5-7 page essay
Assignment: Final Project
This week, you submit your Ethnographic Narrative that details an exploration of an indigenous heritage, culture, or community. The Final Project is due by Day 7 of this week. Please be sure that your project meets the specified criteria before submitting it.
Remember that the indigenous heritage, culture, or community has been referred to with the umbrella description indigenous identity. Also recall that, although indigenous identity may not fit the UN definitions of indigenous peoples, characteristics of your identitytraditions, economic issues, ancestral lands, country of origin, religion, or classmay parallel those of indigenous groups. By examining an indigenous identity as an ethnographic study, you have the opportunity to see with an indigenous point of view, connect across cultures, and build a better understanding of the global environment.
By Day 7
Submit your Ethnographic Narrative, which should be 56 pages long and include the following:
A descriptive reflection on the indigenous group you selected during the course. Please include any additional insights about the groups history/origins, culture, beliefs that you found after Weeks 2 and 3.
A comparison of the similarities or differences that you found between the indigenous group and your own culture.
An evaluation of how two of the five role perspectives from Thinking Like an Anthropologist (pp. 89) influenced, changed, or reinforced your conception while studying indigenous peoples.
A description of two or three questions about the indigenous group that you studied that remains unanswered, and that you may pursue in the future.
In order to receive full credit, all assignments are due on time. Should you encounter an unanticipated and uncontrollable life event that may prevent you from meeting an assignment deadline, contact the Instructor immediately to request an extension. Your Instructors contact information is in the Instructor area. For a full description of the late policy, please refer to the Policies on Late Assignments section of your Syllabus.Describethe indigenous groupyou selected during the course.
Provide further insightinto the groups history/origins, culture, beliefs, sharing new discoveries after Weeks 2 and 3.
Compare similarities or contrast differencesbetween the indigenous group and your own culture.
Evaluate two of the five role perspectivesand how they have influenced, changed, or reinforced your ideas on indigenous peoples. As a reminder, the five role perspectives can be found under the Week 11Learning ResourcesTab (see the “Anthropological Perspectives Checklist” document for details).
Pose two or three questions about the indigenous groupthat you studied which remain unanswered, and that you may pursue in the future.
Inpreparingthe Week 5 Assignment:Final Project, please follow all instructions under the Week 5 Assignment Tabin our classroom.Please summarize and paraphrase, making certain thatallsources are properly cited.The Academic Writing documents in our classroom, as well as the Walden Writing Center, provide a wealth of information on the same.
I look forward to reading everyone’s Week 5 Assignment – Final Project: Ethnographic Narrative! If there are questions, please post them in the Contact the Instructor area so that everyone in the class can see, and benefit from, my response.
