Category: Anthropology

Due: Wednesday, Week 4, 11:59 p.m. Points: 100 Word count: 5 pages/1,250 words (not counting the references cited list). The purpose of this assignment is to examine three book-length ethnographies of Europe, chosen from a pre-approved list, one from each of three eras: • Classic; • Post-Cold War; • 21st century. You will not need to read the books (although you can, if you can squeeze in the time), but you will need to ready about them and write about a 250 word description of each, plus a synopsis of about 500 words discussing what the three books tell you about the foci of anthropological study in those three eras. Requirements • At least three book-length, ethnographic works by anthropologists. A pre-approved list is provided. Note that new books in the “21st century” category are coming out all the time, so if you find something interesting that isn’t on that list, run it by me for approval. • For each of these sources, you should prepare to describe them in about a page. • You will not have to read each, but you will need to read about them in book reviews published in the academic press. If they are very new, reviews may not be available yet, but you can determine a fair amount about the subject from the publisher description. Some of the older books are so classic, that you can read about them in places other than the academic journals. • Discuss what the collection of three tells you about the study of Europe as an anthropological subject and how that study has changed over time. Important parameters • Be sure that you have properly formatted your bibliography. You must use the Chicago, MLA, or APA formatting and you must provide both a references cited list and in-text citations that show where you are using those listed works. • Cite in-text and provide bibliographic information about any reviews you use. • Write concisely and clearly, but with enough detail that readers can get a good idea of what the book is about. • Submit as a Word or Pages or other word-processing document, not a pdf. 

Link: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/18/ophelia-dahls-national-health-service?source=search_google_dsa_paid&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIycvE-KD66QIVGUWGCh3sCwI_EAAYASAAEgLxqvD_BwE
Question: Partners In Health (PIH)and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) are both international health organizations that are famous for working in places and situations where there are extreme limitations on delivering health care. Using this week’s materials explain what PIH philosophy to delivering healthcare is. What makes this organizations approach distinct and ultimately what are they trying to do in the world? How are the different than MSF? Are there problems with MSF’s version of “universalism?

Write a summary judgement decision (as the magistrate) on a fictional case based upon real court cases and precedent decisions.

Purpose: You will be writing to the general public, or a subset of the general public. Generally, scientists are terrible at communicating their scholarly research to the public. This assignment will give you practice at doing so. 
For this assignment, select a narrow topic of something related to the stone age. Topics like “Stone tools” are too broad – make sure you pick something specific related to stone tools (or whatever topic you select); otherwise, your essay will be too broad and superficial. 
Your essay can take one of several forms. You can envision this as a blog post for Buzzfeed News, The Huffington Post, Slate, or Vox. You can also envision this is the text for a museum exhibit (and attached images of the artifacts that would be displayed with your exhibits. You can also pretend the paper is a script for a documentary you are making about your topic. Feel free to be creative! You also get to choose the audience. You can write to the general public, to elementary school children, high schoolers, whomever!
Formatting: At least 4 pages in length; double spaced; Times New Roman; 12 point font; 1 inch margins. Note: Your header (name, date, etc.) do not count towards the 4 page minimum.
Citation Style: All assignments in this course should be in proper APA format (with the exception of needing a title page). You should have in-text citations each time that you quote, summarize, or paraphrase. Please see the resources on MyCourses for more information, or see https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html.
Sources: You are required to use at least 3 sources in your essay. These may be scholarly or non-scholarly. If they are non-scholarly, they should still be reputable from established publications/journalists. You should submit a bibliography at the end of your assignment.
Genre: This paper is a part of the non-scholarly genre. This means that it should be written in a relatively informal, non-academic tone. Your essay should be interesting and engaging. I should want to read your essay, not because I am your instructor and I have to, but because I am drawn into your paper. Use narrative, examples, and images liberally throughout the essay. I should never be bored while reading your essay. Note: Images do not count toward the 4 pages.

Find an artifact in the media (image, news, YouTube, advertisement, film, etc.) that depicts racial or ethnic topics such as assimilation, plural society, hypodescent, etc.
Examine the representation you choose, making connections to what you’ve learned in this module, to argue how race can be understood as a social/cultural construction and not a biological/genetic reality. Your post should be approximately 400-500 words. Include your reaction to the artifact.
Review the representations of your peers to gain multiple perspectives. Respond to one of your peers by  comparing and contrasting your artifact and findings with theirs, using concepts/ideas learned in this module.
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1. The Tarnoff newspaper article about coding, the Paul Farmer essay about Haiti, and the Sidney Mintz book on sugar (described in the lecture on how Marxism is used in Anthropology) do not say that they are taking a historical materialist perspective or ever mention Marx’s or Wallerstein’s names.  Select 2 of the 3 case studies just mentioned. What evidence can you find in their writing that indicate that Marx’s or Wallerstein’s theories have been influential to their analyses? For example, you can discuss their approach to the topics they discuss and/or certain key vocabulary words (like exploitation, conflict theory, modes of production, capitalism, or World Systems Theory) that you heard in the videos or lectures that described these theories. 
2. Compare and contrast the ways that the two cases studies that you selected in #1 draw on Marx and/or Wallerstein. Do they use the theories to come to very similar conclusions, or very different ones? Use specific statements the authors make as examples to support your analysis. 
Readings and Audiovisual 
Marx and Engels PDF pages 18-22 
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/coding-education-teaching-silicon-valley-wages

Comprehensive written reflection (“Letter to Instructor”) on course material, focused on identifying key figures and analyzing different feminist theories, periods, or contributions. This letter to your instructor should address your learning progress throughout the quarter, analyzing your Blue Book Journal entries from each week as data to engage in an introspective analytical exercise about not only what you learned but how and why you learned (or did not). You will engage course topics and the impacts the readings, lectures, activities, and environments have had on your perspectives, values, and cultural worldviews. This final letter is to be no more than 10 pages, double spaced, using the citation style dominant within your major. You need to have at least 5 academic sources, 3 of which can come from course materials provided, and 2 arising from your own research.

The instructions for your Discussion Board post indicate that you must include 3 references (or cites) to the assigned reading material, and 3 references to the audiovisual material 
In lecture, I described three theoretical paradigms that have been important in the anthropological analysis of human-environment relationships — cultural ecology, political ecology, and ontological analysis. 
1. Select the two paradigms that you think were most important in “Relatives of the Living Forest” and find specific sections of the chapter to illustrate why you picked those two. 
2. In analyzing Indigenous relationships with nature, anthropologists often contrast Indigenous ideas to two stereotypical portrayals of “Western” culture. The first stereotype paints Westerners as people who see “nature” as something to be harvested and managed for the benefit of humans, without much regard for the wellbeing of the plants or animals. The second stereotype (usually used to describe Western environmentalists, conservation biologists, and New Age devotees) paints Westerners as people who think “nature” and “biodiversity” should be revered and appreciated as “sacred.” Think about your own relationship to plants, animals, and “nature” more broadly. Do your ideas and relationships fit into either of these two Western stereotypes? Explain your answer.
*You can make anything up for the second question, I know it’s asking for a personal opinion. I’m okay with anything as long as it’s nothing negative. I can help with any questions if needed*
When referring to the audiovisual can you please add time stamp as well.

Part 1: Write a short synopsis of the article you read. What is the author’s hypothesis? What kind of data are they analyzing- interviews? Literature? Film? Their own observations? Give a little bit of detail about their methods (Rather than just “Ramos interviewed people,” write “Ramos interviewed several immigrant families crossing the border of Costa Rica and Panama.”) What conclusions do the authors come to?

Part 2: Write a paragraph or two about your own opinions, answering the following questions: Do you agree with the author’s arguments? Why or why not? If you had the same question or hypothesis as the author, how would you research the answer? How does this article relate to what we have already talked about in class (provide a specific example from class)? How does this relate to things you have learned in other classes, seen on social media or the news, etc.?

Part 3: If you had to lead a discussion on race in Latin America, what are two questions you would ask? They can relate to your article, or they can relate to other aspects of the topic that interest you. Come up with questions that would spur a discussion, not just ones that can be answered with “yes” or “no” or other one-word answers.

Type your answers double or single-spaced in 12-point font. Be sure to cite the article when applicable (there will be instructions on Canvas) and include a works cited section that lists the article you read.

Key Concepts
Colorblindness
Critical Race Theory
Hypodescent
Jim Crow
Black Lives Matter
Model Minority Myth
Eugenics
Japanese-American Incarceration during World War II
Requuired Readings
Concepts About Race in America Sp24.pdf
Japanese-American Internment_Incarceration PPT Sp24.pdf
Read or listen to this article about Anthropologist Franz Boas: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/03/747909534/how-one-anthropologist-reshaped-how-social-scientists-think-about-race
video to watch. Race: Power of an Illusion – House We Live In (57 minutes)
Click on Bellevue College Library
Under “Search for Bellevue College Resources,” put “Race Power of an Illusion”
When it comes up with multiple links, look for “video” and click on “The House We Live In – Race: Power of an Illusion”