List and explain the different qualitative research techniques used by Auyero and Swistun in exploring people’s perception of environmental hazards and suffering in the shantytown, Flammable. In what way(s) do you find these techniques complementary? Why? Be sure to cite your sources
What does the morphology of the deltoid tuberosity and capitulum in humans suggest about deltoid muscle activity and radio-ulnar joint mobility?
Discuss what a commodity chain is, and how the global elite affects both products and labor under modern production conditions. From the article The Paradox of Protection: National Identity, Global Commodity Chains, and the Tequila Industry by Sarah Bowen and Marie Sarita Gaytan.
Discuss the concept of cultural relativism. Describe it as a continuum, paying special attention to the extreme ends of the scale, the consequences of each, and its use as an anthropological method. Provide examples for each from the book, lecture, readings, film clips, and/or personal experience. Be sure to address how relativity relates to issues […]
The global crisis I chose is “Plastic Wars” I’m being interviewed by a reporter and I have to answer her question Cultural Diversity What does it matter anyway? What is so important that we understand cultural diversity in a time like this? Who cares if we’re all different? I have to give a response […]
What is problematic with these classifications? From our stages of evolution,”? Animism/ primitivism savagery barbarism civilization.
Describe a hypothetical scenario of natural selection for a trait. Be sure to describe each of the key elements (such as how the trait varies in the population, how the trait factors into resource competition, and how the trait frequency changes over multiple generations
Explain the relationship/differences/similarities between non-human primate studies and anthropological human evolution by describing the cultural and biological sequence in the development of early hominids and Homo sapiens.
Explain the relationship/differences/similarities between non-human primate studies and anthropological human evolution by describing the cultural and biological sequence in the development of early hominids and Homo sapiens.
What is the importance of holism when studying a culture? For example, the Inuit forced relocations in the 1950s to the High Arctic from Northern Quebec.
