General Information for Anthropology Students

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Learning takes many forms.  In this class, you are encouraged to actively participate.  This means sharing your thoughts and ideas, as well as listening to others.  In some cases, we may agree to disagree, but in this regard we must still remember to respect other's opinions.  Every class member should feel free to speak.

Refrain from engaging in disruptive activities.  Chatting with your friends during class is not the purpose of your attending the VIU; leave that kind of conversation for between-classes.  Turn cell-phones OFF while in class.

You are responsible for being in class on time.  Looking for a parking space is not an adequate reason for being late.  If you need to leave early, as a courtesy, please inform me.  Early departures, as well as late arrivals, are disruptions to the class.  You have a timetable, plan your activities accordingly.  Be respectful of your classmates.

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This falls within the category of Academic Misconduct, which includes cheating.  Most students recognise what constitutes cheating, but often are less aware of what constitutes plagiarism.  Basically, this is appropriating another's work or ideas as one's own.   In academia, one regularly borrows ideas, even passages from a text (within reason).  This is perfectly acceptable as long as you properly attribute the source.   Paraphrasing still requires proper citation.  If you are still unclear as to "What is plagiarism?", see the online article by S.E. Van Bramer of Widener University.  Franklin University Library also has a quick reference page regarding plagiarism that highlights points from Marcia Holbrook's "Issues of Plagiarism and Academic Authorship."  

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Each discipline has its own reference style guide.  Some of you may be familiar with the MLA Style Guide or the Chicago Manual of Style.  In anthropology, references are cited within the text (author and date, and page number where appropriate) following the style guides of either the American Anthropological Association (AAA)  or the Society for American Archaeology (SAA).  Both are online; the AAA Style Guide includes how to properly use capitalization, numbers, italics, quotations, as well as references.  The complete SAA Style Guide (& Editorial Policy) can be accessed as a pdf.file.  If you are only interested in examples of in-text referencing or references cited, they are available directly from the SAA website.  Internet sources also need to be properly referenced; examples are provided in both AAA- and SAA-style guides.

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As noted by Serena Nanda, "anthropology is, first and foremost, about people" (1999: 158).  Anthropologists have an effect on others--those who they live with and those who are collaborators.  There are three main ethical principles that must guide fieldwork: acquiring informed consent, protecting informants from risk, and respecting privacy and dignity.

Students and faculty need to follow the VIU's institutional policy regarding "Research involving Human Subjects."  Information on how to proceed is under the "Information for Applicants," included are links to: application for ethical review checklist (student and faculty projects), and consent and debriefing forms with examples.

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has a source page on ethics; included are different associations with online ethics codes.  Those of you pursuing anthropology careers need to review AAA's Code of Ethics.

If you are interested in a very thorough listing of sources, check Sharon Stoerger's "Ethics in Anthropology" website.  It includes the usual professional associations, but of particular interest is her listing of case studies and ethical issues and controversies (e.g., Mead-Freeman, Yanomami, Monte Verde, Kennewick Man, etc.).

Nanda, Serena
1999    Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of India.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

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http://www.yourdictionary.com/

This links you to a whole range of dictionaries (language, specialty, multi-lingual) and language tool sites.

http://www.onelook.com/

This site has 970 dictionaries indexed and has a search engine for that quick lookup.  It is good for terms used in specific disciplines.

http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

Do you just need a regular English language dictionary?  Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th Ed.) is online.  It also has a thesaurus.

http://www.bartleby.com/61/

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language (4th Ed.) has over 90,000 entries.  It even has audio word pronunciation online.  There is no reason to misspell a word or to not know its meaning!

http://www.bibliomania.com/

bibliomania is an online resource of texts, including classic literature, references (dictionaries, quotations, thesaurus, etc.), classic non-fiction, biographies, and religious texts.

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