Category: Anthropology

this is the film to summarize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUQ_8wl93HM&t=13s

instructions: to produce a 300 word essay summarizing the film and your thoughts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBEgyWScdmA&t=2733s this is the film

You are required to complete the Mid-Course Reflective Essay . You are expected to choose and respond to three key learnings, or themes, from the first half of the course. You will provide a 1500 word essay which responds to the topic of the module. You are expected to draw from and quote at least three resources in your essay, provide three quotes from your peers, and provide your own insight. You are expected to provide proper citation, including quotes, with respective page numbers, paragraph numbers, or section titles. You will be graded on the following: 1) Choice of topics from the modules, and position take (3%) 2) Substantiated evidence (3%) 3) Quotes from three module resources, and three quotes from your peers (3%) 4) Proper APA and citations (3%) 5) Length (3%) You will be asked to share three key learnings, or themes, and take a position, with respect to topics from Modules 1-5. Whichever position you take is up to you, though you are required to justify your answer with references, citations, and quotes.

this is an anthropology of the mena course , I will put the syllabus since the open eneded question we choose should once be linked to the course content , I will but the instructions and the syllabus in files.

Follow instructions

Need two open ended questions per chapter of the book I will be attaching.

Part 1: 200 words

Discussion Topic

This week we will explore how ethnocentric beliefs and the social construction of gender play into power relations. I this weeks quiz, you discussed a reading which suggested that the power dynamics associated with the choice of many Middle Eastern women to wear the veil or burqa do not align with many Western perceptions of this practice. We also read about how women’s stepping outside of traditional gender roles and and a culturally normalized view of “male honor” allows for femicide in Turkey. Now I want you to explore how gender roles affect the distribution of power in your lives.

Instructions

Gender roles consist of the conventional attitudes, values, behaviors, and tasks that are considered appropriate for, and are assigned by a culture to, members of each sex. In your initial post:

1. List two gender roles you believe your culture associates with men, and two with women. (If you are bi-cultural, pick one culture and mention this. If you identify as other than cis-gender, or as LGBTQ+, you may choose to frame this discussion from within that context.)
2. List two advantages and two disadvantages you feel your culture places upon you because of these gender roles.
3. List a gender role behavior or task that you think people expect of you because of your gender that you are caught up in, but would like not to be caught up in. Analyze and discuss how this gender role within your culture impacts, or has impacted, power relations within your life. How might the concept of benevolent sexism from your assigned reading play into this? How difficult or easy would it be to detach from this gender role? Why?

part 2: 1-2 sentences each person

Once part 1 is complete, I will add 2 classmates post you can respond to.

This is an assignment for an anthropology class. the class is about middle eastern cultures and societies.