pakistan Economic Corridor. The review paper will be carried out to gather the work of researchers on mega development projects especially related to China Pakistan Economic Corridor. To discuss the themes these researchers discussed regarding mage development projects such as both challenges and opportunities brought by mega development projects for the local population in different regions of Pakistan. This critical review will highlight the emerging themes in already published work and will identify the areas that yet to be studied. Study design: Review. Methods: An overview of studies on mega development projects including those of China Pakistan Economic Corridor and the Belt and Road initiative projects via searches on scholarly databases that intend to locate material of anthropological relevance. Main focus: The literature review should focus mainly on both challenges and opportunities brought by different construction and other mega projects to the people where the projects were launched. The writer should develop good arguments in light of the literature review to support or reject the existing literature reviewed arguments. Themes such as challenges and opportunities by mega development projects mean how mega-development projects in Pakistan brought problems for the local people where it is launched. For example, people are displaced but not compensated properly. Their socio-cultural set up disturbed. Their cultural identity faded away. They did not get proper opportunities from the projects. There is increased socio-economic inequalities brought by these mega-development ventures. Land-use changes in these areas and how much land-use changes affect people socially, culturally and economically, environmental problems brought by such projects, urbanization of the area and influx of migrants to the area and many more bad effects and challenges, etc. Opportunities brought by such mega projects mean how these projects globalized the locality and how it gives new opportunities to the local people. How people are transformed from their traditional professions and they are getting new job opportunities to adjust to the change. How it brought migrants to the area which not only brought challenges for local people but also some opportunities. These and other related sub-themes should be sorted out under two broader themes (Challenges and opportunities). If the existing literature did not touch many of these areas then what kind of themes and areas these studies touched and what other areas are remained to be researched such as many of the above areas might not be touched by existing literature. Another important aspect to discuss in this review paper is why the mega-development projects brought so many problems for local people while fewer opportunities for them. The already published literature might identify some problems in the implementation of these projects that’s why it brought many problems for local people during and after implementations. These problems might be top-down policies in the projects implementations, authoritarian policies, less participation of local people in the evaluations of the project and post implementations, state problems such as state may use such projects for political purposes, corruption problems and many more policy aspects problems should be sought out in the existing literature. Furthermore, how can you recommend what such areas are not discussed by existing literature and need to be researched in order to improve development-related policies in Pakistan? You should also be focused on which areas such studies were conducted and in which areas/region of Pakistan no or less such studies were conducted regarding mega-development projects and its positive and negative impacts. You should also focus to review the literature on how people resist such mega-development projects and how the Pakistani state deal with the resistance of the local people. Whether the state authorities are democratic or authoritarian to local responses.

1) Mendel did experiments where he kept track of seed color (yellow or green). First, he created true breeding lines: parents with green seeds produced offspring with green seeds, and parents with yellow seeds produced offspring with yellow seeds. When he crossed yellow with green peas from these true-breeding lines (F0 generation), all of the offspring were yellow. a) For the peas what is the gene? And what are the alleles? b) How many plants in the F1 generation are green c) What is the phenotype of the F1 generation? d) When he crossed members of the F1 generation what was the phenotypic ratio? e) If he crossed plants 800 times from the F1 generation how many would be green? f) What is the phenotypic ratio of the F2 generation? g) What would be the genotypic ratio had he backcrossed members of the F1 generation with individuals from the true green breeding line? h) If he did this 1000 times approximately how many of the plants would be green? 2) Describe the concept of the Lamarkian inheritance of acquired characteristics, and explain why you think it is incorrect. Look up the concept of epigenetics and tell me why Lamarck may in fact have been correct!!!

page 1 Late hominin drawing (2my and younger) Draw one fossil hominin species that lived between 2 million years ago and present. List the following on your drawing: Scientific name when it lived where it lived brain size canine size molar size leg length List any other features it has that are relevant to reconstructing its behavior, and indicate the reconstructed behavior (e.g., long, curved fingers –> probably somewhat arboreal). page 2 Draw one fossil hominin species that lived between 2 and 4 million years ago. List the following on your drawing: Scientific name when it lived where it lived brain size canine size molar size leg length List any other features it has that are relevant to reconstructing its behavior, and indicate the reconstructed behavior (e.g., long, curved fingers –> probably somewhat arboreal). page 3 Draw one fossil hominin species that lived before 4 million years ago. List the following on your drawing: Scientific name when it lived where it lived brain size canine size molar size leg length List any other features it has that are relevant to reconstructing its behavior, and indicate the reconstructed behavior (e.g., long, curved fingers –> probably somewhat arboreal).

use the link to go to the website and answer the questions below: https://www.npr.org/2011/06/27/137342682/the-end-of-gender 1. Lise Eliot is quoted as saying “sex differences are real and some are probably present at birth, but then social factors magnify them.” What does this statement mean? Do you agree? Why or why not? 2. The author says that Americans excel at breaking down divisions. Do you agree with this statement? Provide examples in your answer. 3. Physician Leonard Sax has stated that “ignoring gender won’t make it go away.” Is a gender-neutral society one that ignores gender? 4. Is it necessary for a society to become gender-neutral in order for all citizens to be considered equal? Why or why not? 5. Are we moving toward an end of gender? Why or why not?

The 1849 California Gold Rush attracted miners from across the United States and around the world to seek their fortunes. Camp Salvado was established on the flat top of Shawmut Grade, not far from what was once Woods Creek (now part of the Don Pedro Reservoir), by a group of miners from El Salvador (Figure 1). A few months later, another camp was founded about 1.5 miles to the northwest by a group of Cantonese miners after they were forced out of Camp Salvado; it became known as Chinese Camp. These camps were similar in many ways. Each was occupied for about five years, then abandoned; each was occupied by about 500 people, mostly young men; each procured its food from the countryside and from the provisioning town of Jamestown (5-6 miles to the north along a dirt road). Excavations are underway at Chinese Camp and Camp Salvado, and you have been asked to analyze and compare the faunal assemblages from each site, summarized in the attached Excel table (the table has two tabs, one for Chinese Camp and one for Camp Salvado). First you will need to calculate the Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) of each species for each of the two assemblages. From those results, calculate the Flesh Weight (FW) of each species for each of the two assemblages. Finally, in 1-2 pages (Times, 12 point, double-spaced), evaluate how different or similar the diets were at the two communities. Your interpretation of the data should take into account: The importance of meat in the overall diet The diversity of animals in the assemblage The ratio of wild to domesticated animals Why there might be evidence for preferences for particular species What is the relevance of butchering marks: Were the animals represented in the assemblage eaten by the camps’ inhabitants? Are there patterns in which bones are being processed? If the animals were not being butchered, did they serve some other function at the camp? Conclude your interpretation with a paragraph about how this kind of faunal analysis, based on MNI and Flesh Weight, can help us understand diet at the mining camps, and what this kind of analysis might be missing or misrepresenting. *Adapted from Barber (1994: 93-106)