Question 1

How have anthropologists approached the definition of culture?

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Question 2

How do cultural anthropologists define gender? Discuss two examples of gender as cultural rather than "natural."

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Question 3

What is a microculture and what are some examples of important microcultures?

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Question 4

What is culture and what are three of its key characteristics?

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Question 5

Define the principles of ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, absolute cultural relativism and critical cultural relativism. Choose an issue and consider it from two of these perspectives.

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Question 6

Describe the past and present situation of the San peoples of Southern Africa; discuss the challenges they are currently facing and how they are seeking to rebuild their culture.

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Question 7

Describe one microculture that you know about from your personal experience, class lecture, class films, or reading. What makes this microculture distinct? What characteristics, if any, does it share with another microculture?

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Question 8

Discuss three examples of behavior that show how culture is not the same as nature.

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Question 9

Define the concept of holism and provide a cultural example.

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Question 10

Define globalization and localization and give an example of each.

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Quiz 1: Anthropology and the Study of Culture