Directions for Cornellizing or Annotating Readings

Tips for Cornellizing or Annotating your reading and notes
These interactions help with retention.


Put a * next to important ideas you want to remember
?-next to things you don't understand ask the teacher or a partner to clarify
Underline____________- key concepts
Put questions to the left side of things this reading explains, anticipate a quiz
Summarize- What you learned at the end of the reading.

What is Culture? Packet Conversations

What is culture? Define explain a cultural comparison.

What is enculturation? How do we use symbols?

Clifford Geertz- The Interpretations of Culture

www.amazon.com

In The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), Geertz described culture as "a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.

How is culture shared?

How does culture help us in a state of nature?

How is culture all encompassing?

What are cultural patterns that are integrated? How can they shape personalities and core values? 

Define culture as adaptive and maladaptive with examples. 

 Define cultural universals, generalities, and particularities. Use examples. 

Read Culture and Individual Agency and Practice. 

Real culture vs. Ideal culture. Explain 

Define national culture, 

international  culture, 

subculture, 

ethnocentrism,

 cultural relativism, 

human rights, 

cultural rights, 

 Intellectual property rights

What is Cultural Anthropology? Packet annotated- Terms for Test you should be able to discuss

Students should be able to define following terms with examples:

4 areas of Anthropology-Physical, Cultural, Archaeology, Linguistics
Adaptation-cultural and physical
Human universals and particulars
ethnography
cross cultural comparison
holism
culture
participant observation
cultural adaptation
physical adaptation
race
ethnology
Applied anthropology

Waorani -Nomads of the Rainforest

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn8gk67s6YM

David Good clip from Amazon to the Garden State

▶ 7:39

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll0-gyJdi6U

Yasuni Rainforest Campaign

http://www.saveamericasforests.org/Yasuni/

Mc Donalds Happy Meal-4 Key Concepts

You will be defining and discussing 4 of the 9 concepts and how they relate to culture that you see in the Happy Meal.

Real World Issue Summary Example

Summary with Real world theme identified and 3 key concepts-

This is just one way to answer this question. You must identify real world issue and discuss as well as key concepts.

            In the ethnographic article For the Love of Football, Tracie Canada studies the real world issues of power and inequality amongst football players. She specifically looks at how Black players are looked at on the field like a gladiator worthy of praise and how that changes in their daily lives. In the US tensions are masked by games and plays. Many are intimidated by their size and dark skin. They become stigmatized and discriminated against.

            Football players identity is shaped by long practices, early mornings and ideas about masculinity. It seems these long practices push body to the limits and showcase controlled violence.

Football is a mirror to our culture according to the article, it  represents the outcomes of winners and losers that our competitive society creates. It also looks at democratic ideas of fair play and equality.

Power is an essential feature of social relations. Football is  dominated by men mostly played and coached by them. This is revealing of the power structure in society. The anthropologist is told she has access because she is “ a pretty girl”.  


In the anthropology news article, "What to Call US Border Detention Centers, " by Adam Hodges he highlights the theme of human rights by sharing the conditions in US detention centers. Facts about the 
The article discusses stereotypes  like Mexican, criminal and ... as the identity of the immigrants

           

Possible sites for IA-ethnographic observation and Assignment

IB SL Social and Cultural Anthropology

Observation Assignment

You are required to do an initial anthropological observation. You will revisit this observation.

Requirements:

1. Observe at an appropriately chosen site for one hour.
2. Consider and discuss with the class ethical issues of your observation.
3. Take detailed notes.
4. Create a detailed and organized written report of no more than 400 words of what you observed. Your report must include a detailed description of the location and context of your observation (date, time, number of people, physical surroundings)

Ethics discussion and due date for the proposal: ________________________

Written report due: _______________________

IB rubric – This observation is worth 4 of the 26 total marks awarded for the internal assessment.

A Completion of the written report
Marks Level Descriptor 
1-2 The written report is either organized or detailed but not both.
3-4 The written report is organized and detailed. The content of the observation is discussed. 

Ethical considerations

The following guidelines should be applied to all fieldwork. These apply to students preparing for internal

Assessment.

• Do no harm to the people who participate in fieldwork.

• Respect the well-being of humans and the environment.

• Obtain informed consent from the people who are the subjects of the fieldwork in a form appropriate

to the context before you begin, providing sufficient information about the aims and procedures of

the research.

• Fieldwork involving children needs the written consent of parent(s) or guardian(s). Students

must ensure that parents are fully informed about the implications for children who take part in such

research. Where fieldwork is conducted with children in a school, the written consent of the school

administration must also be obtained.

• Maintain the anonymity of the people participating in fieldwork, unless participants have given

explicit permission to the contrary.

• Store all data collected securely in order to maintain confidentiality.

• Be honest about the limits of your training.

• Do not falsify or make up fieldwork data. Report on research findings accurately and completely.

• Report your research findings to the people involved in your fieldwork.

• Do not use data for any purpose other than the fieldwork for which it was collected.

• Develop and maintain a working relationship with the people that you study so that other

researchers can continue to work with them.

• Check with your teacher when the right way to behave is not clear.

• Participate in reviews of the ethical considerations in the fieldwork proposals of your peers.

Brainstorm your ideas here --

church

school clubs

gym

sit down restaurant

classroom you have never been before

pre-school

places of work

community meeting-neighborhood association

school board meeting

school you do not attend

sports practice gender based

adult clubs

tourist area

colleges

hair salons

art gallery

bowling alley

skating rink

celebration sedentary

country club

playground

Approval from Ms. Hodgson

Notebook paper-Field Notes should total 2 pages front and back.

Map. In addition to notes.

Setting, ages, gender, dress, at least 25 people. One side of notebook paper for this.

The other pages should be what is going on and cultural interactions.

Site

Ethical Considerations