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PART THREE: Answer 5 of these questions with a few sentences or a paragraph. Be thorough and clear. (4 points each)
1. What are the three main components of the “anthropological perspective”? How do they depend on each other?
2. How and why did a science—or at least a perspective—like anthropology not begin to emerge in Western civilization until the last few centuries? What are the main barriers to an anthropological perspective? What made it possible for Western societies to gradually develop an anthropological perspective since around the year 1500?
3. Discuss the idea of the “distribution of culture.” What are the four “levels” or degrees of distribution? Give an example or two of each, from your own culture. Why is this an important idea for understanding the shared and transmitted quality of culture?
4. What does it mean to say that language is more than a way to exchange factual information? How and why does language convey “social information”? How does language actually achieve “social effects”? Give some examples.
5. What do anthropologists mean when we say that gender is culturally constructed? What is the evidence that gender is a culturally relative concept or category? What kinds of practices to cultures use to construct culturally-appropriate gendered persons?
6. Most anthropologists agree that “race” is a cultural concept. According to Smedley, what are the specific features of the North American concept of race? Why did this concept develop—that is, why do North American and European societies have such a concept?
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Exchange factual information
: What does it mean to say that language is more than a way to exchange factual information? How and why does language convey “social information”? How does language actually achieve “social effects”? Give some examples.
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Understanding the shared and transmitted quality of culture
: Discuss the idea of the “distribution of culture.” What are the four “levels” or degrees of distribution? Give an example or two of each, from your own culture. Why is this an important idea for understanding the shared and transmitted quality of cul..
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Main barriers to an anthropological perspective
: How and why did a science—or at least a perspective—like anthropology not begin to emerge in Western civilization until the last few centuries? What are the main barriers to an anthropological perspective?
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Anthropology that studies diversity of human behavior
: The subfield of anthropology that studies diversity of human behavior in the past is called __________. The anthropological term for the process of acquiring your own culture, ordinarily as a child, is _________. The key fieldwork method in cultural ..
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Discuss the idea of the distribution of culture
: Discuss the idea of the “distribution of culture.” What are the four “levels” or degrees of distribution? Give an example or two of each, from your own culture. Why is this an important idea for understanding the shared and transmitted quality of ..
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Main components of the anthropological perspective
: What are the three main components of the “anthropological perspective”? How do they depend on each other?
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Discuss interactions between economic and political systems
: Discuss the interactions between economic systems and political systems anthropologically. What type(s) of adaptive strategies (modes of subsistence) are found in which types of societies?
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Benefits of the transition to domesticated food production
: Identify and discuss the benefits (positive factors) of the transition to domesticated food production, especially as contrasted with the lifestyle of hunter-gatherers. Include at least three examples from the “benefits” category
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Identify and explain four cultural or social attributes
: Identify and explain four cultural or social attributes/characteristics common to a state-level organization of society.
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