How do the findings and theories of anthropologists of globalization affect your understanding of culture?
How do the findings and theories of anthropologists of globalization affect your understanding of culture?
Category: Anthropology
How do you feel about such things as quotas for minority employment or college entrance?
Power and conflict find a URL link that relates to a current event involving anything from power and violence, class conflict, racial issues, etc. What is the history behind these emotions? How are they perpetuated by such things as racial categories on government forms, social stratification. How do you feel about such things as quotas […]
Describe the medicalization of pregnancy in a specific context.
choose from the following list of concepts: Illness Limit situations Medicalization Biomedicine Socialization Cartesian dualism Symbolism Ritual Phenomenology Therapeutic Emplotment Illness Narrative Details: Choose four concepts from the list above. For each concept give a definition or outline of the concept USING YOUR OWN WORDS. Give two examples of the concept in use; One example […]
What cultural factors are behind these unrealistic simplifications?
When we hear people talk about the traditional American family as if it has always been structured in the same way since the Revolutionary War, we know they are simplifying the situation in unrealistic ways. What cultural factors are behind these unrealistic simplifications?
What would change if the legal parents were killed in an auto accident and the child was adopted by the mother’s sister?
Same-sex marriage is legal in a number of states, but various kinds of restrictions on same-sex marriage and its recognition exist in the other states. What anthropological questions can you identify about the meaning that such unions have for Americans in different parts of the country that help to explain the legislative patterns in each […]
How did the US census play a role in the rise of Latino/a ethnic identity?
1. How did Africans become “black” and Europeans become “white”? 2. If you were an antiracism educator in an elementary school in the United States, what role do you think anthropological insights about prejudice and discrimination should play in your work? 3. How did the US census play a role in the rise of Latino/a […]
Is action theory applicable to a study of a sports team? Explain
1. How might an advocate of structural power explain the use of a census by the US government? 2. Is action theory applicable to a study of a sports team? Explain your answer. 3. How does political power work in both state and nonstate societies?
Identify the issue affecting a community and how you hope to help through communication and media to encourage change.
According to a Green Biz article, Why sustainability professionals should drive green consumerism (https://www.greenbiz.com/article/why-sustainability-professionals-should-drive-green-consumerism), In this discussion, we will develop a topic for effecting change in what we buy as consumers. Read The Story of Stuff Project (https://www.storyofstuff.org) Explore a Topic: Blog Articles (https://www.storyofstuff.org/blog/#) Podcasts (https://www.storyofstuff.org/podcasts/) Movies (https://www.storyofstuff.org/movies/) The Story of Plastic Animated Short Film […]
Explain the expertise and value of that speciality for exploring and resolving the issue, problem, or conflict within a cultural group (example: childhood obesity and diabetes in Hispanic children).
1. Provide a short description of the Applied Anthropological specialty you chose (example: Medical Anthropologist) 2. Explain the expertise and value of that speciality for exploring and resolving the issue, problem, or conflict within a cultural group (example: childhood obesity and diabetes in Hispanic children). 3. Explain the fieldwork techniques and methods your Applied Anthropological […]
How is language power for a culture?Discuss
2. Then, spend some time on the internet researching the Chumash People and their language project. How is language power for a culture? “Shakespeare in the Bush” http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/editors_pick/1966_08-09_pick.html (Links to an external site.) “Why Don’t You Say What You Mean?” https://nanopdf.com/download/why-dont-you-say-what-you-mean_pdf (Links to an external site.)