Cultural Anthropology

 

• Describe an aspect of your own culture from an etic (outsider’s) perspective in Part I of the paper.
• Describe an aspect of another culture from an emic (insider’s) perspective in Part II of the paper.
• Apply cultural relativism in order to examine misconceptions about culture that may occur due to ethnocentrism.
  • Keep the distinction between cultural relativism and moral relativism in mind as you write your final paper.
  • Even if you do not personally agree with a cultural practice, explain how the practice makes sense in its cultural context.
  • Avoid opinionated or judgmental language in your paper.
• Analyze your chosen aspect in terms of how it developed as part of a social system within both your culture and another culture.
• Analyze your chosen aspect in terms of its purpose as part of a social system both within your own culture and another culture.

The Final Research Paper

• Must be five to six double-spaced pages in length (excluding title page and references page, meaning it will be seven to eight pages total), and formatted according to as outlined in the Writing Center’s  resource.
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Name of institution (University of Arizona Global Campus)
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must utilize academic voice. See the  resource for additional guidance.
• Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
• For assistance on writing  as well as , refer to the Writing Center resources.
• Must include at least one full-text scholarly resource ideally from the University of Arizona Global Campus Library in addition to the textbook, the Miner article, and the article chosen from the  in Part II of the Week 3 assignment.
  • The  table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
  • To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view  tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
• Must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s  guide.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the  resource in the Writing Center for specifications.

Three sources that must be used are 

 

Risse, M. (2009). Cultural refraction: Using travel writing, anthropology and fiction to understand the culture of Southern Arabia. Interdisciplinary Humanities, 26(1), 63-78. Retrieved from EBSCOhost database.

 

Bianchi, S. M. (1999). Feminization and juvenilization of poverty: Trends, relative risks, causes, and consequences. Annual Review of Sociology, 25, 307-333. Retrieved from the JSTOR database.

 

Apter, A. (2012). Matrilineal motives: Kinship, witchcraft, and repatriation among Congolese refugees. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 18(1), 22-44. Retrieved from the EBSCOhost database.