Summarize six (6) chapters from the Cultural Anthropology textbook by Raymond Scupin. These chapters are: Chapter 9 (Technology and Economics); Chapter 10 (Social Structure, the Family, Marriage and Age); Chapter 11 (Gender and Sexuality); Chapter 12 (Politics, Warfare and Law); Chapter 13 (Religion and Aesthetics); and Chapter 16 (Race and Ethnicity).
Write a synopsis of the ethnography you have chosen to read and analyze. Discuss how you might approach the comparative part of the final project/book review as well.
1. Briefly describe the species you studied, the locations of the Zoo(s)/areas, and what time of day (at the site!) you did your observations. 2. Why did you choose to compare these two species? (e.g., “I chose to compare a spider monkeys, New World species and colobus monkeys, an Old World monkey species, because …”) … Read more
Compare and contrast the work of the Neo-evolutionists and cultural ecologists– Sahlins, Service, White- with “Environment and Anthropology: Socio-natures in a Politicized Anthropocene” by James Fairhead and Melissa Leach, and with “Toxic Life in the Anthropocene” by Margaret Lock. Cite using AAA style.
