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ANTHOP 110.D04

I just want to thank you all for teaching me how to have an insight perspectives on the subjects we have learned since September. I wish you all best and hope to see you all on Campus soon. 

Live, Laugh, and Love.

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Ch. 14 Fieldwork: Making the State Real

1. The state regulates the food I eat through the FDA. The FDA regulates which food and food ingredients are offered for sale, except for the food that is regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

2. It is mandatory to have health care coverage in the U.S. now because of the Affordable Care Act. I can be fined for not having coverage for a certain length of time throughout the year. 

3. Police presence, particularly in Baltimore City, seems overzealous. They tend to treat people who look like me like a criminal based on their biases.  In Baltimore County, it seems that they are looking for reasons to enforce any law they think they can or just harass whoever they feel like bothering because they can get away with it. 

4. My residency of the state of Maryland allows me to pay less than an out of state student for school. This is beneficial for me because I can actually afford it without taking out a loan. The state is not helping me pay for my education, so this is crucial to my completion of this degree. 

5.The money I pay in taxes should be helping to repair potholes and other damaged public structures, but I don’t feel like it is done at all or if it is done, it’s not done in a timely manner. There is a road in my neighborhood that has been under construction for the last six years and it is worse to travel than when they began working on it. 

6. Red light cameras are inconvenient and placed close to where I live. I have already had to challenge one of the tickets that flagged me because another car should have received the ticket. Thankfully, it was thrown out, but it took time to go to court and prove my case. 

7. Traffic rules, lights and signs regulate how we drive. It’s a commonality that all legal drivers share. We all have to obey the rules, lights and signs or receive a ticket and sometimes a summons to appear in court. 

8.  I pay the state for my water supply and trash removal. Both bills are relatively low and a small expense for clean water and the confiscation of my trash. It’s convenient for my lifestyle. 

9. Parking attendants in Baltimore City are everywhere. If I am one minute late to my meter, I get a ticket. There should be a grace period. It feels like they see when you park and are waiting to give you a ticket. It’s a huge inconvenience and I’m not even sure where my fine goes or how it helps the city. 

10. Right now, the state of Maryland has a mandate in place for wearing a mask in public. I’m thankful for this because it limits my chance of contracting COVID. 

11.  In order to marry my husband, I had to apply for a marriage license. We were asked for our birth certificates, proof of address, driver’s licenses, social security cards, etc. in order to verify our identities and validate the marriage. 

12.  Social Security numbers are assigned to citizens as a way to identify us and track our debt and income. 

13.  Whenever the mayor, governor or president calls a press conference, it interrupts the programming I am currently watching until they are done speaking. I know this is to relay important information usually, but with the current president it feels like a waste of my time. Lately, there is no pertinent information being dispersed. 

14.  The legal drinking age is 21 in the U.S. I believe it is to protect the general public from anyone younger than that making bad decisions that can affect the general population and the individual as well. 

15.  I feel like the state is absent in restructuring the healthcare system to actually benefit its citizens instead of insurance companies. Insurance is awfully expensive and sometimes still does not fully cover medicine, visits or treatments. 

16.  The state is afraid to police the police. There have been countless examples of corruption and misconduct that are excused or handled with kid gloves. This just allows this behavior to be deemed acceptable and to continue. 

17.  The public transportation system was beneficial to me at a certain point in my life, when I did not have a vehicle. It made it easier to get where I needed to go without having to wait for someone to give me a ride. It wasn’t always on time, but I made it. 

18.  When I go grocery shopping, there is a state tax applied to my tab that I have to pay immediately. 

19.  I am required to file federal and state taxes when I make over a certain amount every year. For a few years, I had to pay additional federal taxes. The last three years I owed both state and federal taxes in the amount of $15k to $21k. the price for having higher income and not enough write off.

20.  I went to public school for high school. This was paid for with my parents’ tax money. Unlike my sisters who went to private school and it was paid for with my parents’ household income. 

 21.  There have been more regulations placed on social media content lately. It is being policed when it comes to “fake news.” For example, on Twitter there is a text box placed underneath a tweet that details false information. 

22.  The FCC regulates the content on the radio, television, wire, satellite and cable in the U.S. and all of its territories. 

23. When  a child is born, an individual has to fill out a birth registration form to be submitted for a birth certificate that will serve as verification of the child’s birth, place, date, time and to whom they were born. 

24.  The United States Department of Labor regulates the number of hours; wage pay and promotes the safety of laborers by improving working conditions. They also provide assurance of the wellbeing of retirees and jobseekers. 

25.  OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) promotes the safety of working conditions by providing employees with training, education and assistance.

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Chapter 13 Fieldwork: Who Are Today's Migrants?

Chapter 13 Fieldwork: Who Are Today's Migrants?

This week for my fieldwork assignment I turned to Zoom and interviewed my mother. 

Interviewee: Mom

Age: 85

Gender: Female

Nationality: Jamaican 

From: Jamaica to Germany and to the United States 

Mom’s Story: 

Mom was born in Kingston, Jamaica 1935. This was where she spent most of her early childhood, with two sisters and brother. She didn’t get to complete her last year of her high school due to the sudden death of her father. His death totally shocked and caught everyone off guard because he was extremely healthy for his age. However, her education was enough to land her a job with the Jamaican Ministers of Affairs and she was able to provide for family, her elderly mother, and also provided some assistance to both her younger brother and sister. Moreover, Mom left Jamaica in December of 1974 for Bonn, Germany, which was the new capital following WWII. My mother’s family is from St. Thomas, Jamaica. It’s one of the 13 Parishes in Jamaica with Kingston it’s Capital. She moved to Kingston in search of better lifestyle for her children and to helped support her mother and her 2 siblings. In 1976-77 she returned from Germany and buried her mother and in 1980, She got the opportunity to move to the United States still working for Jamaican Consulate and filed for the necessary documents bring all of her children to the US and we all been here ever since.  Mom is retired and now living in Hartford, Connecticut.

Push/Pull Factors:

Push- poor living conditions, unsafe environment, instability, emotional distress from violence

Pull- more stable life, better education, safety, American lifestyle and more job’s opportunities. 

Bridges/Barriers:

Barrier- language, she learned to speak German.

Bridge- family and great friends supported her along the way, unexpected kindness of strangers, her resourcefulness, her ability to always obtain what is needed.

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CH. 11 YOUR TURN FIELDWORK: The Biography of a Chocolate Bar

The ingredients of the Ferrero Collection are ​milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, chocolate, skim milk, lactose, milkfat, soy lecithin, artificial flavor), hazelnuts, almonds, corn syrup, sugar, palm oil, skim milk, lactose, salt, egg whites and artificial flavor. These ingredients primarily come from cows, cocoa and plants. Cocoa primarily comes from the Ivory Coast. Coca is harvested, refined and shipped to a manufacturing factory. Then the beans are cleaned, coached and ground. Next, the beans are exported to other countries and transformed into different types of chocolate products. ​Cocoa Farmers are underpaid, overworked and do not receive any type of shielding from local conflicts. They sell the beans to intermediate mediators. Global Financial Markets set the price of chocolate based on availability and demand. Ferrero Group Hover dominates the chocolate trade throughout the world and the owner Nestle. Ferrero Group Hover in Italy is second to Mars and Mondelez International is third. ​ ​The United States and Canada grows about 10 to 20% of the world’s nuts farming industry. Almonds are harvested by picking them from the tree or using shears to snip the branches. And for the hazelnuts, the trees are gentled shake onto a trap. Next, he flips it upside down and places it back in the dirt to dry for a few days. Then, the farmer uses a picker to separate the peanut pods from the rest of the plant. The European Union is the world’s largest cow milk producer. Dairy cows are bred to produce large amounts of milk. They only produce milk after giving birth, so they have to give birth once a year to continue milk production. They are usually artificially inseminated within three months of giving birth. The milk is extracted from the cow by a miker. The milk is then ​delivered to dairies for further processing. The FDA regulates the trade of chocolate. Chocolate is marketed differently. It depends on the consumer base. The use of commercials, printed ads, billboards, etc. vary. I bought my Ferrero Collection from the grocery store, Giant. Store owners tend to profit anywhere from 55% to 85% on a chocolate bar. I think there are definitely hidden costs that are not included in the price I paid. I’m sure the laborers were underpaid. According to the website, they are still trying to address these issues where the bulk of their cocoa is harvested.

  https://www.forbes.com/feature/ferrero-candy-empire/#4e1a96f86c49

https://www.ferrero.com/the-ferrero-group/a-family-story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcLPRJw1w_E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_BeMrhhm9o

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Chapter 10 Your Turn Fieldwork:

Could you live on $2 a day? Could you do it for one day? for a week? for a month?

No, I could not live off $2 a day, much less for a week or a month. Sometimes, I find myself spending anywhere $6.99 to $140.00 a day on meaningless stuff and there are times I could spend up to $4k on a major end item, replacing a major household item such as washer-dryer combo. I think it would be impossible to live this way, but it would be more difficult for me now, because I know what it is like to come from an impoverished family.

PIERRE BOURDIEU: 

Bourdieu believed that the two key factors to social order were reproduction and inequality. Bourdieu tried to wrap his head around why generations allows the persistence to plague the structuring of people not fight against the injustice and continue to limit a person’s life chances. The article illustrates how social reproduction continuously increases and grows and how people of a lower class are sometimes automatically disqualified from certain jobs with higher paying incomes, simply due to their social status. Unfortunately, this cycle of events begins at a young age. As families struggle to make ends meet, children begin taking low income jobs to help their family. The school system needs to focus on helping these children make a better life for themself instead of perpetuating that same social status cycle in which they will remain throughout the course of their life.

> https://infed.org/mobi/pierre-bourdieu-habitus-capital-and-field-exploring-reproduction-in-the-practice-of-education/

MAX WEBBER:

Weber’s theory highlights the fact that those of higher social status/prestige are have more power than those of a lesser social status. This story illustrates how Weber’s focused on the notion that Sociology as a field should focus on the “interpretive understanding of social action,” or how individuals within a society are motivated in behaving in social life.  His theory is birth of bureaucracy and how it impacts our lives.  I chose this article because it demonstrate a more in depth of Max Weber’s theory on his high social standing has considerable impact all working classes throughout the world..

https://rampages.us/osbornmr/2016/10/03/bureaucracy-a-true-story-of-horror-as-narrated-by-max-weber/

KARL MARX:

The link to the article below presents an example of Karl Marx’s theory. Karl Marx’s theory involved the labor theory of free trade, it had knocked down national boundaries, lowered prices, made the planet interdependent and cosmopolitan value in explaining the relative differences in market prices. The reason I chose this article because it exhibits the idea of the “American Dream”. Marx’s theory highlights the “American Dream” by coming to America and build yourself a fortune. However, Marx advertises to anyone coming to America will demonstrate fulfillment of the “American Dream” using his theory. Marx’s theory entails workers being unpaid or getting paid for less than the actual work they are putting in. Marx’s theory thrives on the exploitation of the lower and working class. Theories like this are used all around the world.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/karl-marx-yesterday-and-today

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CH 10 FILM CLIPS: Homeless in Paradise

How visible is homelessness in your community? How has your community responded?

The community, I live in has no visible homeless and as for the VA hospital in the other community all the veterans are cared for. However, in other communities such as Baltimore and Washington, D.C. members give the homeless food, money and/or direct to them to nearest homeless shelter, so they can use to help them.

Aside from homelessness, how visible is poverty in your community?

Poverty is visible in some of the communities around my community, however, it is not visible in the community I live.

What are some ways societies "criminalize poverty"? What affect do you think these measures have on the underlying causes of poverty?

Some ways societies criminalize poverty is by jailing people through judicial loopholes for being poor; great recession in poor communities through social-economic oppression. The affects of the homeless is because they have little or no access to adequate means of livelihoods, clean water, nutrition, jobs, poor education, and government failing to provide proper infrastructure to assist those in need of help.

How would you approach the problem of homelessness? Do you see it as a pathology or a structural economic problem?

The step is by giving them a home, whether it’s an independent apartment, a transitional home, or a night shelter; this establish the principle having a permanent home in which can make solving the health, social, mental, and economic hardship much easier. Yes, I see the homelessness as a structural economic problem that is created by greed and corruptness throughout politic and the corporate system in America.

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Fieldwork: Marriages in Heaven + A Wife among Wives

Marriages in Heaven

1.     How is the Sikh wedding similar or different from weddings you have attended in your community?

Their wedding is vastly different from most weddings I have attended and even my own. The reason is because of accustoms and most traditional American wedding’s the bride is walked down the aisle by father or someone significant to her. The vows are attributed by both groom and bride or the conveying authority then they’re wedded. In this case, culture and religious aspects are always very prominent in weddings like these... Like most traditional Africans or West Indies wedding thing are quite different compared to just walking down the aisle.

2.     How is the family, or kinship system, involved in the ceremony?

The four hymns are sung, the groom and the bride walked around the holy book four times with the aid of the bride’s brothers signifying the family’s support as she leaves her father’s family. The elders from both sides of families blessed the couple with gifts and garlands and then ceremony is completed, and the party begins.

3.     What might be some benefits of an arranged marriage? How would you feel about having your spouse chosen by a matchmaker?

Some benefits of an arranged marriage are that you can find someone that you learn to love as time goes by, it also helps to maintain the traditional culture and reduces the amount of stress finding a partner. I would not want my match chosen by a matchmaker for me, I would rather prefer a companionate marriage.

 Fieldwork: A Wife among Wives

1.     How does Naingiro answer the anthropologist when she was asked about jealousy and fighting among co-wives?

Naingiro told the anthropologist, that she was basing her question on her owned society, and other people build your house for the women just come live in them.  The women only have little work to do in our society. In their society, the women can decide if a second wife is needed because husband is out killing meat so the family can be fed. She also talks about the differences in the Turkana wives building their own home and taking care household…in other words no time for jealousy.

2.     We might assume that polygyny, or multiple wives, is initiated and maintained by men, but it seems Turkana women are often encouraging their husbands to take new wives. Why might that be so?

They encourage their husbands to marry other women because there’s enough work for five days according Naingiro. She also talks about how difficult the herding is and how helpful it would be for the husband to marrying other women so they could get more help.

3.     How do Turkana women describe the benefits of polygyny?

Turkana women describe the benefits of polygyny as being helpful, efficiently, and effectively due to the considerable amount of work needed to be down and more hands is better than two. Also, they could focus and specified certain tasks like getting their home build in diligent time, more land to farm and less complication in their lives.

4.     Much of the discussion of having multiple wives’ centers around labor and productivity. How does this compare to your concept of "family" and kinship? What role does labor have in your family?

The role of most American’s family is one husband and wife. They may have children that might follow in their footsteps, however, in what used to be my family. My wife and I both work and provide money to maintain the household. We both clean and cook equally. There’s time we will help each other out depends on our workload for the coming week.

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CH9 Fieldwork

My grandparents on my father’s side had three girls and two boys. My mom’s parents had three girls and son. My dad’s side of the family, I don’t know too much about because my mother at the time was working in the Jamaican Consulate in Bonn, Germany and I was mostly raised by grandmother and older sister. I know that, I have a lot of cousins, nieces, nephews, and other relatives out there. I have seeing pictures of them when I visit other family’s homes but for some reason mom never shared the past with me, when I inquired about it. Even to this day when we talk on the phone. I have learned more about my family through my mother’s friends. I guess she truly never got over my father’s death. Ken, my dad’s brother visits us back in ’89 here in the states and he couldn’t speak to me about around her. Anyway, this has become my mission to learn more on my next visit to India, Canada, Britain, and Jamaica.  

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CH7 Fieldwork: Cartoon Commercials and the Construction of Gender

How many commercials were aimed at boys?

There were 6 commercials aimed at boys.

How many girls?

There were 6 commercials aimed at girls.

Cabbage Patch Kids and Mr. Potato Head and Family

Were any commercials not gendered?

There were 8 commercials not gendered.

CH7 Fieldwork: Cartoon Commercials and the Construction of Gender

How many commercials were aimed at boys?

There were 6 commercials aimed at boys.

How many girls?

There were 6 commercials aimed at girls.

Were any commercials not gendered?

There were 8 commercials not gendered.

What techniques did the ads use to attract boys or girls?

The techniques used to target boys were

Trains, Jets, GI-Joe’s figures: Duke, Snake-eyes

Power Rangers, He-Man, and Transformers

Swords, Battle-Axes

The techniques used to target girls were

Jem characters: Pizzazz, Stormer, and Kimber.

Sparkles, flashing lights, and glitter

“Cute toys”

Bright colors

Care Bears

Makeup, hair products, and jewelers

In what ways do these commercials teach gendered behavior?

The way the commercials teach gendered behavior is that many of the girl commercials are about dolls, hair, makeup, and looking glamorous. The generalization, the more vibrantly colored with pinks, purples, and light blues and some glitters is to perpetuate certain look and trend; and how these young girls should look, the better they’re like and feel good. The boy commercials have many cars, action figures, and monsters. The main colors were red, green, blue, and black.  This proves that girls are “supposed” to play with dolls and from a young age, start to think about how their hair looks and what they should wear. Well, for the boys, they were taught in similar ways, however, their trend was more focused on the generalization that “supposed” to like race cars, action figures, and play with Legos.

Now, a while back, the Cabbage Patch-Kids dolls features commercials with girls and boys playing with dolls alongside each other. I believe the intent is to show parents it was ok for boys to play with certain type of dolls without the typical stereotype about what boys and girls should play with…

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CH 6 YOUR TURN FIELDWORK: What is the Relationship of Ethnicity to the Nation

Both of my families originate from Jamaica; however, my father’s parents are from Punjab Province, India. My mother’s great grandmother roots are trace back to the one of Jamaica’s original tribe, Tainos. If I go about 10 or 11 generations back from me, they are mainly from St. Ann’s and St. Thomas Parish. But to be totally honest with you, I would be here days trying to write this about my families. I have family from my mother’s side living in Manchester, England and Ontario, Canada. On my Dad’s side of family, I don’t know too well since he died when I was just toddler and my beautiful lovely 85 years old mother memories isn’t too shape as it used to be...  So, next summer, I had plan to take my adopted family so we both could learn the roots of my Dad’s family, but that trip would just be myself since my wife decided to leave a few weeks ago. Uncle Ken’s family live Manchester, England and the last time I saw them was back in the summer of ’85 when we just moved to the US. Aunt Mava’s family has been living in Canada since 1979. In addition, to my retirement from military, I made a promise to myself to get a closed nit on my family heritage since quite a few had pass while I was on Active Duty and mostly deployed oversea...So, I have a lot to learn and some excited trips plan for England, India, Jamaica, and Israel... Yes, one my Uncle’s daughter live there. 

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Jim Crow Laws- The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South for three quarters of a century beginning in the 1890s. The laws affected almost every aspect of daily life, mandating segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and restaurants. "Whites Only" and "Colored" signs were constant reminders of the enforced racial order.

Racialization- is the overly complex and contradictory process through which groups come to be designated as being of a particular "race" and on that basis subjected to differential and/or unequal treatment. Put simply, “racialization [is] the process of manufacturing and utilizing the notion of race in any capacity” (Dalal, 2002, p. 27). While white people are also racialized, this process is often rendered invisible or normative to those designated as white. As a result, white people may not see themselves as part of a race but still maintain the authority to name and racialize "others."

Hypodescent- One reason White people categorize Black–White Biracial people as Black (called hypodescent) is to maintain the existing racial hierarchy. By creating a strict definition of who can be White, the selectivity, and thus status, of White people increases.

White Privilege- “ White privileges are the relative advantages racism affords to people identified as white, whether white people recognize them or deny them. To be white is to be afforded one's individuality. Afforded the presumption of innocence. Afforded the assumption of intelligence. Afforded empathy when crying or raging. Afforded disproportionate amounts of policy-making power. Afforded opportunity from a white network. Afforded wealth-building homes and resource-rich schools. Afforded the ability to vote quickly and easily”.— Ibram X. Kendi

Racial ideology- is the belief that humans fall into different “races”. This is mostly false. For example, DNA research demonstrates that Europeans all have a certain amount of Neanderthal DNA, while people with purely African descent do not. In taxonomy terms, though, the presence of Neanderthal DNA does not make you a different “race”, it makes you a different “ethnic group”.

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CH4 Virtual Classroom Field Work

1) There are approximately 129 students in my ENGL.101.009 class. The professor had combined all three classes together. There are approximately 70 females and 59 males. While observing, I noticed that the ratio of males to females talking is about the same when the professor called someone, or the answers is knowing. However, not too many people talk because of his thick accent, we all try to listen carefully without having him to repeat himself.

2) The average length of time each male or females spoke was between 1-3 minutes. The average amount of words is between 6 and 30 because only basic questions are being asked.

3) Usually most females have their camera off and constantly get asked to turn them on by the professor along with some males. The other hand, most of the males will have their camera pointed in a different direction with lights off.

4) The difference in body language, eye contact was hard to tell because no one had their camera facing them for me to examine. Based upon the tone of individuals I could imply that mostly everyone was confused.

5) The instructor is a man. He encourages communication but he is hard to communicate with because he has a strong African accent. The instructor is stern and somehow witty at times due to the combination of the classes combined.

6) No, the gender makes no difference of how he treats everyone in the class.

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CH2. Your Turn Fieldwork

Culture of Consumerism

With the completion of this assignment, I was astonished by the number of things I have accumulated over the years and most were acquired because I had started a family with my wife and her two adolescent children. However, I can say 80% of things in my household are very costly and are needed for me have a comfortable lifestyle. For example, my computer which I need for both work and school. Plus, monitoring my financial obligation and sometimes use for catching upon the news. My sleep number bed, in which provides the right support for my broken lower back. The other 20% are wants, for example: the automotive and aircraft tools in the garage, the aviation manuals along with some of the television throughout home. I could consider my home as a want more than need. I don’t believe I need a 3500 sq. ft. home for one person but other hand, I have worked hard my entire life and deserve a little splurge…

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Chapter3. Your Turn Fieldwork 

Mapping a Block.

1.)  What location did you choose? What drew you to it? Describe what you found.

The location I choose was Downtown Bel Air, MD., the corner Baltimore Pike Rd., Veteran Memorial Hwy. Rt.24, and North Tollgate Rd along with Boulton St. which I did not label on my drawing. I choose this area because it’s one of the most predominant business areas within Old and New Bel Air. Plus, it was one of the first area we were introduced to when we moved from Texas. Well, I only lived 11 minutes from the downtown, and I’m familiar with the area after 6-8 yrs. of living here since we left Texas. But the real reason is the childhood memories of the surrounding areas, and seeing the drastic changes throughout this particular area; how different it is from growing up when all of these areas was nothing but farm lands and I-95 was only a four lanes highway. However, Downtown Bel Air is extremely business and ten times more on the weekends for a small town area. Sometimes it reminded me as if I’m in Baltimore City with all congested traffic, packed restaurants, people everywhere, and packed shopping malls/plazas. 

2.)  What did you notice in your observations that you’ve never noticed before?

During my observation I notice several things that didn’t caught my attention before, was several businesses went out of business and the building of several new businesses in the area. Macy’s and Sears closed couple departments within their stores before COVID-19, Zale's Jeweler relocated to a different area, and Bel Air Motorcycles and Rough Terrain Vehicle Store. The new businesses that open were Popeye’s Chicken, Miller’s Ale, Sprout Farmers Market, Tropical Smoothie Café, and Jurassic Golf and Arcade. 

3.)  What is absent that you might have expected to find?

To be in absolute honesty... the only absent, I might of have suspected is young people protesting in the death of George Floyd but that didn’t happen, however, what really caught me off guard is everything closing down without any warning when the announcement of COVID-19 pandemic hit America.  

4.) Can you determine anyways in which this space has been impacted by COVID-19.

This area was tremendously impacted by COVID-19 and still is by certain degree. A lot of small businesses went out of business and the whole atmosphere of conducting businesses’ will never be the same again. The capacity of every business has changed for the good for big business like Home Depot, unfortunately, it killed most small businesses in the area. They weren’t making as much as the big businesses. Most parking lots were closed off for restaurants to start serving customers... before that most neighborhoods were ordering food trucks into the neighborhood’s but you of to still place your order online before getting your food. The implementation of social distance is the new norm and the wearing of these ridiculous face mask. The use of hand sanitizer almost everywhere you go. People driving their car with mask on without anyone else in the vehicle with them. The level of mental illness on the rise due the pandemic. Last but least, a unrulily President and  the atrociously police brutality that sweeping across the nation. The worldwide demonstration against humanity.

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The Cow Jumped Over the Moon

My answer to the short video clip of "The Cow Jumped Over the Moon".

What are some typical uses of satellite imaging technology?

Provides bases for geographical mapping of the earth, locations of minerals site, military operation, spying on other countries industrial development, weather patterns and provides 3D scales of terrain surface... i.e. cities, rural areas, mountain regions.

From mapping applications to weather sites, how often do you interact with satellite imaging?

Since I retired from the military, I rarely consulted satellite imagery and if I do, it is somewhere new to me. For example, going from here to Chicago.

How do you think our access to that data has changed the way we see the world?

Tremendously, since the technology was once limited to the government and its’ agencies.  

In the film, there is an implication that the data used by developing countries may one day come at a price. How likely is it that the cattle ranchers you see in the film will be able to afford the data they have come to depend on?

Yes, the information is useful in aiding developing countries, however, the price for this type information is sometimes astronomical to farmers and cattle ranchers in these underdeveloped countries.  

Do you see any issues of power involved here?

It depends on the type of government and who is in power to facilitate this type of information to the ranchers and farmers of these underdeveloped countries.

How are the cultural practices of one society affecting another in this dynamic?

Increasing migration and the possibility the loss of another culture.

Is it an exchange of information, or does the influence flow in only one direction?

It depends, sometimes undeveloped villages like these are very skeptical of outsiders and technologies that they never heard or seeing before. In most cases like these you have slowly develop trust by building a good report with the village and it’s people before they trust the person and source of information.

What are some of the future implications of that dynamic?

One, there’s no laws that prevent or stopping developing countries from surveying other countries. Two, by seeing what resources other countries have, it is easy for developing countries to exploit undeveloped countries for their resources.

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Today’s class subject was very intriguing...

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My Fieldwork 1 for Anthropology

The Coke Can Familiar Yet Unfamiliar Object

Some history behind the material that made these cans and many other things that comes from Aluminum. 

To get a sense where coke cans or all soda cans are made of, we first must understand where the material comes from. Aluminum is made from Bauxite Ore which is rock from reddish clay material called laterite soil. Approximately 70 percent of the world’s bauxite comes from Jamaica by the Bayer Process (Company) which first established back in 1854. Through several decades the Bayer Process partnered different countries throughout the world to include the U.S., Canada, Britain are just a few… However, Bayer Process went bankrupt and eventually reopened but that doesn’t stop the exploitation of the livelihood of the Jamaican citizens despite the changing hands of the Company. The picture below shows the process of bauxite ore.

Well, according to “the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), the idea has been around since 1795, the Napoleon era… He offered around 12,000 francs to anyone who could invent a method of preserving food for its army and navy. Anyhow, Nicolas Appert was the Frenchman who invented first sterilization for French Government. Fast forward several centuries after 1810, since Peter Durand first patent idea for preserving food in a can. It was not until the 1930 manufacturers started to explore the idea of packaging carbonated beverages in can.” (Can Manufacturers Institute , 2020)

According to CMI, soft drinks first appeared in cans as early as 1938. Pepsi can design dated back as the 1960s along with Coca-Cola in the 1966. The James Vernor Company was the first soda company with its Ginger Ale product before the two leading dominant Soda Companies which are Coke and Pepsi in today’s global market. The third largest manufacturer for soda and beer cans is Coca-Cola Enterprises which located in Milton Keynes, UK. With the ever changing laws and great emphasis by environmentalists most of these facilities converted to repackage distributions companies across the globe. The video shows the process of cans are made in the Plant.

You might wonder how this product find’s its way into your home like many other homes... here a few ideas! 

This product like many others, finds their ways into our homes to include mine’s through advertisement. On radio airwaves and television commercials, in movies, manufacturer’s logos in stores, sales and promos, t-shirts logos, sporting events, billboards, friends and family members etc. …in the 60s, when colored TV becomes apart of human lives… it gives manufacturers a whole new aspects and innovative ways to displayed their products in a ray of bright colorful manner that would entice and captivate their audience. In the 1980s Pepsi started a trend by having supermodel Cindy Crawford advertising their product to including vending machines… which open-up a whole new door for industry to target their audience even more with celebrities of all genre. Here’s a little video clip of the of the marketing campaign and operation in their inside their plants.

The impact it has on other people’s lives... but like all good things there’s side affects... and these are just a few... form the two short video clips.

I can say for sure, that the lives in America and throughout Europe is far better for most employees that work within these facilities besides those who are in the positions of executives and chief executive which made a sum of $31 million per year.

The manufacturers and employees of the companies not only makes decent wages, they have access to healthcare, clean environment, and access to everyday norm unlike their counterparts in Africa, Jamaica, and Vietnam.

 In these countries, that produced these precious and rare minerals suffered great injustice. Their lives are disrupted by the harmful dust that produced by these mining areas. Most do not have access to decent education, much less indoor plumbing or light in their homes. In addition, the human habitats are threaten by polluted drinking water, fresh air, and their fishing resources are at risk of dying because of the sediments seeping into the rivers and oceans supply. Last but least, the land takes decades to rejuvenate or reproducing the natural nutrients in the land, so in result farmers are unable to grow their craps. Below are two video clips that demonstrate the impact on these people livelihood.

In conclusion, most of these countries gets poorly negotiated deals fro m the beginning, and some of those are resulted in them barely making 6 cents on the dollar in their own Country currency. Unfortunately, most of these multi-billion dollars industrial industries only cares about their profit margins and careless about the people they crush in the process.