ANTH3001P-1 Indigenous Peoples in Mod

Review the assigned chapters in the Omohundro course text.

Review the indigenous group that you selected in Week 2.

• Choose two elements of culture from your selected indigenous group. (Note: Elements of culture might include rituals, religious beliefs and practices, marriage customs, gender roles, celebrations, birthdays, holidays, economic, government or social systems.
• REQUIRED READING:
• Welsch, R.L. & Vivanco, L.A. (2021). Cultural anthropology: Asking questions about humanity (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.

Chapter 2, “Culture: Giving Meaning to Human Lives” (pp. 33-45)

• This is already discussed in Chapter 1 of the text.

Peters-Golden, H. P. (2012). Culture sketches: Case studies in anthropology (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

• Chapter 3, “The Basseri: Pastoral Nomads on the il-Rah” (pp. 40-59)

Chapter 8, “The Minangkabau: Matriliny and Merantau” (pp. 142-157)

Chapter 10, “The Ojibwa: ‘The People’ Endure” (pp. 177-193)

• The chapters from this text provide case study analyses of individual groups around the globe.
• Reyes-García, V., Guêze, M., Díaz-Reviriego, I., Duda, R., Fernández-Hamzares, A., Gallois, S., Napitupulu, L., Orta-Martínez, M., & Pyhälä, A. (2016). Reading Focus: Pages 761-763. In “The Adaptive Nature of Culture,” Dr. Reyes-García shares fieldwork findings relative to three key hunter-gatherer societies: The Tsimane of the Amazon region; the Baka of the Congo Basin; and the Punan of Borneo.
• ASSIGNMENT

Submit a paper in which you do the following:

Reflect on the indigenous group that you identified in Week 2.(The indigenous group I have chosen for this work is the Mayas, who are mainly located in the southern parts of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador)

• Describe the two elements of culture that you researched about the group.
• Identify any key symbols, stories, myths, and origins (history) about the indigenous group.