Question: 1. Contrast ritual behavior with ordinary behavior. Give examples of religious and secular rituals from readings and from your own life as well as from the "Baseball Magic" article. What are the main differences between such kinds of ritual?
2. What is a rite of passage? What three phases ordinarily constitute a rite of passage? Provide at least two different examples to illustrate your answer, be sure to include information from the video on the Apache puberty ceremony.
3. Describe, compare, and contrast the changes (focusing on economics and subsistence, but include how those areas of culture affect other areas) that are presented in the articles by Reed ("Forest Development the Indian Way") and Lee("The Hunters"). What kinds of changes have taken place between the anthropologists first encounters with these groups in relation to how they live today.
4. Describe, compare, and contrast the key aspects of the kinship systems (mother-child bond, descent, types and functions of marriage) presented in the Wolf ("Uterine Families"), McCurdy ("Family and Kinship"), Goldstein ("When Brothers Take a Wife"), and Scheper-Hughes ("Mother's Love").
5. What are the major types of food production? How does the reliance on food production affect the social, economic, and political organization of societies?