Technical: 4-5 pages. 11-12 point font, regular margins, double-spaced with in-text citations and works cited. Citation style (MLA, APA, Chicago etc.) is up to you.
Include the following subheadings:
a) focus of study;
b) importance of study;
c) methods (including justification for why these methods are appropriate);
d) ethical obligations and considerations (list how each of the requirements in the AAA
guidelines will be addressed and exercise reflexive thinking with possible
complications that may arise in the course of your research)
e) profile of the researcher (you, and why you are the best person to conduct this
study).
Category: anthropology
For this assignment, imagine you are an evolutionary biologist/paleoanthropologist who has just uncovered a relatively complete fossilized hominid skeleton. You have determined that this is a new species and plan to publish your results in the peer-reviewed journal New Discoveries. You are also aware that new hominin species attract lots of public interest, so you need to prepare a visual depiction highlighting the salient features of your hominin.
Watch two videos featuring the performance of a twentieth century music composition. Your choices must be from the twentieth or twenty-first century classical tradition, such as solo, orchestral or chamber music performances, not pop, rock, or jazz. Please note that this assignment is not a 20th or 21st century performance of music from the Classical era – students should watch videos of music that was composed in the twentieth or twenty-first century. The music chosen for this assignment needs to have been written in the twentieth or twenty-first century, so it is important to not choose music that was composed before the twentieth century. You can either choose two compositions written by the same composer or a composition from two different twentieth or twenty-first century composers. If you are not sure if your choices fit the requirements, be sure to ask in the Questions thread or by sending a personal message to your instructor. The following is a list of possible choices for composers for this assignment. You are not required to choose a composer from this list as long as your choices are composers from the twentieth or twenty-first century.
Jeanne Demessieux
Harry T. Burleigh
William Grant Still
Arnold Bax
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Gustav Holst
Arvo Prt
Henry Balfour Gardiner
Gerald Finzi
Nadia Boulanger
Lili Boulanger
Benjamin Britten
Marcel Dupr
Charles Ives
Manuel de Falla
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Augusta Read Thomas
Bela Bartok
Leonard Bernstein
Aaron Copland
Igor Stravinsky
Arnold Schoenberg
John Adams
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Philip Glass
Morton Feldman
Dmitri Shostakovich
Ruth Crawford Seeger (Ruth Porter Crawford)
Pierre Boulez
Terry Riley
For each of the two videos, discuss how each composition reflects the six basics of melody, harmony, texture, rhythm, timbre, and form. You can refer to Tools in the course text for detailed information about each of these musical terms. Please also address how the composer’s music reflects the culture and/or time period in which he or she lived. This aspect of the assignment should include information from academic sources about the musical style of your chosen composer/s that is cited. The videos should be cited in the body of the text and in a reference page.
Choose one of these options for your initial post.
Forum Question: Define the different kinds of reciprocity that are discussed in the readings (it’s necessary to read both the required materials for this week as well as the Week 5 Lesson). Explain these using examples of each from your own life.
Forum Question: Identify a specific type of kinship system (Eskimo, Hawaiian, Sudanese, and others) that is different from your own and then imagine growing up in that other kinship system. How would your family relationships and personal experiences be different from what they are now? enlightenedHelpful Hint: Polygamy (polygyny and polyandry) is not a kinship system.
Choose one of these options for your initial post.
Forum Question: Sex is a biological category (male, female) and gender is a more fluid category (woman, man, transgender). Using the interactive PBS map about global concepts of gender to identify and then research another culture where there are third genders. Why is gender diversity important?
Forum Question: Complete the Human Variation Quiz on the American Anthropological Association’s RACE: Are we do different? website (2011). To navigate to the Quiz, follow the link, then click “Human Variation” then click “Human Variation Quiz”. Identify which question(s) you had the most difficulty in answering and describe why. Why are such misconceptions about race popularized?
Forum Question: Some theorists have argued that colonialism-and in turn anthropology-rely on defining rigid categories of Us and Others, emphasizing the differences between the categories and dehumanizing “Others,” treating them by different standards than we apply to “Us.” Reflect on the short Bower (2000) or Moor (2012) article. Do you think this was the case in the research on Ishi or the treatment of Ota?
Purpose:
The goal of this Assignment is to observe an ‘archaeological site’ as an anthropologist would. The student will analyze their observations in terms of themes from the subfield of archaeology such as how it helps frame our understanding of how we can learn more about the human past by studying and interpreting material culture.
Description:
Motel of the Mysteries is a well-known book among archaeologists (see basic description in Smith, 2009). This humorous (now sadly out of print) book takes a look at how an archaeologist of the future might look at a late 20th century roadside motel. While our artifacts make sense to us, how might they preserve and be interpreted by future archaeologists? In this Assignment we will explore this idea.
Smith, S. (2009). Motel of the Mysteries. The Society for Georgia Archaeology. Retrieved from: http://thesga.org/2009/01/motel-of-the-mysteries/
Directions for 4-6 page Assignment:
Choose one room of your home or a specific place in your community (playground, parking lot, restaurant). Visit and observe the site for 10-15 minutes.
Map (photos, hand drawn and scanned, digitally created map) the site and describe the physical characteristics of the site.
Collect and document artifacts. Describe the artifacts noting color, shape, weight, texture, quantity, material, and other features you think are important. Be objective as you examine the site, remember not to mention what it is in today’s terms, but pretend you have do not recognize or have knowledge of the artifacts and site
Using your imagination, what are some other purposes the artifacts and site might have? What conclusions can you draw about the origin of the artifacts, their use, and the purpose of the site?
Using our course materials, what type of archaeological tools and methods would you want to use to help you interpret your artifacts and site?
Reflect on some of the challenges archaeologists face in piecing together the past.
Cite at least one of our course materials in your paper. This typically works best in steps 5 and/or 6.
Anthropology was created in the 19th century to assist in the colonization of the world by the West. In the west there was an industrial revolution where because of technology, agriculture increased, creating increased populations that were no longer needed on the farm, they moved to the cities for industry and that is where sociology was created to study people in the cities working. For other people, they went abroad to help with colonization. The anthropologists researched the indigenous people and provided the colonizer with an understanding of the culture and society of people around the world in a very scientific methodological way.
In what way do people learn about their values, the rules of society etc…? Who were these people who started anthropology and what views did they have of the people they studied? “Cultural particularism”, “Historical particularism” these words mean that these modern anthropologists wanted to study them in the context of their culture. They wanted to respect them and to understand them and ultimately to do comparative work looking at a variety of societies. The founding fathers of anthropology created a discipline that was holistic and wanted to understand the people in their culture.
Franz Boas and most of the American anthropologist believed in studying all aspects of culture. Malinowski, Mauss and others believed like Durkheim that societies were like organisms with all the different parts working together.
So, what did you find interesting about how these anthropologists studied people and their societies? What about their ethics and philosophy in doing what they did?
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