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There are 4 assignments. The name of the required reading are included in the assignment. There are just a few questions to be answered. assignment_8___transfer_of_power_questions.docx assignment_9.doc assignment_10.doc assignment_11.doc Unformatted Attachment Preview A Transfer of Power Assignment 8 Cultural Anthropology “A Transfer of Power” is a short documentary film depicting the routine life on Collum Collum cattle-station in northern New South Wales, Australia. The main informant for this film is named Sunny Bancroft, an Aboriginal man who worked closely with the anthropologists David and Judith McDougall on several ethnographic projects in the late 1980s. This particular film deals with what would seem a mundane job – replacing a worn out engine from one car with a refurbished engine from another car. What is interesting here is the tacit cultural connections on display between Sunny and his relations, what happens when “bush mechanic” draws on his kinship ties as a way to get the job done? A. Write two paragraphs as an anthropologist making field observations of this process might, telling what you observe and how it relates to the different categories of kinship organization we discussed in Chapter 6 of your textbook. B. Why do you think Sunny decides to call on these connections and obligations owed by his relations? C. Why is that important for the continued success of the community and not just the outcome of this particular project? Assignment 9 If you are using a quote from the reading to support your answer or are copying definitions, please make sure you are using quotation marks and citing where your quote came from. For this type of assignment in class, if you are taking a quote from the reading or text, last name/page number will suffice. Read Chapter 22: “Mixed Blood” by Jefferson M. Fish in Conformity and Conflict by Spradley and McCurdy. Answer questions for Assignment 9 found under modules. Read Chapter 25: “Law and Order” by James P. Spradley and David W. McCurdy in Conformity and Conflict by Spradley and McCurdy. Answer questions for Assignment 9 found under modules. Chapter 22: Mixed Blood Questions 1. a. How does Fish answer the question What is race?? b. What evidence does he give to support his answer? 2. a. What examples of physical variability dependent on environmental factors does Fish discuss? b. How does he explain each of these differences? 3. a. What are folk taxonomies? b. What are the differences in how Americans and Brazilians construct their cultural taxonomy of race (classifications of a persons race)? 4. a. Why is it important to understand how different cultures see the concept of race and how they define it? b. How might this help to support the idea that race is a cultural construct? Chapter 25: Law and Order Questions 1. a. What are substantive law, procedural law, legal levels and legal principles? b. What Zapotec examples were given for each of these ideas? 2. a. In what ways might the structure of laws in American culture be different from the structure of laws in Zapotec culture? b. Is there a difference in how laws are carried out between these two cultures? Discuss. 3. a. How are the goals of the justice system in the Zapotec culture different from the goals of the justice system in the United States? b. Based on the lecture on political systems from this week, why do you think these are the desired outcomes in each of these cultures? Assignment 10 Ongkas Big Moka Film Cultural Anthropology Ongka, a Big Man of the Kawelka tribe in Papua New Guinea, has decided that he will arrange a moka to pay back a neighboring tribe that hosted a moka nearly 10 years ago. That tribe gave the Kawelka 400 pigs; Ongka wants to repay them with 600. A key component to Kawelka culture, the moka ceremony finds those seeking to gain influence attempting to do so not by acquiring valuable objects, but by giving them away. In fact, moka means interest, the amount of pigs that is given above the amount originally distributed. The Kawelka follows a horticultural subsistence strategy, raising pigs, yams and other vegetables and living in sedentary small villages and hamlets. The only way to accumulate much food surplus is to invest extra yams into pigs, turning carbohydrates into protein. Answer the following questions in paragraph form. 1. a. What motivates someone like Ongka to work so hard? b. How does Ongka “bank” his pigs? c. In what ways does moka benefit Ongka’s tribe as a whole? 2. a. How have Western consumer items infiltrated the moka tradition? 3. a. Explain the role of “Big Man” as discussed in your text in relation to social organization. b. What social power does a Big Man possess? c. What personal talents/gifts, apart from throwing a big moka, would help to elevate a Big Man’s status? d. How does this play out in Ongka’s case? 4. Compare the moka of Papua New Guinea to the potlatch of Northwest Coast Native Americans. a. How are they similar? b. How are they different? c. In what ways is gift giving aggressive behavior in these two cultures? 5. a. What role do accusations of witchcraft play in leveling the playing field as far as any one group gaining too much status? Assignment 11 If you are using a quote from the reading to support your answer or are copying definitions, please make sure you are using quotation marks and citing where your quote came from. For this type of assignment in class, if you are taking a quote from the reading or text, last name/page number will suffice. Read Chapter 7: “Conversation Style: Talking on the Job” by Deborah Tannen in Conformity and Conflict by Spradley and McCurdy. Answer questions for Assignment 11 found under modules. Read Chapter 29: “Baseball Magic” by George Gmelch in Conformity and Conflict by Spradley and McCurdy. Answer questions for Assignment 11 found under modules. Chapter 7: Conversation Style: Talking On The Job Questions 1. a. What identifier does Tannen argue is the first characteristic to be categorized when you meet or see someone? b. How has this affected her research focus? 2. a. What types of subjects does Tannen focus her research on in this reading? b. How might this affect her findings? c. Would her findings be different if she studied the interactions of a different group profile? d. Why or why not? 3. a. How does Tannen describe the conversational style of men? b. What characteristics does she see in womens conversational styles? c. What examples does Tannen give that illustrate each of these styles? 4. Tannen argues that two stereotypes about men and women seem to be incorrect. a. What are these two stereotypes? b. Why might they be incorrect or reversed? Chapter 29: Baseball Magic Questions 1. a. What are the similarities and differences in use of magic between the Trobriand Islanders and American baseball players? b. What are the causes of magic use? 2. a. According to Gmelch, what is the difference between a ritual and routine? b. How does he define a taboo and fetish? c. What examples are given of each of these concepts? 3. a. What theories did Malinowski and Skinner come up with in regards to ritual? b. What evidence was given or experiments did they conduct to illustrate their points? c. What were the different goals of their studies? 4. a. What examples of magic use occur in your own life? Is it a daily occurrence? ... Purchase answer to see full attachment