Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to give you the opportunity to build on the ideas presented in class about interactions among technology, culture, and society. Your essays are to be based on three sources immediately below. Your first task for this assignment is to distinguish between the concepts of culture and society in Anthropology. Explain how these two concepts differ and how they intersect based on the Wolf and Keesing readings. Your second task is to explore critical relationships among culture, society, and technology by connecting key arguments Bell has made in her article bellow. Along with these three sources, you must use a minimum of two academically acceptable sources besides your chosen Bell article to support your argument.

Bell, Genevieve 2006. No More SMS from Jesus: Ubicomp, religion and techno-spiritual practices. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4206:141-158.

Kessing, Roger., and Andrew J. Strathern 1998. Culture and People: Some Basic Concepts. In Cultural Anthropology: A contemporary Prespectives. R.M. Kessing and A.J. Strathern, eds. Orlando: Harcourt, Brace and Co.: 14- 25

Wolf, Eric R. 1982. Chapter 1: Introduction. In Europe and the People without History. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press: 3- 23.