THINK PIECE DIRECTIONS For certain topics this semester you will be responsible for completing a Think Piece. The Think Piece is an open-ended analysis of the topic and how the concepts are a part of...

This is an Anthropology Assignment. It is a think piece does not need to be cited.


THINK PIECE DIRECTIONS For certain topics this semester you will be responsible for completing a Think Piece. The Think Piece is an open-ended analysis of the topic and how the concepts are a part of your actual life. Cultural anthropology is not abstract, but very real. We all live these topics every day. I want you to think about how you do that. I want you to be the cultural anthropologist and use the concepts to analyze your life. I will provide prompts for you to think on as you are doing your writing. These are not questions to be answered but rather notions to consider as you compose your Think Piece. Each think piece needs to be at least two full double-spaced page. They may be longer, but not shorter. They may incorporate aspects of previous topics if you find them relevant to the current week’s topic! The compositions should be written in Times New Roman or Garamond, 12pt, 1” margins. You do not need to put your name and ten lines to a title on the first page since you will be submitting though Blackboard. I know who you are and what the assignment is Think Pieces will be submitted through BlackBoard only! Please, no email submissions. Think Piece 4 The effects of our interpretation of gender comes up daily. In a crisis like the one afflicting us now, we tend to highlight gender—or what we think gender is. How many ‘men’ are afflicted? How many ‘women’? Remember, however, that gender is not something that we are, but rather something that we do. This is an excellent context in which to think about how disease knows no gender, but think rather about how gender affects our career choices—deeply—and then how that puts us in the path of this epidemic—or keeps us from it There are innumerable ways in which gender impacts our lives, from the jobs we choose and the ramifications of doing so, to the way we treat each other. Think about the ways being a man or being a woman (or neither, or both) has impacted who you are.