Culture (250-500 words)
What is culture?
Provide three examples of ‘culture’. Feel free to include images with a caption, examples from your own life, or other examples.
Anthropology (250-500 words)
What is anthropology?
What are some of the important debates or ethical questions in anthropology?
Classes in anthropology, along with sociology, communication, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, etc. are often general education requirements at American universities. Has anyone ever explained to you why that is? Why do you think this is the case? What do you think the benefits of these kinds of perspectives are? Do you agree with this practice?
Cultural Relativism (250-500 words)
What is cultural relativism?
Why is this concept important for anthropologists?
Why might this concept be useful to people outside of anthropology?
Methods in Cultural Anthropology (250-500 words)
What are the key methods used by cultural anthropologists?
Imagine you are an anthropologist, and you are going to do research at UConn (or your own university). What might you want to research? What methods for recruitment might you use? How might you collect data? What challenges might you encounter? How might your emic position be a benefit (or not)?
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