The group I choose was”: Australian Aborigines: ( Pintupi People)
Required Format of the project : (see points for parts page as well)
Follow the indicated areas on the “points for parts evaluation page”.
APA style, 12 point font, 1 inch margins etc. are standard.
Include the following in this order and as your subheadings.
Title page
Outline of project including important concepts that highlight each area of the project.
Map of their location in the physical world
(Main body content of paper – use these Headings and subheadings):
Introduction (restating purpose of the project and why you chose this particular group)
Description of Physical Environment
History of the group
Explanation of Social Organization /Environment
(Use each of the following as additional subheadings)
Population Size
Leadership/Political Organization / Government
Economic Means of subsistence
Marriage patterns and family/kinship type
Discussion of Cultural Beliefs and Rituals
(Use each of the following as additional subheadings)
Language
Religion
Rites of Passage
Illness / Medicine
Mythology
Comparative Summary – what similar features do they have to our culture, what stands out as major differences and what is the reason for the difference. Look back the WHO ARE WE assignment completed at the beginning of the course for areas you could compare our society to your ethnoprofile group.
Consideration of the Future – what caused the demise of the group if no longer in existence OR what do you feel will be significant in the future of this group and their long term survival
Conclusion
Recipe/ description of food they typically eat.
Other information or pictures you wish to include
Bibliography page
Originality report (Turnitin plagiarism report) – this is produced automatically (you don’t need to do anything other than submit your assignment in assignments. It is at the discretion of the instructor to assign a zero to the project if the project is determined plagiarized by this report.
Make sure you do your best to cover all the indicated content areas.!
See points for parts to be sure you have covered all the expectations of the project.
Cultural Anthropology Soc: 208 Name:______________________
Instructor Valerie Gunhus
Cultural Anthropology Ethno-profile Course Project: Points for Parts
1. Required: Turnitin.com Originality Report is required or your project will NOT be accepted.
This will happen automatically when you submit your assignment in Brightspace “assignments”. Your file type must be .rtf or word document or .pdf. The system will not process .wps file types.
2. _____ / 25__ Research.
* Bibliography page APA format of all sources used in your project. Number your sources in the bibliography / use same number beside the citation in the text. (This numbering is to help me “match your sources quickly”)
* 5 sources required, not including textbook. All 5 must be used the paper.
* Proper citations. All citations in the project should clearly match the bibliography.
* Each citation should be highlighted yellow for quick visual reference.
3. ______ / 5_ Map. Visual map of their physical location in the world.
4. ______ / 10_Outline of your project which should identify the content areas listed below AND summarize the related research in these areas given your chosen group.
For example: under Political organization, you might summarize as: centralized polity with democratic voting process to elect a president. Your summary will be specific to your group and should use the words learned from course content. (see ethno profile summary sheet on next page for listing of terms you should be using here.)
5.____/5_ Introduction – including a purpose of this project statement.
6.____/5_ Description of their physical environment, (including world location, tropical, plains, mountains, rainfall, temperature, seasons etc.)
7.____/5_ History of the Group: summarize the relevant history of the group.
8.____/20 Explanation of their social environment / Social organization.
Each of the following should be subheadings covered in this section.
Population size and how that impacts the following:
Political organization/ government
Economic means of subsistence
Family/ kinship type / marriage patterns
9.____/25_ Discussion of Cultural Beliefs and Rituals.
Each of the following should be subheadings covered in this section.
Language
Religion
Rites of passage – with example on gender development, aging and or death
Illness / medicine – how do they understand illness occurring and what are their sources of cure / medicine
Mythology – share or summarize a myth that the group believes in.
10.____/15_ Comparative summary. How we are similar or different and why.
*Include a discussion of the functional utility of unique aspects of each culture. i.e why they may do something we would not agree or desire because of environmental/ economic / religious reasons.
* (1 full page minimum) Refer to:Who We Are assignment for comparative ideas between U.S. and your group.
11.____/10_ Consideration of the Future
* what forces of evolutionary change confront them as result of cultural contact, cultural innovation, or biological evolution.
* What caused the demise of the group, or is potentially threatening to their future.
* (1 full page minimum)
12.____ / 5__ Recipe/description on how they prepare a common or unique cultural food dish.
13.____ / 20__ Technical Details of written portion.
* Length – minimum of 8 pgs. Of Text, not including title page, bibliography, map, or other additives.
* Organizational clarity – must use indicated content areas as subheadings
* Title Page.
* Conclusion – use separate heading for the conclusion.
______ / _150_ Total Points Possible
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Instructor: Valerie Gunhus
Ethno-profile Summary Sheet
In your ethno-profile term project, you should incorporate the terms that we have learned throughout the semester to describe your group. The following are a list of some of these terms for you to consider as you process through each of these areas of cultural study for your specific group.
Rituals
Rites of Passage
Rites of Intensification
Religion
Naturalistic worldview
Worldview where man is master of nature
Belief in ancestral spirits
Animism
Animatism
Polytheistic religion
Monotheistic religion
Shamans or Clergy
Marriage & Family Patterns
Mate selection through Dating or Mate selection by some degree of Arranged Marriage
Endogamy or Exogamy
Monogamy
Polygamy: polygyny or polyandry
Same sex marriage
Group marriage
Bride price or Dowry
Households: conjugal based or con-sanguineal based
Levirate or Sororate
Nuclear family, Extended family, Single parent family
Patterns of Subsistence / Economy
Food Forager or Food Producer
Hunter, Gatherers
Horticultural / Pastoral
Agricultural
Industrial
Post Industrial
Division of labor by Gender or Division of labor by Age
Leveling mechanisms or Redistribution
Political / Social organization
Egalitarian social relationships or Hierarchical social relationships
Power as Independent entity or Power of Free Agency
Un-centralized (Band, Tribe) or Centralized (Chiefdom, State)
Small scale, Large scale, or Global scale – Bodley’s typology End.
