Category: Anthropology

Using relevant examples, discuss whether you think this is an accurate statement

Using relevant examples, discuss whether you think this is an accurate statement.
please discuss this statement stating that i think it is correct

The document I uploaded has the instructions as well as the questions for Part A

The document I uploaded has the instructions as well as the questions for Part A on the bottom. Please fill in part A using the worksheet in the document.

1. What is medical anthropology and what do medical anthropologists study?
2. Th

1. What is medical anthropology and what do medical anthropologists study?
2. The chapter describes several examples of diseases that result from interactions between biology and culture such as obesity. Why is it important to consider cultural factors that contribute to illness rather than placing blame on individuals? What are some other examples of illnesses that have cultural as well as biological causes?
3 In what ways do you think your own health status is a product of your biology and in what ways is it a product of your culture? Is it possible to make such a distinction?

1. Introduction
a. Overview of Research Topic: Examination of the history, cult

1. Introduction
a. Overview of Research Topic: Examination of the history, culture, and experiences of Queer Indigenous People in the Andes region of South America.
2. Body
a. Pre-Colonial History:
i. Exploration of indigenous gender and sexuality constructs, including the roles and perceptions of third-gender subjects within Andean culture.
ii. Analysis of the cultural practices, rituals, and art that involved queer identities in indigenous societies, based on historical and anthropological texts.
b. Colonial History:
i. Impact of colonial rule on queer indigenous communities, focusing on changes in legal status, societal roles, and cultural erasure.
ii. Examination of colonial narratives and their effect on the representation and treatment of queer identities in the Andes, as seen in colonial historiography and accounts.
c. Post-Colonial History:
i. The evolution of queer indigenous identities in the contemporary context, including legal reforms and social movements.
ii. Modern interpretations and reclaiming of queer indigenous identities, as reflected in recent scholarly works and cultural studies.
d. Laws and Violence:
i. Detailed look at the legal frameworks that affected these communities historically, including laws related to gender and sexuality.
ii. Instances of violence, discrimination, and resistance faced by queer indigenous communities, as documented in historical and modern sources.
e. Cultural Significance of Queer Identity:
i. Exploration of the meanings and cultural significance of queer identity within Indigenous communities, from their unique perspectives.
ii. Analysis of contemporary expressions of queer indigenous identities, including performances, rituals, and social practices.
iii. Investigating current challenges faced by queer indigenous communities, including issues of visibility, social acceptance, and political representation.
iv. Perspectives and voices of queer indigenous individuals, highlighting personal stories and community narratives.
3. Conclusion
Reference List:
Arisi, Barbara M., et al. “Queer Natives in Latin America.” Springer eBooks, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59133-5.
Babb, Florence E. “Gender and Sexuality in the Andes.” Routledge eBooks, 2018, pp. 403–17. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315621715-27.
contemporaryand. “LGBTQ+ Liberation in the Andes Through Q’iwa and Popular Celebrations.” C& AMÉRICA LATINA, 17 Aug. 2023, amlatina.contemporaryand.com/editorial/lgbtq-liberation-in-the-andes-through-qiwa-and-popular-celebrations.
Di Pietro, Pedro Jose Javier. Thirding as a Way of Arranging the Real: The Production of Decolonial Queer Spaces in the Southern Andes. 2012.
“Gahela Cari: ‘In Peru, People Are Questioning the System.’” NACLA, 22 Feb. 2021, nacla.org/news/2021/02/22/gahela-cari-peru.
Horswell, Michael J. Decolonizing the Sodomite: Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture. 2006, ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA75630106.
Mcguire, Michelle Mae. “Rethinking Intimacy: Liberation Through Decolonial and Queer World-Making.” Loyola eCommons, ecommons.luc.edu/luc_theses/4392?utm_source=ecommons.luc.edu%2Fluc_theses%2F4392&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages.
Project, Global Feminisms. Interview With Gahela Tseneg Cari Contreras. 1 Aug. 2020, deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/174874.
Wilson-Sanchez, Maya. “Performing Reparative History in the Andes: Travesti Methods and Ch’ixi Subjectivities.” Journal of Visual Culture, vol. 21, no. 1, Apr. 2022, pp. 206–32. https://doi.org/10.1177/14704129221096177.
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Assignment Instructions
Why do so many researchers still treat race as a scienti

Assignment Instructions
Why do so many researchers still treat race as a scientific concept? For your assignment this week, you will ask respondents about their definitions or understandings of race. In this article, an anthropologist asked scientists, too, for their definitions of race:
https://slate.com/technology/2019/05/race-science-angela-saini-new-book-superior-deconstructed.htmlLinks to an external site.

For this research assignment and paper, you will first survey 20 adult people of your choosing to ask them about their attitudes about race. Do not survey or interview children, inmates, or anyone else who cannot give legal or voluntary consent.
Please tell your adult respondents that you are completing a research project and paper for your online Cultural Anthropology course on people’s understandings of, and attitudes about, race.
Important: Your respondents must remain anonymous. To maintain their confidentiality, in your field notes, you must codify them and not list their names. You may number each subject or use initials instead, but no first or last names should be included.
Explain no more. If respondents do not understand any of the five questions, please ask them to simply answer to the best of their ability and understanding, and explain that you are unable to discuss the question any further, according to assignment requirements.
Ask each of the 20 people the following 5 questions, and no more, and record their responses in your field notes, which you will submit with your paper:
1) How many races are there?
2) What are those races? (Please list them.)
3) What is your race?
4) What is your gender?
5) What is your age?
Then, in a 3-to-4 page double-spaced paper, in Times New Roman 12 point font, no longer and no shorter, explain your results.
Do you observe any patterns of responses based on respondents’ cultures, sub-cultures, or any particular socioeconomic background?
What about gender?
What about age?
Do people of particular age groups respond in a similar way?
Why do you think you observed the responses that you did?
How do the responses compare to the anthropological understanding of race, or to what you have learned in this course in the weekly lessons or in the textbook?
Be sure to include quotations or paraphrases from the textbook and/or weekly lesson and parenthetical in-text citations to support your points in the paper.

In anthropology, the meaning of life is a social construction. For some it is Go

In anthropology, the meaning of life is a social construction. For some it is God. For others it is family, pets, pizza. It is different things to different people. For this assignment, I want ponder and share what your ‘deep thought’ is on the number 42, or what life means to you. There is no right or wrong answer. Just credit.

Historians, folklorists, sociologists, and anthropologists have long considered

Historians, folklorists, sociologists, and anthropologists have long considered holiday, festivals, and family traditions as types of cultural performance. Cultural performances are found in all societies. They may be secular or sacred: parades, rodeos, carnivals, Thanksgiving, Easter, Kwaanzaa, Ramadan, Yom Kippur, weddings, birthdays…etc. There are diverse examples ranging from those associated with major religious institutions, or those more localized and individualized which are sometimes interpreted as superstitions. These celebrations of existence act to substantiate the human experience in many ways: symbolize identity, promote unity, satisfy existential needs. As such, these public and private activities provide an opportunity for observance and can be analyzed as “Ritual”.
Instructions
Choose a “religious” or sacred ritual to observe/watch. Remember what is religious to one person may be superstitious to another. Both qualify. The ritual can be part of a major institution (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism) or and individual practice (chanting, meditation, throwing salt, cracking eggs over care tires).
Make time to visit a “site”. There are many livestreaming sites on the internet. Or YouTube.
Do your fieldwork/observation. Have a framework in mind of what you are about to watch (see Analysis below)
Format
This a documentation of your observation. There is no need for MLA format since the research is all your own. No bibliography, no citations. In your own words.
3-5 pages, single spaced, typed including these sections:
Part I Introduction – Short and brief description of the performance of the ritual (no details). Setting? Where? When, Who?
Part II – Analysis – What type of ritual? What are the symbols? What is the mythological basis? What is it supposed to do?
Part III Conclusion – Answer the question – How would this ritual be considered “religious”AND how would this ritual be considered “superstitious”? Why? Use the terms: emic, etic, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, holism.

Assignment #3 Witchcraft among the Azande
Watch the documentary “Witchcraft Amon

Assignment #3 Witchcraft among the Azande
Watch the documentary “Witchcraft Among the Azande.” Apparently the library no longer has access. It can be found on Youtube at ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmug_qvO15s ). Then answer the following questions.
( you don’t have to watch given the time limit but you can research on google also the description of the YouTube video has some facts about them)
1) What is witchcraft to the Azande? How is divination used to find witches?
2) How do the Azande reconcile Christianity with their traditional belief system?
3) What is benge and how is it used?

23 questions that need to be at least 3-5 full detailed sentences each in the re

23 questions that need to be at least 3-5 full detailed sentences each in the response on one doc and include the question.

Project Overview:
Students will choose a culture or sub-culture that is differe

Project Overview:
Students will choose a culture or sub-culture that is different from his/her own and study it through an anthropological lens. You should challenge yourself to move outside your comfort zone. Students will collect and reflect upon information gathered. This means you must go there/observe more than one time! Students will choose a way to present their findings to others, including future anthropology students. (This is the original idea for this project. The other options are presented because of the pandemic.)