Define the position of people or one person within the family, including their status, role, and expected behavior to perform in the family and/or in that community.

-Read & Review Ethnographic Studies
The Akan of West Africa
The Igbo of Nigeria
The Ancient Hebrews
A Turkish Peasant Village
The Yanomamo of the Amazon Forest
The Ju/’hoansi of the Kalihari

-Choose a Cultural Group
Investigate one of the cultural groups listed above or in our textbook reading.

Answer Focus Questions
Answer the following questions as if you are a Cultural Anthropologist conducting an Ethnographic Research Study about your culture:

1. Explain why it is important for you, as an Anthropologist, to understand the kinship, descent, and family relationships that exist in the culture you study.
2. Define the position of people or one person within the family, including their status, role, and expected behavior to perform in the family and/or in that community. If the role has changed over time, please explain. Make sure you are applying this example to your culture under study as if you a Cultural Anthropologist conducting an ethnographic research study.
3. Describe the pattern of family organization of the culture, such as nuclear families, extended families, or joint families.
4. Explain the practical effects of the culture’s family size and discuss how family size influences political alliance formation.

Are there lessons learned from horticulturalists or agriculturalists to mitigate deforestation, habitat loss, and/or disease, use slash and burn agriculture, or rotate crops?

Find a Cultural Group

Investigate any cultural group that you choose and want to learn more about .

Answer Focus Questions

-Describe the relationship between your cultural group, their environment, and/or belief system that provides subsistence and survival.
-Expand on the unique features of the culture that stand out regarding social structure, kinship systems, tools, adaptation, trade, etc.
-Choose one example from this list and examine your cultural group’s use of any environmental or sustainable practices:
-Are there lessons learned from industrial agriculturalists to reduce costs and adopt renewal resources through solar, wind power, biodiesel, or grey water recycling?
-Are there lessons learned from horticulturalists or agriculturalists to mitigate deforestation, habitat loss, and/or disease, use slash and burn agriculture, or rotate crops?
-Are there lessons learned from pastoralists or foragers to regenerate plant resources, save water, or regenerate the desert by moving camps or livestock?
-Explain how the cultural group’s traditional way(s) of life are becoming modernized to adapt to a changing environment, government policies, or any other reason for adapting their tradition way of life.

Demonstrate the validity of qualitative data used by researchers to explain their fieldwork results.

After completing this assignment, you will be able to explain the development of ideas pertaining to formation of social actions in society.

Connection to Module Objectives:
This assignment measures the module objective; you will be able to:

Describe the key concepts and components of fieldwork methods used to understand cultural behavior;
Demonstrate the validity of qualitative data used by researchers to explain their fieldwork results.
Points possible: 25

Explain how the discipline uses field method technique(s) to study a living culture, an ancient culture, or the earliest human hunter-gatherers.

Ethnographic fieldwork is a type of anthropological research during which anthropologists immerse themselves into a specific society in order to get a better insight about the people they study.
Answer Focus Questions
Explore one sub-discipline of Cultural Anthropology from your research:

Explain how the discipline uses field method technique(s) to study a living culture, an ancient culture, or the earliest human hunter-gatherers.
Describe how important the AAA Code of Ethics are when using human subjects for research.
Identify a significant contribution within the discipline you chose.
Share why the career is of interest to you.
Provide reference citation(s) that do not have to follow a particular format. Web site link needs to be hyperlinked. 1 point.

Is there any evidence that they are related to modern humans?In which country was Homo Naledi discovered?

Homo naledi Report

Write a 2-page paper in Times New Roman 12-point font.

Homo Naledi is a new fossil find that was discovered recently.
In your paper, you need to have the following:
a. Introduction
b. In which country was Homo Naledi discovered?
c. Where did they find the fossils, and how did the scientists reach the fossils in order to retrieve the bones? In this section, you can be very descriptive and there are even videos you can find that show what they had to do to get the bones.
d. Would you consider going on an expedition to obtain more of the fossils from this location? Why or why not?
e. How old are the fossils?
f. Is there any evidence that they are related to modern humans?
g. Provide any other information about Homo Naledi you need to to reach 2 pages.

What drove ancient peoples to build monuments? Are there consistencies in what kinds of societies create monuments, or is it variable? How does monument construction relate to power, social hierarchy, and inequality?

Monuments

Perhaps the most recognizable archaeological features around the world are monuments. For this essay, you will explore monuments and the roles they played in the cultural dynamics of ancient societies. First, you should define monuments, and consistently apply that definition throughout your essay. Second, you should formulate a cohesive thesis that makes an argument regarding the circumstances under which monumentality emerged in the ancient world.

You may want to consider some combination of these questions in the formulation of your thesis: what drove ancient peoples to build monuments? Are there consistencies in what kinds of societies create monuments, or is it variable? How does monument construction relate to power, social hierarchy, and inequality? Does monument construction appear to be tied to certain systems of subsistence? Why or why not? How do monuments relate to religious ritual, the relative power of states, and kings and queens of the ancient world?

How are their causes of divorce similar or different to causes of divorce in parts of the Western World?

Listen, Here’s A Story –by Bonnie L. Hewlett

Divorce is a common feature of married life, both within our own culture and that of the Aka and Ngandu. How are their causes of divorce similar or different to causes of divorce in parts of the Western World? Women from both populations spoke about the difficulty of polygyny, but a few women also noted how beneficial it was for their husbands to bring home a second wife.

What would you consider to be potential benefits of polygyny? What factors of polygyny might make it difficult for some women to accept? What do Aka and Ngandu women mean when they refer to menopause as being “like a man?” What life lessons might you have learned from Nali, Konga, Therese, and Blondine?

Why do you think race has continued to be an important social reality even after it has been discredited scientifically?

No Title page just Reflection # 4 on the top eflection Journal #4
Due May 8 by 11:59pm Points 20 Submitting an external tool
For your final reflection journal, you will respond to one of the following prompts:
Durkheim argued that a distinction between the sacred and the profane was a key characteristic of religion. Thinking about your own culture, what are some examples of ideas or objects that are considered “sacred”? What are the rules concerning how these objects or ideas should be treated? What are the penalties for people who do not follow these rules?

García describes the reasons that race is considered a “discredited concept in human biology.” Despite this scientific fact, most people continue to believe that race is “real.” Why do you think race has continued to be an important social reality even after it has been discredited scientifically?

Reflect on the various ways you have “learned” about gender and sexuality throughout your life. Which influences do you think had the biggest impact?

How has your own society’s concept of race shaped your life? Would your life be different if you were another race?

Race Ethnicity & Class

Then instructions are to read, watch, and use the web links to answer the highlighted text.
Discussion Post 11: Race, Ethnicity, & Class.

Imagine that an alien who wants to study humans comes to Earth and asks you to explain the differences that exist among humans and how those differences have affected you.
Based on what you have learned from readings and the video, how would you explain the concept of race? Make sure that your answer draws on the materials for this week and doesn’t just repeat inaccurate assumptions you may have learned previously.
How has your own society’s concept of race shaped your life? Would your life be different if you were another race?

Do you feel like the United States made the right decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan?” Was it necessary to facilitate the end of the war? Was it worth the loss of civilian lives? Do you think all things were considered before making this momentous decision?

The topic for your third writing assignment is “Do you feel like the United States made the right decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan?” Was it necessary to facilitate the end of the war? Was it worth the loss of civilian lives? Do you think all things were considered before making this momentous decision?
Information concerning this topic can be found in Chapter 27 of your textbook. Do not plagiarize! Your essay will be run through a plagiarism checker.

Any plagiarized work will result in a deduction of 25 points. If you want to use information you found in the textbook, or anywhere else, simply state in your essay where you got the information.This eliminates any plagiarism because you gave credit for the work to the original authors.

This essay should contain a minimum of 700 words and be typed double spaced using Times New Roman 12 font with 1 inch margins all around.