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Please be sure to put your last name and the last five digits of your SS# on the top right hand corner of each page of the assignment and please STAPLE all of the pages together.

Ð"? This assignment has been sent to the class listserve to help you complete it as a worksheet. You ARE required to TYPE your responses on the copy of this assignment that you turn in to the instructor. Simply save a copy of the attachment sent to the listserve and type your answers in the spaces provided. You might wind up with more than seven pages if your answers are longer than the space provided. That is OK.

HINTS: This assignment assumes that you have attended class on Monday and Wednesday. It is therefore suggested that you print a copy of this assignment and use it to TAKE NOTES during the presentations on both of those days.

Instructions: On Monday 4/15 and Wednesday 4/17 several of your classmates will be giving in-class presentations. Base your responses on this paper on those presentations. It is up to you to ask the questions necessary of the presentation groups to get the information that you will need to answer the worksheet questions.

PLEASE FILL IN YOUR ANSWERS IN THE ORDER THAT THE PRESENTATIONS WERE DELIVERED TO SO I CAN BETTER GRADE YOUR RESPONSES.

Presentation 1

1. Who are the cultural groups that are working with the anthropologists on the project?

Tutsis, Hutus

2. Where is the work being done (What country? What type of environment?)

_In Africa, small country , southern part, tropical climate

3. What are the organizations (Universities? Agencies?) that are doing the work? Is the local government involved?

United Nations Security Council, The Multi Government for Human Rights

4. What is the problem that is being addressed? Describe it in as much detail as possible. What issues that we have discussed in class, such as language, belief systems, economic conditions, environmental conditions, etc. are involved in the issue?

Documentation of human rights violation through forensic anthropology. Systems involved are belief and environmental.

5. What types of anthropologist are doing the work? (Cultural anthropologists? Medical anthropologists? Archeologist? Others?) What country is the research team from?

Stefan Schmitt one of the founders of the Guatemalan forensic anthropology.

6.Exactly what type of work are the researchers (both the cultural groups and the anthropologists) doing?

_To uncover the truth of documents scientifically and without the possibility of denial

Presentation 2

1. Who are the cultural groups that are working with the anthropologists on the project?

Argentina, Haitians

2. Where