The History Of Charleston Read the article “Urban Adaptation in Charleston, SC, 1730-1820”. Based on the article, discuss the role historical archaeology has played in better understanding the early days of Charleston. Read Exploring 1670 Charles Towne. Make some substantive observations concerning the people settling in 1670 at Charles Town Landing.
Brown Eye, Blue Eye Assignment 1. You are to watch the video link above. 2. Write a detailed typed 2 page summary of the video and upload into MOODLE. 3. Discuss your likes and dislikes, and based on this video how did it make you feel? How can this video be applied to what we […]
Transnational Migration – Gender and Age Compose a critical analysis of how Boehm’s text builds on an understanding of the effects of gender (and age) in transnational migration decisions and how migration impacts notions of gender subjectivities, marriage, intimate relations, and kin relations. Does the author succeed in evoking a sense of the “both […]
Human Variation View “Living a Transgender Childhood”. Rather than focusing on Josie’s parents, or on your opinions and feelings of what you would do if it was your child, focus instead on the science conveyed in this video: What do we actually know now, from our medical sciences, regarding transgendered people? What science-based advice are […]
Summarize the central idea for three out these seven chapters in Matthew Engelke’s book How To Think Like An Anthropologist (Values, Value, Blood, Identity, Authority, Reason, and Nature). In addition to this, highlight in your paper three themes in these chapters that, in your estimation, illustrates the importance of that central idea etc. Lastly, conclude […]
Peopling of the Americas Discuss, evaluate, and contrast the evidence of migration to the Americas presented in Gibbons 2012 and Balter 2013 with information provided in one (or more) of the following articles: Erlandson et al. 2011, “Paleolithic seafaring, maritime technologies, and coastal foraging on California’s Channel Islands”; O’Connor et al. 2011, “Pelagic fishing at […]
Read article“Mistaken identity- being or not being Asian /African”. Read article and answer the question: is your identity shaped by mobility or space?
For your assignment, you will write a 4-5 pages long analysis of a theoretical concept (nationalism)which is used both in one of the theoretical texts and in Maple Rasza’s ethnography Bastards of Utopia: Living Radical Politics After Socialism. The point of this assignment is to explore the relationship between political theory and ethnographic data—your job […]
Are you a Materialist? In essence, these are some of the conflicting ideas about the nature of the strongest motivator in human experience. These opposing views are discussed in the section, Three Debates in Chapter 1 of your textbook. These debates represent age-old human disagreements about what “makes the world go round.” These debates often […]
The grammar of Happiness After you have watched the movie ‘The Grammar of Happiness’, 1. What does Daniel Everett claim to have discovered n the Piraha language and why these discoverings are so controversial? 2. How would you describe/present/explain the two positions on language portrayed in the movie (the one Everett defends, and the Chomskian […]
