Articles for Extra Credit for Anthropology 102

Each of these articles can be used as extra credit. You must read the article and then write a reaction paper to it.It is to be submitted as an attachment to an e-mail sent to my student e-mail address. Use the proper format for submission. I suggest that you check this page often as I may not remember to tell the class of additional articles.


Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones	Seeing a Liberal Bias ... Conservapedia vs. Wikipedia?
All About America in 3 Days	Sengal Makes Progress Against Female Genital Excision
Win A Trip You Won't Forget

Linguistics
Disappearing Languages	Biding Their Tongues
How do we come up with words?	Tracking the Evolution of Language
A Final Say: They Hope Not	Iraq's Battlefield Slang
Belgium Fracturing On Linguistic Divide	American Justice in a Foreign Language


Native Americans
Ousted Clan Says Tribe Now Gains	Going Native in State Capitols
U.C. Berkeley's Bones of Contention

Social Anthropology/Kinship
The Veil: To Obviously Hidden	A Gift for India's Inter–Caste Couples


Culture Change
Traditional Travel Put Amish at Risk	Germany Moves to Regulate Kabob Industry
Macy's Weaves Charity, Profit in Basket Business	Tiny Island is a Feudal Time Warp
A Tale of Arsenic and Old Ways	A Wireless L.A., But with Strings Atached
A Passage Buoyed by Hope Alone	Genital Mutilation
Thong Politics	Italy's Rich Pay to Look Richer
Healthier Respect for Herbs	In Cairo, Sequins, Silk and Memories
Perusing Happiness Behind the Veil	The Challenge of Keeping China Kosher
Do You Take this Stranger

Miscellaneous
Why People Believe Strange Things About Money	A meerkat matriach passes on

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