Category: Anthropology

In order to narrow the scope of your ethnographic research, you are asked to provide a thesis question for this project that focuses on ONE aspect of the immigrant experience or culture, based on the topics covered in your textbook. Your research focus may change/expand/grow, as a direct result of your interview and observations. This is to be expected during the ethnographic process. Do not be afraid to change your research question and/or topic, as this is an indication that you are being thorough and objective.
1. Identify ONE NYC immigrant group that you would like to research this semester from the list provided (remember to choose a group you have access to).
2. Identify a cultural feature or topic (list of textbook topics provided on page 4) that you would like to focus on for this group and pose it as a question. For example, how has migration to NYC affected the marriage practices and traditions of the Haitian community?
Part I: CONTEXT/background: Draft Due 3/6 & 3/15 for feedback
Context/background: Archival research is an important aspect of the ethnography process. Anthropologists are not looking for the surface appearance, but for deeper meaning. There are two principal types of data in any study: Quantitative data and qualitative data. Quantitative data are based on numbers (demographics and statistics) – number of people, number of interactions, etc. Qualitative data represent information that cannot be counted, such as life histories. You will be engaging in both for this project. “Before you can study a culture, it is vital to read up as much as possible about the group and any previous research done. This background research will aid in your future studies. Prior research may save you the effort of repeating a study that has already been done. In short, it’s good to be well-informed (K. Guest).”
a) Statistics/demographics: Provide data/evidence for your chosen NYC immigrant group relevant to your research question (2-3 graphs/charts). Provide explanation and a statement of relevance for each chart/graph. (Suggested resource cites are census.gov. nyc.gov, Pew research, NCES, Gallop, etc.)
b) Relevant Literature: Provide APA, MLA, or Chicago (contingent on instr. pref.) citations and synopsis of two recent (less than 5 years old) academic peer reviewed articles that are relevant to your chosen immigrant group and/or your research question/topic. You can reference/cite a chapter from your text, if relevant.
c) Object Study: Find/provide an image (drawing or photo) of an object, photo or artistic piece at the BMA to represent the group you are researching. Is this object (or one like it) used/created by the group you are researching? How is it used? Why is it relevant to your group/topic? Why did you choose it? What type of cultural data can you glean from this object.
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Part II: METHODOLOGY: Draft Due 4/10 for feedback
Conduct a semiformal INTERVIEW with 1-2 members of the immigrant group you have chosen to research.
Provide the interview details (date, location, venue, duration of interview, etc.). DO NOT use personal names when describing the person/s you’ve spoken to, we don’t do this in anthropology, so refer to the person as “the interviewee.” It is required that you interview one, but no more than TWO immigrants for this paper. Your interview can be presented in narrative form or block question/answer format. You should focus on the following:
1. Describe the person/s by key demographics (age, ethnicity, marital status, education, gender, etc.)
2. Describe their immigrant journey. Was it safe? Is the person “documented”, did the person come by themselves? With family? Were they sponsored, and by who? Did they leave their homeland because of danger? Like ethnic cleansing or environmental destruction or war/famine? Or because they just wanted to come for economic or other social reasons.
3. Put this person’s immigration story within the context of their community. Did they arrive and are they still connected to an immigrant community. Is that community isolated?
4. How has integration and/or assimilation gone (for them and their community)? Questions should examine/probe areas of conflict in the integration process, such as education, health, employment, discrimination/racism, relationships, family, religious practice, etc.
5. Examine group behavior. Not just one or two folks. You can talk to members of the family, friends from the workplace, church or academic environment, or set yourself up in a location where you can observe this group with an eye to the questions that you’re exploring. Remember that you’re looking at patterns of behavior, not just isolated observations. Take Fieldnotes to add to your data.
Part III: CONCLUSION (Analysis & Reflection) Draft Due 4/17 for feedback
To present your ethnographic data to an audience (instructor, peers, etc.), it must be analyzed considering your research question. Anthropologists do this by considering their findings from both emic and etic perspectives. Emic perspectives refer to understandings of the local community’s issues/practices on its own terms. Anthropologists compare and contrast this perspective from etic perspectives; that is, interpreting the topic/issue from an outsider/anthropologist’s perspective. (How they perceive or see the issue or cultural practice versus how community members see it). This overall process is called ethnology. There is always more than one perspective on any topic. Anthropologists try to incorporate multiple voices into their ethnographies (their own voice as well as that of their informants). This is called polyvocality. This can be done through direct quotes or even involving informants in the research design process. Radical Ethnography prioritizes the voices and needs of the community over that of the researcher. Many anthropologists include information about their research processes in their ethnographies. This is called reflexivity. “In the end, we must remember that we are but one voice on any subject (K. Guest).”
Prompts or Points to Consider:
• Did the person(s) you interviewed have a typical or atypical experience? Based on their family and community’s overall experience immigrating to the United States.
• What two things did you learn about this immigrant group from your research and observations that you did not know before?
• Did your interview and observations of this group support or contradict your archival research (statistic/demographics and journal articles)? Explain.
• Were you able to answer your research question? How? What sources or data were most helpful to you? Did your question change during the research process? How?
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• What did you learn from the research process itself? What challenges did you encounter while doing this research? If you had more time, how would you expand on your research study?
Part IV: ORAL Presentation (10-12 PPT/Google slides) Presentation Date 5/8/2025

Explain how experimental archaeology projects inform our understanding the past
I just need this go be written in paragraphs that I could insert into a canva digital poster
the result for the hypothesis was also that I was able to safely cook the meat
1. Introduction/Background:
Briefly explain what you did in this activity. Imagine you are describing the experiment you completed to someone outside of our class–how would you describe experimental archaeology and how your activity is connected to the past?
In-text citations in APA format are required for the ideas you discuss in this section; anything not considered common knowledge requires in-text citations and reference entries. *You should have some ideas that are not common knowledge in this background section*
2. Hypothesis:
This was the testable statement you used to structure your hands-on experiment.
3. Materials/Methods:
Explain how you set up the hands-on part of your experiment. What materials did you use and how/where did you obtain them?
4. Data/Results:
In this section you explain the data you obtained and if your hypothesis is upheld or falsified (did the explanation hold up after your experiment? or does it not make sense after actually experiencing the technology firsthand?). It doesn’t matter if your hypothesis is upheld or not (that is merely a tool for inquiry); for this section you will be graded on how well you explain the results of your experiment and how it related to your hypothesis.
5. Discussion/Conclusion:
By now the reader should know about your topic, what you hoped to learn, how you conducted your experiment, what you discovered, and whether or not your hypothesis made sense after doing the hands-on portion of your experiment. The discussion and conclusion section should be for your final thoughts, exploring what you might have done differently, and what you might want to explore in the future. What aspects of your project did you consider “authentic” to the past, and what aspects might not have been? You might also explore other things you learned from the experience that were not directly captured by the hypothesis you tested.
6. Reference Entries
Include full reference entries, in alphabetical order, in APA formatting, for all cited resources. Remember you need at least 2 academic/scholarly sources to meet the minimum requirement.
7. Images/Figures/Graphics
Your poster should have a minimum of 3 substantial images/figures. Included photos should be ones YOU took while completing your experiment (or that a friend or family member took of you), which showcase that you actually completed the hands-on part of the experiment. Images taken off the internet or generated using AI that are not properly cited (to give credit to the original source) will be considered academic dishonesty.
8. Formatting
Is your poster organized and easy to read? Is it attractive and eye-catching?
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I have to take a Introduction to Biological Anthropology exam it is 75 minutes long, The third exam covers material from weeks 10 to 14, 46 questions. I can only open it for 75 minutes so need help then.

The topic is on Shelter blues
Book by Robert R. Desjarlais. Its is to make a book review.
My teacher noticed ai and that i didn’t title things correctly.
the directions are Assignment: Write a critical book review on a book from the list at the end of these instructions. Here are some guidelines that must be met: The minimum word count for the body of your paper is 1250 words. The Title page, Bibliography, etc. are not part of this word count.
For formatting and citing your references, use the Chicago, MLA or APA citation style. If your discipline uses another major citation style, you may contact me for permission to use this style. Here is a link with an overview of these three styles (Click on one of the brown bars for each style, on the left side of page.)
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Pretend that you are writing this review for publication in a journal, and address the reader accordingly – they will not have participated in our class. The full name of the book, the full name of the author and the year of publication should always appear in the text in the first paragraph of your essay. Your thesis must appear in the first paragraph of your essay. It should be clear and concise. If you can′t state it in one sentence, you have not developed it well enough yet.
Your book review should be an evaluation of the content of the text:
Above all, a review makes an argument. The most important element of a review is that it is a commentary, not merely a summary. It allows you to enter into dialogue and discussion with the work′s creator and with other audiences. You can offer agreement or disagreement and identify where you find the work exemplary or deficient in its knowledge, judgments, or organization.
You are not criticizing the work or the author, but evaluating/analyzing how this work makes important scholastic contributions, as well as how the ideas presented fit in with concepts in psychological anthropology that you have learned in class
You should clearly outline your analysis of the work in question, and your perspective should be embedded in a discussion that follows the conventions of other types of academic writing, with a thesis statement/argument in the first paragraph, a supporting body of paragraphs each of which makes a separate point, and a conclusion (keep in mind that conclusions should be longer than 3-4 sentences). Your review should include your reaction to the work, expressed in a scholarly manner as a critique. Summary should be kept to a minimum, and specific details from the book used to support each point/argument that you make.
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in 255 words with two credible sources How did Margaret Mead contribution to the knowledge of families and how they function? The two credible sources: 
Coming of Age in America: Margaret Mead’s Reconstruction of Adolescence for the 1920s (wm.edu)  and 
Childhood games: What would Margaret Mead say about screen time? | Savage Minds 
The essay I wrote is below

Can u read this website https://sites.google.com/view/anth301u4l20/home
and then answer all question in pdf please?

For your final assignment, share how this class has changed your view on race. What will you take with you to use in the future? How are your ideas on race different now? How will you use what you’ve learned here to better navigate your raced world? 
Your essay needs to have a clear structure and thesis, properly cite the materials from class and engage with them in more than just a summary way, and provide some main claims that show that you are critically in conversation with the authors and scholars we have engaged with thus far. 

I have attached file, 
This is a 5–6-page, double-spaced paper, detailing a current debate or exciting new
discovery in North American archaeology. This is worth 25 points for your final grade.
You must have a minimum of 3 sources, some of the sources can be from the internet,
however, stay away from fraudulent and pseudoscience sites. I will provide a list of
potential current events and debates. 

Can you read this website https://sites.google.com/view/anth301u4l18/concept-review-and-application
and then answer all question in pdf please?

Use the guidelines below to compare Kaluli of New Guinea and the Basseri of Iran. No citations are needed