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What can be learned through the research methods used in cultural anthropology? How is article about Nacirema connected to anthropological research methods?
How anthropologists have traditionally differed from political scientists in approach to political. Why Kottak prefer to speak of sociopolitical organization?
According to Louis Leakey, behaviors that are common to modern humans would be present. Highlight 3 key behaviors that are likely to be present in early humans?
What do you think is one cultural dimension (Hofstede) and/or value (Schwartz) that leads to disproportionate jailing of black men in America?
Discuss events are evidence of a growing loss of empathy in our society and how we can account for differences between our society and others that preceded it.
What is the difference between a union republic, an autonomous republic, and an autonomous region? Are there any similar areas in the United States?
What artifacts do you find most interesting? What questions would you like to ask them about the artifacts you find interesting?
Give an example of an area for which you have a complex/expansive range of words. How does this reflect your culture or your interests?
Why anthropologists say that gender is a cultural construct? Why anthropologists distinguish between sex and gender?
What was the original objective of the Brotherhood and how did its goals change over time? What is the Brotherhood's relationship to Arab nationalism?
What potential impact did the higher population density and longer lifespan of Homo sapiens have on their ability to out compete Neanderthal?
Problem: Does the set of residue (mod 6) form a group with respect to modular multiplication? Justify your answer.
What geological principle do archaeologists borrow, and what does it mean? Why are paleoarchaeologists obsessed with flint?
How do these values compare to the original fit? How does the performance on the test set for the original and cross-validated model compare?
What methods were used in collecting data? What is the article about empirically? In other words, what is being studied as the object?
We are sampling x at a rate of 3 kHz. Will we be able to reconstruct the original signal after discretization of time? Please explain your result!
What aspects of that culture did Muniz want to change? Was the art project effective in changing the lives of the pickers involved in it?
Why do you think the work of Tatiana Proskouriakoff was initially dismissed? What architectural feats impressed you most?
What kinds of post-marital residence patterns were discussed by Gilliland? Discuss cultural examples provided by Gilliland and in two films you viewed.
How education has functioned to make you into either a politically complacent and socially compliant or a politically active and socially independent citizen?
What was the social context of the image: when created, cultural and social context, goal of the creator who circulated it? Analyze the symbolism of this image.
How is class itself portrayed in TV shows? For example, are any discussions about class reflective of the American ideology, or of its reality? Elaborate.
Explain three similarities in how the Rabbi, the Imam and the Pastor perceive afterlife. How do their views of the afterlife contrast with that of a Buddhist?
How do premodern humans complicate the ways we define what it means to be human? What are the various trends and tendencies in human evolution?
Describe systemic problems that perpetuate human rights violations in North America. How can anthropology and sociology contribute to understanding of problems?