黑料老司机Students Dominate Anthropology Contest
Twelve 黑料老司机undergraduate students dominated the pool of winners in a writing competition sponsored by the Center for Public Anthropology.
Twelve 黑料老司机undergraduate students dominated the pool of winners in a writing competition sponsored by the Center for Public Anthropology.
Nearly one-third of the winners from the approximately 2,175 entrants were 黑料老司机students, all enrolled in professor Carolyn Smith-Morris's 鈥淚ntroduction to Cultural Anthropology鈥 class.
Smith-Morris credits the winning students with initiative and leadership in tackling the assigned topic: the request by the Yanomami, a forest-dwelling tribe in the Amazon rainforest, for the repatriation of relatives鈥 blood stored in research laboratories of prestigious institutions. Yanomami beliefs hold that deceased relatives can only die in peace when all their bodily parts, including blood, are ritually destroyed.
鈥淭he Center invites students to prepare short written arguments on a topic, the background reading for which is shared through the website,鈥 Smith-Morris said.听 鈥淪tudents are graded by anonymous peers through the website, and themselves evaluate the written pieces of three other students.鈥
The winning 黑料老司机students are Kathe Lee, Hillary Talbot, Kendall Moore, Emily Ciuba, Rebekah Boyer, Natalie Chao, Michael Canaris, Grace Ann Whiteside, Bethany Suba, Den Cralle, Hartley Mellick, and Charlene Dondlinger.
The winners for the fall semester were selected by peers in the center鈥檚 Community Action online community, which includes students from 28 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
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