You will read an ethnography (a research book (Hurston, Zora Neale. 2008 [1938]. Tell My Horse: Voodoo
and
Life in Haiti and Jamaica. New York, Harper Perennial.) written by an anthropologist about his/her/their
research) and write a series of short written on it by 7/3/20. The assignment is worth a total of 30% of your
course grade. Part 1 (not including heading and references) should be a minimum of 625 words in
length.There
are two parts to this assignment:
Label Part 2
You should have the book completed at this point. Write a paragraph(s) answering each of the following
sets of
questions. Each paragraph should have a thesis statement and evidence of details/data from the
ethnography
to support your answer. Part 2 (not including heading and references) should be a minimum of 1,000
words in
length. Please number and include the headings below.
1.Heading: Name, Class, Date, Ethnography Title, Author.
2.Economic/Political/Social/Religious Organizations 6pts: Describe the cultural system/structure of the
culture
studied. Relate this to what you learned in the textbook. For example, if the culture is a band society, state
this
and describe its way of making a living, the leadership and politics, the religion and the social groups of
how
people are organized.
3.Conclusions 2pts: What was the author’s conclusion of their ethnographic study? Did it answer their
hypothesis? Explain in detail what the results were and the process of how the conclusions were made.
What
recommendations did they have for future research?
4.Opinion 2pts: What is your opinion of the ethnography? What did you like/dislike about the ethnography?
What surprised you and what did you learn most about? What questions do you still have that are left
unanswered? If you were the anthropologist what would you do differently?
Sample Solution