This document discusses the role of anthropology in addressing rising extremism and division in society. It provides a link to an article about how anthropology can offer critical analysis of social issues as a form of social critique. Readers are asked to write a 500 word essay on how anthropology's perspective could be applied to a current social issue facing the country.
This document discusses the role of anthropology in addressing rising extremism and division in society. It provides a link to an article about how anthropology can offer critical analysis of social issues as a form of social critique. Readers are asked to write a 500 word essay on how anthropology's perspective could be applied to a current social issue facing the country.
This document discusses the role of anthropology in addressing rising extremism and division in society. It provides a link to an article about how anthropology can offer critical analysis of social issues as a form of social critique. Readers are asked to write a 500 word essay on how anthropology's perspective could be applied to a current social issue facing the country.
There is a growing distribution of alternative facts and the rise of
extremist beliefs that divide society. Thus, anthropology plays a crucial role in lending the public its “lens” of critical analysis. This link will lead you to an article that discusses the role of anthropology in today’s world as a source of social critique: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/653127\ After reading this, write a 500 word essay on how you can us the “lens” of anthropology to address a social issue that our country is facing today.