Category: Anthropology

Papers 1-page, single-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12 pt font
Briefly summarize the assigned readings (this portion should only be a few sentences). Be sure to identify the author’s main argument(s).
Analyze some part/parts of the reading. This can be part of the reading that most interested you, confused you, etc. Make sure to explain how the aspects of the readings you have chosen to reflect on relate to key themes and concepts from class.
Make an argument that explains: a) why you’re writing about the part(s) of the readings you’ve chosen, b) how you’re analyzing or making sense of what you’ve read, and c) why you agree, disagree, or partially agree with the author.

Teachers Expectations:
There are two essay questions for the final, you need to answer both of them.
One question is at least in its wording sourced more from the last five weeks, and the other will be more generally focussed. But you can answer either anyway you like with all the material from the class as resource – you are encouraged to think broadly about the questions.  Remember, a diversity of specifics and examples creates a more substantiated paper. Given there are two questions, you can’t use the same specific examples in both. 
Please read the instructions carefully, and if you have an additional question, please ask it under the ‘General discussion forum’. 
Please revisit all of the guidelines and instructions regarding writing essays for the first two response papers. 
Write your responses in essay format – that is, with an introduction paragraph, and the following discussion split up into paragraphs by points.
Submit it as a Word document with your name in the document title, and both essays in the one document.   
Do NOT get anyone else to write your paper for you, including any AI source. It is very obvious when people do this.
For this exam, you are required to write essay answers to BOTH questions below. Your answers must be at least 675 words. Answers will be graded according to four criteria:
The degree to which they show understanding of the ideas and content presented in class readings, lectures, discussion board and films/videos.
The quality of the logical reasoning in your argument
How well you use the material from lectures, readings and film/video from class to support your argument. Draw from at least five examples from different sources for each question/essay and be sure at least three of those are from journal articles from class. You are very welcome to use outside sources, they would be additional to the required materials from class. Do not use the same set of sources for each essay – if there is one in common, that can be ok, but they should be distinct papers. 
The quality of your essay writing.
Because this is a take home exam, I expect your answer to be a well written, edited essay with a clear short introduction, one paragraph per discussion point and a succinct conclusion that reiterates your points. I suggest you outline three points that you can link in a logical argument that addresses the question. Avoid overly grandiose statements as they always detract from having a short focused essay. The discussion is the most important part of your essay.
This final exam is a take-home, open-book, open-notes exam, but you must do it on your own, without discussion with other students. Cite examples you use from readings and films/videos, but you do not need to cite information from lectures/discussions.
Be careful not to paraphrase readings as that can be plagiarism; demonstrate that this is your synthesis of materials that address the questions you choose. Plagiarism will result in automatic failure.
Submit the exam via the provided blackboard link. Please write your exam in Word .doc, submit only one document (don’t submit separate documents for each essay) and be sure to include your name in the title.
Late papers will not be accepted without an extraordinary reason, like being in the hospital for at least a few days. Wifi going down, etc., will not be a valid reason – please factor in these kind of concerns timing wise. The grades are due soon after the deadline, so another reason for the importance to turn in exam in a timely manner.
QUESTIONS: Answer the two following questions. Organize your own argument which responds to the statement.
Traditional patterns of life are being swept away by what British sociologist Anthony Giddens has called the ‘juggernaut of modernity’ and with them are going many elements of social order that sustained a traditional sexual morality. Discuss. (Do not worry that we haven’t discussed Giddens in class – just use this quote from his work as a stimulus to address this issue, you don’t need to read or draw from his work to write this essay) 
Increasingly in contemporary societies, sexuality and/or gender in its various forms is a central issue in mainstream debates on civic values. Please discuss
Sources to use: 
Week 11: Race, Gender and Sexuality cont.
Reading: from Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism by Patricia Hill Collins
Chapter 5: Booty Call: Sex, Violence and Black Masculinity
Week 12:  Pornography 
Video: The Great Porn Experiment Gary Wilson
Video: Ted Talk, Feminist Porn: Shifting Our Sexual Culture Olivia Tarplin
reading: CLARISSA SMITH pornographication: a discourse for all seasons (smith 2010)
Week 14: Shame and Revenge Pornography
Video: The Price of Shame, Monica Lewinsky 
Video: Revenge Porn – the Naked Truth, Ann Olivarius
Reading: Revenge Pornography Karen Holt and Roberta Liggett
Week 15 Cybersex: polyamory
Video: An inversion of the cinematic genre of cybersex in Her
(http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/an-inversion-of-the-cinematic-genre-of-cybersex-in#)
Video: Why Monogamy is Ridiculous with Dan Savage and NPR article (https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/03/23/521199308/a-cultural-moment-for-polyamory)
reading: Personal relationships, intimacy and the self in a mediated and global digital age by Lynn Jamieson
(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255702880_Personal_Relationships_Intimacy_and_the_Self_in_a_Mediated_and_Global_Digital_Age)
Week 16 Integrating discussions on sexuality
reading: Remembering Foucault Jeffrey Weeks
iVE ALSO ATTACHED 3 LECTURES

This is the final, graded, assignment for the climate justice case study project that you have been working on through the semester. It will include the work you have done to date on the physical and technical conditions and social conditions along with additional sections to complete the report and climate justice analysis. You should incorporate any suggested revisions to the previous sections along with the new sections. The total report length will be approximately 2500 words and will consist of:
Introduction (200-300 words) – this should be a summary of the whole report, or what report writers and agencies call an “executive summary.” You should briefly and in simple terms explain what the report is about, what the conditions and question are, and what you found in your research including your recommendations for addressing climate justice in this case.
Physical conditions (~700 words) – This is your physical and technical conditions report. You should make any suggested changes but do not have to write any additional content.
Social conditions (~700 words) – This is your social conditions report. You should make any suggested changes but do not have to write any additional content.
Climate Justice Analysis (~700 words) – This is your final analysis of the justice issues in your case study. It’s the largest new content that you will write for the final report. It should make use of the course materials and concepts as well as your own independent research to assess the following:
What are the justice issues in this case?
What conceptions of justice can be applied in this case?
What challenges and limitations are present that prevent justice from being achieved?
What opportunities exist that can help to foster justice?
What, in your opinion, are some strategies that might be used to achieve justice in this situation (i.e using opportunities to overcome challenges)?
Conclusion (100-200 words) – This should simply review the report and summarize the recommendations.
After completing this assignment, you will have experience writing the kind of report that many government agencies, corporations, and other institutions need to address environmental and climate issues, including environmental and climate justices cases. This is experience that will be valuable in your future careers as many of you will be writing, reviewing, editing, and making use of these kinds of reports.

Please write your reflection paper based on the texts for this week:
The Oscar-nominated short film, The Present at  
https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/11419624?vp=seattlecentral
The Amnesty International report
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/MDE1551412022ENGLISH.pdf
on the crime of apartheid against Palestinians.
Palestine Remix
https://remix.aljazeera.com/aje/PalestineRemix/born-in-1948.html#/25
. This is an ethnographic mix of first person commentary by Palestinians and Israelis.
Basic Law of Israel
https://www.adalah.org/uploads/uploads/Basic_Law_Israel_as_the_Nation_State_of_the_Jewish_People_ENG_TRANSLATION_25072018.pdf
. This is the primary document of the Israeli state which defines its mission in terms of ethnic primacy.
Additionally, here are two documentaries  about the history and contemporary treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli state. They are compelling and will give you background not normally available on mainstream American media:
Tantura

This 2022 documentary reconstructs, through eyewitness testimony, a 1948 massacre of a Palestinian village by Israeli forces. Massacres such as this helped drive 750,000 Palestinians from their homes during the formation of the state of Israel. The film also considers how the memory of this action has been cleansed from the official Israeli narrative.
The Settlers

This 2016 French documentary examines the continuing theft of Palestinian land through the creation of settlements, illegal under international law, in the occupied territories which the Israeli state seized in its 1967 surprise attack on its Arab neighbors. The settlers in the film justify their appropriation of land with classic ethnocentric honesty.
As U.S. citizens, we are directly involved in Israeli policies towards Palestinians through our tax dollars. According to Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/11/14/us-military-aid-israel-another-perspective
the U.S  provides 18.5% of the Israeli budget and has supplied the Israeli state with over 127 billion dollars in military aid over decades. To support the Israeli offensive against Gaza, the U.S. Congress and President recently approved 17 billion dollars in military aid. This is in addition to the 3.8 billion dollar annual U.S. subsidy.
Currently, the world is watching as a Gaza genocide takes place and is streamed live on social media. Seeking revenge for the October 7 Hamas attack, the Israeli state has destroyed most of the housing stock in Gaza, the hospitals, the universities, the mosques and churches. UN authorities state that famine is sweeping over the population of 2.3 million Palestinians as the Israeli state denies food, fuel and medicine to the population.
Over 2000 American college students have been arrested in anti-genocide protests in recent weeks. Currently, there is a large ongoing protest at the University of Washington.
In many ways the Israel/Palestine conflict parallels and echoes the history of the United States. There is a similar cultural unconscious reflected in pioneer tropes and the idea of an empty land awaiting productive labor. Both Israel and the United States are fundamentally settler-colonial states which displaced indigenous populations through violent means. Just as the U.S. Declaration of Independence refers to native peoples as “merciless savages” so too are the native Palestinians often portrayed as “terrorists” in Israel and the U.S. when they act to resist the the theft of their homes and lands. Even though there were native American massacres of white settlers and there continue to be Palestinian attacks on Israelis, the institutionalized violence of both the U.S. and the Israeli state against existent populations is far greater.
If you follow current mass media coverage in the U.S. you may receive the impression that the conflict is between two equal and intransigent parties. This claimed equivalence belies the reality on the ground in which millions of  Palestinians live under Israeli military occupation and are treated as lesser citizens in Israel itself. For historical context, I would recommend Noam Chomsky’s book Fateful Triangle
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, multiple works by Palestinian-American Edward Said
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said
such as The Question of Palestine
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,  or the work of Israeli historians Simha Flapan
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or Ilan Pappe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Papp%C3%A9
. For current coverage of the conflict I highly recommend watching the daily coverage on the site Democracy Now!
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boycott-laws-punish-responsible-businesses
Here are some relevant terms for this discussion:
institutionalized ethnocentrism: systematic and legalized discrimination promoting the supremacy of one ethnic group over others.
ethnocracy: rule of one ethnic group over another
ethnic cleansing: a term referring to the forced removal of an ethnic group from a territory
apartheid: originally an Afrikaaner term from South Africa describing an institutionalized system of discrimination against a group. Now recognized internationally as a crime against humanity.
zionism: a term somewhat analogous in practice to the U.S. doctrine of Manifest Destiny. The word describes the  Jewish nationalist movement which provided a moral/religious charter for the founding of the Israeli state.
semite: a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs who speak a language derived from the Semitic language family. It is a cultural category, not a biological one.
anti-semitism: a term denoting the long history and contemporary fact of anti-Jewish persecution.
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)
https://bdsmovement.net/what-is-bds
: An international movement calling for a boycott of Israeli businesses and settlements which operate in the occupied Palestinian territories seized by Israel in 1967. It is patterned on the boycott of South African businesses during the apartheid era. According to Human Rights Watch
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boycott-laws-punish-responsible-businesses
, 27 state legislatures in the U.S. have passed laws which penalize businesses which support BDS boycott efforts.

Your assignment this semester is to perform an analysis of one of the groups we have studied
from the viewpoint of one or more of the theorists and theories I have introduced this session.
The material for your analysis is to be derived from the PowerPoints, films, lectures, and
independent research.
First, I want a brief, approximately half-page synopsis of the society, institution, culture, belief
system, behavior on which you are going to focus. Next, I want you to analyze one piece of the
political, social , economic, and cultural puzzle that is a society from one or two of the
theoretical viewpoints discussed in the course. Any of the groups that we have studied is
acceptable as a topic. Your analysis must contain data from the lectures, films, text, and from
your own independent research. In this assignment, simply agreeing with the interpretations
of the professor is insufficient. You will need to expand your argument beyond the scope of
the material presented in the course. Your analysis is expected to be unique. You will not
receive a low grade if I disagree with you.
The assignment should be a minimum of approximately three pages of double-spaced type and a
maximum of five pages. Intelligent analysis, careful, writing, and good grammar are the basis
for your grade.

Please follow prompts in first two attachments.
Also watch
“We should all be feminists”Ted.com Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Please answer the following questions and number them when anwering.
1. What is the “Critical” approach that Casteneda advocates and what would be an example of the analytical value of using this research approach when examining migrant health issues? (Use specific example/ 150 word min. )
2. Discuss the difference between the concepts of disparity and inequality from a Critical Medical Anthropology perspective.  (Use specific examples / 150 word min.)
3.  What are Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and why does Casteneda argue that it is crucial to include these factors in any analyses of migrant health?
4.  What is the Critical Medical Anthropology Lens that Casteneda uses to examine the intersection where multiple factors are operating to affect migrant health outcomes? (Hint: Race, Class, Gender, Ethnicity, Nationality, Sexual Orientation, etc.) (Use specific example / 150 word min. )
5.  Discuss the differences between these “labels” given to people moving within and between geopolitical borders, migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker. How do the labels impact perceptions, treatment, and health outcome of migrants? (Use specific examples / 150 word min)
6.  Using any current migrant “crisis” you choose, demonstrate your ability to use the “Critical Medical Anthropology” approach to 1) identify the structural vulnerabilities that are part of migrants’ lived experience, 2) How they come to embody (embodiment) of as a form of symbolic violence and 3) how all these factors are a form of structural violence that leads to poor health outcomes or even death, (Use specific examples / 200 word min)
7.  What is the difference between inequality and inequity? (Included an example/ 100 word min).

for work cited or reference please use the book it’s free online it’s called “perspectives”
https://perspectives.americananthro.org

Most of this paper is already written. I just need 3 more pages about the health disparities and future standpoint of the Ukraine and Russia conflict. This anthropology class is focuses on immigration and health. I have attatched a PDF of the outline and what is written on the paper so far. Do not worry about matching the writing style. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Official assignment instructions:
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We have spent the semester viewing a series of films from an anthropological perspective and
discussing how films can be used in the study of culture. Your final writing assignment for this semester
is to write a three to four-page paper in which you explain the importance of film for the field of
anthropology.
Why is film an important medium for anthropology? What are some of the ways in which anthropology
can use film in the study of society and culture? In what ways is film a valuable resource for the study of
society and culture?
In addressing this topic refer to at least three of the films we have watched this semester in order to
illustrate and re-enforce your ideas, and draw on at least three of the course readings you’ve done as well.
Create a well-organized and carefully argued essay in which you state what you believe the important
connections between film and the anthropological study of society and culture to be.
Please follow the writing format shown in “sample paper”
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(Do not quote outside sources for the films, only refer to the films)
(Do not use AI)
(Refer to at least 3 course readings and at least 3 of the films)