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Chapter: Reciprocity and the Power of Giving By Lee Cronk. What struck you the most regarding the act of giving?
Problem: What key points do you pick from the characterizations of African-derived religions in the Caribbean?
Problem: How does the Vodou understanding of a human being affect post-mortem rituals in Vodou praxis?
Why was walking upright evolutionarily advantageous, or how did it increase our evolutionary fitness? In other words, why did we start walking upright on 2 feet
Discuss how the spatial history of "the frontier" in the Columbian Amazon has been shaped by "inclusive exclusion."
How do the noble/ignoble savage tropes reproduced in popular culture deny indigenous people representation sovereignty?
Why does Mehlich (following Sherman Alexi) argue that representational sovereignty is one of the greatest challenges facing indigenous people?
What is Sleep disturbance after deployment: National Guard Soldiers experience and strategies. By Lincoln, M.L.,R. S. & Ames,G.M. (2018) about?
What were some of the ethical dilemmas faced by Sterk while conducting ethnographic research among prostitutes in New York City and Atlanta?
Problem: What do the documentary movies "The Divine Horse men" and "Voodoo" teach us about Vodou in Haiti?
Select one of the four cultures described by M. Ho and compare its cultural characteristics to those of Northern European culture
How did the population of swimbots change over time before it went extinct?
What are various cultures which have influenced the cuisine of the Caribbean Islands?
Suggest ways in which a culturally-relative approach might have changed the interaction between the Mursi and European tourists.
Why do people believe that Latin America is a group of social construction or ideas? What do Sanabria and Magnolo say about it?
Definition of key concepts. Do you think South Africa is a pluralistic society? Motivate your answer.
It's a tricky thing to define species in the abstract, and to find agreement on how to group animals into different species.
Do you know about the titles of theories or anthropologists related to culture or anthropology which we studied in this course?
Please give examples of the following: 1. Culture varies from society to society. 2. Culture is transmitted among members of society.
Why is the Rift Valley a good place to search for fossils? What primitive pre-human species do we believe baby Salam is from?
What is Dependency Theory (center/periphery)? Why was this economic theory important in the development of Latin American economic thought
This chapter explores the impasses an ethnographer has encountered while collecting kinship information to map traditional knowledge in a Fijian village
Belief and Science are two different approaches to acquiring knowledge, how are they different? Can science be used to prove or disprove faith?
Watch the film A Girl in the River. Write a short essay discussing how this documentary relates to the information in your textbook
How can we teach citizens about the pros and cons surrounding advances in agricultural, medical, and biological technologies?