ease write a Rough Draft of the Final Essay (800 words is the minimum word count

ease write a Rough Draft of the Final Essay (800 words is the minimum word count expectation, but of course you can write a longer essay, 1000 words being the maximum word count expectation; both Text Entry and File Upload are OK, whatever you prefer). Please keep my feed-back to the Bullet Points Outline Assignment in Week Four in mind while you write this Draft.
In addition, I’m sure you remember that you provided a Bibliography/Works Cited Section for the Assignment in Week Four. Please, include that Bibliography/Works Cited Section in this assignment too. Please provide one quotation from any of the academic research references in the Bibliography/Works Cited Section, and highlight it; you must include an in-text citation as well as a mention of the source of the quotation as one of the entries in the Bibliography/Works Cited Section. If possible, please mention the quotation in the first paragraph. Don’t forget, please plan on including this quotation, its citation, and the full Bibliography/Works Cited Section in the Final Essay too!
Please make sure that you have at least one outside academic research reference in your Bibliography, that is, any published text, book, article, video, podcast, primary source etc. that can be presented as evidence in order to support your thesis (this reference must be in addition to your Perspectives textbook, and of course, you can mention the textbook too). In your Bibliography/Works Cited Section, you must mention the academic research reference/references is alphabetical order in a MLA format.
Option A: Choose One of the Following Topics
You chose one of the following topics in the Week Four Assignment and continued to write about it about in the Week Ten Assignment, please continue with the same topic:
1. Reciprocity and Redistribution of Products, Goods, and Services in Small-Scale Societies (with specific ethnographic examples)
2. Coming of Age Rites and Rituals (with specific ethnographic examples)
https://historycollection.com/18-memorable-coming-of-age-rituals-from-history/16/Links to an external site.
https://www.pbs.org/video/religion-and-ethics-newsweekly-upanayanam/Links to an external site.
3. Marriage Rites and Rituals (with specific ethnographic examples)
4. Birth Rites and Rituals (with specific ethnographic examples)
5. Death Rites and Rituals (with specific ethnographic examples)
6. Leisure vs Productivity in Foraging and Hunting Bands (with specific ethnographic examples)
7. Magic, Ritual and Religion (with specific ethnographic examples)
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8. Myths, Rituals, and Symbolism (with specific ethnographic examples)
9. Dying Indigenous Languages (with specific ethnographic examples)
10. Marriage, Kinship and Descent Rules in Pre-Industrial Communities (with any one specific ethnographic examples and kinship diagrams)
11. Gift Giving Customs (with specific ethnographic examples)
12. Human Universals (with specific ethnographic examples)
13. Anthropology, Globalization, and Emerging Forms of Circulation
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14. Traditional Medicine (with specific ethnographic examples)
15. Traditional Cuisines and Eating Utensils (with specific ethnographic examples)
16. Environmental Rights, Effects of Environmental Changes, and Indigenous Peoples (with specific ethnographic examples)
17. Code-Switching in Immigrant Communities (with specific ethnographic examples)
https://www.britannica.com/topic/code-switching
Code Switching EJ1179229.pdf Download Code Switching EJ1179229.pdf
18. Art and Anthropology (with specific ethnographic examples explained in detail)
19. Health, Wellness, and Disease in Different Cultures (with specific ethnographic examples)
20. Food, Nutrition, and Adaptation to the Environment (with specific ethnographic examples)
21. Music, Memory, and Cultural Continuity (with specific ethnographic examples)
22. Gangs vs. Fraternities vs. Families (with specific ethnographic examples)
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23. What will you do when your friend falls in love with Chat GPT?
NY Times Article About Bing ChatbotLinks to an external site.
24. There are numerous underdeveloped nations where piped water is not available; women and girls are given the responsibility to fetch water from nearby ponds, lakes, streams, river banks, water-tanks etc. in these communities. UNICEF estimates that these women and girls spend about 200 million hours every day collecting water. Do you think this is an obstacle in the proper education of young girls, and causes them to fall behind in school? Also, do you think that the huge number of hours logged for water-fetching might have been used in paid employment by the women concerned? (https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/unicef-collecting-water-often-colossal-waste-time-women-and-girls )
25. Traditional Attire and Modernity (resource:Why Do These Women Stretch Their Necks? | National Geographic
Links to an external site.26. Syncretism in Poetry and Performance: Amalgamation of Different and Distant Cultures in Cosmopolitan Poetic Works and Lyrics of Local Songs $WIKI_REFERENCE$/pages/amir-khusrau-syncretic-sufi-poet-from-delhi
27. Please present an Emic as well as an Etic perspective on the usual American festivities on Halloween. $WIKI_REFERENCE$/pages/the-anthropologists-perspective-on-halloween
28. Art can be a means to continue a community’s cultural heritage, to get in touch with one’s emotions, and to provide an ideal of absolute beauty to aspire for. Do you think that besides bringing cultural continuity, joy and emotional healing to our lives, artists also have a duty to fight for social justice as it relates to art? What about righting the wrongs of culture?
Please include in your Essay:
Title
Introductory paragraph discussing what you will write about in your essay and including a quotation from one of your research resources.
First body paragraph
Second body paragraph
Third body paragraph including at least one ethnographic example.
Concluding paragraph discussing what you wrote about in your essay
Works Cited/Bibliography (at least two Research References). All students must provide at least two academic research references, published texts, books, articles, videos, podcasts, primary sources etc. as evidence presented in order to support their thesis (one of these may be the course text-book). They will mention these academic research references in-text citations and also in a MLA format Works Cited Section/Bibliography at the end of the essay.
OR
Option B: Ethnographic Interview Essay
For those of you who chose to do the Interview Essay for which you provided Bullet Points in Week Four, and wrote a First Paragraph about in Week Ten, please continue with is project.
As you know, you are required to write a comprehensive essay in which you will employ anthropological field methods to observe, describe, and analyze an example of culturally conditioned behavior. You are required to immerse yourself in the field worker’s role through participant observation, interviewing, and collecting oral/life histories. Additionally, if possible, please get a (non-objectionable) photo of any object significant to your informant. The object should be selected by the interviewee herself/himself. The objective of this is to record stories connected to this object, and to spark reminisces of lived experiences as well discussions of current preoccupations.
Remember: each student must interview at least one person of his/her choosing, but there is the option to interview more informants, going up to a maximum of five informants.
If you are interested in Research Methods to collect data to write your essay, then you can refer to a free resources:
RESEARCH METHODS KNOWLEDGE BASE
by Prof William M.K. Trochim hosted by Conjoint.ly
Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, it is inadvisable to meet up in-person with anyone is not a member of your immediate household. Hence, if possible, please interview someone in your own household. Alternatively, you can do a Zoom-call/FaceTime/Skype/Whatsapp or make an ordinary audio-phone call to interview someone who is not part of your own household.
Please include:
Title
Introduction: Introduction of Main Topics of your Essay
Paragraph One: Description of Interviewee and discussion of When/Where/How the Interview was conducted
Paragraph Two: Discussion of a jist of the of Main Questions asked in Interview, and analysis of the Principle Answers of the informant
Paragraph Three: Discussion of Anthropological Interpretation of Findings and of the Relevance of your Findings to Concept of Cultural Conditioning/Socialization/Enculturation
Concluding Paragraph: What did you discover?
Works Cited/Bibliography (at least two Research References). All students must provide at least two academic research references, published texts, books, articles, videos, podcasts, primary sources etc. (one of these sources will be the Perspectives textbook), as evidence presented in order to support their thesis (one of these may be the course text-book). They will mention these academic research references in-text citations and also in a MLA format Works Cited Section/Bibliography at the end of the essay.
You can ask questions like (choose a few questions, maybe ten or so):
1. Who are you anthropologically (to which cultures do you feel connected)?
2. What is your cultures, please list the culture or cultures you identify being a part of.
3. How do you define your own culture(s)?
4. How do you know this is your culture? Who helped your belonging to this culture or these cultures?
5. Name a few favorite food dishes from the culture you identify with.
6. Have you ever been offered or eaten a food item that took you out of your comfort zone?
7. Define your culture. What cultures are you connected to? What history and heritage information do you have for yourself?
8. Do you feel connected to your culture? Why or why not?
9. Do your parents or grandparents feel more or less connected to the culture(s) you identify with?
10. Have you ever had the “Where are you from” question, and felt that it was used to make you feel different, uncomfortable, or like an outsider? What about the question or situation made you feel that way?
11. What language(s) do you speak?
12. Do you speak any dialects?
13. Do you use code-switching in your everyday conversations?
14. When exactly do you code-switch languages? Do you code-switch in a single speech event, maybe for specific words? Do you code-switch between speech events? Describe when and why you code-switch.
15. Have you ever been around people who code-switch in front of you? How did it make you feel?
16. If you speak only one language, do you wish to speak another language as well? Why?
17. What benefits would it give you to speak more than one language?
18. Do you have a job or are you training to obtain employment? Did your family or culture ever point you any particular career?
18. Do you give or receive gifts in your culture? If so when, why, and to whom?
19. Who do you count as family?
20. Are you married? Do you have children?
21. How do you define your own sex, gender, and sexuality? Do you think the way you dress helps to establish your gender identity (masculine, feminine, mixed, or neutral)?
21. Do you think it is easy for people to move up or down as far as their socio-economic class is concerned? What would you change that you think might help to change your class status?
21. Were you raised in any specific belief system or religion? Do you frequently worship or visit any house of worship or religious center?
21. What is your favorite sporting event or cultural event? Why do you like it?
21. Do you think your attire help in creating your identity? How do you dress? Do you have some favorite accessory or jewelry? Do you have a tattoo or body piercing?
22. Which country are you from? Where is your country? Who are its modern neighbors? Who colonized, or tried to colonize your country? When did your country gain its independence? Did your country colonize any other country? How were local cultures effected by colonial rule? What are the current challenges facing your country?
23. Please identify one of the favorite objects in your possession. When and where was it crafted/manufactured? Could you please provide a photo of it?
You can focus on issues like:
Interviewing older family members about whether their cultural conditioning played a role in how they chose their field or work/occupation.
Interviewing older family members about whether their cultural conditioning played a role in how they met and married their spouse.
Interviewing older family members about how their cultural conditioning during childhood and youth (child-rearing, educational practices, entry into job market etc.) led to their current values and norms.
Interviewing family members about cultural conditioning caused by religious/cultural/sports groups they have membership in.
Interviewing the members of any club/religious group/cultural group that you belong to about the cultural conditioning of that group—what does values and norms does that group espouse, and why?
Interview friends and family members about culturally conditioned response to interacting with individuals who are of a different race or religion/unwed mothers/undocumented immigrants/ people with disabilities/alcoholics or addicts/in occupations that are looked down upon by the social mainstream, such as prostitution.
Interview people from any particular culture/ethnicity/religion/nation of origin to find out how cultural conditioning during their upbringing shaped their current values and norms.
OR
Option C: Survey
Please conduct an online survey of at least ten people using Survey Monkey to find out which is their most favorite phone. Why? Which is their favorite app? Do they prefer any particular plan/network? Please draw a chart to show your data findings. Then interview at least one person in this group discussing his or her favorite phone, and why it is the favorite. Write an essay about the favorite phones of the people surveyed, and why it is the favorite, using quotes from the interview to explain and support your thesis. Please refer to the following article about the use of thick data in data analysis.
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Option D: Kinship Assignment
For the assignment, you will work on 2 kinship sheets (one for your mother’s side of the family and one for your father’s side). You will NOT turn in these sheets, but try and fill in as much as you can and keep for yourself and your family.
You will turn in a 800-100 word summary of your findings. This should include how you found the information you did, what, if anything was a surprise, and any other interesting facts about your family history and your research experience. You should cite at least one internet or library source besides the textbook for this course, Perspectives. Perspectives: “Chapter 3: Doing Fieldwork: Method in Cultural Anthropology”, and Chapter *:”Family and Marriage”
If you have step parents, just pick which parent to research: either biological or step.
Helpful information for you to trace your ancestors:
There are several free ancestry sites where you can find information.
Ancestry.com lets you have a 2 week free trial.
LDS website
https://www.familysearch.org/search/Links to an external site.
https://www.findagrave.com/Links to an external site.
If you know the county where a family member lived, go to the county genealogy page. There is no charge for this information. These sites are usually run by volunteers and are kind of informal, but they are good sources. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about:
http://genealogytrails.com/tex/pineywoods/madison/Links to an external site.
Don’t worry if you can only get back to your grandparents or great grandparents. If this is the case, you should find out as much as you can about them such as siblings, occupation, etc…It should be fairly easy to get information on these generations.
In order to obtain as much information as possible, you should consult the older members of your family. Write or record all they tell you—names, dates, locations. However, names are not all you need. Lead them to tell you family stories that have been passed down from generation to generation. Sometimes recalling these stories will trigger memories. Inquire about military service of any family member. Ask them about old bible records, letters, or other documents in the possession of your family. Copy any pictures that they give you and write down who is in the picture.
Attached Resources
Kinship Sheet: Ancestry.comLinks to an external site.
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EXAMPLE:
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