For this assignment, you will conduct an interview with a person who was born and raised in a different culture (e.g. colleague from a different culture, neighbor who had a different cultural upbringing, international student, etc.) and write a 5-page paper analysis using the course material (textbooks and/or lectures). You may conduct the interview in person or you may collect your data by phone or Skype interview if necessary.
INTERVIEWEE The interviewee must have spent a majority of their developmental years under the guardianship and influence of parents who were also born and raised in the culture that they are representing during this interview. They must be able to respond to the questions in the first person, as a locally born, active participant in the culture, not as someone who was transplanted into the culture for work or ministry and experienced certain advantages as a foreigner living in the local culture.
Example: A local woman would potentially be impacted by a local practice that allows for the daughters to be given into marriage to a man from a different tribe in order to keep the peace or form alliances between the tribes. A foreigner living in this same culture for work or ministry would not typically be concerned with this local practice because they are a foreigner and would not live under the same cultural expectations as the locals. You may interview the local woman, but you may not interview the foreigner whose family was transplanted into this culture but was not subject to the same cultural expectations in all areas of life.
CONTENT The following elements should be included in the paper. Be sure to ask questions during the interview that help you discuss these concepts in the paper.
Describe the societal, marital, and familial relationships, communication practices, and any other significant and distinct cultural elements from your interviewee’s culture.
Explain the interviewee’s underlying rationale (this is the collection of values and beliefs that are the source of your interviewee’s practices).
Show how this rationale (value, beliefs, and practices) might lead to conflict when engaging people from other cultures and how one might resolve these conflicts.
Analysis using the course material (textbooks and/or lectures) and cultural anthropology vocabulary is required throughout the paper.
FORMATTING
The paper must be written as an academic paper and not as a transcript of the interview. If you take notes during the interview, please do not submit those notes as your final paper.
Turabian formatting is required.
Citations from the course material (textbook or lectures) are required throughout the paper.
A title page and bibliography are required in addition to the 5 pages of content.
An Appendix containing a list of the interview questions is required in addition to the 5 pages of content.
Ethnographic Interview Paper Rubric
Criteria
Levels
of Achievement
Content 70%
Advanced
90-100%
Proficient
70-89%
Developing
1-69%
Not Present
Interview Content Analysis
79 to 88
The paper describes societal, marital,
and familial relationships, communication patterns, and other significant
cultural distinctives of the interviewee. The paper explains the interviewee’s
underlying rationale and the analysis of that rationale includes a
description of potential conflicts with people from other cultures. Possible
solutions are presented for how to resolve these conflicts.
62 to 78
The paper describes societal, marital,
and familial relationships, communication patterns, and other significant
cultural distinctives of the interviewee. The analysis of the rationale lacks
the description of potential conflicts with people from other cultures and possible
solutions for how to resolve these conflicts.
1 to 61
The paper lacks descriptions of societal,
marital, and familial relationships, communication patterns, and other
significant cultural distinctives of the interviewee. The paper also fails to
explain the interviewee’s underlying rationale or illustrate potential
conflicts with people from other cultures and possible solutions for how to
resolve these conflicts.
0 points
Not present
Evaluation Using Course Material
22 to 24 points
The paper goes beyond summarizing the
interview to incorporating examples from the course material and is supported
by good examples, thoughtful analysis, and use of the vocabulary of cultural
anthropology.
17 to 21 points
The paper makes minimal use of the course
materials to support their analysis and includes good examples, thoughtful
analysis, and uses some of the vocabulary of cultural anthropology.
1 to 16 points
The paper summarizes
the interview and is supported by examples and analysis, but does not use the
course material in the analysis.
0 points
Not present
Structure 30%
Advanced 90-100%
Proficient 70-89%
Developing 1-69%
Not Present
Grammar, Spelling, and Page Count
22 to 24 points
Spelling and grammar are correct.
Sentences are complete, clear, and concise. Paragraphs contain appropriately
varied sentence structures. The paper is five full pages in length.
17 to 21 points
Minimal errors in grammar, spelling, and
structure of sentences and paragraphs. The paper is 4 to 5 pages in length.
1
to 16 points
Spelling and grammar errors distract.
Sentences are incomplete or unclear. Paragraphs are poorly formed. The paper
is less than four full pages in length.
0 points
Not present
Turabian Formatting
22 to 24 points
Citations and format are in current
Turabian formatting. Cover page and Bibliography are correctly formatted.
Paper is double-spaced with 1-inch margins and written using 12-point Times
New Roman font.
17 to 21 points
Citations and format are in current
Turabian formatting with few errors. Cover page and Bibliography are present
with few errors. Paper is double-spaced with 1-inch margins and written using
12-point Times New Roman font.
1
to 16 points
Citations and format are in current
Turabian style with many errors. Cover page and Bibliography are not
formatted correctly and formatting elements are missing.
0 points
Not present
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