INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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Work type:	Other : College essay
Format:	APA
Pages:	4 pages ( 2200 words, Single spaced

Academic level:	Undergrad. (yrs 1-2)
Subject or discipline:	Anthropology
Title:	INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Number of sources:	2

Paper instructions:	Total of 4 Essays– 2 sources per essay Text: Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 11th Edition, 2018 ISBN: 9781259818424 Conrad Phillip Kottak McGraw Hill 1. Examine anthropology’s dual identity as a member of both the social sciences and the humanities. What advantages and problems do you see rooted in this dual identity? 2. Define adaptive strategy. Identify the five adaptive strategies in Cohen’s typology of societies. Discuss how Cohen links economy and social features. 3. Analyze the relationship between gender and socioeconomic class in industrialized societies. Do gender roles, gender stratification, men’s and women’s participation in the public and private spheres, and/or their ability to acquire and control important resources vary between socioeconomic classes? What are some of the reasons that such differences may exist? 4. Examine how economic development and environmentalism can be vehicles for external regulation that threaten the subsistence patterns and way of life of indigenous people.

Paper instructions:

Total of 4 Essays– 2 sources per essay
Text: Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
11th Edition, 2018
ISBN: 9781259818424
Conrad Phillip Kottak
McGraw Hill

1. Examine anthropology’s dual identity as a member of both the social sciences and the humanities. What advantages and problems do you see rooted in this dual identity?

2. Define adaptive strategy. Identify the five adaptive strategies in Cohen’s typology of societies. Discuss how Cohen links economy and social features.

3. Analyze the relationship between gender and socioeconomic class in industrialized societies. Do gender roles, gender stratification, men’s and women’s participation in the public and private spheres, and/or their ability to acquire and control important resources vary between socioeconomic classes? What are some of the reasons that such differences may exist?

4. Examine how economic development and environmentalism can be vehicles for external regulation that threaten the subsistence patterns and way of life of indigenous people.