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For more course tutorials visit www.ant101.com ANT 101 Week 1 DQ 1 Cultural Relativism ANT 101 Week 1 DQ 2 Studying Culture ANT 101 Week 2 DQ 1 Foraging Societies ANT 101 Week 2 DQ 2 Economic Concerns ANT 101 Week 2 Critical Thinking Paper Kinship Organizations ANT 101 Week 3 DQ 1 Social Organization ANT 101 Week 3 DQ 2 Doing Business with Family ANT 101 Week 3 Rough Draft of Final Cultural Research Paper ANT 101 Week 4 DQ 1 Monumental Architecture ANT 101 Week 4 DQ 2 Economy and Colonialism ANT 101 Week 5 DQ 1 Ethics in Anthropology ANT 101 Week 5 DQ 2 Anthropology and Your Future ANT 101 Week 5 Final Cultural Research Paper – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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ANT 101 Innovative Educator/ANT 101.com
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ANT 101 Innovative Educator
  • ANT 101 Entire Course
  • For more course tutorials visit
  • www.ant101.com
  • ANT 101 Week 1 DQ 1 Cultural Relativism
  • ANT 101 Week 1 DQ 2 Studying Culture
  • ANT 101 Week 2 DQ 1 Foraging Societies
  • ANT 101 Week 2 DQ 2 Economic Concerns
  • ANT 101 Week 2 Critical Thinking Paper Kinship
    Organizations
  • ANT 101 Week 3 DQ 1 Social Organization
  • ANT 101 Week 3 DQ 2 Doing Business with Family
  • ANT 101 Week 3 Rough Draft of Final Cultural
    Research Paper
  • ANT 101 Week 4 DQ 1 Monumental Architecture

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ANT 101 Innovative Educator
  • ANT 101 Week 1 DQ 1 Cultural Relativism
  • For more course tutorials visit
  • www.ant101.com
  • Cultural Relativism. Cultural Anthropology gives
    three distinct meanings of cultural relativism a
    moral stance that requires anthropologists to
    suspend moral and ethical judgments when
    interacting with a culture different from their
    own, a methodological strategy that allows the
    anthropologist to pay specific attention to the
    uniqueness of a culture, and an epistemological
    position that cultures are unique and therefore
    knowledge about different cultures is almost
    inherently not comparable. (Sec. 1.3).
  • In your forum contribution
  • a. Discuss what you see as the strengths and
    weaknesses of each of these three kinds of
    relativism.

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  • ANT 101 Week 1 DQ 2 Studying Culture
  • For more course tutorials visit
  • www.ant101.com
  • Studying Culture. Choose one of the "Consider
    This" boxes that Nowak and Laird present us with
    in Chapters 1 and 2 of Cultural Anthropology, or
    discuss the topics below from the film Margaret
    Mead Coming of Age, available in the Films On
    Demand database, in the Ashford Online Library.
  • The topics covered are
  • a. Whether the UN's Universal Declaration of
    Human Rights should be applicable to all cultures
  • b. Whether it is possible to truly view a culture
    without being influenced by the cultural
    constructs of our own culture
  • c. How our understanding of what it means to be a
    patient in the United States reflects our
    different cultural backgrounds and affiliations

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ANT 101 Innovative Educator
  • ANT 101 Week 2 Critical Thinking Paper Kinship
    Organizations
  • For more course tutorials visit
  • www.ant101.com
  • Assignments
  • 1. Due by Day 7. Critical Thinking Paper
    Kinship Organizations. Kinship systems in
    Foraging and Horticultural based societies
    provide support for people in all stages of their
    life. Address the following in a two- to
    three-page paper
  • a. Identify and describe the kinship system of
    one of the cultures listed below. These cultures
    are found in Chapters 3 and 4 of Cultural
    Anthropology.
  • ? Australian Aborigines
  • ?Btsisi

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ANT 101 Innovative Educator
  • ANT 101 Week 2 DQ 1 Foraging Societies
  • For more course tutorials visit
  • www.ant101.com
  • Foraging Societies. Answer one of the following
    four questions posed by Nowak and Laird, in
    Cultural Anthropology, at the very end of Chapter
    3
  • a. What can we learn from studying foraging
    societies? Is there anything we can learn
    regarding our relationship to the environment, or
    our family members, for example?
  • b. What is the ethnographic present? Do you think
    that the use of the ethnographic present in the
    film The Gods Must Be Crazy is appropriate, or do
    you think Lee's criticisms are valid?
  • c. Do you think the view of many anthropologists
    (pre1970s) that men's hunting activities are
    more highly valued than women's gathering
    activities is a culturally biased perspective
    based on Eurocentric notions that men are the
    family "breadwinners"?

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  • ANT 101 Week 2 DQ 2 Economic Concerns
  • For more course tutorials visit
  • www.ant101.com
  • Economic Concerns. You have two choices for this
    discussion.
  • a. Choose one of the following questions raised
    by Nowak and Laird in their "Consider This"
    boxes, in Chapter 4, of Cultural Anthropology. Be
    sure to indicate at the outset which question you
    are answering. Read the original question and
    relevant information in Chapter 4 before
    answering the question you choose. Your answer
    should give clear examples, include
    cross-cultural comparison, and demonstrate
    critical thinking and analysis. Build on the
    ideas and terminology in the text and your own
    ideas to support your answers.
  • i. What is the traditional sexual division of
    labor in American culture? Is it undergoing a
    transformation? Among Btsisi, women and men are
    respected for the tasks they perform. Do you
    think this is the case in the United States?

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ANT 101 Innovative Educator
  • ANT 101 Week 3 DQ 1 Social Organization
  • For more course tutorials visit
  • www.ant101.com
  • Social Organization. Watch Blood Bonds, available
    in the Films On Demand database, in the Ashford
    Online Library. Describe the correlation between
    arranged marriage, economic exchanges surrounding
    marriage (bridewealth, bride service, dowry,
    etc.), status of women, family pressures, and
    other factors you can think of and the stability
    of marriage. Based on your reading of the
    textbook and the film, what are the disadvantages
    of different forms of marriages? Do you think
    they can be as successful as marriages of choice?
    Which form of marriage do you have the hardest
    time understanding?

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ANT 101 Innovative Educator
  • ANT 101 Week 3 DQ 2 Doing Business with Family
  • For more course tutorials visit
  • www.ant101.com
  • Doing Business with Family. Nowak and Laird's
    Applying Anthropology 6.2 box, in Cultural
    Anthropology, proposes the following question
  • The familiar saying never do business with
    family advises against the practices used in
    many of the chiefdom societies discussed in this
    chapter. This old saying implies that doing
    business with family will create conflict,
    whereas chiefdom societies welcome and encourage
    such close-knit economic exchanges as a way of
    preventing conflict. In fact, in an interesting
    article on family businesses, Bertrand and Schoar
    comment on how cultures based on strong family
    ties can have a negative impact on economic
    development

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ANT 101 Innovative Educator
  • ANT 101 Week 3 Rough Draft of Final Cultural
    Research Paper
  • For more course tutorials visit
  • www.ant101.com
  • Assignments
  • 1. Due by Day 7. Rough Draft of Final Cultural
    Research Paper. To ensure that you are properly
    prepared for your Final Cultural Research Paper
    in this course, you must complete a draft/outline
    that includes
  • a. A culture from the list below
  • Basseri of Iran
  • The Batek of Malaysia
  • Enga
  • The Amish
  • Huaorani of Ecuador
  • Bedouin

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ANT 101 Innovative Educator
  • ANT 101 Week 4 DQ 1 Monumental Architecture
  • For more course tutorials visit
  • www.ant101.com
  • Monumental Architecture. What does monumental
    architecture imply about the cultural values and
    the socio-economic-political organization of the
    society that created it?
  • Do a bit of Internet research on religious or
    secular monuments, statues, and architectural
    wonders in your city, state, country, or
    internationally. Choose a monument (or set of
    monuments), describe its main features, discuss
    any symbolism it has, and analyze the messages it
    sends to its intended audience(s). Provide a link
    to an image of the monument itself for the rest
    of us to see.
  • Bring in what you have read on leadership and
    political and religious organization in band,
    tribes, and states up to now in developing your
    answer.

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ANT 101 Innovative Educator
  • ANT 101 Week 4 DQ 2 Economy and Colonialism
  • For more course tutorials visit
  • www.ant101.com
  • Economy and Colonialism. Relate what you have
    read in Chapter 8, of Cultural Anthropology,
    regarding colonialism and the expansion of
    capitalism in modern industrial societies to the
    article, Marketers Pursue the Shallow Pocketed.
    Is the information being discussed in this
    article another example of colonialism? Why or
    why not? Identify two potential positives and two
    negatives direct marketing of the poor has on
    people and their economies. What theory of
    development is most applicable to the expansion
    of global markets to poor, low income, and
    indigenous communities?

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  • ANT 101 Week 5 DQ 1 Ethics in Anthropology
  • For more course tutorials visit
  • www.ant101.com
  • Ethics in Anthropology. Be sure to watch and read
    the Miscellaneous Topics at the end of Chapter
    9 ofCultural Anthropology. Then, address the
    following topic As noted, anthropologys work
    with the military over the years has been wrought
    with controversy. Where do you stand on the issue
    regarding the use of anthropologists in
    intelligence gathering for the military? Can you
    come up with a compelling argument based on
    examples given in the text, your understanding of
    the ethical requirements of anthropologist, and
    from your own experiences /understanding of past
    and present military actions to take a stance on
    this issue?

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  • ANT 101 Week 5 DQ 2 Anthropology and Your Future
  • For more course tutorials visit
  • www.ant101.com
  • Anthropology and the Future. Watch Winners and
    Losers, available in the Films On Demand
    database, in the Ashford Online Library. Which
    issues are most urgent in our world today? Are
    they the same in the US as in the developing
    world? Where will the application of an
    anthropological perspective be most effective?
    Your initial response should be at least 150
    words in length. Please support your claims with
    examples from the text, recommended material,
    and/or scholarly articles. Respond to at least
    two of your classmates posts by Day 7.

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  • ANT 101 Week 5 Final Cultural Research Paper
  • For more course tutorials visit
  • www.ant101.com
  • Focus of the Research Paper
  • Throughout this course, we have learned that the
    primary mode of subsistence (how a culture makes
    a living) impacts many other aspects of cultural
    behavior and has been an effective way to
    organize thoughts and studies about culture. In
    order to demonstrate your understanding of
    subsistence modes and its impact on a culture and
    why a culture acts as it does, your Research
    Paper will require you to
  • 1. Select a specific culture from the following
    list
  • a. Basseri of Iran
  • b. The Batek of Malaysia
  • c. Enga
  • d. The Amish

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