Just got back from my Cultural Anthropology final....
And my god, if that could have been more straight foreward, he would have just given us the answers. Well, I guess it just was for me because, like I said, I love cultures. I get the class. Something about what is said and what goes on in Anthropology I just....get. I don't know why. I can see why it's confusing to some people. But it's not to me. Sorry. I think that makes the Professor hate me. But that's okay. I'm allowed to get it.
The questions I answered (roughly, I might not remember the exact wording)
Discuss why Cultural Anthropology would be a good undergraduate major
Because it helps us understand other cultures, duh.
Discuss the statement: "Only tribal people have food 'taboos'."
I must say I disagreed with this statement. And I told him exactly why too
Discuss the statement: "It is human nature to want to have more and more things"
I disagreed with this too. It's not human nature; it's capitalism
Discuss the statement: "Cultural Anthropology, over all, is a way of looking at the world"
I agreed with this one too. It helps you see other cultures for what they are, not just how they're different
On another note
Why do I continually freak out about Bs? Not Buzz Buzz insect bees; the letter grade B. As in right below A, right above C, in the 80's, above average, you don't suck, get over it, B. I got B's on all my Anthro papers. This isn't a bad grade. I should be happy with B's. But I'm not. I want to cry. I wanted A's. I needed A's. Anthropology is my major, I'm supposed to get A's. This is just the core of my major; this is as easy as it gets. And if I'm already getting B's on the papers....it can only go downhill because it just gets harder right?
But in the same breath, they're B's. From a professor that didn' like me much. And from who never clearly explained what he wanted on the papers. Okay, that's trying to explain away my "bad" grades and really, that's not what I'm doing. It's my fault for not asking. It's my fault for putting it all off till the last minute. It's my fault for doing my ethnography on a book that wasn't really about a real culture.
It's all my fault.
I must take on the fact that I'm going to fail at this. I will never become anything. This is my fault and I must take it on.
~Kait
The questions I answered (roughly, I might not remember the exact wording)
Discuss why Cultural Anthropology would be a good undergraduate major
Because it helps us understand other cultures, duh.
Discuss the statement: "Only tribal people have food 'taboos'."
I must say I disagreed with this statement. And I told him exactly why too
Discuss the statement: "It is human nature to want to have more and more things"
I disagreed with this too. It's not human nature; it's capitalism
Discuss the statement: "Cultural Anthropology, over all, is a way of looking at the world"
I agreed with this one too. It helps you see other cultures for what they are, not just how they're different
On another note
Why do I continually freak out about Bs? Not Buzz Buzz insect bees; the letter grade B. As in right below A, right above C, in the 80's, above average, you don't suck, get over it, B. I got B's on all my Anthro papers. This isn't a bad grade. I should be happy with B's. But I'm not. I want to cry. I wanted A's. I needed A's. Anthropology is my major, I'm supposed to get A's. This is just the core of my major; this is as easy as it gets. And if I'm already getting B's on the papers....it can only go downhill because it just gets harder right?
But in the same breath, they're B's. From a professor that didn' like me much. And from who never clearly explained what he wanted on the papers. Okay, that's trying to explain away my "bad" grades and really, that's not what I'm doing. It's my fault for not asking. It's my fault for putting it all off till the last minute. It's my fault for doing my ethnography on a book that wasn't really about a real culture.
It's all my fault.
I must take on the fact that I'm going to fail at this. I will never become anything. This is my fault and I must take it on.
~Kait