Create a argument statement that frames your essay discussing the social, economic and political conditions that have influenced their migration to the U.S. and their life in the U.S. The person MUST be over 18 years of age and have migrated to the United States within the last 10 years.

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Social Impacts on Health: Immigration Case Study

This assignment involves interviewing someone who has migrated or immigrated to the United States from another country within the past 10 years.

Create a argument statement that frames your essay discussing the social, economic and political conditions that have influenced their migration to the U.S. and their life in the U.S. The person MUST be over 18 years of age and have migrated to the United States within the last 10 years.

Establish a sense of trust and respect with your collaborator, therefore if you already know someone it may be easier.

Utilize your social networks to find this person, such as church, school, work, family, or other communities with which you interact. Virtual or phone interviews are fine, the most important thing to have a live conversation with someone.

 

 

Besides the changing science of the body, what other factors were important in changing the way Americans breastfeed or bottle-feed their babies?

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Changing science

Besides the changing science of the body, what other factors were important in changing the way Americans breastfeed or bottle-feed their babies?

Before Arthur Kleinman’s research, medical anthropologists tended to assume that everyone in a small-scale society made similar decisions about treating health problems. Why did a perspective that emphasizes individual “explanatory models” transform the field of medical anthropology?

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Medical anthropology

Before Arthur Kleinman’s research, medical anthropologists tended to assume that everyone in a small-scale society made similar decisions about treating health problems. Why did a perspective that emphasizes individual “explanatory models” transform the field of medical anthropology?

What is the function of religion, why does it become more complex as societies do? What about symbolism? Why did Hitler want to collect art? Why did the Taliban destroy art? What are the Holy Wars all about?

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Religion, Art and Culture

What is the function of religion, why does it become more complex as societies do? Think about Egyptian pharoahs, part gods…

What about symbolism? The cross, the swastica, monumental architecture.

Why did Hitler want to collect art?

Why did the Taliban destroy art? What are the Holy Wars all about?

Feel free to think freely about the role of such things in our culture or other cultures and to include any links you think are relevant.

https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-five-major-world-religions-john-bellaimey

http://www.moyak.com/papers/michel-foucault-power.html

What is the history behind these emotions? How are they perpetuated by such things as racial categories on government forms, social stratification. How do you feel about such things as quotas for minority employment or college entrance?

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Conflict and Power

Find and embed a URL link that relates to power and violence, class conflict, racial issues, etc.

Then summarize your article/link in 2-3 sentences. Think critically about these in terms of the reading in the text and your own ideas. What is the history behind these emotions? How are they perpetuated by such things as racial categories on government forms, social stratification. How do you feel about such things as quotas for minority employment or college entrance?

Choose four concepts from the list above. For each concept give a definition or outline of the concept USING YOUR OWN WORDS. Give two examples of the concept in use; One example drawn from literature in the course or from your own reading and one from your own experience.

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Task 2. Short Writing Task

Short Writing Task – 30% 1000 words (+/- 10%)

(This is the correct word limit, the unit guide says 1500 words which is incorrect)

Description: This task requires you to outline FOUR key concepts from the course

You MUST choose from the following list of concepts:

  • Illness
  • Limit situations
  • Medicalization
  • Biomedicine
  • Socialization
  • Cartesian dualism
  • Symbolism
  • Ritual
  • Phenomenology
  • Therapeutic Emplotment
  • Illness Narrative

Details:

Choose four concepts from the list above. For each concept give a definition or outline of the concept USING YOUR OWN WORDS. Give two examples of the concept in use; One example drawn from literature in the course or from your own reading and one from your own experience.

For example you might describe the medicalization of pregnancy in a specific context or give an example of chronic illness as a limit situation — keep it brief, this doesnt need to be an argument, only a demonstration that you understand the concept.

Devote roughly 250 words per concept.

When describing your own experience, you should of course use the first person perspective — if you’re not sure how to do this, or if using first person voice is new to you in an academic context, absorb and imitate the writing styles of those found in the course — Havi Carel’s ‘Illness: the Cry of the flesh’ is a good place to start. Try to imitate the ethnographic description of readings we have looked at so far and which we explored in the first lecture — when outlining your own experience, you are essentially doing ethnographic description of your own life.

You should use atleast ONE reference per concept (four references for the task in total).

When we hear people talk about the traditional American family as if it has always been structured in the same way since the Revolutionary War, we know they are simplifying the situation in unrealistic ways. What cultural factors are behind these unrealistic simplifications?

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Culture

When we hear people talk about the traditional American family as if it has always been structured in the same way since the Revolutionary War, we know they are simplifying the situation in unrealistic ways. What cultural factors are behind these unrealistic simplifications?

Who would possibly be the “parents” and what kind of possible relationships would exist between those parents and a child in a birth in which an infertile couple used a sperm bank and the egg from the wife’s sister, a surrogate mother? What would change if the legal parents were killed in an auto accident and the child was adopted by the mother’s sister?

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Choose one of the following to respond to:

Same-sex marriage is legal in a number of states, but various kinds of restrictions on same-sex marriage and its recognition exist in the other states. What anthropological questions can you identify about the meaning that such unions have for Americans in different parts of the country that help to explain the legislative patterns in each state? What can we say about these cultural expectations when all of these changes happened within less than a decade?

OR

Who would possibly be the “parents” and what kind of possible relationships would exist between those parents and a child in a birth in which an infertile couple used a sperm bank and the egg from the wife’s sister, a surrogate mother? What would change if the legal parents were killed in an auto accident and the child was adopted by the mother’s sister?

How did Africans become “black” and Europeans become “white”? If you were an antiracism educator in an elementary school in the United States, what role do you think anthropological insights about prejudice and discrimination should play in your work ? How did the US census play a role in the rise of Latino/a ethnic identity?

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Latino/a ethnic

1. How did Africans become “black” and Europeans become “white”?

2. If you were an antiracism educator in an elementary school in the United States, what role do you think anthropological insights about prejudice and discrimination should play in your work?

3. How did the US census play a role in the rise of Latino/a ethnic identity?

4. From an intersectional perspective, how would the development of BiDil be interpreted?

Provide a short description of the Applied Anthropological specialty you chose.Explain the expertise and value of that speciality for exploring and resolving the issue, problem, or conflict within a cultural group. Explain the fieldwork techniques and methods your Applied Anthropological specialty would use to understand human conditions and behavior to resolve the issue.

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Anthropology

Objective:
You will become familiar with anthropology’s holistic perspective in problem solving, and how an anthropologist can advocate for social change and contribute to the resolution of human issues through recommendations for change and the creation of policy.

Points possible: 25

Steps:
Watch Video

Applied Anthropology
Choose a speciality within Applied Anthropology. Such as:

Urban Anthropologist Medical Anthropologist Linguistic Anthropologist
Business Anthropology Nutritional Anthropologist Historical Preservationist
Economic Anthropologist Forensic Anthropologist Archaeologist
Political Anthropologist Psychological Anthropologist Other

Explain how you will resolve a real-world problem. Such as:
-working to develop more green space within an urban environment for families with children.
-marketing a product to appeal to the millennials.
-advocating for fair trade and fair wages among South American coffee growers.
-promoting public health and health screening for Hispanic farm workers due to pesticide exposure.
-educating overweight children with diabetes from single, low income parents who prefer fast food.

Share the fieldwork methods you would use. Such as:
behavioral interviews
surveys and questionnaires
participant observations
ethnography
recording language

Focus Questions:
Conduct research as an Applied Anthropologist (i.e. Medical, Psychological, Linguistic Anthropologist, etc.) to learn about a specific issue or problem related to humans, such as diabetes, childhood obesity, etc. that you would like to address and resolve.

1. Provide a short description of the Applied Anthropological specialty you chose (example: Medical Anthropologist)
2. Explain the expertise and value of that speciality for exploring and resolving the issue, problem, or conflict within a cultural group (example: childhood obesity and diabetes in Hispanic children).
3. Explain the fieldwork techniques and methods your Applied Anthropological specialty would use to understand human conditions and behavior to resolve the issue (example: Medical Anthropologist can use interviews and behavioral observations to explore diabetes in children).
4. Create a policy for action for education and awareness to make change within the culture.
5. Tie these questions together for a logical analysis.

Submission:
Write an Essay (25 sentences plus reference) – Note the speciality and problem (i.e. Medical Anthropologist, Childhood Obesity) at the top of the page.