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• ANT 101 Entire Course
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• 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 Week 1 DQ 1 Cultural Relativism
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• 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
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• 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 Week 2 Critical Thinking Paper Kinship
  Organizations
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• 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 Week 2 DQ 1 Foraging Societies
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• 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
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• 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 Week 3 DQ 1 Social Organization
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• 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 Week 3 DQ 2 Doing Business with Family
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• 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 Week 3 Rough Draft of Final Cultural
  Research Paper
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• 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 Week 4 DQ 1 Monumental Architecture
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• 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 Week 4 DQ 2 Economy and Colonialism
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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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