What is the importance of self-awareness?
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Amanda Stronza is involved in doing applied anthropology among the Trobriands,
where she studies aspects of women’s work and task specialization.
The Hawaiian form of kinship is the least complex.
The eruv is a Jewish communal space.
Who are the khans among the Bakhtiari?
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Describe, in words that someone who knows nothing about anthropological kinship
terminology can understand, each of the three major kinship terminological systems.
Why does kinship terminology matter?
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Both Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict were pioneers in the culture and personality
movement in anthropology.
Compare and contrast the different ideas about the nature and control of land that exist
among food foragers, horticulturalists, pastoralists, intensive agriculturalists, and
industrialists.
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Descent groups are convenient devices for solving a number of problems human
societies commonly confront. Identify the problems, and describe how a descent group
solves them.
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Punitive justice has been extremely successful in changing criminal behavior in state
societies.
Compare and contrast the field studies of Bronislaw Malinowski and Annette Weiner.
What were the major differences and what were the causes of these differences?
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Create an example of an ethical issue that might confront an anthropologist, and explore
how it could be resolved.
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Among foragers, most groups have home ranges within which all resources are open to
any members of the group.
How has digital technology changed common-interest associations?
Answer:Will vary
Art and religion are often intertwined, sometimes identical. Give some examples of
how spiritual and artistic enterprises are related, and discuss the issues involved in
understanding and explaining them.
Answer:Will vary