Look at Fragmentation, breakage, fragmentation in lithic assemblages and the significance and broader picture. Think about things like: What factors influence fragmentation rates, what are the main reasons behind breakage and fragmentations, what are some problems with fragmentation and breakage in archaeological assemblages (how does this affect how one analyses an assemblage), what are some […]
Tag Archives: Anthropology
Summarize David Halberstam’s The Fifties documentary episode entitled “Selling The American Way.”
Topic: Summarize David Halberstam’s The Fifties documentary episode entitled “Selling The American Way.” Paper details:this is a link to the youtube video you have to watch to write the summery
Discuss What racial/ethnic system does the ethnography portray? What racial and ethnic stereotypes are shown in the ethnography?
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY-FALL 2020 TERM PAPER In addition to the class readings, students will be responsible for reading an additional ethnography outside of class. Students will choose one of the following ethnographies: Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network by Ruth Gomberg-Munoz In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Phillipe […]
Based on the article, discuss the role historical archaeology has played in better understanding the early days of Charleston.
Topic 1:Read the article “Urban Adaptation in Charleston, SC, 1730-1820”. Based on the article, discuss the role historical archaeology has played in better understanding the early days of Charleston. Topic 2:Read Exploring 1670 Charles Towne. Make some substantive observations concerning the people settling in 1670 at Charles Town Landing.
Reflect on what you have learned about racism as a system of privilege and oppression.
In about 300 words, reflect on what you have learned about racism as a system of privilege and oppression. Ideally weave in your own everyday experience of yourself as a racialized person….what does your whiteness, brownness, blackness, yellowness or redness mean for your life; how have some of the concepts you have learned in this […]
Explain how this article combines archeology and history, towards working to correct previous assumptions in both regarding the roles of women and the extents of trade routes.
Topic 1: Read Binder et al. 2014 “On the antiquity of cancer” and comment upon its relevance in terms of current cultural and medical approaches to cancer. Topic 2:Don’t just give me a summarization of the article (I already know what the article is about). Instead, comment upon how this article combines archeology and history, […]
Read Iemmola and Ciani 2009, “New evidence of genetic factors influencing sexual orientation in men: Female fecundity increase in the maternal line”. Discuss its implications regarding homosexuality and human reproduction.
Topic: Iemmola & Ciani Paper details: Read Iemmola and Ciani 2009, “New evidence of genetic factors influencing sexual orientation in men: Female fecundity increase in the maternal line”. Discuss its implications regarding homosexuality and human reproduction.
Discuss What were the main differences between H. habilis and H. erectus? Was H. habilis more like H. erectus, or more like the australopithecines? Some argue that H. habilis should be classified in the Australopithecus genus rather than the Homo genus.
Read about “A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia”. Discuss the importance of “Selam” in regards to early human evolution. Discuss the importance of Ardi in regards to early human evolution. What were the main differences between H. habilis and H. erectus? Was H. habilis more like H. erectus, or more like the australopithecines? […]
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 present and the maritime skills of modern humans”; Pringle 2014, “Welcome to Beringia”; Raghavan et al 2014, “The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic.
Paper details: 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 […]
Discuss two options. In the end, did she do the right thing? A related issue is whether she follow the ethical rule in anthropology of doing no harm to the people one is studying. What do you think about this last point? Why?
Paper details: 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 […]
