Directions - Answer the following 5 questions with approximately 80 words per question.
1. Why and how does epistemology matter in relation to knowledge?
2. What are the central groundings of of Darwinian evolution? How does evolution explain the changes in contemporary humans from earlier human populations? (For example, what capacity is central to the development of tools, language and culture?) Brief examples are helpful here.
3. When anthropology is described as a discipline that is both "holistic" and "comparative" what does this mean? Cite at least one example of each. (If you're on example 4, you're doing too many)
4. Since totalobjectivity is considered by most academic disciplines to be impossible, identify a basis upon which it is reasonable in the social sciences to choose a theory as the basis for academic work?
5. How are culture and perception of the cultural "others" in the world (briefly, "others" in anthropology can be understood as anyone who is not a member of your culture). Provide an example. Why does this matter in studies done by cultural anthropologists?