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Hello all
you urban anthropology students, south phoenix residents, interested
public, and random web goers. My name is Jennifer Roberts. I’m
currently an Integrative Studies student at ASU West with a
concentration in Anthropology. Hopefully, by May of this year I will
also be a graduate! Born in El Paso, Texas I had moved with my
family before my first birthday to New Mexico before developing any
of that great Texan pride. A few years later, we moved again, this
time to what I refer to as my ‘hometown’ of Lakeside, Arizona.
Lakeside is nestled up in the White Mountains near Sunrise Ski
resort and the Navajo Indian reservation. Perhaps it was here that
my interest in Anthropology unconsciously took hold. It could have
been the pottery shard and arrowhead hunts that I went on in the
forests while my dad was busy cutting firewood for a living that
sparked interest (I didn’t know at the time that I was disturbing
what may have been an minor archeological site! Oopps!). Or maybe
it was just one of the many episodes of Travel Channel and Discovery
Channel that I sat transfixed watching as a small tribe in Africa
performed an initiation ritual or pierced a part of their body with
a 10 inch needle. However it came to be I always remember wanting to
travel and wanting to see, if not understand, those people that held
such a different worldview than my own. Since then I’ve taken
several anthropology classes through my academic career which have
altered or perhaps refined my interests. I have also spent
one fabulous semester living and studying in Sydney, Australia which
has stimulated my international interests even more. This semester
being my final semester as an undergraduate, I am grateful to Dr. K
for providing such an interesting field- based class that allowed me
the opportunity to use anthropological concepts gained throughout my
academic career within the context of my own city.
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