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ANT 101 Your world/uophelp.com

For more course tutorials visit<br>www.uophelp.com<br>ANT 101 Week 1 DQ 1 Cultural Relativism<br>ANT 101 Week 1 DQ 2 Studying Culture<br>ANT 101 Week 2 DQ 1 Foraging Societies<br>ANT 101 Week 2 DQ 2 Economic Concerns<br>ANT 101 Week 2 Critical Thinking Paper Kinship Organizations<br>ANT 101 Week 3 DQ 1 Social Organization<br>ANT 101 Week 3 DQ 2 Doing Business with Family<br>ANT 101 Week 3 Rough Draft of Final Cultural Research Paper<br>

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ANT 101 Your world/uophelp.com

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  1. ANT 101 Your world/uophelp.com For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com

  2. ANT 101 Entire Course (Ash course) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • 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

  3. ANT 101 Week 1 DQ 1 Cultural Relativism (Ash course) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • 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).

  4. ANT 101 Week 1 DQ 2 Studying Culture (Ash course) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • 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.

  5. ANT 101 Week 2 Critical Thinking Paper Kinship Organizations (Ash course) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • 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:

  6. ANT 101 Week 2 DQ 1 Foraging Societies (Ash course) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • 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?

  7. ANT 101 Week 2 DQ 2 Economic Concerns (Ash course) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • 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.

  8. ANT 101 Week 3 DQ 1 Social Organization (Ash course) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • 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?

  9. ANT 101 Week 3 DQ 2 Doing Business with Family (Ash course) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • 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

  10. ANT 101 Week 3 Rough Draft of Final Cultural Research Paper (Ash course) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • 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

  11. ANT 101 Week 4 DQ 1 Monumental Architecture (Ash course) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • 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.

  12. ANT 101 Week 4 DQ 2 Economy and Colonialism (Ash course) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • 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?

  13. ANT 101 Week 5 DQ 1 Ethics in Anthropology (Ash course) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • 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, anthropology’s 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?

  14. ANT 101 Week 5 DQ 2 Anthropology and Your Future (Ash course) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • 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.

  15. ANT 101 Week 5 Final Cultural Research Paper (Ash course) For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com • 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.

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