textbook: https://perspectives.pressbooks.com/front-matter/preface/ You are expected to provide a 5-minute audio report on one of the following topics: • Culture shock • Cross-cultural miscues • Household gender roles • Rites of Passage, Milestones Celebrations, and Rites of Intensification • Body Art • Magical Thinking and Magical Practices will have to be a male!
Background: In Module 1, you were asked two questions: What is Anthropology? and What is Civic Engagement (and what does it have to do with this class)? (attached PDFs) Your final required assignment for this class is an “Engaged Anthropology” exercise, which will offer you an opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of anthropology and civic […]
Part 1: there are several important roles played by archaeologists and archaeological discoveries, such as: a) cross-cultural understanding and communication; b) promoting or defending human rights (e.g. cultural heritage and human rights); c) re-writing history; d) making peoples, voices and their stories known/visible, etc. For your discussion, you can choose at least one of these […]
Discuss the cultural adaptation of the Waorani to the environment. How have they Culturally adapted to their environment
textbook: https://perspectives.pressbooks.com/front-matter/preface/ 1: Write a critical analysis of one of the multimedia resources associated with Lessons 1 and 2. See “How to Write a Critical Review” for suggestions on what you might include in your analysis and how to go about it. 2. Answer one of the “Discussion Questions” found at the end of one […]
textbook: https://perspectives.pressbooks.com/front-matter/preface/ 1: Write a critical analysis of one of the multimedia resources associated with Lessons 1 and 2. See “How to Write a Critical Review” for suggestions on what you might include in your analysis and how to go about it. 2. Answer one of the “Discussion Questions” found at the end of one […]
This needs to be a comprehensive review of literature on language and masculinity in the United States or, more specificity in the US American south that develops an argument and highlights three key areas where the literature has productively been taken up. Please tackle topics on race, gender, social class, etc
“Photo Challenge: Using your smart phone or camera, take a picture of something in your home or out in the community that you believe represents the word “culture”. If you do not have access to a device that takes photos, find a photo online or provide a written description of your chosen “photo subject”. Provide […]
Watch the film The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation and consider the portrayal of Budhist monastic life in Ladakh. You can choose any facet of the film to analyze, but you must construct an argument about it. For this particular case study, you might choose to approach the topic from the perspective […]
Background: If you are in Canada, please go to either the indigenous people’s festival or the dragon boat festival and describe your observation. Indigenous people are the original people of Canada, the rest are immigrants, so if we look at real Canadian culture it’s not the Queen birthday or some French or British traditions but […]
