Assignments: Paper One

According to Jonathan Boyarin, anthropology is “a tool for mediating between the self and the community” (163). Using his ideas about individuals, communities, and identity, write a paper in which you propose (and then apply) tools that can be used for mediating between communities. These tools might be particular ideas about what a community is or how it functions, or they might be strategies Boyarin uses applied on a larger scale. Apply your proposed tools to the Middle East peace process as explained in the current “roadmap” to peace (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2003/20062.htm), suggesting what might be changed in the roadmap to further its success based on the tools you extract and develop from Boyarin. You must, then, both argue for a particular tool(s) and apply it to the roadmap.

Rough drafts must be 3-4 pages long; final drafts must be 4-5 pages long.