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Stone provides examples of how kinship and family have responded to the stresses of migration and immigration caused by the forces of globalization and neo-liberalism. While marriage, gender roles, and family formation have been affected, Stone observes that “…the transformation of kinship is taking its own twists and turns in […]

After watching the documentary, The Crying Forest, submit your answers to the review questions below. Use specific evidence from the video to support your answers to the following essay question: •For what cultural reasons is the Amazon rainforest perceived as important and valuable? For which specific communities, and why? In […]

Explore the validity of each of these concepts. In the video, you will see how social race was a powerful force in the segregation and discrimination practices in the Southern United States. Using this example, discuss and analyze social race as a force in culture. Critically analyze and address the […]

The Eugenics movement is said to be dead, yet with the advancement in our understanding of the human genome we can locate those genes that are considered handicaps, even those that are today considered benign (poor eyesight). The first link describes cases where the knowledge of these handicaps could be […]

Read the New York Times article, A Language, Not Quite Spanish in the link i’ll provide you with: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/world/americas/18colombia.html Use examples from the article as evidence to support your answer to the following essay question in 1,000 words: Although not stated explicity in the article, in what ways has their […]

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 […]