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First of all, have a look at the Texas A & M WebSite
Anthropology
in the News found at <http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html.
Scroll through the site, noting, in general, the kind of
items that are being reported in the area of Prehistoric
Cultures.
- "Kinds of items" includes things like people in the news,
new fossils found, new prehistoric archaeological sites discovered,
current controversies discussed, what's new with non-human
primates (especially the great apes: chimps, gorillas, orangutans)
reviewed, new methods explained, old things reinterpreted,
unusual and / or special events noted, and things like that.
- If one or more of the subjects sounds interesting to you
click on it and have a look. After you have had a look at the
entire Texas A & M WebSite, Anthropology
in the News, write a paragraph or two about what trends
you found. This will be the "Introduction"
to your first Case Study.
- Next, pick one of those trends or discoveries that
you mentioned in your introduction and explore it in greater depth.
If you are looking at Anthropology
in the News those items listed with several entries grouped
together are usually the easiest ones to do.
- Try getting more information by looking at other sites on
the web:
- Try surfing the web by searching with the search engines
found by clicking on the Web "Search" button found on the
upper righthand corner all of the course WebPages. This will
take you to the course Search
Engines Page.
- Hint: When you do a search on an item that has more than
one word, like "stone tools," click on the "phrase" button
of the search engine -- otherwise it will search out everything
with "stone" and everything with "tools," and the list of
"hits" could get quite large.
- These keywords might be useful to your project:
anthropology, archaeology, prehistory, human origins,
paleoanthropology, primates, nonhuman primates, apes, hominids,
lithics, stone
tools, and ice age
- Also try getting more information from JSTORE,
elelctronically stored journals, and look for other items from
the UMD
Electronic Reference Collection.
- On day (05)
you will be required to find and translate at least one foreign
language source AltaVista
Translation Service (which is found at the top of each class
WebPage). You might want to start that part of the project now,
especially if your project deals with something found in another
country (for e.g., Neanderthal in Germany, Chauvet Cave in France,
"Ötzi" the "Iceman" now in Bolzano Italy).
If you are not familiar with foreign languages, use the
Language
Identifier WebPage to help you figure out a WebPage's
language. Language Identifier identifies more than a
dozen languages: 1. English, 2. French, 3. Spanish, 4. German,
5. Italian, 6. Dutch, 7. Afrikaans, 8. Norwegian, 9. Danish,
10. Swedish, 11. Portuguese, 12. Icelandic, and 13. Latin.
Or use Xerox's "Language
Identifier."
- For this Case Study -- and all
of the Case Studies -- you may also use traditional library materials,
and, where appropriate, interviews and videotapes. So have
a look at one or more of the daily papers to see what they're
reporting.
- On-line Resources which might be helpful include:
- Infotrac®
- JSTOR©
- LEXIS-NEXIS®
- Soc-Anth-Hum/Cl-Cultural
Studies Search Engines and Reference Works
- UMD
On-Line Library Resources
- General
Reference Works
- Books
and Manuscripts On-Line
- Use the PCforum
to discuss your paper with others in the class.
- Due beginning of Week
05.
(Unexcused late Case Study papers will result
in a loss of 2% of the final course grade.)
- Length: 5 - 6 well-written pages
- Suggestion: Don't put off the Web Assignments.
The web doesn't always work when you want it to.
- When you write anything you should consider audience,
purpose, and your personal style.
For your case studies, your audience should be your classmates
in this class. (Do not write your college papers
to the professor as audience.)
- Information about
Handing in Your Paper
- See the "Preparing
the Final Draft" section of the Sociology
- Anthropology - Criminology - Humanities / Classics Writing Guide
to see the details of what your Case Study report should look
like when you hand it in. Basically, it should look like this:
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For more help see Paradigm
On-line Writing Assistant and / or
The Soc-Anth
Department Writing Guide
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[more
information on your title]
What's New?
Current Trends and New Discoveries
in Cultural Anthropology
by George Bush, Jr.
Anthropology 1604
Case Study #1
Professor Roufs
22 November 2024
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