Final Project

Final Project

This week, you will submit your Ethnographic Narrative, assigned from Week 1-6, which details an exploration of your own indigenous heritage, culture, or community. The Final Project is due by Day 7 of this week. Please be sure that your project meets the specified criteria before submitting it.

Remember that your indigenous heritage, culture, or community has been referred to with the umbrella description indigenous identity. Also recall that although your indigenous identity may not fit the UN definitions of indigenous peoples, characteristics of your identity—traditions, economic issues, ancestral lands, country of origin, religion, or class—may parallel those of indigenous groups. By examining your own indigenous identity as an ethnographic study, you have the opportunity to see with an indigenous point of view, connect across cultures, and build a better understanding of the global environment.

Your Ethnographic Narrative should be 4–5 pages long and include:

· A descriptive reflection on sources of your own indigenous identity

· An evaluation of how two of the five role perspectives from Thinking Like an Anthropologist influenced, changed, or reinforced your conception of your indigenous identity

· A description of two or three questions about your indigenous identity that remain unanswered, and that you may pursue in the future

· Remember to use your Field Notes to support your points. Think of the Ethnographic Narrative as a synthesis of the data that you gathered in your Field Notes.

Recourses

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N06/512/07/PDF/N0651207.pdf?OpenElement

The Peoples of the World Foundation: The H'mong http://www.peoplesoftheworld.org/text?people=H'mong

 Ortner, S. (1973). On key symbols. American Anthropologist, 75(5), 1338–1346. Copyright 1973 by Blackwell Publishing—J ournals. Reproduced with permission of Blackwell Publishing - Journals in the format electronic usage via Copyright Clearance Center.

· Bruce M. Knauft http://anthropology.emory.edu/FACULTY/ANTBK/gebusiResearch/gebusi.html Bruce Knauft's faculty Web site contains more information about the Gebusi.

Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues/DSPD/DESA (2008). Resource kit on indigenous peoples' issues. New York: United Nations. Retrieved November 12, 2008, from http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/resource_kit_indigenous_2008.pdf