Category: Anthropology

You will make an annotated bibliography of the sources you plan to use for your

You will make an annotated bibliography of the sources you plan to use for your final paper. Your annotated bibliography should include four entries. You must have at least three outside sources, at least two of which should be scholarly (a book, book chapter, or journal from an academic article). One of your sources may be a reading from the course, if applicable.
Sources:
Four total
At least 3 outside sources (not class readings)
at least 2 of these should be scholarly (a nonfiction book or book chapter, or a journal article)
Review the comments on your Topic Paragraph submission. When looking for sources, think about what will help you best answer the questions you posed in your topic paragraph: Do you need more background about the groups/countries you plan on researching? What data/evidence will you analyze for your paper? Do you need any more information about theories you plan to incorporate in your analysis? Over the next few weeks, read over the sources you would like to use for your final paper.

For the annotated bibliography, put the citation for each source at the top of your entry. Put your citations into the American Anthropological Association style, which uses Chicago Style: Chicago Style Citation FormatLinks to an external site. (Links to an external site.)

Below each citation, write a short summary of your article, especially the part that is relevant to your paper topic. In 1-3 sentences, write what the source is explaining or researching, and what conclusions, arguments, or facts you learned. You should also have one sentence about how this article fits into your topic, and one sentence that summarizes the critiques you have about the article (or an explanation of why you think it doesn’t have any faults).
Find four sources about Islam in Latin America and look at the sample about how to fully complete it.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE UNIT 3 ESSAY – CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF INSTITUTIONS
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE UNIT 3 ESSAY – CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF INSTITUTIONS
BACKGROUND
By the 1940s Bronislaw Malinowski (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronis%C5%82aw_MalinowskiLinks to an external site. ) had developed a very useful functionalist approach to studying cultures still widely used today. Cultures are behavioral systems developed to meet emotional/psychological, social and economic needs. Such needs, if unmet, would manifest themselves as problems to be solved. Any culture then could be conceived as a traditional collection of solutions to problems. Cultures for Malinowski (1944 A Scientific theory of Culture) were conceived as collections of institutions, and an institution was defined as “a repeating patterned response in a community to a recurring problem,” or we could say to a recurring need.
Examples of needs, just a few among many MANY possible examples, could be socializing of children, producing food and shelter, resolving interpersonal and inter community conflicts, establishing new families, or managing psychological disorders that interfere with effective participation in society. Some problems recur in all societies (like those above), and some might be specific to some societies- eg. managing of scarce water needed for farming, or setting up systems for loaning money.
An institution that functions to meet one need, as for example producing food to feed a family, could at the same time also respond to other needs, as when the production of surplus food could generate money which could be used for status enhancement.
OUR GOAL
In this essay assignment, use Malinowski’s approach to institutions to analyze an unfamiliar culture by identifying an institution and exploring its functions.
PROMPT
You will select an ethnographic video (see source and samples below) then 1) identify and define an institution/institutionalized arrangement represented in the video, and 2) make an argument about the function or functions it performs (ie the problems it solves/needs it meets) in the cultural context in which it is presented. Finally 3) you will suggest how American culture or some other culture with which you are intimately familiar because of your personal background institutionalizes its responses to this same problem or need. FOR 5 bonus points make an argument that accounts for the differences in institutional arrangements in the 2 cultures and place it at the end of your essay labelled as BONUS.
FOR THE I.D. AND DEFINITION Malinowski says every institution may be described as composed of three interacting elements-
Charter or the goals and reasons for its existence according to its participants, that is an emic account of what it means to the participants.
Personnel or the collection of social roles required for the institution to function- for example in a nuclear family mom, dad, son, daughter, brother, sister.
Capital physical materials, artifacts, infrastructure and, in some cultures, financial resources that are required for the institution to function effectively given the norms of the community.

Instructions:
A “notes & queries” is an assignment that allows you to connect a

Instructions:
A “notes & queries” is an assignment that allows you to connect anthropological ideas found across different chapters of our textbook. Please consider and incorporate your instructor’s comments from the previous Notes and Queries assignment when completing this essay.
You will be choosing two (2) ideas from each and every chapter assigned for this assignment and relate each idea with another one found in a different chapter. For your “Notes & Queries #2,” please relate key concepts that you have found in Chapter 4, 5, and 6. This means you will be covering a total of six (6) ideas out of these three chapters.
The book is “Language, culture, and communication: the meaning of messages (8th edition) by Nancy Bonvillain
The assignment is like a mini essay (not a re-type of your class notes) and please cite specific chapter and page number(s) of our textbook when discussing each and every idea of your choice. Please also kindly format your citation into bold letters. For instance, a citation like (Chapter 4, Page 79) would help your instructor identify the source of your discussion. Each citation is one point of your grade. Missing information, such as chapter or page number, will be treated as the absence of a citation.
You must also connect the Harvey (2005), Ferguson (1976), and Olmen et al (2023) articles (please include at least author’s last name and specific journal page number in your citation) in your synthesis. You may relate these articles to one another or to a connection you made from textbook concepts.
Please also ask at least one question related to your discussion (hence the “queries” part of the assignment). Putting your question(s) in bold letter would greatly help your instructor identity this key element of your work; this question is one (1) point of your grade.
Format: Your “notes and queries” should follow the general format of double-space, font size 12, Times New Roman and 1-inch margins all around (Top, Bottom, Right, and Left). You do not need to include any personal or course information (as files are uploaded under your own name).
Your work should be one-page long and a reference cited page is NOT required.

DESIGNING THE RULES FOR “TRUE CRIME” INVESTIGATIONS
The “True Crime” genre of bo

DESIGNING THE RULES FOR “TRUE CRIME” INVESTIGATIONS
The “True Crime” genre of books, movies, TV-shows podcasts is a multi-billion-dollar industry. Moreover, a number of “True Crime” properties have shown the ability to influence the criminal justice system (e.g., Serial, Jinx), freeing those who may be innocent and holding accountable those who may be guilty.
However, can “True Crime” also be reckless? Who decides who has the right to turn intensely private and traumatic experiences of victims of crime into a product for public consumption? How far can “True Crime” investigators go in pursuing their story? What are the consequences for story tellers (and their financial backers) if a “True Crime” story sets a guilty individual free or sends an innocent individual to prison?
In this research project you will need to consider the following question:
Are the present rules enough to deal with the “True Crime” phenomenon? And, if not, how would you modify or write new rules to rectify the current situation?
Your research project has several components:
Define “True Crime” as a phenomenon.
Identify the potential benefits and problems with “True Crime” and, if possible, illustrate with examples.
Identify current criminal and civil rules that might apply to “True Crime” investigations.
Provide an analysis of whether those rules are “enough” to hold “True Crime” investigators (and/or their backers) to account.
If the current rules are not enough, what new rules would you suggest? How would you justify them?
There are no preconceptions about how you answer this prompt. However, this project is a LIBRARY RESEARCH PAPER. Common sense may be useful in when seeking inspiration for how to analyze and ‘solve’ the problem. However, you MUST also back up your ideas and perspectives using information gathered from acceptable SCIENTIFIC SOURCES.
Remember there is also a practical element to this exercise: Your analysis and suggested new “rules” must be reasonable, meaning that somebody could conceivably put your concept into place. This means that you should consider the cost, politics, legal foundations, and ethics of your proposed analysis.
Finally, EFFORT and CREATIVITY are needed for this project. You can’t dial this one in. YOU NEED TO TAKE IT SERIOUSLY TO GET A GOOD GRADE.
LIBRARY RESEARCH & ACCEPTABLE SCIENTIFIC SOURCES
You should cite relevant research from acceptable SCIENTIFIC SOURCES to support your case. SCIENTIFIC SOURCES can include peer-reviewed journal articles, law review articles, and books (that you would be able to find in the UCLA Library). That something might be an acceptable SCIENTIFIC SOURCE does NOT mean that it contains accurate or correct information. It only means that the paper has been through some form of review by peers and purports to be an honest presentation of perspectives and data.
Journal articles obtained from journals accessed through UCLA databases ISI Web of Science and J-Store are generally acceptable. Most books on the shelves of the UCLA libraries are acceptable scientific sources.
SUSPECT SOURCES
Other information from the web should be treated as a great deal of skepticism. This means information from websites such as wikepedia.org, britannica.com, joesacriminal.com, even latimes.com, etc., must be used with great care and caution.
Web pages and blogs are not peer reviewed by experts in the field and therefore they are under no obligation to use state-of-the-art theory and methods, nor are they required to be honest. In fact, it is not unreasonable to expect that blog authors are simply interested in attracting as much attention as possible. Why be careful and honest, if playing fast and loose with the facts earns you more eyeballs?
Mainstream newspapers such as the LA Times do hold themselves to a higher standard than bloggers. However, the journalistic standard is one of “confirmation” not scientific accuracy. Thus, if two or more people confirm the same outlandish story, then it is generally fit to print. If you see something in a news story that attracts your attention, you must back up the claims in that story with information from acceptable sources.
UNACCEPTABLE SOURCE
Lectures are UNACCEPTABLE as a source material for this paper. If you hear something intriguing in lecture, you must find acceptable scientific sources that back that up. Do NOT cite (Brantingham, Lecture 15)!
WARNING: I WILL DEDUCT ONE WHOLE LETTER GRADE FROM YOUR PAPER SCORE FOR EACH CITATION TO LECTURE MATERIALS.
PAPER FORMAT
Your paper MUST adhere to the following formatting guidelines:
5 page maximum, excluding references and images.
Double-spaced, 12 pt font
1” (inch) margins top, bottom, left right
Citations using APA or Chicago styles.
It is also recommended that you write your paper working from an outline. This helps you to organize your thinking and make sure you are saying all the things you want to say.

Discuss what archaeologists know about early agriculture by analyzing one of these two notable archaeological sites:Guilá Naquitz Cave (Oaxaca, Mexico)Tell Abu Hureyra (Raqqa Governorate, Syria)

For the second essay assignment, you will discuss what archaeologists know about early agriculture by analyzing one of these two notable archaeological sites:
Guilá Naquitz Cave (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Tell Abu Hureyra (Raqqa Governorate, Syria)
Use specific details about your chosen site to illustrate how archaeologists have learned about early agricultural societies. Your essay must include an introduction, body, and conclusion.
Introduction
In your introduction, include a thesis statement that explains why your site is important to understanding early agriculture and how we know. Introduce the subject of your paper and make sure to include a robust thesis statement explaining the following:
What are your goals in the paper?
What are you setting out to accomplish?
Explain why your site is important to understanding the development of agriculture and how archaeologists know this.
Discuss what archaeologists know, using specific examples that illustrate how archaeologists have reached an understanding of the development of agriculture in humanity’s past. Refer to information learned from key archaeological projects from one of the two sites listed, providing specific, material examples of data and the specific analytical methods that were used.
Body
Please address the following questions in the main body of your essay:
What evidence from your site was important for understanding early agriculture?
Laboratory analyses:How old is your site, and how was it dated?
What type(s) of laboratory analysis(es) were conducted?
What did the analytical result(s) indicate?
How did archaeologists combine different lines of evidence from your site to learn about early agriculture?
Why is this research and its conclusions important? How is it relevant today?
This list is intended to get you thinking about how archaeologists know and reconstruct past events based on data from the archaeological record. Be sure to include specific examples and details showing how archaeologists have addressed this topic at your site.
Conclusion
Highlight how what you presented in the body of your essay ties in with your thesis statement and your introduction.
Length
1000-1300 words: The word count does NOT include the heading or bibliography.
Sources and Citations
At minimum, you must use the following sources:
Three [3] sources from class (any combination of lectures, films, and textbooks)
Three [3] scholarly (peer-reviewed) sources outside of course-provided materialThese sources may come from the same author (e.g., you may cite two different articles written by the same author discussing your site). Examples of scholarly sources include:articles published in an academic journal
books
book chapters
Written scholarly sources must be peer reviewed. Google Scholar (scholar.google.comLinks to an external site.) is an excellent place to start looking for information about your site.
Web pages do not count as one of the three outside scholarly sources. In particular, do not cite Wikipedia, Britannica, or other popular web sources. Also avoid using journalistic articles, such as Science News or Nature News. Although this type of article is well researched, they do not qualify as scholarly sources for the purposes of this paper. However, they do usually provide a link to the actual scholarly publication and so can be useful in tracking down sources.
Include in-text citations and a bibliography using Chicago Author-Date citation style.
Start the bibliography on a new page after your essay.
Along with your essay, upload pdfs of the scholarly references you used (not including the textbooks or videos – only scholarly articles your research is based on).
Format
Include a heading with your name, course, section, date, and essay title.
Include a bibliography of all of the sources used in your essay. Start the bibliography on a separate page after your essay.
Use 1-inch margins and a standard 12pt font such as Times New Roman, Arial, or Calibri.
Double-space your essay. The bibliography may be double-spaced or single-spaced.
Include page numbers at either the top or bottom of each page.
Choice of Site
Pick one of the following sites for your essay:
Guilá Naquitz Cave (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Tell Abu Hureyra (Raqqa Governorate, Syria)
To be honest I couldn’t find much information from my lectures and actual class material. The lecture I attached is all the information I could find from the course and there is also this link that was given which mentions Guila Naquitz https://theconversation.com/was-agriculture-the-gr… Don’t worry about meeting the source requirements. If you want to just use one source from my class, than make up with it by using more outside sources please. There were other lectures I could potentially add also, but the file size was too big so I could only send this one. Thank you so much.

For this assignment, 4 different interviews should be included. 8 questions for each interview and they should be the same 8 questions

For this assignment, 4 different interviews should be included. 8 questions for each interview and they should be the same 8 questions if the interviewees are all in the same category, for example: consumers of tobacco. Make it as the interviewees are 4 of my friends and a family member.
The 800 words of the paper will be structured into eight 100 word paragraphs, as follows:
Introduction: Reason for studying this topic, and very briefly, what the interviews reveal (a short summary of the rest of the paper)
Literature: What literature are you using and how it links to your findings. Make sure you use two authors from our readings
Findings: Expand on the themes revealed in the interview – tell your reader what four themes came up in your conversations – it can either be one theme per interview or four generic themes that come up from all the interviews
Theme 1: Talk about the theme and expand on it
Theme 2: Talk about the theme and expand on it
Theme 3: Talk about the theme and expand on it
Theme 4: Talk about the theme and expand on it
Conclusions: What can we learn from the interviews you conducted?
Please attach your interview questions and answers for each of the interviewees at the end of the paper.
I will also attach two readings that should be used as resources and I will attach the two previous assignments that might help.

need to provide support and evidence for your argument based on the class materi

need to provide support and evidence for your argument based on the class materials. It is expected you will answer all of the questions listed below to frame your argument. Secondly, respond to another student on the Canvas discussion board.
Questions (must answer all for full credit):
1) What is your thesis statement?
2) What is the necessary background knowledge for this issue?
3) What evidence can you use to support your position? Why is this evidence impactful?
4) What are the public discourses surrounding this issue?
5) Why is this issue important?
Outside materials: Please make sure you are fully engaging with class materials before researching outside materials. DB2 will be graded down if you do not use appropriate class materials. You can use outside materials if they are correctly cited (any format, need in-text citations and works cited for outside materials).
Response to another student: You must respond to another student for full credit. You are welcome to use the 3 Cs & a Q method: Compliment, Comment, Connect, and Ask a Question.

A visual essay is a sequence of photographs or other images which are either:
or

A visual essay is a sequence of photographs or other images which are either:
original, taken and/or created by yourself, or
found using other sources (i.e. books, internet, film stills)
Taken together, the images provide a critical commentary of some kind cultural phenomenon, working as a kind of argument, explanation, discussion. The “thesis” for the topic will be one of the key concepts or a range of concepts covered in this course.
The ‘reading’ of the images in a visual essay is directed by:
the sequence of images and how they relate to each other, the juxtaposition of one to the next and how it stands in a series.
the layout of the page in which the image(s) is placed, and the layout of following and preceding pages.
captions, including brief analyses, quotations, key words, provocative questions or statements.
text integrated within the image or as part of the image (e.g. playing with the visual aspects of text).
a written exegesis which acts as a prologue/scene setter/epilogue – and explanation of your choices of imagery and alignment with the course themes.
Required: 13-15 Images
Required: 600 word exegesis
The exegesis is a chance for you to justify the creative and academic decisions you made when creating your visual essay. In the exegesis you will write, using an academic style, about the anthropological and socio-cultural aspects of your visual choices and include academic literature citations (minimum of 6).
**** You must also include an annotated bibliography (not included in the word count) – of no less than 6 sources that compliment your research and that you cite in your exegesis.
MARKING CRITERIA
Innovation & Originality: Each image clearly speaks to the identified guiding topic, and the captions support this meaning and convey it clearly to the audience. The images complement one another and ensure that a narrative emerges across the sequence. Careful choices have clearly been made as to the inclusion of imagery and these are well communicated in the exegesis.
A strong visual essay will make your examiner see things in a new light, it will cause surprise and contain both detail oriented as well as overarching anthropological points of view.
The visual essay is thoughtful and, above all, aligns strongly with anthropological concepts covered in this course.

Arrangement: This category evaluates the coherence and cohesiveness of your visual narrative. Your visual essay will be assessed for the following:
Do the images overall, tell a story that feels complete?
Does each image connect, stylistically as well as content wise, with the images before it and after it?

Style: Your visual essay will be assessed for style on the following basis:
Is there is an overarching style that connects your pictures? Is this unique and successfully projected?
Are your captions well written, academically thoughtful, grammatically correct?
Are your images thoughtfully composed and designed?

Academic & Anthropological Merit: Your visual essay will be assessed for academic merit on the following basis:
Does the student/creator make clear the anthropological significance of the chosen imagery and craft a logical narrative through both visual and written content, that highlights your comprehension of anthropological themes covered in the course?

Writing Quality: The exegesis and any textual element of your visual essay will be assessed for writing quality, on the following terms:
Is the written exegesis academically styled, easy to read, clear in its intentions, rationale, and objectives?
Has the student/creator appropriately cited all sources throughout the text and is the text free from spelling, grammatical, typing and/or punctuation errors.

Annotations & Choice of Literature: This criteria will assess the following:
Extensive research has been undertaken, involving appropriate sources relevant to the topic.
There is a high level of engagement with the relevant literature and key concepts in anthropology – in the exegesis, and annotated bibliography.

Draw an insect using:

the style of o

Draw an insect using:

the style of one of these “Types of Shapes” – Subjective, Geometric, or Implied one or more of these shape interactions – separated, touching, adding, subtracting one of the techniques to make your drawing seem flat or have depth.
After you draw your insect, include a descriiption of which techniques you used and why.

Anthropologists have helped solve a wide variety of human problems throughout th

Anthropologists have helped solve a wide variety of human problems throughout the history of the discipline by applying knowledge gained through ethnographic research, their unique approach to understanding the human experience. Your Mini-Ethnography assignment gives you the opportunity to think and work like an applied anthropologist by observing a particular person/group of people in a particular setting, describing specific problems or challenges they face, and thinking creatively and critically about how anthropological perspectives and methods might help solve these problems or challenges. Ideally the person/group you choose will be related to your major or career plans. Your overall goal in this assignment is to demonstrate—through clear and careful writing—your sharp observation and description skills, thoughtful exploration of specific challenges faced by the people you are studying, and creative and critical thinking about how anthropological methods and approaches might be applied to help resolve these challenges. The Mini-Ethnography assignment consists of two parts, a Proposal and the Mini-Ethnography itself. Below is the assignment for the Proposal
Mini-Ethnography Proposal (300 words)
Identify the person or group you would like to observe as the basis of your Mini-Ethnography. Again, ideally these will be people involved in your major or intended career (PYSCHOLOGY/social work) (Note: If some other group of people overwhelms you with fascination and you cannot look away, you may focus on them, with instructor approval, as long as it permits you to complete the rest of the assignment.)
Identify and briefly discuss one or two specific research questions or problems these people face that you would like to explore. These may well change as you actually spend time with people, but because there is always a ton going on in any slice of the human experience, it will be useful to have questions in mind beforehand to help structure your focus. It will also be a useful exercise for you to think about issues facing the profession you plan to pursue. What specific problems or challenges are people in this social group facing and trying to solve?
Identify and briefly discuss one or two specific research methods you think would be most useful and practical to explore these questions and challenges.
Identify and briefly discuss any chapters of the Kedia and Van Willigen volume that relate to your chosen group and/or research methods. Which domain discussed in their book might your Mini-Ethnography contribute to or draw from?
Properly cite any resource you use in this exercise following the American Anthropological Association Style Guide.