Discussion 2 ANT READ THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING What do Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Laurence Cox mean, in your words, by movements from above and below? Any examples? Name and elaborate on at least three central features of social movements from the perspective of the late sociologist Colin Barker.
Category Archives: Anthropology
How did Gomberg-Muñoz become interested in this project-What are her two primary arguments in the book?
Assignment 1: Preface, Introduction, chapters 1-2 How did Gomberg-Muñoz become interested in this project? What are her two primary arguments in the book? How is this fieldwork different from typical anthropological ethnography fieldwork (especially consider legal status and ethnography within U.S.)? What ethical dilemmas does the author face? Why does she spend time in both […]
What factors do you think led to the domestication of animals (and perhaps plants) in this region?
Archaeology, anthropology Describe patterns of seasonal site distribution. There is no reason to suspect thatany one group’s subsistence area incorporated the entire area, nor that allpeople living in the region followed the same subsistence pattern. 1. Can you identify evidence for animal domestication in the faunal data –and is there any circumstantial evidence for plant […]
Discuss why Migration can be considered as a Social Determinant of Mental Health.
Elaborate an integrated essay based on the three questions below: 1. What can be discussed about the social and cultural dimensions of suffering? 2. Discuss why Migration can be considered as a Social Determinant of Mental Health. 3. Which psychosocial interventions could help improve migrants’ and refugees’ mental health in the transit and host countries?
What lessons can we take from the COVID-19 pandemic to approach mental health from a biopsychosocial perspective?
1. Discuss why it is relevant to consider ethnic differences when understanding and addressing Mental Health. 2. Considering the authors reviewed in class, what can be discussed about the social and cultural dimensions of suffering? 3. Discuss why Migration can be considered as a Social Determinant of Mental Health. 4. Based on the problems analyzed […]
Discuss the seeming dichotomy between biology-culture-how it relates to human evolution.
Topic Evolution is about the ‘survival of the fittest’, but successful survival strategy often entails group dynamics rather than simple individual superiority over others. On one hand, genes survive into successive generations if an individual organism is successful at passing those genes onto offspring, but survival and mating also requires negotiating social adaptations as well. […]
Identify any problems you might be having in examining your own culture from an ethic perspective
Can you identify any biases that you might have about the cultural practices Identify any problems you might be having in examining your own culture from an etic perspective or the other culture from an emic perspective. Review Miner’s article Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Download Body Ritual Among the Nacirema, and explain how his […]
Describe the form that each of these takes in Homo sapiens-what that says about our behavior, biology,-evolution.
2cThe traits used to distinguish between primate taxa are dental characteristics, behavioral adaptations, and locomotor adaptations. Describe the form that each of these takes in Homo sapiens and what that says about our behavior, biology, or evolution. In other words, if an alien scientist were studying a human skeleton, what would they be able to […]
How can you relate this practice/belief to the larger culture-What does it tell you about your culture in general terms?
Familiar Strange Making the familiar strange assignment: 1. Think carefully about the practices you see around you every day, and/or about beliefs that people express regularly. 2. Can you focus on a belief/practice/ritual etc that you have identified? 3. How would you describe it? Depending on what you have chosen, you might need to observe […]
Does the theory of evolution raise more problems than it resolves-If so, how?
Darwin’s theory of evolution-survival of the fittest FORMAL PAPER 2 Summarize the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Be sure to include how Darwin used artificial selection and variations under domesticity to argue his thesis, as well as the condition of survival of the fittest as the survival of that which fits in […]
