After reading your chosen book you’ll need to write a short paper that proves to me that you’ve read the book and that relates the book to our course in some way. I’d like for you to structure your paper into three parts. First, please write a few paragraphs that summarize the book you’ve just read. And then, please focus on the following two questions, and please back up your answers with specific examples: What have you learned in this course so far that helped you better understand and make sense of the book you just read? And conversely, what in the book helped you understand Anthropology and the topics we are studying this semester in a way that the rest of our course has not (or not done yet)?
We will be using the college’s checker for plagiarism and AI, and though it’s not perfect, I’ll ask you to please only submit your own writing. (And also please do not just copy in a link to a document somewhere else, but properly upload your paper or just copy the actual text into the submission window so that the checker can see it). There’s no specific page limits or word counts for this assignment, but I encourage you to be concise while still including all three requested sections for this paper. If you end up with a one page paper you might want to reconsider how much work you’ve put into answering those two questions along with your summary. On the other hand, I’m not expecting (and don’t have the time budgeted for) receiving a bunch of ten page papers to grade. In other words, write what you think is sufficient, but do think deeply about the book and our course and draw on examples from both. I hope you enjoy your book and let me know if you have any further questions.
The book:
Ceremony (Overdrive ebook) https://mobius.overdrive.com/media/208956Links to an external site.
Textbook:
Mirror for Humanity by Conrad Kottak (13th edition)
