ABELAM: Giant Yams and Cycles of Sex, Warfare and Ritual by: Richard Scaglion article review

Read the article attached to this and submit your answer to the following question in no less than 1,000 words: Search online for anthropological definitions of Malinowski’s Functionalism and Franz Boas’ Historical Particularism. How would each theoretical perspective offer different cultural explanations of the yam-growing cycle? In your essay you must: Explain the yam cycle using a functionalist perspective. Provide the particular historical perspective of the yam cycle. Describe the ways Scaglion’s idea of the “ethnographic present” allows the ethnographer to study cultural. Upload and submit your essay as follows: Formatted as an MS Word (.doc or .docx) file Double-spaced, one-inch (1”) margins all around No smaller than 11 pt. font; no cursive fonts Cite Internet sources in text using APA style and also on a “Works Cited” page Your name, course, section, date, and page number as a header on all pages