I Declare Anthropology!

Below, you can see my declaration for independent study. This is my first Action project for my Humanities course called A Nations Argument. During this course my classmates and I learned the framework of an argument and what makes a successful argument. We had a great opportunity to be guests at the Cook County Courthouse for a black history program and were able to see the opening statements of a live trial following an interactive panel of successful black workers who have a career in law. We also focused on the declaration of independence and that's what really led us up to this project. Inside of the declaration we saw a good example of a successful argument. What my job was for the Action Project was to make a declaration of my own for independent study. 

I chose to do someting that has to deal with human behavior and observing it. Human behavior and observation by themselves are very broad subjects to study. I had to narrow it down in order to create an airtight argument. With the help of my teacher, we came to the decision that what I was looking for was the subject of Anthropology. That STILL being a very broad subject, I did some research and was finally able to narrow it down to Structural Anthropology. Structural Anthropology is a subject inside of Anthropology, some know it as socialism. It is based off of the idea developed by Claude Lévi-Strauss.