Category: Anthropology

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.
REFERENCE FROM: Chapter 9: Race and Ethnicity
in
Brown, Tubelle de Gonzalez, and McIlwraith (2020)

Create a 1-to-3-page, double-spaced paper describing emic and etic perspectives of the holiday of Halloween in the United States.
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. Paraphrase or quote and cite from the textbook and from at least one additional scholarly, outside source to support your points in the paper. Include at least the following headings: Emic Perspectives of Halloween, Etic Perspectives of Halloween, and Conclusion.

To write this paper, consider the following points:
Page 288, in the Religion chapter (Chapter 11) of your textbook, asserts that, “. . . to study supernatural beliefs, anthropologists must cultivate a perspective of cultural relativism and strive to understand beliefs from an emic or insider’s perspective” (Henninger-Rener, 2020)
Analyze the beliefs of people in the United States regarding the holiday of Halloween. Analyze beliefs about Halloween from both the emic, or insider’s perspective, and from the etic, or outsider’s or observer’s perspective.
While writing on this subject, consider customs, traditions, rituals, or practices that some Americans participate in to celebrate Halloween. Describe some of those customs, traditions, rituals, or practices and their significance from both an emic, or insider’s, perspective and from an etic, or outsider’s or observer’s perspective.
What meanings do the celebrations surrounding Halloween have for people celebrating the holiday?
Do these meanings vary among celebrants?
Do these meanings vary across sub-cultural groups, genders, or age grades or age sets?
Feel free to explain Halloween from the perspective of Americans who do not choose to celebrate the holiday. What meanings does Halloween have for such Americans?
What does it mean to reject a holiday or to choose to not celebrate a particular holiday?
What meanings does that have for the individuals themselves and what meanings might be apparent from an etic, or outsider’s or observer’s perspective?
What about celebrations that are described as alternatives to Halloween, such as harvest celebrations in the United States, for example, offered around or near October 31st?
What is the significance of such celebrations for those participating and what meanings might be apparent from an etic, or outsider’s or observer’s perspective?
REFERENCE ONLY FROM Chapter 11: Religion
in
Brown,Tubelle de Gonzalez, and McIlwraith (2020)

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.
REFERENCE FROM: Chapter 9: Race and Ethnicity
in
Brown, Tubelle de Gonzalez, and McIlwraith (2020)

Create a 1-to-3-page, double-spaced paper describing emic and etic perspectives of the holiday of Halloween in the United States.
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. Paraphrase or quote and cite from the textbook and from at least one additional scholarly, outside source to support your points in the paper. Include at least the following headings: Emic Perspectives of Halloween, Etic Perspectives of Halloween, and Conclusion.

To write this paper, consider the following points:
Page 288, in the Religion chapter (Chapter 11) of your textbook, asserts that, “. . . to study supernatural beliefs, anthropologists must cultivate a perspective of cultural relativism and strive to understand beliefs from an emic or insider’s perspective” (Henninger-Rener, 2020)
Analyze the beliefs of people in the United States regarding the holiday of Halloween. Analyze beliefs about Halloween from both the emic, or insider’s perspective, and from the etic, or outsider’s or observer’s perspective.
While writing on this subject, consider customs, traditions, rituals, or practices that some Americans participate in to celebrate Halloween. Describe some of those customs, traditions, rituals, or practices and their significance from both an emic, or insider’s, perspective and from an etic, or outsider’s or observer’s perspective.
What meanings do the celebrations surrounding Halloween have for people celebrating the holiday?
Do these meanings vary among celebrants?
Do these meanings vary across sub-cultural groups, genders, or age grades or age sets?
Feel free to explain Halloween from the perspective of Americans who do not choose to celebrate the holiday. What meanings does Halloween have for such Americans?
What does it mean to reject a holiday or to choose to not celebrate a particular holiday?
What meanings does that have for the individuals themselves and what meanings might be apparent from an etic, or outsider’s or observer’s perspective?
What about celebrations that are described as alternatives to Halloween, such as harvest celebrations in the United States, for example, offered around or near October 31st?
What is the significance of such celebrations for those participating and what meanings might be apparent from an etic, or outsider’s or observer’s perspective?
REFERENCE ONLY FROM Chapter 11: Religion
in
Brown,Tubelle de Gonzalez, and McIlwraith (2020)

Throughout the quarter, you will incrementally work on a research proposal focused on a topic of your choosing (within the broad framework of the class). The research proposal will help you develop your final essay for this course. Even if you do not plan to pursue research in the field of “Anthropology of Latin America,” the assignment is designed to provide you with experience exploring open-ended topics, refining a research thesis, and situating your work in relation to other scholars working in the field.
A central part of any research proposal is a literature review that outlines key discussions or themes in a relevant body of scholarship to situates your work as in conversation with the academic literature. Your research topic must take place in Latin American and must be related to the themes of the course.
Your annotated bibliography must include at least five peer-reviewed scholarly works (must include at least one ethnography).
Use Google Scholar or journal databases like JSTOR to find peer-reviewed works (articles and books).
One of your five scholarly works must be an ethnographic book written by an anthropologist and/or social scientist.
You need to include the full reference information (author’s name, year of publication, title, journal title, publisher, etc.). Any citation format is fine if it is consistent.

For each scholarly work, please address the following in one or two paragraphs:
Elaborate on the background / intellectual agenda / positionality of the author.
Summarize main points or arguments of their work.
Generate a “working definition” of key concepts or terms.
Evaluate major contributions / applications and critiques of their work.
State how you will potentially use or analyze their work in your research paper as evidence.

After selecting your literature and reading the scholarly works, craft a working research thesis statement.
Examples:
In my paper, I will focus on (topic) in (country) to address how (three meaningful subtopics/themes/concepts) impact (cultural group).
I argue that (topic) in (country) for (cultural group) because (two meaningful subtopics/concepts) is connected to issues of (one theme).
My research proposal will illustrate why (topic) is (one theme) for (cultural group) in (country) due to factors such as (two meaningful subtopics/concepts).

You must draw on at least 4 readings covered thus far. These can also include the readings for this coming week. Please use at least 4 quotations and cite accordingly.
In your essay I am not looking for a summary of the texts. I would like you to engage with them analytically. Bring the texts into conversation with each other. You do not have to agree with the texts or the prompt. Think of the prompt as a point of departure for a thought experiment and a journey in which you bring in your own voice.
Prompt
As human-animals we are always in relation with the non-human animal. Intimacy, empathy, identification, substitution, communication—write an essay on some of the different modes through which human-animals and non-human animals live together and share this world.

FORMAT
This mid-term exam consists of two parts. Be sure to answer each part of the exam.
Please be mindful of the word-number limitations for each question; written material that exceeds those limits will not be considered as part of the grade. Also, there is no need to write up to the maximum word limit; shorter answers are thoroughly acceptable.
There is no need to do any independent research; additional research will not result in a higher score/grade.
There is no need to include a formal bibliography or a works-cited section, providing you are referencing assigned or recommended course readings, or are drawing from lecture material.
be advised that your paper will be analyzed by Turn-It-In, an anti-plagiarism web feature.
SUBSTANTIVE EXAM MATERIAL
There are two parts to the exam (Part One and Part Two). Be sure to answer both parts. Again, there is no need for any research outside of the course readings, and additional research will not improve the scores/grades awarded.
PART ONE: Please answer the following question (2000 word limit).
Use either Levi-Straus/Sahlins, Douglas, Turner, or Geertz [either “Person, Time, and Place in Bali” or “Deep Play: Notes on A Balinese Cockfight” – but not “The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man”], or some combination of these authors/reading assignments, to analyze one of these two ethnographic films: Trance and Dance in Bali (https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs02425201/) or Trobriand Cricket (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYZFNRc9mKk). In presenting an analysis, be sure to match particular claims to evidence taken from the film, showing how the claim is supported by both the evidence and the theoretical model(s) you have chosen.
PART TWO:
Please answer the following question (1,500 word limit). Take one of the two films Trance and Dance in Bali (https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs02425201/) or Trobriand Cricket (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYZFNRc9mKk), and ask what questions Rosseberry might ask about the film. You do not have to use the same film that you discussed in part one. Be sure to note how Roseberry’s concerns might complicate a symbolic anthropological or structuralist interpretation.

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Directions: First, choose a specific cultural heritage theme related to the immigration experience of Russians in Germany. Themes could include: language, cuisine, traditions, music, art, literature, religion, etc. Next, you will “curate” an exhibition that showcases how immigrants from Russia express their cultural heritage within their living spaces in Germany based around one of the themes from step 1. This will involve creating a virtual display (as a PowerPoint, etc.) of photographs, artifacts, decorations, and other objects commonly found in the homes of Russian immigrants. The exhibition should aim to convey the diversity and complexity of Russian cultural identity within the context of immigration to Germany. Students should consider how the chosen theme is represented, preserved, and adapted by Russian immigrants in their new environment. In addition to the exhibition displays, you will prepare a brief presentation explaining: the significance of your chosen theme, its relationship to the immigrant experience, and any cultural transformations or continuities observed. Format: Each individual student will upload a PowerPoint presentation (or other presentation multimedia) through the assignment submission. Information can be included a text on the presentation or in the form of a “voice over”. Presentations must include at least 10 slides + a title slide and a references slide (12 slides total) Students should cite sources appropriately and must rely on college-level scholarly work but may supplement with their own their own personal experiences and perspectives. Grading: Evaluation criteria include the depth of research, creativity and originality of the exhibition displays, clarity and coherence of the presentations, and the ability to critically analyze the intersection of cultural heritage and immigration experiences. Please see the rubric to understand how you will be assessed on this assignment.

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