1. What is ethnography, how it relates to ethnology, and how both relate to fieldwork? Explain using examples.

2. Discuss your favorite anthropological theory. Explain your choice using examples. 

3. Why and how is human culture changing? Explain, use examples.

4. Explain resilience, stability, and equilibrium.

5. Describe the lifestyle of a foraging community. What are the key principles of the foraging subsistence pattern? Use one of the groups discussed in class, or in the textbook, as example.

6. Discuss the principles of horticultural lifestyle. Use the Yanomamo as example. What in your opinion is the most significant cultural achievement of people who follow this kind of subsistence? Explain your choice.

7. Why do the Yanomamo fight? Discuss using arguments from class readings.

8. Why do you think people gave up foraging for agriculture? Was this transition beneficial to all people? Why or why not?

9. What is the significance of Darwin’s concept of natural selection for the anthropological goal of explaining cultural diversity and change?

10. Historically, nomadic pastoralists, like the Mongols and the Turks, have often conquered settled agriculturalists. Discuss their subsistence strategies and why they gave them political and military advantage?

11. What are the consequences of mobility for the technology, social organization, and political organization of hunter-gatherers and pastoral societies?

12. Compare the type of sociopolitical organization identified among the foraging, horticultural, and pastoral societies. Use examples from class readings.

13. Discuss the gender based division of labor among foraging, horticultural and pastoral societies. What similarities and differences do you see? How could you explain them? Use examples from class readings.

14. Discuss evolution. Distinguish between lineal and multilineal evolution. How do these ideas apply to changes observable in human culture?

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