Here are the questions received as of 11:30 a.m. Wednesday the 10th. Many are good, but the
list is woefully incomplete.
1. Referencing the ideas discussed in the class readings, describe some of the characteristics
and practices of a successful anthropologist?
2. Define anthropology and briefly elaborate on the four sub-divisions (biological / physical,
archeology, linguistics, and social / cultural) of the discipline?
3. Explain how theories of civilization and societal development evolved over time using
the arguments proposed by Ibn Khaldun, Darwin, “New World” theory, and
Enlightenment? Which ideology do you believe best illustrates how societies transform
over time?
4. If you were an anthropologist going into Morocco to study, how would you approach the
situation and begin your research? Would you start off by asking the habitants questions?
Why or why not?
5. Differentiate between a British social anthropologist and an American cultural
Anthropologist.
6. What is the definition of anthropology?
7. List the three goals of the course.
8. What is 'umran?
9. If Ibn Khaldun's visual representation of civilization were drawn on a graph what would i
t look like? or draw ibn khaldun's view of civilization on a graph.
10. The new world's view of the universe came from the bible. why did this cause problems
when it came to whether or not non-Europeans were to be classified as humans or nonhumans?
11. What is the difference between kinship and descent?
12. Explain what is meant by unileal descent groups.
13. Using Eskimo kinship terminology, explain the difference between parallel and cross
cousins.
14. How did the Dobe and Yanomamo people resolve conflict?
15. How did each of these societies resolve problems of kinship?
16. What is the Wi system used for.
17. Would you classify Chagnon as a functionalist or a structuralist, and why?
18. Why is Chagnon so controversial?
19. According to Chagnon, what is the ideal at the center of Yanomami culture?
20. Who did Leach base his theory on?
21. What is a structuralism perspective according to Levi-Strauss?
22. Explain Leach's breakfast metaphor.
23. According to Strauss, what are binary oppositions?
24. According to Lee, why is studying hunting and gathering societies important?
25. What kinds of people are the Dobes?
26. Name something in the Dobe diet.
27. How hard do the Dobe have to work to survive?
28. How do the Dobe ensure sharing of meat?
29. How do the Dobe keep any one person from getting too powerful?
30. How do the Dobe get around the fact that there are so few names when it comes to
choosing a mate?
31. In what society does "might make right?"
32. In the diagram below, shade in a patrilineage of three generations.
33. In the diagram below, shade in a matrilineage of three generations.
34. In the diagram below, draw in the potential cross and parallel cousin marriages in the
youngest generation.
35. My father and mother had two boys then divorced. My mother married a man who
already had six boys and two girls. My father married a woman and they had two girls.
Draw my kinship chart.
36. My father had four brothers and two sisters. One of the sisters had two girls. One of the
brothers had a boy and a girl. My mother had one sister, who had a boy and a girl.
Imagine I am Yanomamo and I marry my cross cousin. Draw my kinship chart and
indicate possible marriages.
37. My father had four brothers and two sisters. One of the sisters had two girls. One of the
brothers had a boy and a girl. My mother had one sister, who had a boy and a girl.
Imagine I am Bedouin and I marry my parallel cousins. Draw my kinship chart and
indicate possible marriages.