Why do cultures exist? Consider why humans have culture and why there is cultural
diversity.
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Consider the three primary kinds of world migration that are current today. How might
each of these result in different challenges for the human populations most affected?
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What is nonviolent resistance, and what role has it played in worldwide conflict over
more recent years?
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What is the Mousterian tool tradition, and with which species is it associated?
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What type of evidence is needed for a hominoid fossil to be classified as part of the
human evolutionary line?
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Everything that humans do well is adaptive.
Why is anthropological collaboration with the military a controversial matter?
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What were the sources of environmental destruction on Easter Island? How could this
have been prevented?
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In a culture, there is a difference between ideal and real behaviors.
Why is art important to human society?
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How did writing emerge as a system of communication? What impact did this have on
our world?
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Reconfigure your own kinship along both a matrilineal and patrilineal line. How would
your daily life be different? What new opportunities and challenges would emerge in
your own family?
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Unlike agriculturalists, horticulturalists always produce a small surplus.
An idealist perspective is an approach that emphasizes how people explain and feel
about things.
Distinguish between animism and animatism.
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Discuss the tribal leadership of the Melanesian Big Man.
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What role can anthropologists play in dispute resolutions? Discuss the example
provided in your text.
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Among food foragers, religion tends to be inseparable from daily life.
Social media is a type of “soft power.”
What are the different forms of marriage, and how are they culturally adaptive?
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