1. Explain in depth one important anthropological idea you learned in the video, Alejandro Mamani: A Case Study in Psychological Anthropology (Video, short answer)
2. What was most interesting to you about the ideas presented in the video, Patterns of Subsistence: Food Foragers & Pastoralists? What did you learn?
3. Pick one of the societies shown in the video series, Patterns of Subsistence: The Food Producers and tell me several details about their food production and explain how it relates to their cultural success.
4. Pick one of the cultures shown in the Economic Anthropology Video (Kung!, Trobriand Islanders, Papua New Guinea, Asanti Afghanistan nomads, etc.). Then describe in detail that culture’s economic situation or exchange.
5. Explain how the Mayan Cargo System works. Give specific details in your answer. (video The Highland Maya: A Case Study in Economic Anthropology)
6. The video Sex and Marriage. (Video, short answer) shows several marriage practices. Pick one practice and explain the marriage ritual you observed with specific details.
7. Describe in detail what happened to the Tazmanian aborigines in the first video, The Nature of Anthropology
8. The second video, The Nature of Culture, describes how culture allows us to flourish, is the blueprint for ideas and is responsible for many patterns of behavior. Explain and illustrate a few areas of life that culture affects according to the video (Video, short answer).
9. In the video, How Cultures are Studied, cultural anthropologist, Napoleon Chagnon carried out an ethnographic study of the Yanomamo of Venezuela. What are some techniques he used to conduct this study?
10. List some forms of nonverbal communication demonstrated in the video, Language and Communication.
11. The video, Psychological Anthropology, deals with many cultural solutions to either social crisis or disease. Pick one culture’s way of dealing with this issue and tell in detail what the video talked about.