Cultural Anthropology research paper

Cultural Anthropology course
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Some suggested topics for your paper:
Note-- this is for students taking the course during a regular semester, not the 5-week Bridge module course

See the course syllabus for detailed instructions on the research for and writing of this paper.

1. A description of key points of a culture in which you are interested (a brief ethnography) [ sample paper ]
2. An in-depth look at the concept of "worldview" or the comparison of the worldviews of two societies
3. Religious beliefs or practices of a particular society
4. Marriage/family in a particular group or comparison between some societies
5. Types of economic organization/systems
6. Language acquisition or the influence of language on culture
7. The view of ancestors
8. The role of women in a given society
9. Doing fieldwork as an anthropologist
10. The importance of cultural anthropology to the missionary . . . or to the business executive . . .or to the educator . . . or to the . . .
11. Ethnocentrism and some tips on how to minimize it
12. The idea of cultural baggage and how to minimize it
13. Culture shock: What it is and how to best work through it

These topics are given to you as idea starters. You may use one of these or some adaptation of it or you may come up with a different topic that interests you more. Leafing through any introduction to cultural anthropology book may also stimulate your thinking in terms of a topic.

Ready for some cross-cultural humor?

Missionaries and other people working and living cross-culturally commit lots of little cultural errors that provide laughter for their hosts (and for themselves as well). [ read more ]

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