Category: Anthropology

  • DNA and protein syntheis (snorgs)

    Please dont use Ai or chatgbt for this assignment because my professor will be using turn in for this assignment

    This homework consists of two worksheets intended to help you better understand DNA Replication and Protein Synthesis. Instructions are in the worksheets, but I will also explain these in class.

    Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): SnorgsProteinSynthesislab.pdf, DNAReplicationWorksheet.pdf

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  • Analysis of “Black Swan” 2010

    Anth 132 Psychological Anthropology

    Creative Midterm

    Due: Tuesday February 10th by 6pm

    Creative Midterm: (CHOOSE EITHER ASSIGNMENT 1, 2 or 3)

    Please follow one of the prompts below. Your creative response paper is an exercise in analytic and interpretive reflection. Your paper should be at least 4-5 double-spaced pages (and no more than 5) in length (not including the bibliography). You should only cite the readings on our syllabus. Pay careful attention to citing your sources and quotations and include a bibliography. In the body of the text, you can quote using the authors last name, year of publication, and page number. For example, in his essay The Uncanny Freud states: this uncanny is in reality nothing new or foreign, but something familiar and old-established in the mind that has been estranged only by the process of repression (Freud, 1963: 47). If you are using a PDF without page numbers, you can cite the year. If you are citing lecture, you can indicate it with (Mojaddedi, date of class).

    Pick one option. You must draw on one of the conceptual pairs listed (and the associated readings) in your interpretation.

    1. Pick a short story, novella, museum exhibit, theater performance or a film/documentary. Your analysis should draw from the concepts we have been explicating in class to demonstrate how the film or exhibit relates or illuminates them. How do you understand the relationship between your object of analysis and the analytical frameworks we have covered so far? How does your film or exhibition illuminate these themes for you and how does it encourage us to challenge assumptions and ideas about society, the self and psychic life? You must cover at least one of the conceptual pairs listed below.

    2. Immerse yourself in a place (bus station, caf, dormitory, on campus, etc.) or your immediate surroundings (for example, at home). Carefully observe, record and analyze the milieu, event, or culture through a thick or detailed description that reveals hidden layers that might otherwise go unnoticed. What is your encounter? What exactly do you see, hear and notice? How would you describe the experience? What is the phenomenon you are observing? What does it reveal about psychic life, madness, unhappiness or the uncanny? You must divide your paper into two sections. The first half is purely descriptive and utilizes creative writing to bring to life the encounter or setting, and the second half is your interpretation which draws on the course readings and insights and one of the conceptual pairs below.

    1. Create a podcast! Show off your savvy media skills and create host and be your own guest on your own podcast episode. The episode will need to be at least 30 minutes long and is entirely up to you. The only requirement is that you speak about the course materials and readings. You can play the role of a professor, an analyst, a novelist, artist, a therapist, a patient in an institution, a warden, etc.

    Conceptual Pairs:

    1. Life and death drive (Thanatos and Eros)

    2. the uncanny and the self

    3. civilization and discontent (you can include the metropolis)

    4. madness and society

    I think the uncanny and the self reflects this the most, I have a few readings that you can/ need to use as a source

  • Reading Response #2

    2) Mention similar arguments (minimum three) and different arguments (minimum three) made by Cyndy Baskin, (2020), in Contemporary Indigenous womens roles: Traditional teachings or internalized colonialism? and the Collaborative Indigenous learning bundle by Kahente Horn-Miller, (2018), Decolonization is for everyone: Identity formation in the Canadian Context.

    In your answer, please use full sentences (bullet points are not acceptable), Times New Roman 12pt font, 1-inch margin and double-space. long answer maximum (525 words approximately).

    Requirements: 525 words approximately

  • anthro paper week 5

    two goals. First, you will discuss the foods you eat during your favorite holiday. Second, you will discuss the foodways of a non-industrial culture (foraging, horticulture, or pastoralism). Make sure that you name a specific culture (ex.! Kung, Kwakwakawakw, Maasai). You cannot just discuss a subsistence strategy. You will need to discuss a cultural group that relies on a foraging, horticultural, or subsistence lifeway.

    When writing your paper, discuss at least two of the following for both:

    • What are the modes of subsistence involved? How do you/they get food?
    • What roles do each family member have? Do these vary by gender or age?
    • What are the myths, norms, attitudes, or history associated with this event/lifeway?

    Use in-text citations from the textbook and one outside, scholarly source to back up your points. Scholarly sources include journal articles and textbooks written by professionals. Your paper must be 1-to-3-pages, double-spaced, and in APA Style.

    you can choose the other reference that is needed and I have attached the chapter of the book to reference for the other.

    Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): chapter 5 anthro.pdf

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  • Reading Response #2

    2) Mention similar arguments (minimum three) and different arguments (minimum three) made by Cyndy Baskin, (2020), in Contemporary Indigenous womens roles: Traditional teachings or internalized colonialism? and the Collaborative Indigenous learning bundle by Kahente Horn-Miller, (2018), Decolonization is for everyone: Identity formation in the Canadian Context.

    In your answer, please use full sentences (bullet points are not acceptable), Times New Roman 12pt font, 1-inch margin and double-space. long answer maximum (525 words approximately).

    Requirements: 525 words approximately

  • Indigenous studies

    I have attached instructions on the assignment below thank you.

    Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): Reading Response 2 ANTH 1002 Winter Term 2026.docx

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  • Weekly Reading Response 4

    Read all of the readings for the week.

    Tung_ViolenceAfterImperialCollapseNP200810.pdfDownload Tung_ViolenceAfterImperialCollapseNP200810.pdf

    Torres-Rouff-2005.pdfDownload Torres-Rouff-2005.pdf

    Then, write a 2-page (12-point font, double-spaced, 1-inch margins) reading response answering the following questions about each article (1 page per article):

    What is the main goal of the study?

    What methods and pathologies do the authors use to address their goal?

    What are the main results of the study?

    How did the results address the stated goal of the paper? Did you find the author’s argument convincing?

    Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): Tung_ViolenceAfterImperialCollapseNP200810.pdf, Torres-Rouff-2005.pdf

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  • Anthropology Question

    The instructor will provide discussion questions for the readings, films, and lectures 4 times during the quarter. Students are required to write response papers to these questions and turn them in by the assigned date. The response papers should seek to answer the discussion questions by providing a concise overview and critical appraisal of the relevant readings, films, and lectures. Each comment should be at least 600 words in length (maximum 1,000 words). The response papers should not be asummary of the readings or lecture materials but a thoughtful engagement with issues raised in the lecture and the readings through critical analyses and integration. A grading rubric is at the end of this syllabus. Please note that there will typically be a choice of two to three questions provided for each assignment. You should pick ONE of these questions to address in your response paper. Please note that if attendance in lecture is high and students are writing their response papers WITHOUT relying on AI technologies, then your lowest score on the response papers will be dropped. If instructor has the sense that students are using AI technologies to write these response papers, then the instructor will switch them from take-home to in-class essays. In this eventuality, the instructor will announce the dates and times of the in-class essays.

    Response Question:

    Imagine that our society is shifting from largely disciplinary power to more sovereign forms of power. Please describe what this shift would look like by discussing AT MINIMUM THREE of the following domains: 1) bureaucracies, 2) norms, standards, and ideals, 3) visibility of the sovereign or state, 4) visibility of the average civilian, 5) forms of punishment instituted by the state, 6) peoples sense of personal choice, 7) surveillance, 8) ones soul (as Foucault referenced it), 9) the ambivalence of state violence and suffering bodies, and 10) rituals of truth.

    Requirements: 800 words

  • discussion

    Utilize critical thinking and reading skills when writing your responses. Here are some questions to guide your discussion – feel free to add additional lines of thought and inquiry as appropriate. When posting be sure to reference course materials including films, lectures and readings.
    movie:

    • What were some of the impediments to Darwin presenting his ideas on evolution?
    • Is intelligent design simply creationism repackaged? Why?
    • Are beliefs in creationism/intelligent design as well as science/evolution mutually exclusive? In other words can someone believe in both evolution and intelligent design?
    • The title of the film we viewed under the Course Materials is “War on Science” – do you believe that there is an actual war on science here? Why? What does it mean to have a war on science? Who is waging this war and how is it being contested?
    • What should be taught in classroom and why? Evolution, Intelligent Design, Creationism and why? Should law impact this? (US Constitution Amendment I – Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably)
    • What is science? What is objectivity? What is scientific objectivity?

    Requirements: discussion post

  • Fieldwork and Ethnography – TO

    This weeks learnings:

    PDF’s also attached.

    According to the article “Mother’s Love: Death Without Weeping” by Nancy Scheper-Hughes:

    1. What are TWO emic reasons given by the women of Alto do Cruziero for why they let their infants die?
    2. What are TWO etic reasons proposed by the author for why the women commit infanticide?

    Attached Files (PDF/DOCX): Module 2 Overview_ Fieldwork and Ethnography_ SCC Sp26 ANTH 310 LEC 16970 Argent.pdf, Scheper-Hughes 1989 – Death Without Weeping.pdf, Geertz 2005 – Deep Play Notes on a Balinese Cockfight.pdf, Perspectives – Ch 3 Fieldwork.pdf

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