Category: Anthropology


  • Anthro103 Human Origins and Variation Writing Assignment “Pick a Primate or Hominin” Due: Friday, May 5th, 11:59pm via Moodle (turnitin link) Please read the instructions carefully. Pick a primate or extinct hominin species (do not write about yourself) and write a 600-700 word essay on the species’ behavior and ecology (e.g. life history, mating system,…

  • 2.5 pages. Pick one scholar whose name appears on this syllabus. Imagine you were going to write a letter to them. Imagine that this scholar was actually going to read what you are writing to them. Write the scholar such a letter/email in first person narration. A couple things to write about is: How would…

  • The Questions Below. One Page for Each Question Do men and women speak different languages? How is this linguistic disparity explained by Dr. Deborah Tannen, and how can men and women begin to learn to overcome such tremendous communication difficulties? In working with kinship systems in cultural anthropology, please define the following terms: consanguine; affinal;…

  • How are we sick? In what ways does our or your culture display illness so others will know that one is ill? How does your culture react to illness? How did the Gurung react to illness? Lastly, include something about the COVID pandemic and how it has changed or not changed our culture of illness.…

  • 2400 and 2700 words long. It should include the following components: (a) a summary of what the book was about, (b) how you feel the book reflected the cultural lifeways of the tribe, as we learned about it in class; (c) in what ways the book did not reflect the typical tribal experience or lifeway,…

  • Lesson 5 Essay: Humans Make Meaning Let’s revisit the guinea pig healing that we viewed earlier in the semester. If you need to go back and refresh your memory, it is in Lesson 1. We used it as an example of the importance of practicing cultural relativism. Now, we need to go back and understand…

  • Nacirema Essay

    For the Nacirema essay, you will choose a cultural behavior or practice (I CHOOSE EITHER VIDEO GAMES OR WORKING OUT. YOU CAN CHOOSE EITHER ONE. ) that you are familiar with. The activities above (from “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” (article is in the files) are good examples of topics to write about. You can…

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    Creat a test and wrote answers. The test must have 6 questions. At least 1 question from each article that uploaded and the rest can be written from the information and videos on file 3. The answers can not be copy and pasted or found from other sources (you can paragraphs them).

  • Final Exam

    1. Explain the meaning of “social significance vs cultural significance”- using major holidays celebrated in the USA from January to July. 2. Discuss the various ways( 5 )the Social Structure framework of Society Chart) were used by the instructor to teach students how to apply anthropological or sociological concepts, theories and methods.

  • Women linguistic

    It is said that: Women linguistic behavior is seen as part of a shift in cultural loyalty for a better life in the aimed-at speech community. Discuss this statement with focus on the following points: Code switching and gender patterns (Week 9). Gender as a cultural identity (Weeks 10-11). Gender and social class (Week 12).…