Students can comment on especially the social, behavioral, ideological (e.g. beliefs), and very personal aspects of the material culture around them, which they are of course noticing more because of the emphasis in an archaeology class. You might consider these questions about the material of your everyday life: Questions: 1. what different artifacts did […]
This week, we’ve learned about anthropological and historical perspectives on the cultural construction of gender and sexuality, as well as changing frameworks for understanding the complexities of sex itself. As described in the lecture, anthropologists talk about gender as a performance, rather than simply identity. We do gender according to norms, roles, and ideologies that […]
Drawing from the readings of this assignment. What will be the future implications for attempting to advance and modernize cultures that don’t need or benefit from our development, and will this have an impact on the global economy? Will other societies come up with a better solution, and will there be new evolutionary adaptions that […]
The proponents of “traditional” marriage often claim that a heterosexual and monogamous union is the most “natural” form of marriage (implying that non-conventional forms of marriage are “unnatural”). Have monogamy and heterosexual unions been the only or dominant forms of marriages worldwide? Please incorporate information from the chapters on marriage and family in your response.
A lot of the opposition to same-sex families comes from religious people who consider these families as violating their religious beliefs (about the meaning and purpose of marriage). Do you think a multicultural society should base its definition of marriage on a religious foundation? What does anthropology tell us about the purpose and function of […]
Have you ever read or heard of any social scientific findings regarding media and aggressive behavior? If you have, do you believe what social science has told you about this controversial issue? Why or why not?
How can the concept of ’emergent authenticity” be used, or how is it used, to understand the significance of the production of local cultural forms for tourist consumption as discussed in the Cohodas and Medina readings? In your response, you should consider: 1) Cohodas’ discussion of the local significance of Elizabeth Hickox’ production of curio […]
Discuss a specific solution to the Challenge of Surveying U.S. Latinos, make a recommendation to address this, and discuss why your recommendation would work. What if any demographic changes do you see in Latino/a populations: where are they moving, are they moving away from traditional areas, are they living in urban or rural settings, what […]
Based on your study of oriental medicine, what are the two most important cultural concepts of the world-view of patients of this system that would need to be understood by biomedical doctors if they are also treating the same patients in US hospitals? For example, some cultures do not recognize the same symptoms as treatable […]
Respond and interact regarding points made in this discussion using these two examples. EXAMPLE 1 Prompt A: This research falls under cultural anthropology which deals with human biology and behavior in the past and present, with an emphasis on the evolutionary processes that shape them. This field of study encompasses a wide range of […]
