Assignment

ANTHROPOLOGY OF MOBILITY

Capstone Assignment: 3.1 Submit Proposal, 10% Choose a human group (could be a nation, a sub-culture, a racial group, a gender, a class, another animal or insect, a commodity, a social movement, an object, a song, an art piece, a symbol or an idea. Research its (in)mobility across the globe and across time.

How does your mobile subject of study circulate or fail to circulate across time and space?

What do you learn about humanity and our contemporary world from examining the movement of your chosen object of study?

Write an essay that describes your research findings.

Word count: 500 words (including bibliography and notes)

Sources: Find a minimum of a preliminary four external sources... not included in our syllabus. Ideally, all four sources will be from peer-reviewed academic journals. However, in some cases, one or two research-based journalist pieces will also be acceptable. If you have doubts about whether a source you have found will count as valid for this assignment, send Vivian a quick email to check [13 Feb 23]

Background reading

  1. ProQuest provides access to a number of databases that cover most subject areas. Search all of them at once or one of the subject clusters. Includes major databases such as PsycInfo, Sociological Abstracts, Philosoher’s Index, and many more. https://proxy.library.carleton.ca/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fsearch%2F2317386%3Faccountid%3D9894
  2. Carleton subscribes to the 2011 Sage Encyclopedia Collection which provides perpetual access to 27 encyclopedias in the social sciences published between 2005-2011, as well as some other encyclopedias which have been ordered individually. Browse by Content Type: "Encyclopedias" and/or "Handbooks". SAGE Knowledge - Search Results (carleton.ca)
  3. Contains reference materials published by Oxford University Press. Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. Search Results for mobility, anthropology - Oxford Reference (carleton.ca)
  4. Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is a tool for the social sciences and humanities. It is composed of discipline-based subject modules that provide annotated bibliographies on specific topics. Mobility - Anthropology - Oxford Bibliographies

Sources

Sources

Find a minimum of a preliminary four external sources... not included in our syllabus. Ideally, all four sources will be from peer-reviewed academic journals. However, in some cases, one or two research-based journalist pieces will also be acceptable. If you have doubts about whether a source you have found will count as valid for this assignment, send Vivian a quick email to check [13 Feb 23]

World cultures

  1. eHRAF World Cultures | MacOdrum Library (carleton.ca)
  2. Basic Search eHRAF World Cultures Tutorial - YouTube [VIDEO]
  3. eHRAF User Guide - Getting Started with eHRAF (yale.edu)

Some reputable journalistic sources

  1. The Atlantic https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_CRL/hgdufh/alma991022609131305153
  2. The Economist https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_CRL/hgdufh/alma991022615508305153
  3. Harpers https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_CRL/hgdufh/alma991022615508305153
  4. The New Yorker https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_CRL/hgdufh/alma991022623331605153

Some academic journals

  1. Mobilities https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_CRL/hgdufh/alma991022693729505153
  2. International Migration Review https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_CRL/hgdufh/alma991022614788205153
  3. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_CRL/hgdufh/alma991022632234405153
  4. Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_CRL/hgdufh/alma991022645452505153

Any anthropology peer-review journal (examples)

  1. Cultural Anthropology https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_CRL/hgdufh/alma991022607510605153
  2. American Ethnologist https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_CRL/hgdufh/alma991022631913605153
  3. Ethnos https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_CRL/hgdufh/alma991022664532705153
  4. PoLAR https://ocul-crl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_CRL/hgdufh/alma991022697922505153
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