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Purpose: In cultural anthropology, one of the primary goals is to learn about other cultures through interactions with members of different cultural groups. In an 8-week online class, it is often a challenge to arrange first-hand anthropological field experience with other cultures. Luckily, most of my students are deployed in other countries, live in large metropolitan areas with diverse groups of people from other cultures, or at least have access to individuals from cultural groups that are different from their own. Often people in other cultures are eager to meet American students, particularly anthropology students. Many of these individuals look for opportunities to practice speaking English with a native speaker.

Instructions: In this paper, anthropology will become more than a body of knowledge to be studied; anthropology will become an active process of discovery. For your paper, you will conduct anthropological fieldwork, face-to-face, by interviewing someone of a different culture. Choose an individual who comes from a cultural group/area that is different from your own, consider seeking out a co-worker, neighbor, etc. You will interview your informant asking the following questions:

1) What are the groups or institutions that are important in your life (family, school, church, clubs, etc.)?
2) What are the rules of behavior in each of these groups?
3) How did you learn these rules?
4) Rank the groups in the order of importance to you.

After conducting the interview with your informant, you will compare and contrast their answers with your answers, and reflect on the comparison. In a 4-6 page paper:

1) Describe the process of gathering information on another culture. Were there any problems involved? Was there a language barrier? Was there an apprehension on the part of your informant to being interviewed? Were you apprehensive at having to conduct the interview?

2) Provide a summary of your informant's responses to the above four questions

3) Provide a summary of your responses to the above four questions

4) What general conclusions did you reach about the differences between your informant's cultural group and your own, based on the answers to the interview questions?

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APUS RCampus - Assignment 1: Cultural reflection: RCampus 11/17/18, 10(13 AM Assignment 1: Cultural reflection Grade: close iRubric Possible Points: 100.00 Calculated Score: Adjusted Score: Percentage: - ! Descriptions ! Comments Assignment 1 100 % Exemplary 4 pts Interview Description 20 % Summary of Informant Responses 15 % Summary of Author's Responses 15 % Reflection 30 % Exemplary Rich, detailed description of interview experienceproblems, barriers, reaction. Grammar & Spelling 10 % Accomplished Description of interview includes most detailsexperience, problems, barriers, reaction. Exemplary Accomplished Rich, detailed summary of informant responses. Summary of informant responses provides the required information. Developing 3 pts Developing Description of interview lacked clarity in some areas and needed elaboration. May not identify problems, barriers, reaction. Developing Summary of informant responses needs more development to fully answer each question. Exemplary Accomplished Developing Rich, detailed summary of author's responses. Summary of author's responses provides the required information. Summary of author's responses needs more development to fully answer each question. Exemplary Accomplished Developing Detailed reflection on interview experience. Writing expectations/APA formatting 10 % Accomplished 3.4 pts Exemplary Follows writing expectations. Includes a title page. Included APA formatted in-text citations and full references for all paraphrased and quoted work from other sources. Exemplary Author makes no errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content. Reflection on interview experience with some elaboration needed. Accomplished Some writing expectations may have been missed. Minor errors in APA formatting of citations. Accomplished Author makes a couple errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content. Reflection on interview experience very general, lacks detail. Developing Writing expectations somewhat followed. Multiple errors in APA formatting of citations. Developing Author makes a few errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content. Beginning 2.6 pts Beginning Description of interview not clear, needs much elaboration. Little description of problems, barriers, reaction. Did Not Attempt 0 pts Did Not Attempt No description of interview experience included. Beginning Did Not Attempt Summary of informant responses needed significantly more development to fully answer each question. No summary of informant responses. Beginning Summary of author responses needed significantly more development to fully answer each question. Beginning Brief or unclear reflection on interview experience. Beginning Writing expectations not followed; little use of APA format. Beginning Author makes multiple errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content. Did Not Attempt No summary of author responses. Did Not Attempt No reflection included. Did Not Attempt Writing expectations not met; APA format not attempted. Did Not Attempt Author makes so many errors in grammar and spelling that the intent of the paper can not be understood. iRubric and RCampus are Trademarks of Reazon Systems, Inc. Copyright (C) Reazon Systems Inc. All Rights Reserved https://irubric.apus.edu/gradeeditc.cfm?xsite=MainSite Page 1 of 2 APUS RCampus - Assignment 1: Cultural reflection: RCampus https://irubric.apus.edu/gradeeditc.cfm?xsite=MainSite 11/17/18, 10(13 AM Page 2 of 2
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ANTHROPOLOGY

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Introduction
People of the same culture are considered to be of a heterogeneous population when collecting
data. This is because they exhibit a similar characteristic in terms of behavior and perceptions.
Data analysis will consider people in the community as homogenous items while differentiated
data collected on basis of gender or marriage status, employed or unemployed will be
heterogeneous data. In this case, students have to collect data from people who interact with
people from different cultures whereby the resulting data will be heterogeneous data. The people
exhibit different characteristics and the responses vary depending on the approach of the
interviewer.
1. Data collection and problems involved
While gathering the information, the consideration made was a heterogeneous population where
sampling was done. It is observed that people are reluctant to respond to interviewer unless they
have an explanation of what they want to conduct. Once the interviewee notes its an American
anthropologist they are eager to engage in the interview. However, this is not the case as some
perceive them as superior people who hardly interact well or are racist. Therefore some people
will impede to participate in the interview. There is a component of a language barrier when
different countries are involved (Olsen, 2012). People consider English as one of the common
languages understood by...


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