Category: Anthropology

This activity will give you the opportunity to think about your possessions and your attitude toward these possessions.
Please complete the assignment using your textbook and the website below. The !Kung/San/Bushmen are mentioned throughout your textbook.
San Bushmen of the Kalahari Links to an external site.
Imagine that you are heading into the Kalahari Desert to live with a band of traditional semi-nomadic Ju/’hoansi Bushmen for an indefinite period of time, perhaps for the rest of your life. Consider the following:
Beyond the clothes on your back, you may take five items.
What will they be?
(Discuss the difference between “wants” and “needs.”)
Then consider the consequences of mobility for each of the following:
your sense of home
your relationship with the natural environment
your attitude toward material possessions
your social ties
If you use a resource other than the website above or your textbook, please use the Chicago Style, which is what the American Anthropological Association uses for your references and citations. If you only use the link and the textbook, there is no need to cite.
American Anthropological Association Citation format
Chicago Citation guide
Please upload the document after you have completed the assignment. You may also submit a text entry.
Acceptable file formats for upload are doc, docx, ppt, pptx, and pdf.

My topic is food insecurity in Maryland. My research questions are: how is food insecurity being addressed, what are solutions that can be replicated throughout the U.S?
Introduction: Frame your topic as a matter of food justice. 
Include a statement as to how/why the topic you chose is a matter of food justice. This is your thesis statement and the rest of your paper should support it.
Findings: Present the information to support your thesis statement.
I recommend structuring the findings section by theme/sub-topic (notby source) for maximum utility in the next
Think back to the literature review assignment and the way it asked you to synthesize the information you were finding.  You will want to do the same here, just with your own field results also included.
Original observations/interview data (whatever you did as your field research).
Information from at least three academic journal articles, supplemented as necessary with other kinds of sources.
Discussion: Describe the significance of the information you have just presented.
In other words, make your arguments about how this information supports your food justice thesis statement.
Be clear, specific, critical, and thorough.
Conclusion: Reflect on the current state of our knowledge on this topic in a food justice perspective.
How does your research confirm (or perhaps question or contradict) what is known and one about this topic? 
What does your work suggest is yet unknown/undone?

This is the
part of the project that will take the most time and require the most research.
You will conduct library research to locate scholarly work that has already
been conducted on your topic, or on themes that overlap with your topic; you
will read and summarize this scholarship, drawing connections to your specific project
proposal. Some things to consider in this phase:
·      While this is an anthropology
course, animal studies is very interdisciplinary. Your research should be
interdisciplinary and can contain texts from a range of fields, including but
not limited to anthropology. These can include sociology, geography,
environmental studies, history, etc.
·      You will require at least 10
scholarly texts in your annotated bibliography – these can be peer-reviewed
journal articles or books.
·      Annotations should be at least two
paragraphs each, summarizing the argument and approach of the text, how it is
relevant to your research topic, and what information it provides to help you
answer your research questions.
·      You are encouraged to supplement
your scholarly bibliography with news sources, documentaries, op-eds,
commentaries, or anything else you feel offers you a more robust understanding
of your topic and its relationship to other questions we have been exploring
this semester. Annotations for these supplemental sources can be limited to a
couple sentences.
topic: Research
question
Are the treatments of the rescued
elephants of Vantara Conservation in Gujarat India effective?
Methods
I am planning to conduct
observational studies to document the treatments provided to the rescued
elephants. This involves direct observation of elephant care routines,
veterinary treatments, and behavioral changes before and after treatments. Analyzing
medical records and treatment logs to quantify the types of treatments
administered, frequency of treatments, and health outcomes for individual
elephants. This approach can provide objective data on the efficacy of specific
treatments. I will also be using a body condition score (BCS) that estimates
adiposity based on visual or tactile evaluations of muscle tone and key skeletal
elements. BCS is commonly used for managing and caring for animals, and extreme
scores (very skinny or very fat) can show if an animal isn’t doing well.

For your Week 3 paper, explore American foodways related to the Thanksgiving holiday, and compare and contrast them to the foodways of one named society of your choosing among foragers, horticulturalists, or pastoralists.
•    To remind you, foodways are described on page 97 of Chapter 5 in the textbook. (see attached file)
•    What “must” be in your own family’s Thanksgiving meal? What is typical in an American family’s meal? What “can’t” be in your own family’s Thanksgiving meal? How much of the Thanksgiving meal is produced/cultivated/grown by the people eating the meal, either in your family or in a typical American family? What is the gender division of labor of a typical American family’s Thanksgiving meal? How does that compare with the gender division of labor of your family’s Thanksgiving meal?
•    Compare and Contrast these observations regarding an American Thanksgiving meal with observations of foodways of a foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society of your choosing. The society you choose must be a specific named society of only foragers, horticulturalists, or pastoralists, preferably named in the Week 3 textbook reading (Shearn, 2020). What does a typical meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society look like? What does a celebratory meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society look like? How much of the typical or celebratory meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society is produced/cultivated/grown by the people eating the meal? What is the gender division of labor of a typical meal of your chosen foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society?
•    Create a 1-to-3-page, double-spaced paper describing the foodways. The paper must be formatted in APA Style, with an APA-Style title page, page numbers in the upper right, headings, parenthetical in-text citations, and a reference page. The headings must be centered on the line and formatted in bold and in title case. Include at least the following headings: Thanksgiving Holiday American Foodways, Foodways of (name the foraging, horticulturalist, or pastoralist society), and Conclusion.
•    Paraphrase or quote and cite from the textbook and from at least one additional scholarly, outside source to support your points in the paper.

PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY!
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT I ATTACHED.
ONLY USE BASIC SIMPLE WORDS (NO DEEP WORDS PLEASE).
CHAPTER 5 IS THE ONE THAT WE ARE LEARNING RIGHT NOW.
PLEASE CITE AND REFERENCE MY BOOK (EVERY CHAPTER IS DIFFERENT).
NO LATE SUBMISSION & I NEED TURNITIN RESULT.
THANK YOU! 🙂

Visit the page for ‘The Maasi’s Shifting Modes of Subsistence’ Links to an external site.and read the article. Please post your thoughts on this article and include something that you learned about how a culture’s form of subsistence affects another parts of a culture way of life. Please also comment on at least one other student’s post.
Discussion Directions:
After you type your initial post by Thursday evening of the first week at 11:59 pm, then read through the other entries and reply directly to at least one classmate by Sunday the due date evening at 11:59 pm. When you reply, always type the name of the classmate you are responding to, and your name at the bottom of the message. Make sure to use professional grammar and punctuation in this college level course in all correspondence. Please avoid “text” or “twitter speak” when corresponding.

Describe (and compare and contrast) the gender or sexual division of labor of two different cultures that have two different modes of subsistence (from the four modes of subsistence described in this week’s reading; foraging, pastoralism, horticulture, or agriculture). You must choose the two societies from examples in the Week 3 textbook reading and you must name the two societies from the Week 3 textbook reading and cite them.
How do your chosen examples of two different cultures show that subsistence systems are linked to cultural expectations about gender roles?
Engage in a discussion, with another class member, regarding how each of you have seen or experienced gender or sexual division of labor in your personal and/or professional lives. 

Essay Prompt: How do Durkheim and Geertz understand religion/belief as a social-cultural phenomenon, and what are the similarities and differences between their perspectives? (1000 Words) 
Attached are the articles and material to refer to. NO Outside resources need, only us the text that is attached. 

General Topic: For the paper, please analyze some element/object/work of psychedelic aesthetics and culture, introducing one or more of the critical perspectives on decolonization, mysticism, gender, science, and religion examined in this class. You can choose something from the historical “psychedelic” era in North America and Europe (1950s-60s) or from any other time period or region we have covered this semester.
Specific:  I decided to analyze Yayoi Kusama’s Art Exhibition “Self-Obliteration/Psychedelic World”. I will attach an outline that lays out the organization of the paper as well as links to labled documents and articles that can be used as sources. Also a link for her auto biography that can be a great source. 
Outline=
-Introduce Yayoi Kusama(biography) 
-Present Work(Self-Obliteration/Psychedelic World Exhibit): general description, historical context and background of pieces, images of work 
*you may make reference and discuss art of hers that is not part of the exhibit if it makes it easier to get information, just make sure to state it*
-Discuss Psychedelic Nature and Aspects of her work: I would focus on 3-4 works(one of them the inifnity rooms, one of them a painitng with poka dolts, and the other choose whichever). Comment on materials, composition, medium, words, imagery on work, color, shapes, motifs, etc… and its relation to its psychedelic nature and relation to psychdelic art movement.
-How is the psychedelic aesthetic expressed: sound, image, story, practitioner, milieu of creation—or some combination thereof
-How can the critical topics (indigeneity, gender, mysticism, religion, science, or colonialism) contribute to your analysis? I belive the best would be gender and mysticism(will attach a paper discussing mysticism that you can use as source)
Conclusion: Do you think that psychedelic culture is universal—that is, shaped by intrinsically human sensory experiences of altering consciousness? Or would you say that the psychedelic aspect of culture is socially constructed—that is, shaped by specific contexts, styles, and histories? If both, then how do you reconcile this tension between the general and the particular?

AI Research Paper Instructions 
Welcome to The AI Research Paper.
The goal of this paper is to write a properly sourced research paper using AI. You will be writing a paper based on the topic of your choosing as long as it pertains to anthropology.
We are going to use the assistance of text generative AI to complete a research paper. This assignment will be divided into two parts. The first part is worth 40% of your grade. In this part you will be asked a series of questions to help set your paper up. Please make sure you provide detailed and thought-out answers. The second part of this assignment (worth 60% of your grade) is actually completing the paper. You will upload the paper in PDF format in the link provided.
Format
Your submitted paper will be in Chicago Style. It will be in Times New Roman (or something similar). It will be double spaced. Your final paper will be between 1200 and 2000 words (not counting the works cited page).
Citation and Sources
You have to use peer-reviewed sources as references for your topic. AI will help you do this.
Common misconceptions of acceptable sources:
It ends in a .edu. This does not make it an academic source. I suggest you look at who wrote whatever you are reading and see if they have published.
The Smithsonian, National Geographic are also not allowed.
In-text citation: This is a concept that eludes most people. If you are using an idea that is not common knowledge you need to provide an in-text citation. When you are paraphrasing one of your sources, you need to cite. When you quote, you need to cite. When in doubt, cite. Not citing is called plagiarism.  
Frequently asked questions about sources:
Once I have my academic sources can I use other non-academic ones? – Yes, you may. But do not lean too much on them for the content of your paper or your grade will suffer. 
Can I use our textbook or lecture notes? – Yes, but same as above, do not make them your primary sources. 
How about if I find an academic book? – This is a gray area. Some books are acceptable, some are not. You can email me with the book information if you want to double and make sure it’s a valid source. 
Articles are asking for money to access them; do I need to pay? No! You can access any article through the school library for free! 
Citing and quoting: Your paper should be in your own words (remember to still cite). You are welcome to use quotes, but do NOT make your paper quote-heavy.
To complete this assignment, you are going to use an AI text generator. A couple of free options are Chat GPT 3 or Perplexity. You are welcome to use other ones as well. If you do use another AI, let me know which.
This is the first part of your paper. Please take time to answer all of the questions in detail. 
Questions
1. Ask your AI to give you five topics you can write about in about anthropology. Tailor the question to you and your interests. For example, if you are a fan of fashion, you may want to ask for prompts relating to anthropology and fashion. Make sure you are being specific. Let the AI know you need topics for a research paper. You may find that you are going to need to ask a follow up question to get better topics. Or you may decide to restart and ask a different question.
What questions did you ask (copy and paste below)? Let me know if you asked a follow up question. Or if you modified your original question.
2. What were the topics the AI generator provided for you (copy and paste below)?
3. Which topic are you going to pick and why? 
4.Now ask for it to find four peer-reviewed sources on your topic. This question may be as easy as, ‘find me four peer reviewed sources on the third topic.
5. Do these sources relate to the topic you would like to write about? If they do not, you may need to start over with a new topic or question.
6. Please pick three out of the four sources and locate the actual articles using our library’s database. Read the abstracts of these articles. Do these articles relate to the topic you would like to write about?  If they do, download the articles. You may not find any of these and you may have to find your own sources. That is totally fine.
7. Ask AI to create an outline for a research paper based on the topic you picked. Play around with the wording on this question. Tailor your question to what you want.  Copy and paste the outline here
8. Does this outline work for you? Are you going to delete any sections? If you are adjusting the outline please copy and paste the new revised version here. Provide a brief description about what adjustments you made and why.
Now time to write your paper by filling in the outline with your own words. Do not use AI for this (I will be checking). You are going to actually have to write using the outline as a structure. Upload your final paper using the separate link provided in this same module. Your paper is going to be in Chicago Style format. Please make sure you are providing in-text citations as well as a reference page.