Ant2410 Intro To Cultural Anthropology Ethnographic P 988077

1ant2410 Intro To Cultural Anthropology Ethnographic Paper Assignment

You will read an ethnography (a research book written by an anthropologist about his/her/their research) and write a series of short written on it. Books can be borrowed from the library, rented, or purchased. You will choose your book from the list of 11 at the end of this rubric. The assignment is worth a total of 20% of your course grade. There are two parts to this assignment: 1) A detailed analysis of the first half of the text.

Here you will write paragraphs describing the author’s hypothesis, setting and methodology of the ethnographic study. 2) A cultural analysis summarizing the second half of the book. Here you will describe the religious/economic/social/political organization of the culture, the ethnographer’s findings, and your opinion of the book.

Part 1: Due 7/10 @ 11:59PM on Canvas (10 pts)

You should have half of the book read at this point. Write a paragraph(s) answering each of the following sets of questions. Each paragraph should have a thesis statement and evidence of details/data from the ethnography to support your answer. Please number and include the headings below. Minimum length is 1,000 words.

1. Name, Class, Date, Ethnography Title, Author
2. Setting: What is the setting (time/place) of the study? What culture(s) are involved? What type of society is being studied (Band/tribe/chiefdom/state)? Describe the basic information of the community that you know at this point.
3. Hypothesis: What is the author’s research topic and hypothesis, i.e. what is the question/topic that they are undertaking in their research? (The topic may be class issues, race, gender, economics, politics, religion etc.) What preparations were necessary for the anthropologist to due to begin their research?
4. Methodology: How is the anthropologist conducting the study? What techniques are being utilized? Who are their informants and how are they selected? What issues are they having in the field during the beginning of their research? Include details of the study to aid support to the author’s techniques and hypothesis.

Citations are required: Include in-text citations for all paraphrased material using the AAA style guide (with page numbers). Include References (ethnography and textbook) at the end of the assignment. If you do not include citations within your text, you will receive a 0 for the assignment as it is plagiarized.

Part 2: Due 7/27 @ 11:59PM on Canvas (10 pts)

You should have the book completed at this point. Write a paragraph(s) answering each of the following sets of questions. Each paragraph should have a thesis statement and evidence of details/data from the ethnography to support your answer. Please number and include the headings below. Minimum length is 1,000 words.

1. Name, Class, Date, Ethnography Title, Author
2. Economic/Political/Social/Religious Organizations: Describe the cultural system/structure of the culture studied. Relate this to what you learned in the textbook. For example, if the culture is a band society, state this and describe its way of making a living, the leadership and politics, the religion and the social groups of how people are organized.
3. Conclusions: What was the author’s conclusion of their ethnographic study? Did it answer their hypothesis? Explain in detail what the results were and the process of how the conclusions were made. What recommendations did they have for future research?
4. Opinion: What is your opinion of the ethnography? What did you like/dislike about the ethnography? What surprised you and what did you learn most about? What questions do you still have that are left unanswered? If you were the anthropologist what would you do differently?

Citations are required: Include in-text citations for all paraphrased material using the AAA style guide (with page numbers). Include References (ethnography and textbook) at the end of the assignment. Format: Times Roman 11 or 12 pt font or Arial 10 or 11 pt font. Margins 1-1.25" top/bottom/left/right. Pages numbered. Name and class identified in single-spaced heading on first page. Include the numbers and headings in the assignment. Double-spaced text. Docx or pdf files. References do not count toward page count. Citations: You are required to include in-text citations throughout your essays and include the page number in them, and references at the end. Do not use footnotes or endnotes. Please follow the AAA style guide for citations and references.

Eligible Ethnographies

• Abu-Lughod, Lila. 2008. Writing Women’s Worlds: Bedouin Stories. Oakland, University of California Press.
• Basso, Keith H. 1996. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press.
• Benedict, Ruth. 2006 [1934]. Patterns of Culture. New York, Mariner.
• Bourgois, Philippe. 2002 [1995]. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
• Farrer, Claire. 2010. Thunder Rides a Black Horse: Mescalero Apache and the Mythic Present. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press.
• Fox, Kate. 2004. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour. London, Hodder and Stoughton.
• Hurston, Zora Neale. 2008 [1938]. Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. New York, Harper Perennial.
• Mead, Margaret. 2001 [1928]. Coming of Age in Samoa. New York, William Morrow.
• Robb Larkins, Erika. 2015. The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil. Oakland, University of California Press.
• Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 1992. Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Oakland, University of California Press.
• Shostak, Marjorie and Nisa. 2000 [1981]. Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman. Boston, Harvard University Press.

References

• Bender, Courtney, and Pamela E. Klassen. 2010. After Pluralism: Reimagining Religious Engagement. New York: Columbia University Press.