Category: Anthropology

This discussion includes two topics: marriage and sex/gender. You will compose your initial post based on the scenario assigned to you in the chart below. In your peer responses, you will respond to one peer assigned to the same scenario as you and another peer assigned to the other scenario.

First Letter of Last Name

Assigned Scenario for Initial Post

AK

Scenario A: Marriage

LZ

Scenario B: Sex/Gender

Scenario A: Marriage

Two friends, Taylor and Alex, are enjoying dessert after a show at the local arts theater. Taylor draws your attention to a very cozy couple at a table in the corner. “I wonder what show they watched,” Taylor says with a smirk. You gasp and report that you know the woman (she is your neighbor), but the man is not her husband. “Maybe they’re in an open relationship,” Taylor remarks nonchalantly.

Compose your initial post as if you are Taylor. In your initial post, be sure to do the following:

• Explain how marriage is an expression of cultural norms and values.
• Describe at least two different forms of marriage.
• Apply the principles of cultural relativism.

Scenario B: Sex/Gender

You and a friend, Elliott, are enjoying your conversation at a local coffee shop when you both take a bathroom break. You arrive at the two-bathroom doors and see each door labeled with the sign below.

Upon returning to the table, Elliott remarks, “What’s up with those bathrooms? Women should use the women’s room and men should use the men’s room.” You decide to take this opportunity to share what you have learned about sex and gender.

Compose your initial post as if you were responding to your friend, Elliott. In your initial post, be sure to do the following:

• Distinguish sex and gender.
• Describe at least two different ways that gender identity is expressed; include at least one way that gender identity is expressed in your culture and at least one way gender identity is expressed in another culture.
• Apply the principles of cultural relativism.

Peer Response Guidelines: Respond to the initial posts of at least two of your peers, one assigned to Scenario A and one assigned to Scenario B. In your responses, assess how well your peers applied the principles of cultural relativism. Point out at least one specific example of how each peer did or did not apply the principles of cultural relativism.

My chosen primate is the the Chacma Baboon

Summary

We will establish an underlying reason for spending our “grant funding” from the American Society of Primate Research. We will create a key problem statement and develop a brief background and overview for our research project. We will indicate the specific contribution to primate conservation.

Answer Focus Questions (25 points)

Continue with your chosen primate from Assignment 1:

1. Develop a general overview of the topic and explain why it is important; (5 points)
2. Describe five goals for your research project; (10 points)
3. Explain how your research study will contribute to primate conservation; (4 points)
4. Provide a brief summary of a relevant article about the current state of primate research on your topic or on related topics in the field and include the link in references; (5 points)
5. Provide a reference (1 point)

Submission:

• Provide a 25-sentence written analysis with web link/reference.

In this activity, you will model how a bacteria population is affected by exposure to an antibiotic. Bacteria are single-celled, small, simple organisms and are often used to model life cycles and evolution because they go through many generations in a relatively short period of time. Normally, bacteria die when exposed to an antibiotic, such as penicillin. However, sometimes bacteria develop mutations that make them resistant to antibiotics. The bacteria with beneficial mutations will survive longer and reproduce more offspring (ie. Natural Selection!) We will use different colored paper clips to represent the two types of bacteria. Typical bacteria (plastic-coated paper clips) will die when exposed to antibiotics. Mutated bacteria (silver paper clips) are antibiotic resistant. Model Assumptions Typical bacteria have a 1-in-6 chance of surviving exposure to an antibiotic. Mutated bacteria have a 5-in-6 chance of surviving exposure to an antibiotic. Both typical and mutated bacteria produce offspring of the same type. This means that typical bacteria will produce typical bacteria and mutated bacteria will produce mutated bacteria. Procedure Start with a population of 20 bacteria (18 typical and 2 mutated). Record the starting bacteria population for both typical and mutated bacteria in Table 1.3 in the column labeled At start of generation. The entire population of bacteria will be exposed to an antibiotic. You will simulate this event by rolling the die for each individual bacterium (paper clip) to see if the bacterium survives antibiotic treatment. For typical bacteria, survival and reproduction happen only when a 1 is rolled. Any other roll (2-6) will result in death. For mutated bacteria, survival and reproduction occurs when 1-5 is rolled. Death only occurs when a 6 is rolled. Begin the experiment. For each individual bacterium, roll the die. Determine if the bacterium survives by consulting Table 1.2. When a bacterium dies, remove it from the population by setting it aside. Record the number of bacteria that died after antibiotic treatment in the Dead column in Table 1.3. Record the number of bacteria that survived after antibiotic treatment in the Survivors column in Table 1.3. The surviving bacteria reproduce. Bacteria divide in half when they reproduce, so each surviving bacterium becomes two bacteria. In the Reproduction column for each generation, use the number of survivors to calculate and record the total number of bacteria after each surviving bacterium reproduces (Hint: Multiply the number of surviving bacteria by two.) Copy the number of bacteria in your Reproduction column at the end of generation 1 into the column At start of generation for generation 2. Repeat steps 24, filling in Table 1.3 for another four generations.

Choose one of the articles from the link below (besides the introduction) and answer the questions in Reading Memo Instruction

https://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/series/ecologies-of-war

I would love you to submit easier if better.

THIS WEEKS LEARNINGS:

Module 2 Overview_ Fieldwork and Ethnography_ SCC Sp26 ANTH 310 LEC 16970 Argent PDF ATTACHED

PART 1:

Discussion Topic

In this discussion we are going to explore some of the concepts we’ve learned by analyzing a piece of ethnographic research. In your assigned article, “Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cockfight,” Clifford Geertz argues that we should analyze the cockfight as a text through which people create meaning about themselves and their worlds.

Instructions

(75-100 WORDS)

Choose one quote from the article and discuss:

1. How the quotation reveals the “deep play” of the Balinese cockfight? and
2. Why is deciphering meaning from cultural practices important to anthropological research and analysis?

Make sure to discuss the article in an analytical and substantive manner! (This discussion is not a “personal reflection” like in Module 1. DO NOT simply write your personal opinion.)

ONCE PART 1 IS COMPLETE, I WILL ADD CLASSMATES POST THAT YOU CAN RESPOND TO.

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.

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