Category: Anthropology

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”

This essay is for an anthropology class, draft is due this Saturday 5/25 and final is due by 6/25. The topic can be on cultural differneces int he healthcare field and how some patient are treated differently than others based on their cultural background. OR it can be written on exploring the condition of racism theories. Must be APA style. Please see attached instructions and example essay. 

Hello this is a very quick assigment i need help,is just about : i have my tables of measuring and everything i also have some additionals documents like slides of the week but i dont know if its going to be useful.
Describe the caveats that come with collecting data on fossils. Feel free to address quantitative vs. qualitative data, fossil preservation, gaps in the fossil record, species concepts, etc.

The instructions are in the file with the worksheet. PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.
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The research term paper is your opportunity to further investigate a topic from this course that really interests you. Like with your event observation topic, you will need to discuss your chosen topic with your tutor before proceeding. Perhaps your event observation assignment inspired you? Or maybe it was something you read or watched in the course? How about something in the news? There are a multitude of possible topics, but remember that this is a course in cultural anthropology, so you will want to look at a cultural aspect of life for First Peoples in Canada. There is a list of possible topics below to help you start thinking.