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Racism, Pandemics, Extremism
Students, I have just posted two interesting articles on Anti-Asian violence, the pandemic, and extremism. I wonder if you can think through how these two articles connect to each other? Feel free to post your thoughts.
Chapter 3 Fieldwork: How Do Anthropologists Get Started Conducting Fieldwork?
*DUE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH @ 11:59PM*
For this project you will complete a hand-drawn map. Select an interesting location for your mapping project. You may choose to map a block defined as an area bounded on four sides by streets or the 4 corners of an intersection. Alternatively, you may choose to map an outdoor public space, such as a park or campus quadrangle. Focus on what is in the space and spend an hour sitting and observing, taking careful field notes of your observations (infrastructure, people, sounds, smells, etc). When you finish drawing your map, snap a photo if it, and upload the photo to Tumblr.
Then, answer the following questions and post them to Tumblr:
1. What location did you choose? What drew you to it? Describe what you found.
2. What did you notice in your observations that you’ve never noticed before?
3. What is absent that you might have expected to find?
4. Can you determine any ways in which this space has been impacted by COVID-19
Hand-drawn map example:
Chapter 1 Fieldwork: What Is Globalization, and Why Is it Important for Anthropology?
After reading Chapter 1 of your textbook, along with the box "Your Turn: Fieldwork: Making a Can of Coke Unfamiliar," you know just how unfamiliar a regular object from your day-to-day life can be. For this exercise, look through your home and find another familiar yet unfamiliar object. Consider the following questions when completing steps 1-5. Where was this object made? How did it make its way into your home? What kind of impact has this object had on other people’s lives?
Take a picture of YOUR item (do not use google images) and answer the following questions in your post.
What is the history of the item?
Where was your item made or manufactured?
What impact does the item have on your life?
Who are the people directly involved with making or manufacturing this item? What is life like for them?
DUE ON SUNDAY AT 11:59 PM
CH. 13 YOUR TURN FIELDWORK
*** DUE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH @ 11:59PM
As you learned in Chapter 13, migration is an activity that touches millions of lives. Whether or not you yourself are an immigrant, it is likely that you know someone who is, or you may even be related to an immigrant. For this assignment you will act as the anthropologist and conduct an interview of an immigrant. An important first step in any interview process is receiving consent from the subject you wish to interview. Ask a friend or family member who has emigrated from their home country if they will consent to be interviewed about their experiences. Do not be surprised or offended if at first they refuse to be interviewed; immigration can be an intensely personal experience, and not all immigrants may be willing to share their stories. Explain why you are interested, and keep looking until you find someone willing to talk to you.
Interview an immigrant of any age, gender, and nationality. Ask to hear his or her immigration story. Listen for the key migration concepts discussed in this chapter. Include such key issues as where your subject emigrated from, what push and pull factors were involved in their decision to immigrate, and whether they experienced any bridges or barriers in the process. What other factors influenced their experience as immigrants? Be thorough and conscientious in protecting the anonymity of your informant. Be sure to take detailed notes and analyze the story, then synthesize it in a short essay. Post your interview summary to Tumblr.
Chapter 7 Fieldwork: Cartoon Commercials and the Construction of Gender
After reading Chapter 7, you should be familiar with the processes by which children are taught gender norms and values. Cultural institutions, including schools, churches, and even governments, all inundate us with messages about gender values throughout our lives, but there is another cultural institution that has far more influence on modern American children: television. As children watch cartoons on TV, they are inundated with ads for toys and other products. Many of these ads present explicit gender roles, thereby further enculturating children with values and norms. For this exercise you will watch cartoons on a channel like Nick Jr. or Disney Jr. and make a log of the commercials aired during those cartoons. Note what each commercial is for, whether the product is gendered, and if so, in what way.
Instructions:
How many commercials were aimed at boys? How many at girls? Were any commercials not gendered? What techniques did the ads use to attract boys or girls? In what ways do these commercials teach gendered behavior? After reading your classmates' posts, consider whether it is natural that "boys will be boys" or if we actively create gender roles.
DUE THIS SUNDAY AT 11:59 PM!
Chapter 4 Fieldwork: Language and Gender in The Classroom
Instructions:
This week, choose one meeting of a class in which there is a fair amount of student participation and pay careful, analytical attention to the connections between gender and language in the virtual classroom.
1. Record how many men and women are in the class. Keep a tally of how many times men speak (or post comments) and how many times women speak or post comments. Who speaks more often?
2. Record the average of how long people speak or the average length of their comments. Record the average of the number of words they use. If they are written comments, you can copy and paste them into a document and count them after class.
3. What are differences in body language, eye contact, and style of speaking between the men and women?
4. Do the men or the women keep their cameras on more?
5. Is the instructor a man or woman? How do they encourage or discourage communication? Consider their body language and gaze.
6. Does the instructor’s gender seem to influence the way they interact with the class? If so, how?
DUE SUNDAY 11:59 PM
What Is Globalization, and Why Is it Important for Anthropology? Fieldwork 1
After reading Chapter 1 of your textbook, along with the box "Your Turn: Fieldwork: Making a Can of Coke Unfamiliar," you know just how unfamiliar a regular object from your day-to-day life can be. For this exercise, look through your home and find another familiar yet unfamiliar object. Consider the following questions when completing steps 1-5. Where was this object made? How did it make its way into your home? What kind of impact has this object had on other people’s lives?
Take a picture of YOUR item (do not use google images) and answer the following questions in your post.
What is the history of the item?
Where was your item made or manufactured?
What impact does the item have on your life?
Who are the people directly involved with making or manufacturing this item? What is life like for them?
Due at 11:59 pm THIS SUNDAY
Attention to ALL sections!!
CLARIFICATION:
For your fieldwork this week, you’re expected to find NEWS articles that REPRESENT the theories of Marx, Weber, and Bourdieu. NOT post articles that directly discuss the theories/theorists.
Ex: Marx’s theory on class inequality can be represented in a news article about COVID-19 testing and how certain social classes do not have access to tests or treatment. Briefly, but adequately, explain how the article relates to the theory. 1 article for each theorist.
If you did not do it this way, feel free to redo the assignment. If not, that will be reflected in your grade for this fieldwork.
This assignment requires you to be aware of current events, your community, and your overall environment.
Good luck!
Final Three Fieldwork Assignments Spring 2020
Anthropology students,
These are your final three Fieldwork Assignments for the Spring of 2020. The due dates are below. Feel free to submit them early!!!
1) Kinship & Family
Using the key, construct a kinship diagram for your (extended) family showing AT LEAST 10 relationships. First, upload a photo of your diagram. Second, analyze your diagram. Families are more than lines on a family tree. Families represent stories, interesting people, power, even mysteries. What story does your family tree tell? Full instructions are on p. 372-373 of your textbook. Due Sunday night, April 4th at 11:59 pm
2) Social Class & Inequality
Find 3 news stories that illustrate Marx’s, Weber’s, and Bourdieu’s of social class (one article per theorist). Post a link to each story and do a brief write up ( a paragraph each) that explains how the story illustrates social class using the selected theorist’s concepts. Be sure to focus on social class, not race! Due Sunday night, April 12th at 11:59 pm
3) The Price of Sugar
Watch the Film The Price of Sugar and write a critical analysis. Use at least 10 concepts from the textbook to write your analysis. Be sure to bold each concept that you use. You may use concepts from the chapters on Migration, Race, Class, Global Inequality, Politics and Power or any other chapter to substantiate your paper. Your paper should be 3-6 paragraphs. Please proofread, making sure that it is grammatically correct, free of typos and well-organized. Due Sunday night, April 19th at 11:59 pm
In class discussion for March 25th, 2020.
Fieldwork Assignment - Chapter 8
After reading Chapter 8, you should be familiar with the processes by which children are taught gender norms and values. Cultural institutions, including schools, churches, and even governments, all inundate us with messages about gender values throughout our lives, but there is another cultural institution that has far more influence on modern American children: television. As children watch cartoons on TV, they are inundated with ads for toys and other products. Many of these ads present explicit gender roles, thereby further enculturating children with values and norms. For this exercise you will watch Saturday morning cartoons and make a log of the commercials aired during those cartoons. Note what each commercial is for, whether the product is gendered, and if so, in what way.
Instructions: Complete and then submit the exercise(s) below as directed by your instructor.
Post a summary of your observations to your tumblr blog answering the following questions: How many commercials were aimed at boys? How many at girls? Were any commercials not gendered? What techniques did the ads use to attract boys or girls? In what ways do these commercials teach gendered behavior? After reading your classmates' posts, consider whether it is natural that "boys will be boys" or if we actively create gender roles.
As always, this is due on Sunday at 11:59 pm!
Ch. ^ Fieldwork RACE
After reading chapter 6, select six key concepts regarding race or racism. Find relevant examples from the media (pictures, video, article, music, etc) for each. Include a brief explanation of how your media example illustrates the concept.
Fieldwork Assignment #5
Watch the Human Family Tree before class next Tuesday. Take good notes, and be prepared to take a Kahoot quiz on the film on Tuesday in class.
Fieldwork Assignment #4
Choose a song, and post a link to the audio or video, or post the lyrics. Highlight how three separate lines in the song reflect gender, power, and dialect. Your analysis of the song should include at least those 3 concepts from the textbook (but you may use more) and should be at least 1 full paragraph. Have fun!
Fieldwork Assignment #3 Mapping a Block
Mapping a Block
Select an interesting location for your mapping project. You may choose to map a block defined as an area bounded on four sides by streets or the 4 corners of an intersection. Alternatively, you may choose to map an outdoor public space, such as a park or campus quadrangle, or an indoor space, such as a shopping mall or your college’s student center. Focus on what is inside the space and spend an hour sitting and observing, taking careful field notes of your observations (infrastructure, people, sounds, smells, etc).
Answer the following questions:
What location did you choose? What drew you to it? Describe what you found.
What did you notice in your observations that you’ve never noticed before?
What is absent that you might have expected to find?
Visit the same block or space at a different time of day or different day of the week. How do your observations vary?
IMPORTANT REMINDERS!
Goodnight students!
The following are this week’s reminders. Please read carefully!
1. Quiz on Thursday
2. Thursday’s In-class Assignment
Find a physical representation for each characteristic of globalization i.e. time-space compression, flexible accumulation, increasing migration and uneven development. The use of pictures, articles or videos may be used to depict the features of these characteristics. Provide an explanation on how each representation is an example of globalization you are describing.
Provide four separate tumblr posts for each element of globalization.
3. Field Work Assignment
Choose any materialistic object, e.g. clothing, food or drink item, electronic, appliance, personal possession etc. and do a thorough research on it by answering the following questions:
1. What is in this product? Where did the ingredients come from? How is this product made?
2. Who makes this product (individuals) and what is their life like?
3. What is the impact of this product on the local community where it is produced and the areas where people consume it?
4. Describe the relationship between the product and the people that produce these products in that community? Do they consume it? How much money do they earn? Did this product affect the people in their community and how? Has it affected people in the community differently based on their age, gender or social class?
5. How much do you pay for this product? What is the real social cost of this product including roads for transportation, pollution, garbage disposal and who pays for them?
6. What is the environmental impact of this product? What is required to grow or process ingredients or what is required to be done to acquire the materials for the chosen product?
DUE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, 2020 @ 11:59PM !!!
EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT
Watch the Film the Price of Sugar and write a critical analysis. Use concepts from the textbook to write your analysis. You may use concepts from the chapters on Migration, Race, Class, or any other chapter to substantiate your paper. It will be submitted to me, Dr. Howell, on the last day of class. This is the only assignment that you will submit on paper. Enjoy!
