- Case
Study Paper on "What's New in Anthropology"
[up to 100
points = 8.8 % of the final grade
UMD Grading Policy
- First of all, have a look at the Texas A & M WebSite Anthropology
in the News found at <http://anthropology.tamu.edu/news/>.
Scroll through the site, noting, in general, the kind of items
that are being reported in Anthropology.
- "Kinds of items" includes things like people in the news,
new fossils found, new archaeological sites discovered,
current controversies discussed, what's new with non-human primates
(especially the great apes: chimps, gorillas, orangutans) reviewed,
new methods explained, old things reinterpreted, unusual and
/ or special events noted, and things like that.
- If one or more of the subjects sounds interesting to you click
on it and have a look. After you have had a look at the entire Texas
A & M WebSite, Anthropology
in the News, write a paragraph or two about what trends
you found. This will be the "Introduction"
to your Case Study.
- Next, pick one of those trends or discoveries that you
mentioned in your introduction and explore it in greater depth.
If you are looking at Anthropology
in the News those items listed with several entries grouped
together are usually the easiest ones to do.
- If you want, you can try getting more information by looking at other sites on the
web:
- Try surfing the web by searching with the search engines
found by clicking on the Web "Search" button found on the upper
righthand corner all of the course WebPages. This will take
you to the course Search
Engines Page.
- Hint: When you do a search on an item that has more than
one word, like "wedding rituals," click on the "phrase" button of
the search engine -- otherwise it will search out everything
with "wedding" and everything with "rituals," and the list of "hits"
could get quite large.
- Try using terms from the "Table of Contents" of your text as keywords in your searches
- Also try getting more information from JSTORE,
elelctronically stored journals, and look for other items from the
UMD Electronic
Reference Collection.
- For the Case Study you may also use traditional library materials,
and, where appropriate, interviews and videotapes. So have a
look at one or more of the daily papers to see what they're reporting.
- On-line Resources which might be helpful include:
- Infotrac®
- JSTOR©
- LEXIS-NEXIS®
- Soc-Anth-Hum/Cl-Cultural
Studies Search Engines and Reference Works
- UMD
On-Line Library Resources
- General
Reference Works
- Books
and Manuscripts On-Line
- .
The What's New? Case Study is due by Friday, 17 June 2011
.
- Length: 4 - 5 well-written pages
- Criteria
for Grading College Writing
- Suggestion: Don't put off the Web Assignments.
The web doesn't always work when you want it to.
- When you write anything you should consider audience,
purpose, and your personal style. For
your case studies, your audience should be your classmates in this
class. (Do not write your college papers to the professor
as audience.)
- Information
about Handing in Your Paper
- See the "Preparing
the Final Draft" section of the Sociology
- Anthropology - Criminology - Humanities / Classics Writing Guide
to see the details of what your Case Study report should look like
when you hand it in. Basically, it should look like this:
For more help see Paradigm
On-line Writing Assistant and / or
The
Soc-Anth Department Writing Guide Criteria
for Grading College Writing
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What's New?
Current Trends and New Discoveries
in Cultural Anthropology
by George Bush, Jr.
Anthropology 1604
Case Study
Professor Roufs
14 February 2012
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