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1. Briefly describe two goals for anthropological research.
2. Discuss one difficulty that cultural anthropologists encounter when they strive to apply the scientific method.
3. What are the four fields of anthropology, and what kinds of phenomena do anthropologists working in these areas study?
4. Discuss how anthropology is unique when compared with other disciplines.
5. Explain the concept of ethnocentrism. How can it be harmful to the ethnocentric person and to others?
6. List the three major components of culture.
7. Explain what is meant by a subculture.
8. How is race a cultural construct?
9. Define and explain the concept of culture.
10. Discuss why human skin color cannot be used to identify between human ethnic groups.