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Shaila Willis
Debra Jizi
UWRT 1104-014
9 November 2016

Annotated Bibliography

Callan, Hilary. "Social and Cultural Anthropology." Discover Anthropology. Royal

Anthropological Institute, 2016. Web. 08 Nov. 2016.
Hilary Callan states that social and cultural anthropology overlap and are considerably the
same concept. Both study behavior, language, material creations, religion and ideas.
Social Anthropologist conduct participation observations, which is when said observer
stays with the community they are observing for a year or more, they live closely with the
community. Some things the anthropologist will do while living with the comminute is
learn their language, share activities of daily life, participate in social integrations and
identify patterns. Social anthropologist then share their research with the anthropology
comity and the world. They do not only study small communities but also metropolitan
cities are also studied.
This article gives a clear view on what Social/ Cultural Anthropologist do. I was curious
on what exactly goes on when Social Anthropologist do field work and now I know what
they do and how they share their information. I really admire how they live with the
community to learn their ways and be a part of their community. Also, most people think

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said that Anthropologist only study in rural areas, but they also study in Metropolitan
cities.
Hilary Callan is the writer of the Article and is the director of the Royal Anthropologist
Institute. She graduated from Oxford with a degree in Social Anthropology. She has been
running the Royal Anthropologist Institute of Britain and Ireland since 2000. She does
research and publications in Biological and Social Anthropology. I find this source very
credible because she is very well educated and the Institute she runs is very well known
and respected.

Killgrove, Kristina. "Why Is Anthropology Needed?" ~ Powered By Osteons. Osteons, 11 Nov.

2011. Web. 25 Oct. 2016.
Kristian Killgrove goes into detail on how why Anthropology is a relevant major and
what you learn from being an anthropology major. A focus of Anthropology is
understating yourself in relation to others. Anthropology requires critical thinking about
actions and how that can be effected by religion, biology, ethnicity, etc. She then stresses
on the skills Anthropology teaches you such as precise record keeping, analytical reading
and critical thinking skills, how to deal with social situations, etc. She then explains the
three main fields you can go into with Anthropology; medicine, business and economics,
teaching. Anthropology is a never ending cycle of learning and it needs to stay relevant in
the world today.

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This article not only explains how anthropology can befit you for other jobs but tells how
relevant anthropology is to learning about yourself and others. My inquiry question is
why do we need cultural anthropology and this article has informed me on what specific
skills I will learn and how I can use them. This also gave me information to go off on for
my search continued because now I know what jobs I can go into that are directly
anthropology related.
I know this source is credible because the author, Kristian Killgrove is a well- known
biological anthropologist who has BA in Classical Archaeology, Latin, and Anthropology.
She is now a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of West
Florida. The article is posted on the Powered by Osteons website which is a well know
website in the Biological Anthropology field that is ran by Killgrove. The article was
published in 2007 which is only 9 years ago and the facts still hold true. Kristian
Killgroves degrees, plus her experience makes her the perfect candidate to share about
how Anthropology effects the world.

Nina Jablonski: Skin Color Is an Illusion. Perf. Nina Jablonski. Ted Ideas worth Discovering.
Ted Talks, Feb. 2009. Web. 8 Nov. 2016.
Nina Jablonski gives a ted talk on skin color. Her talk is titled Skin color is an illusion
She first starts by stating how Charles Darwin overlooked evolution in skin color and his
statements about skin color were vaguely wrong. She then goes into how skin pigment
varies based on where in the equator you are located. Our pigment in our skin protects us
from the sun as needed. Based on migration and the slave trade, people have moved
throughout the world and how race is mixed throughout the world.

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This Ted talk dug deeper into my questions on skin color. Nina Jablonski demonstrated
one of the key aspects of anthropology, always keep investigating and disprove things that
are wrong. We as a people need to know why our skin color is the color that it is and
where we could have possibly originated from.
Nina Jablonski earned a BA in biology from Bryn Mawr College and her PhD in
Anthropology from the University of Washington. She is currently a professor at Penn
State. She researches human and primate evolution. She is also known for her research in
human skin. Ted Talks are very well known and very reliable. I find this Ted Talk very
reliable.

Science Says: There Is No Such Thing As Race! Dir. Trace Dominguez. Perf. Trace Dominguez.
Youtube. DNews Plus, 18 June 2015. Web. 8 Nov. 2016.
Trace Dominguez goes into Race is a social construct, in biology there is no race.
Ethnicity is real and is how we vary as a people. Social constructions are how we work as
a human species; we use these constructs to categorize humans. There are no racial
differences across the world, it is all cultural. We as humans created these differences,
they were not genetically created. He then ends with that we all Robosapiens, we have
created cultural differences.
This video goes deep into why we have race and how we created it as a people. My
original question is why we need social Anthropology. We need social anthropology to
break these social constructs we have created. Anthropology needs to inform people that
we are creating social constructs that are not there biologically and we need to stop.

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Trace Dominguez is the producer of DNews, he earned a BA in Behavioral Psychology

and a MA in public communication at American University. DNew is carried on
YouTube, iTunes, Discovery.com, ect. Both are very involved in spreading scientific
discoveries and informing the public. I find this source very creditable and informative.

Yolanda Moses. What Is Race? Rec. 12 June 2008. Farai Chideya, n.d. MP3.
Farai Chideya interviews Yolanda Moses on her new project, Race-Are We So
Different? Moses states that race is a social construct, not at all biological or genetic.
Race is not a reality in the natural world, Humans are one species. She then goes into how
hierarchy created racism and how that turned into race being a social construct. She then
closes out about how her project is opening up to young people and how teens are
blurring the lines of racism.
As I listened to this pod cast it really opened my eyes to how much of a social construct
race is. We as a people created racism and now young people are starting to understand
race and realize that we are all the same. I think that this is relevant to my original
question because this is an example of social anthropology. This is honestly a topic I plan
to continue to research and maybe pursue in the future.
Yolanda Moses graduated with a BA, M.S, and a PHD in Anthropology from California
State. She is the president of the American Anthropology Association, Chair of the board
of the American Association colleges and Universities. Her project is well known and has
traveled all around the states. She is very credible and is a brilliant Anthropologist. The

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podcast is broadcasted by the NPR: National Public Radio. This is a very relabel source.
The NPR is very well respected and reliable.