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note! please read!
[july 1st 2026]
the thoughts i post here are copy-pasted as i have them saved on another platform; i want to scroll thru them without getting interrupted yk. so most r older.
i also want to take a look at my evolution in my anthropological thinking and compare the old version of myself to the most recent version of myself.
this is also why at the top of every post i'll put the date, since the thoughts were originally shared/posted on those specific dates.
anthropology student thoughts #27
[9.07.25]
had to write an essay for my english class about the social effects of a war and i wrote abt the 2014 russo-ukrainian war
and yknow what... its gonna come in handy for writing my ukrainian ocs (me when i only have 1 oc from luhansk so its going to be only useful for her)
anthropology student thoughts #26
[9.07.25]
I. AM. FUMING. AT. THE. MOUTH.
so im looking for academic articles about russia's society because i want to write some russian ocs and see how their society shaped them!!!! BUT!!! i cannot find them that easily!!!! most are pay-to-download!!! RAAAAH knowledge should be a human right!!!! we live in capitalism bby!! AND SOME ARTICLES DONT EVEN HAVE LINKS!!! UGHHHHHHHH
but
at least i can look thru sociological/anthropological politics lens as a back-up, right? i primarly want sociological/anthropological academic articles lol
this is what i have thus far (i used one of the pdfs to write abt kseniya's society):
anthropology student thoughts #25
[30.06.25]
the anthropology student urge to write my oc storylines as if they were research projects.. yknow what
i might do that, sounds like a good idea!!!
i can use some literature review for worldbuilding, and sociological theories/concepts to explain the phenomenons happening in my oc world!
maybe some oc ethnographies are in order... like... an oc does ethnographic research -- participative observation, surveys, interviews, you name it, and this way i'd be able to find out more about the oc world.
anthropology student thoughts #24
[26.06.25]
not me going thru some former colleagues' bachelors degrees -- to see their artworks and bachelors thesis -- only to get annoyed by the fact that "um, why didnt they add (author, year: page)???". i also thought "oh, so theyre doing literature reviews too??"
one of my former colleagues noted "how do colors influence the space we live in & how would the texture improve the quality of the furniture?" in her thesis and i thought to myself "uu, the first part of the question could make for a GOOD research question!!".
yes i dropped out art college and now im majoring in anthropology, leave me alone. i did visit my former colleagues' art exhibitions, which were also their bachelors degrees/theses
anthropology is EVERYWHERE.
anthropology student thoughts #23
[26.06.25]
not me wanting to do ethnography in the sims. i would get my sims thru tons of daily life activities and i observe them; thing is, i'd make an anthropologist sim and let them observe the others. down below i am going to write some potential research goals
- the relationship between vampires & werewolves in the sims 4
qualitative research
instruments: literature review, interviews, participant observation
sociological paradigm: conflictualist
how i'd do this: make a household - the anthropologist, and two vampires and two werewolves. then i'd let the supernatural sims be like, autonomous while i control the anthropologist
- academic stress within university students in the sims 2 (or the sims 3, depends)
qualitative research
instruments: literature review, interviews, participant observation
sociological paradigm: functionalist
how i'd do this: play as the anthropologist and befriend the other sims, then i take their interviews. interactions such as "get to know them" or observing them in their natural habitat. they want to know how the sims cope with the academic stress and what they do
- tourists in isla paradiso & how they interact with the surroundings in the sims 3
qualitative research
instruments: literature review, participant observation, interviews
sociological paradigm: symbolic interactionism
how i'd do this: play as a hotel manager who's also an anthropologist; they seek to observe the tourists to see how they interact with the surroundings (i.e slide) - what do they use the most?
- celebrity culture in the sims 4 // the sims 3
qualitative research
instruments: literature review, participant observation, interviews
sociological paradigm: symbolic interactionism
how i'd do this: play as judith ward and enter the celebrity-only areas, then explore the activites these celebrities are engaging in the most. // make a new sim altogether in the sims 3 and they get into a singing or acting career, and then they'd talk to other celebrities; trying to get into the rhythm, yknow?
- clubs and get-togethers in the sims 4
qualitative research
instruments: literature review, participant observation, interviews
sociological paradigm: symbolic interactionism
how i'd do this: play as an anthropologist wanting to fit in windenburg. they would go to social clubs, DJ booths, coffee shops and notice how the sims interact with the space and each other.
- notes
this is good for like.. potential gameplays, but also, as an anthropology student, i see the potential for RESEARCH QUESTIONS!!!!
[11.07.26]
update: i havent actually done any of these ack, but theres still time, right?
anthropology student thoughts #22
[24.06.25]
how was i one of the few ppl who passed the ethnography exam...
i mean...
my teacher did admire my passion by saying "you have an anthropologist's passion" and how much detail i was able to gather from the participant observation session :D
i went so deep w participant observation notes my teacher even asked me "um, is this relevant for your research question??"
anthropology student thoughts #21
[23.06.25]
not me studying karl marx and listening to "in our town" (mlp:fim song) at the same time LMFAOOOOO
anthropology student thoughts #20
[20.06.25]
Best feedback you can get from your Ethnography teacher:
She told me she could see my passion for anthropology and that she hadn't seen more detailed observations than mine. Another thing she told me was "I find it cool how you managed to get into the gender dimmension and what it means - like the connection between women and textiles". She also seemed pleased I found the historical link between the two and even told me "dimmension of gender, a good subject to touch on".
anthropology student thoughts #19
[19.06.25]
HEY HEY HEY MY FELLOW OC WRITERS
anthropologist writer's life hack: when you dont know what to write about an oc, just look at what their society is like, and base their info off their society.
now THAT'S how they get their info. how society shaped them. and a lot of academic articles. literature reviews save your life, even if theyre a hussle to go thru.
anthropology student thoughts #18
[16.05.25]
when im writing academic papers it kinda feels like im writing ocs... its the same process. enjoyable, mentally stimulating, yet it can get tiring. i like it tho!!
also i've been warming up to writing the literature review. i found out a trick lmfao and its such a good one too!!
[11.07.26]
im actually using academic articles to write my ocs... well, when i want to deep-dive into how society shaped them. because over the course of time i managed to get some knowledge regarding other cultures and such, without needing to do lit reviews. but ik i eventually will need to get on it
anthropology student thoughts #17
[10.06.25]
quantitative research isnt that bad... its just complicated bc its numbers/statistics-heavy. and boy let me tell u as a dyscalculic person they trip me over.
but its ok i manage to succeed analyzing the data for a quantitative research.
anthropology student thoughts #16
[5.06.2025]
that moment when you write the literature review, and you keep proofreading it. i literally spent like 4 days proofreading, and writing the lit review for a college research project.
yknow what they say, writing is rewriting. "they" being my ethnography teacher lmao
and also!! data analysis for a quantitative research is… sumn O_O. you just need a hypothesis (grounded in sociological theory lmao and causality)
anthropology student thoughts #15
[19.05.2025]
interview transcripts are subjectively the most exhausting part of a research project…next to literature reviews (my least fave part of a project 💀)
but luckily i can use softwares to convert from audio to text… but id have to listen thru the recording once again bc the softwares arent flawless.
also
today i learned that rewriting a research project can include adding in new theories and concepts, which means youd need to redo that part. so its not just "changing up some words, phrases", it can include "ok, lets focus on this" moments.
anthropology student thoughts #14
[2.05.2025]
ahhh that exquisite feeling when you do pre-field AND manage to get a mouthful of details!!!
and that way, i can notice some patterns too!
god i love doing observation!
the only thing im not so fond of is doing it in a public space bc i get stares from people and i might get perceived as weird
like how do i explain to people im an anthropology student doing participant observation for a college assignment lmfaoooo
but hey, anthropology is all about the details!
anthropology student thoughts #13
[14.04.2025]
it bothers me when ppl refer to native americans as "american indians" -- just bc christopher columbus thought he landed on india when he acc landed in north america doesnt mean the people who lived there were indians!!! also, the whole "white people vs native americans" and how it was portrayed in the media -- it was the whites colonizing them!!!
[11.07.2026]
oh shizzles i just realized,,, while re-reading this, columbus wasnt even the one who discovered america/the usa, lmfao. according to bbc, prehistoric clovis people reached america first, about 11,500 to 13,000 years ago (Dunnell, 2026 & Rincon, 2020)
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For a long time, America’s discovery was routinely attributed to Christopher Columbus and his voyage of 1492. But the real story of human ar
Humans settled in the Americas much earlier than previously thought, according to new finds from Mexico.
anthropology student thoughts #12
[7.04.2025] - and yes ill start noting the dates like this bc i use the military time irl.
you guys... worldbuilding is so fucking fun especially when youre an anthropology student! and cartography as well!
