Your goal is to describe, with the help of scholarly sources, the history, context and meaning of a cultural practice from a culture outside of your own. Try to understand and carefully describe the cultural practice, what it is, what it does, what the relevance is, how it fits into the culture and how it developed.
No need for comparisons or moving outside of your chosen culture. Stay rooted. There is going to be a second part of this assignment, based on a prompt that I will give you after the first part is submitted.
The requirement is five pages. Grammar, spelling and formatting all matter. Follow basic MLA or APA guidelines for all of this. This is a major assignment in a college class; treat it as such. Plagiarism will lead to an automatic “F” in the class.
Use double-spacing, 1-inch margins and a regular 12-point font. No need for a “cover page” and the bibliography is not part of the page count.
Include a bibliography of all cited and used sources. No need for the annotations and you can change the list of sources as needed (because you found something important or because of my feedback to the Annotated Bibliography). Again, use MLA or APA standards. No long URL for proxys.
