Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Spring 2023 Prof. Salamandra
Reading Response Essay One
What does inequality look like in the case studies assigned in Part I of the syllabus?
This essay covers texts and films assigned in Part I of the syllabus (Graeber and Wengrow, Lee, Lepowsky, Bourgois, Lutz, Lyon-Callo, Vorng, NtAi: Story of a !Kung Woman, A Wife among Wives, The Arabs, Part 3: The City Victorious?, No Place to Grow). Be sure to refer to specific authors and ethnographic case studies from these book chapters, articles, and films, and provide page number references/citations (see Writing Guidelines on Blackboard). You may also refer to your chosen novel; you will need to do this in one of your three essays. This assignment is designed to demonstrate knowledge of the assigned materials; do not use any other sources.
Discuss four of the assigned written texts films can be included form the bulk of your analysis. Essays must be formatted in MSWord, double-spaced, paged-numbered and 4-6 pages long, excluding the bibliography.