Anthropologists

Choose a physical location in your life that you consider to have profound meaning for you. Then explain in what ways has the process of place-making turned that space into a place-world, in Basso’s terms?

ASSIGNMENT Choose a physical location in your life that you consider to have profound meaning for you – this could be anywhere from the place of worship you attend, to a location you often go with friends/family, to a location in your own home. Consider why you consider that undifferentiated space to be a place, […]

Describe ways you, as a nurse, could use modern media professionally. What would be some potential benefits of the use of modern media to the modern nurse?

Modern Media a 1-to-3-page reflective essay, consider how anthropologists study modern media, and consider how you, in your nursing career, see yourself using modern media professionally. Think critically, as anthropologists do. First, describe in your essay how anthropologists study modern media. Then, apply those observations regarding ways anthropologists study modern media and describe ways nurses […]

Analyze a work of human creative expression, describe it, describe its purpose, and assess how creative expression impacts and is impacted by surrounding situations.

Perspectives in the Humanities For this assignment, assume the role of a researcher of human cultures, an anthropologist who is looking from the future back into our world today. In your final project, analyze a work of human creative expression, describe it, describe its purpose, and assess how creative expression impacts and is impacted by […]

Analyze at least two issues that anthropologists would point to regarding the cultural invention/construction/creation of the topic described in the chapter.

Question. Prompt #2 Use Chapter 7 of Our Punitive Society (2021) to articulate the fact that legal systems and standards are culturally constructed/invented and change or don’t change based on cultural beliefs: the writing of laws, implementation of laws, and the roles of legal professionals. Culture is powerful. Some say, “culture wins every time.” Fully […]

In a 1-to-3-page reflective essay, consider how anthropologists study modern media, and consider how you, in your nursing career.

Reflective essay on modern media In a 1-to-3-page reflective essay, consider how anthropologists study modern media, and consider how you, in your nursing career, see yourself using modern media professionally. Think critically, as anthropologists do. First, describe in your essay how anthropologists study modern media. Then, apply those observations regarding ways anthropologists study modern media […]

Reflect on Van Willigen’s (2002) training for applied anthropologists; every chapter is a training chapter.

500 words Reflect on Van Willigen’s (2002) training for applied anthropologists; every chapter is a training chapter. Explain at least three things he says are challenges for applied anthropologists when they are conducting a research project; be specific and give an example of each. Also explain what Van Willigen shows are options or solutions for […]

Describe the Kula Ring and explain what benefits, both monetary and socially, come from participating in it.

Anthropological studies of economic strategies challenges the assumption of conventional economics by analyzing societal behavior from a cross-cultural perspective. Anthropologists look at the relationship between economy and society in which it occurs through a critical examination by address factors such as exchange, production, consumption, property, and the social changes that have occurred in the modern […]

Write an annotated bibliography on an anthropological work on the spatial movement and mobility of people, things, and ideas.

Write an annotated bibliography on an anthropological work on the spatial movement and mobility of people, things, and ideas. Anthropologists have productively used movement, travel, and other action-oriented tropes and metaphors (flows, traffic, circulation) as heuristics through which to understand everything ( give examples of anthropological work used movement in relation medical anthropology.

Describe folk illnesses or culture-bound syndromes as “idioms of distress,” because local illness categories and symptoms communicate particular kinds of suffering.

Idioms of Distress Anthropologists describe folk illnesses or culture-bound syndromes as “idioms of distress,” because local illness categories and symptoms communicate particular kinds of suffering, the meaning of which varies from culture to culture.

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