Adventure Orientation

Assignment Station
The subject of this chapter is probably the major focus of anthropology today: how and why cultures change. Three questions are presented here about culture change. 1) What is the source of a new trait? 2)Why are people motivated to adopt it? and 3) Is the new trait adaptive?
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Readings:
  • Chapter 17: Culture Change
  • Stearman. Chapter 6: The Mission, the Yuqui, and Cultural Survival 
Assignments:
  1. Quiz (Graded for 20 points. Due Friday )
  2. Time to finish permissions, photo links, essays, Travel Log comments, and questions.
  3. Begin preparing for Final Analysis (Graded for 30 points.  Due April 28th)
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Travel Log
  • Let's talk about diffusion of ideas. Name some notable diffusion of ideas into this country and describe why you think they were adopted? Were they adaptive or maladaptive? 
  • What ideas have diffused to the Yuqui?  What is the source of the change?  Are the new traits adaptive or maladaptive?  Why?  (Answer both questions.)

 

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