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Answer Questions (Session 2)

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Using your own words, provide short answers for the following questions. You may use you book to help you understand but write your own interpretation and give examples from your own culture. (20 points)

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Give Short Answers to the Following Questions:

2. List the four fields of anthropology and some of the sub fields of each division.

3. When I say I am an anthropologist people ask, "What do you dig?" How would you explain that I work with "living" people.

4. In you own words explain what it means to be an applied anthropologist.

5. In your own words explain ethnocentrism and give an example.

6. If culture is a learned behavior, are humans the only animals to have culture? Why or why not? Give examples.

7. Ask two people to stand and talk to each other. What is the measurement of the distance between their feet?
inches.

7.1. What is the sex of the couple?

Male/Male
Male/Female
Female/Female

7.2. Do they make eye contact as they speak?

Yes
No

(Your answers will be put in a table for you to analyze at another time.)

8. What do we mean that a custom is adaptive? Maladaptive?
Describe an example from your own culture for each which is different from the book.

9. In your first essay about your own culture did you have difficulty describing it?

Why do we say culture is integrated?

10. Think of a recent culture change in your own culture and describe it.

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