Hzns ANTHROPOLOGY Dr. Thom Buescher
FALL Semester

WRITING ASSIGNMENT 1:
Your Personal Environmental History

Purpose: To document and describe your own personal connection
To a specific PLACE, viz, your current home/lot/land (or one
Most intimately known by you over time).

Requirement: About 600 words or so, typed, double-spaced, carefully edited

To Be Included:

Four different perspectives:

(1) The Ancestral heritage—ie, your grandparents’ and parents’
Particular relationship to the land around them, past and present.

(2) Your very own EARLIEST links to the ‘land’ and its surround

(3) Your own thoughts and reflections on how you use the land now—and on how OTHERS use/relate to the land around you (development?)

(4) Your best projections on how land and culture might be linked in your own future endeavors?

Bring a print copy your Personal Environmental History to class on MON 09-14-09

Points value: 30