Tag: Anthropology

Choose two anthropologists from the examples of anthropological fieldwork that you have read about in reading assignments, or viewed in the class videos. Do Not use outside sources, just assignments. Be sure to list the name of the anthropologists and the source titles. Compare and contrast the approach and techniques of those two anthropologists. What […]

Collaboration is an important practice, both in your academic and professional career. Anthropologists often collaborate with their colleagues, during research studies, at conferences, etc. This collaboration can lead to substantial anthropological advances and serves as an excellent professional development tool. Throughout this course, you will collaborate with your classmates, as you would with colleagues in […]

Discuss, evaluate, and contrast the evidence of migration to the Americas presented in Gibbons 2012 and Balter 2013 with information provided in one (or more) of the following articles: Erlandson et al. 2011, “Paleolithic seafaring, maritime technologies, and coastal foraging on California’s Channel Islands”; O’Connor et al. 2011, “Pelagic fishing at 42,000 years before the […]

Cultural anthropologists often face critical decisions when practicing participant observation. The video listed below documents ethnographic fieldwork carried out by Wynne Maggi in the Kalasha valleys of northern Pakistan. While doing research in a remote community, she experienced a trauma that affected her fieldwork and her life for years afterward. After viewing the video, consider […]

Given that there is currently enough food produced around the world to adequately feed everyone, the problem of global malnutrition arises from cultural factors such as social status, economics, and systemic racism. 1. How can malnutrition impact the biological development of children? 2. How might these impacts manifest socioeconomically and/or culturally in malnourished people as […]

Watch this video and read this chapter attached below. 1. Based in Chapter 4 ‘Language Acquisition and Socialization’ reading and video. please address the following: a) Explain how the language acquisition process of the Nicaraguan Sign Language (NSL) is being framed in the film? From what perspective? b) From a Linguistic Anthropology point of view […]

Read Chapter 5, Macroevolution and Taxonomy and Chapter 7, Genotypic Traits and the Tracing of Population Affiliations in Human Biological Diversity by Daniel E. Brown. View Lecture 6: Four Forces of Evolution. View Lecture 7: Blood Groups. View Lecture 8: HLA Antigens and Hemoglobin Variants View Lecture 9: Human Biochemical Diversity View Lecture 10: Taxonomy. […]

Students are required to post an essay answer to the instructor’s question/topic prompt (hit “reply” to do so). These answers must be four or more paragraphs (at least 250 words each) in length and use formal writing style (i.e., have grammar, punctuation, and spelling appropriate for university work), including page number citations where appropriate (e.g., […]