Part 1: (word count at least 150)
Use the handout on the “History of Native Americans and American Archaeology” to follow the chronology discussed in your reading:
McGuire, Randall H. 1992 Archeology and the First Americans. American Anthropologist94(4):816-83. This and all other READINGS are found in the Readings Module and listed alphabetically.
Upload an essay in which you respond to this prompt,
“If we take the main arguments of McGuire’s article seriously, the implications are… “
Part 2:
Short Assignment
A thought experiment:
What if as an infant you were adopted by a family other than the one that raised you, and this other family lived in a different country, had a different religion, spoke a different language, and had different values than the ones you were raised with. Would you be anything like the person you actually are?
Another way of thinking about this is to ask yourself, how have you as an individual – your values, beliefs, interests, preferences, etc. – been shaped by the specific circumstances in which you were raised? Is there an essential you that is independent of the social and biophysical contexts you have experienced?
Write approximately 150 words expressing your thoughts about these questions.
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