Ethnography Reflection

Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?

Young Kayden woke up to the screams of the small town of Dwar. It was barely only seven o’clock in the morning, and it was already time. As the town boarded up their homes, Young Kayden didn’t know what was going on, for he had no knowledge of what was happening. Since he was the Head Official’s

Imagine a trip to one of the most beautiful mountain sceneries in the world. Now imagine that this scenic trip also includes sporting entertainment and historic landmarks. Welcome to the mountains of the Pyrenees. There is absolutely nothing to lose and possibly everything to gain by booking a summer vacation to this realm of marvelous and beautiful land. The Pyrenees is an exquisite range of mountains located in southwestern Europe. This intensely beautiful mountain range is the barrier dividing Spain and France. It is approximately 21,380 square miles and contains parts of twelve French and Spanish provinces. Discover the beautiful significance of the Pyrenees National Park. Witness the historical thrilling events of the Tour de France as it passes through the Pyrenees route.

Anthropology is defined, in the most basic terms, as the study of other cultures. This field can subsequently be divided into more specific sects, and contain more precise defining characteristics, but this definition is essentially all that is needed. Anthropology is a science that attempts to look at other cultures and draw conclusions to questions that are raised while studying. An anthropologist is someone who accepts what is presented before them and is driven by an urge to understand each presentation as thoroughly as possible. Once the concept of anthropology is accepted, one must identify the means of reaching the goal of this field. In the sect of social anthropology, this vehicle is known as

I live in a country where I can meet people from all cultures and walks of life on a daily basis, yet still I have felt like a stranger in this “melting pot”. In the United States, the idea of diversity is a term I have heard many times when speaking of ways to heal the past of slavery and segregation, but I think that in the current political climate, diversity is seen as an enemy to the American way of life. I am an outsider in the country I call home, and my cultural background has impacted the way I see the world.

On the playground, I met who will soon to be my first best friend, shortly after I had my first kiss. Kissing a girl, I felt so scared of what it meant that I knew I had to make myself the way I believed was right. I thought the best way was denying and eliminating all feelings that I had of the opposite sex because I never saw two of the same sex could be together. Little did I know my mom is gay but, she was too afraid to talk about it at the time so, it led me to struggle with my sexuality growing up. I developed strong feelings for my best friend and I believed that I just loved her because she was my best friend. I quickly learned that I loved her in a stronger way and still not knowing how to deal with my feelings, I started to hate my

Our memories often time embellish the memories we once had of such great people, places, times, and etc. We live these times up to standard that makes us reminisce, hurt, contemplate and so much more. The power of a photograph has been described to have worth a thousand words, metaphorically meaning of course, that what an image can capture in one instance, something that may not ever be captured through words. For too many centuries we have been without, what many of us now take for granted, the photograph. What we capture in a picture, has much more value than we often time see in our commercials, people, places, they tell a story to the ignorant, paint a picture for blind, give the deaf something to listen to, and so much more.

Me: As I performed the posture test on myself I already knew that I would have proper posture. Due to the fact that when I was younger, I looked in the mirror and noticed that I had a slouchy posture. I had (Lordosis) and an anterior pelvic tilt, which made me look awful from a side point of view. I wanted to fix my posture and learned that I had weak abdominal muscles and tight hamstrings along with weak gluteus maximus muscles. As I learned how to fix my problem, I began doing exercises for those muscles for flexibility and strength gains. For my exercises in detail I began standing for a long period of time and would flex my gluteus maximus muscles and keep them tight for a period of time to strengthen them which would be for a few minutes. This fixed the slight curve in my lower back. The next step I performed was the same as with my gluteus maximus muscles but for my abs which helped keep a good posture naturally without thinking about my posture deviations and how to fix them. I could now begin to stand naturally with a good posture. The last step I did was stand against a wall with my back and neck flat against the wall and I would press my tongue against the top of my mouth to

Once the song was fully memorized I practiced it with the recording accompaniment. I learned when to come in from the piano intro and how long to wait after the different phrases and sections. There were no dynamics for the voice part, so I added them in where I saw fit based on the phrases and lyrics, and was highly influenced by a recording sung by Cecilia Bartoli at the Berliner Philharmoniker with Daniel Barenboim.

The caretaker first noticed that something was when her mother was cooking but continue to leave out ingredients in the food. The mother also would start rumors about the people in the neighborhood and family members. On one incident is when the mother lost her purse and blamed in on her grandson saying he stole her purse. She had everybody thinking he stole her purse and also tried to stab him with a knife when along the purse was at the church. In another incident the caretaker stated “mother say her daughter child’s father was sleeping with her cousin”.

Look in the past of many photographs that I was lived in a area of big country had most

Ryan (pseudonym) is a 20-year-old male. Ryan was raised in Janesville, Wisconsin. The client described that his family struggles financially. He comes from a single parent home and is an only child. He has currently relocated to Whitewater, Wisconsin and lives with four roommates. He is presently in his third year at UW-Whitewater. Ryan works around 35 hours a week in retail in addition to going to school full-time. Ryan hopes to own a “New and Used” shoe store after graduation.

In the film “The Human Family Tree,” the Genographic Project traces the human journey throughout the world, from our origins from Africa. The Genographic Project is a genetic anthropology study. The project’s goal is to map historical human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples from people from around the world. In this specific film, with the help of science we can see how people from New York each have their own unique genetic history. To begin with, deep ancestry can be traced, based off of either your mitochondria or y-chromosome. Because women do not have a y-chromosome, it only shows the maternal line of descent when studying their mitochondrial DNA, while for men it shows both maternal and paternal. In the film we

I am from a Filipino family, but was raised in Guam, a very culturally and ethnically diverse island in the Western Pacific Ocean. Guam’s culture embraces the pluralist view of Michael Walzer 2004 that it is a place of diverse “ethnic, racial, and religious groups” (p. 635). Historically and culturally Guam has been exposed to many peoples from diverse backgrounds. But white people are usually referred to as “haole,” a Hawaiian term for a caucasian or non-native. There is definitely a culture that portrays “haole’s” as disrespectful, entitled, and ignorant. Despite this, many visitors of the island commend its hospitable and welcoming culture. The only reaction I can expect is that my brothers will be good hosts to my guest. And being in a

There are many different aspects of social life. One topic that would interest me most is the question to what societal situations lead to people to abuse drugs and alcohol. There are several research methods to take on about this topic but the one that would be more effective would be through an ethnography. An ethnography, a qualitative research method, is a descriptive analysis of a group or organization. Before choosing a research method, one must look deep into the background or conduct a literature review of the method or theory.