Duranti-Ethnography

For these reading responses, you are NOT asked to reproduce the entire argument of the assigned scholarly works. Rather you are asked to respond to three short prompts IN COMPLETE SENTENCES. Please number your responses to these prompts in each reading response with...

The Anthropology of Food and Eating”

To frame the argument, the topic requires social media content as well, such as YouTube videos and Instagram posts (regarding large number of people on social media showing off what they eat during the day/week, promoting certain food habits and influencing their...

Anthropological Concepts

In this section of your film study, use the three anthropological concepts that you identified in your thesis statement to explain the behavior of the characters in three scenes of the film. Each concept must have a scene selected to support its influence and should...

Objectifying and Subjectivity

We have been talking about the differences between objectifying and subjectivity in anthropology. Objectifying other people has been problematic in the field of anthropology, especially in terms of a colonial gaze that made other people strange. How can we experience,...

Anthropology watch 2 films and readings comparisons

Having viewed Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown-Trinidad (CNN) and United Shades of America-Puerto Rico (CNN), please consider both of these popular portrayals of the Caribbean in the context of our course readings from the British and Spanish Caribbean modules (Thomas,...