Write an essay response to the questions listed below. Your paper should begin with an overview of your opinion and summary of data supporting it, rely on evidence from the readings stated in a clear and organized manner, and conclude with a re-stating of your thesis statement based on the evidence you cover.
The paper should be approximately two-and-a-half pages double-spaced with citations of our relevant sources to provide evidence for your argument. Include a bibliography. Post your writing on the discussion board in the appropriately marked forum.
The questions are:
Find and review an academic article from a cultural anthropology journal on a topic of your choice that fits within the scope of the course.
Beyond summarizing the article, you need to provide a critical review of the content. This means you need to evaluate and determine how successful or not the author(s) was in clarifying and supporting their argument with evidence including how accurate their analysis was based on that data.
Does the conclusion(s) the author(s) reaches logically flow from the evidence and is it appropriate in scope (i.e. does it over-generalize or not)?
Some additional examples of critique on which you may choose to focus include the appropriateness and reliability of the research methods used and whether or not there is key evidence missing that could have reasonably been collected or included.
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