It is essential that you connect this book to the course concepts, readings and materials. This assignment has two components:
You should analyze the role of women and men in families in the culture you read about in your chosen ethnography. In this analysis you may include a discussion of topics such as: economic/labor role, parenthood, child-rearing, marriage/divorce practices, reproductive issues, sexuality, family/kinship structure, household composition, or other topics that may be relevant in the book you read. The set of issues you discuss may vary depending on the book/culture you selected. In your essay you should make connections between the Stone's Kinship and Gender book (and/or other course materials) and your selected ethnography. This first section should be the majority of your essay (about 1000 words).
You will do a bit of comparative analysis. Given what you have learned about families in the book you selected, choose one or two topics to compare with practices in US culture (or if you prefer, your personal experience of the topic/issue). So in this second part of the paper (approx. 2 pages or 500 words) you will be comparing US culture in general or your personal experience or perspective on US culture to the culture you read about. Try to focus on discussing some of the underlying cultural values that shape these practices in the US, not just a description of the differences/similarities between US and the other culture.
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