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Class Exercise #1
Description: Regardless of whether or not you are an Anthropology
major, you likely know something
about the discipline from school, mass media, and, probably most of
all, popular culture. There are a lot
of different kinds of anthropologists who study a wide range of
subjects broadly related to the human
experience in the past and present. This includes archaeologists
and biological anthropologists, which we
will be learning about this semester. To gauge what we know about
these two sub-disciplines of
Anthropology, the semester’s first exercise is to either draw or
simply find an image of what you picture
when thinking about an archaeologist or biological anthropologist
and write an explanation for how you
determined that your depiction was a fitting representation. Your
completed exercise will include two
elements: 1) an image and 2) a written explanation of how you
decided upon this particular
representation.
Here are some pointers for how to complete the exercise:
1. You are not being graded for your artistic skills: some of the
most interesting explanations often
accompany the most rudimentary drawings, while some budding artists
produce stunning compositions
that fail to adequately explain how they chose to represent their
archaeologist/biological anthropologist
in a particular way. I have provided a basic human figure to
expedite the drawing process. Good exercises
will clearly explain in their written statement how they decided
that this is the appropriate way to
represent an anthropologist.
2. There is no "right" answer: this exercise is intended to
illuminate our popular misconceptions and sound
understandings alike. We want to develop a sense of how society
teaches us things about archaeology
and/or biological anthropology that involve both credible knowledge
and utter misrepresentation. Simply
say why you chose particular stylistic elements--e.g., certain
clothes, accompanying devices, settings,
subjects (of research), hair styles, and anything else you wanted
to represent--and explain where you
learned that this was necessary to illustrate the "typical"
archaeologist or biological anthropologist.
3. Your written explanation beneath the illustration on the next
page should address why you determined
that these particular aesthetic elements in your drawing were
appropriate. This will require you to
articulate where your preconceptions came from, which might include
high school biology textbooks,
popular movies, television shows, your daily reading of scientific
journals, social media, or whatever.
Simply try to summarize what you already know about archaeology or
biological anthropology: it does not
matter if it is "wrong," and in almost every case it will contain a
fair amount of reliable insight. Try to say
what you already know about anthropology and the basic sources for
this knowledge.
Written explanation:

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Class Exercise #1 Description: Regardless of whether or not you are an Anthropology major, you likely know something about the discipline from school, mass media, and, probably most of all, popular culture. There are a lot of different kinds of anthropologists who study a wide range of subjects broadly related to the human experience in the past and present. This includes archaeologists and biological anthropologists, which we will be learning about this semester. To gauge what we know about these two sub-disciplines of Anthropology, the semester's first exercise is to either draw or simply find an image of what you picture when thinking about an archaeologist or biological anthropologist and write an explanation for how you determined that your depiction was a fitting representation. Your completed exercise will include two elements: 1) an image and 2) a written explanation of how you decided upon this particular representation. Here are some pointers for how to complete the exercise: 1. You are not being graded for your artistic skills: some of the most interesting explanations often accompany the most rudimentary drawings, while some budding artists produce stunning compositions that fail to adequately explain how they chose to represent their archaeologist/biological anthropologist in a particular way. I have provided a basic human figure to expedite the drawing process. Good exercises will clearly explain in their written statement how they decided that this is the appropriate way to represent an anthropologist. 2. There is no "right" answer: this exercise is intended to illuminate our popular misconceptions and sound understandings alike. We want to develop a sense of how society teaches us things about archaeology and/or biological anthropology that involve both credible knowledge and utter misrepresentation. Simply say why you chose particular stylistic elements--e.g., certain clothes, accompanying devices, settings, subjects (of research), hair styles, and anything else you wanted to represent--and explain where you learned that this was necessary to illustrate the "typical" archaeologist or biological anthropologist. 3. Your written explanation beneath the illustration on the next page should address why you determined that these particular aesthetic elements in your drawing were appropriate. This will require you to articulate where your preconceptions came from, which might include high school biology textbooks, popular movies, television shows, your daily reading of scientific journals, social media, or whatever. Simply try to summarize what you already know about archaeology or biological anthropology: it does not matter if it is "wrong," and in almost every case it will contain a fair amount of reliable insight. Try to say what you already know about anthropology and the basic sources for this knowledge.

Written explanation: