Course Summmary

What we're going to think about for review is what we did.
And we had the topics that we looked
at were we introduced anthropology and we were talking about things like ethnocentrism and
cultural relativism. And of course, food taboos were front and center for that discussion. And
then we talked about methods, which really has to do with critical thinking and even in terms of
the information you're getting about something like a pandemic. How do you read that critically?
How do you understand that information? So know that field work was talking about how
anthropologists do their research, but to give you a toolkit to think critically. You are relying on
someone like me to give you an account of what it is like somewhere.
And so you want to think about that as both the strength and the weakness of doing anthropology
is you're getting firsthand data, but firsthand data through the eyes of a cultural person. And then
one of the other major themes throughout the class was globalization. So for thinking about
patterns of culture, our topics were subsistence, economics, kinship, marriage, gender,
Stratification, political organization, the impact of globalization. So for each of our case studies,
you should think, oh, wait, all right. What was the subsistence? What is their economic system
does the does this fit with the pattern or is it atypical? And if it's atypical why uh there and know
that for some areas, it's not like there's so much variety that you can't say there's a pattern with
that subsistence.
And a good example of that would be horticultural kinship systems. It's just, you find everything.
Whereas if you're talking about kinship and pastoralism, you're going to have a clear pattern
there. Hey, where are the people you've learned about? Our film, The Anthropologist, so that was
our film that we did the week on field work. One of the places that you got to see the first place,
the Saka, they were in Siberia. And they were pastoralists, but they were sedentary pastoralists,
right? Remember what their houses looked like? So know that you got to see, that was your first
chance to see... But no, it was in a film where we saw a lot of different cultures. So it's not one of
those ones where I'm going to be able to ask you, hey, what was family life like?
You just didn't see enough to be able to answer that. But in that film, you got to see Siberia. And
then here is Kiribati. And you can see here you've got Kiribati. Here you have Australia. Here
you've got Papua New Guinea. Here you've got Indonesia. Down here, you've got Java and Bali.
And look, here's the Philippines. So again, Kiribati right in Polynesia. And they were
horticultural. And you also got to see that globalized plantation element and the impacts of
climate change on the disruption of a village lifestyle. Peru. And of course, Peru was agriculture.
And obviously now for anyone, wait, where did I put it? Oh, here. Anyone who likes potatoes,
you have to be very grateful for Peru's existence. And again, so that was also where you got to
see shaved ice.
A week on subsistence. It was a big unit, so we actually had more than one film. But again, we
have the world, and this is where we got to see our one typical foraging group. We did see
another group of foragers. So this is the Kung of the Kalahari Desert, so I'm pointing to you on
the world map. The Kalahari Desert, and you can see that part of it is in South Africa. You've got
some that's in Zimbabwe. You've got Namibia. The world does not conform. Nation states don't
conform to geographic lines. So they conform to post-colonial lines. So if you think about bitter
melons in the San, think about some of those features. What type of economic system did the
San have?
Kinship. What type of kinship system do you find amongst pedestrian foragers? So when you
think kinship system, the first thing you want to think is like having a big extended family a good
thing or not having it. Do you want to have tons of relatives or do you want to have clear lines
about who's in and who's outside of the group? Of marriage? Well, if you need to be mobile,
what's the best type of marriage to have? equality. So gender or, and in this case, equality in
gender. How equal or stratified do we find foraging groups? And you want to think about those
factors like contributions to the material welfare, everybody, right? Access to key resources,
everybody. The, the issues regarding dissent systems.
So does it, is it patrilineal matrilineal those ones? It's hard to know, but yes, egalitarian. So it's
gender egalitarian and it's also politically egalitarian. And what type of political organization do
we find for forging groups? Uh, Papua New Guinea. So. We, our first worlds apart was in the
trobrian islands where malinowski did his research trobrian islands uh trobrian islands
horticultural uh let's think, so, uh, the subsistence is horticultural their um their economic system.
So horticultural, yams, yam hot What type of organizing principle do we have in horticultural
groups for their economics? For the Trobriand Islanders who are matrilineal, but avunculocal,
you could still see gender roles, but you also saw that women and men were both valued. But in
terms of absolute labor,
women seem to do consistent labor and men would do labor in spurts. What is the political
organization that we find for the tropian Islands? You know, it's a chiefdom because when he
arrives, he's like, I'm the chief. But then when he gets the village, he also sees like, oh, there are a
bunch of other chiefs. And he know, you know, if someone's a chief by that marker. So if they're
a chiefdom, you also know that that part of the power of a chief is that they can command
redistribution. And that means also, what is the stratification if you're a chiefdom? That's a
ranked society. Chiefdoms are ranked because you have the inherited position of chief. While
most foragers have, so know that they're atypical in so many different ways.
Foragers have usually lots and lots of different food items. but for northwest coast indians fish,
but what kind of fish? Salmon. Think about the way they process that salmon. And then that's the
way they do their representation so they are so they are they are foragers but unlike most
foragers, they are sedentary. Unlike most foragers, they have long houses, right? Those heavy
wooden houses. unlike most foragers, they have a lot of heavy stuff. Unlike most foragers, they
have different types of political organization. They have something part they've got big men and
they have chiefs. So you can't even say like, oh, like what is their political organization? Because
they fall between the categories. They have more than one thing going on at the same time.
And of course, relying on that one food item gives them a mono diet that looks a bit more like
horticultural groups because horticultural groups, again, the majority of your calories come from
that chief crop that you just plant over and over again. The Mosuo who, who have no marriage,
um, they are in China. So let's look where they are. They're in this province of China. So look,
we got Vietnam, Laos, Burma. And then if we get to Yunnan here, you're getting this in detail.
And then even more detail, this is that area where you find those 13 culture groups that don't
have marriage. But what was the subsistence of the Mosuo? So agriculture, And if you're
agriculture, what is your economic system? Matrilineal.
Yes. And in terms of marriage, they were special because they don't have marriage. Now, in
terms of gender, know that because they don't have a like they don't because of their not being
marriage, you don't have a residence pattern. You stay in your house for life. You trace your
relatives through the female line. Both males and females are owners of property, so they are
relatively an egalitarian society, which is very uncommon for agricultural groups for gender
egalitarian. Then we also looked at Dottie's family. Dottie's family would be a more typical
agricultural group, so we're going to be thinking here on Earth. So it was the Haryana district is
where we found Dottie's family. And again, here you can just see that more clearly.
Then the next for our week on gender, we looked at the Maasai. The Maasai were pastoralists.
Pastoralists, one of the first things you want to think, are they sedentary or are they nomadic or
are they semi-nomadic? Maasai or semi-nomadic? The issue of being nomadic versus sedentary
is like the American stuff versus not having a lot of stuff. If you move around a lot, you're
always going to have less stuff. If you're a pastoralist, you can use your animals to carry some
stuff, so you will have more. But again, compared to an agriculturalist, you look like the ultimate
minimalist. So for the Maasai, They've got a market economy. Their kinship system, patrilineal.
Their marriage pattern, patrilocal. They are polygynous, and therefore they have bride wealth,
right?
So you got to see that wedding. Know that one of the interesting things is that you got to see the
woman's part of the wedding. Do you know what the man's part of the wedding is? Dropping off
the cattle. their side of it is like, it's nothing to do, like the bride follows after. The men, the man's
part of the wedding is men in relationship to men. The woman's part of the wedding is the
women related to other women. And it's why that is so much more important. Notice she does
not sleep with her husband until five nights after the wedding. And that's letting you know that
it's more important that she's adjusted the other women of the village than it is for her to start
worrying about like reproducing with her husband.
The husband relationship is less important than a woman in relationship to the other women. And
you get to see that as well in the marriage where the man's part of it has to do with the
transactions with other men. So here, Kenya, messiah are here in the southern region. And then
just a little bit more, right? And here's Nairobi, but core is up here. Then we got to see the Qualca
of Papua New Guinea. And again, Papua New Guinea, great examples of horticultural groups.
Horticultural, so that's their subsistence. What's the chief crop? So yams, tapioca. So the Quokka
of Papua New Guinea were our example. You got to see Anka's big mocha in the Highland areas
of Papua New Guinea. So again, this is showing you that same one, but instead they are in this
Highland area.
So the Trobriand that you've got all that ocean around them, they're wealthier. So they're a
chiefdom. And then here in the Highland area, you have Anka and it's a tribe. And of course it
showed you in really great detail, tribal organization. And here is the region that you find the
Quokka. And so it's a redistribution economy. You got to see the Mocha, which is a big
redistribution event. In terms of kinship, you can't really tell, but they're patrilineal. Uh, you
know that the marriage pattern is polygynous, right? because Anka had four wives and he got a
fifth one while we were, while we were watching. Um, of course they've got those pigs so that
you also have bride wealth. Look at Kenya. We've got over here, we, we go to africa and here
you've got kenya there's nairobi you're gonna have the messi down here.
And here is the marzabet Here you've got the Ren Dilley. Okay, so that's just to give you a sense
of where on earth all of the people that you learned about are from.
Unit 1: Introduction to Anthropology and Primary Concepts

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Unit 1: Introduction to Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology
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Unit 1: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Feb 22
4 pts
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Unit 1: Cultural Relativism Deep Understanding
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Unit 1: What is Needed in the era of AI
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Unit 1: Reading Shakespeare in the Bush
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Unit 1: Reading Micro-assessment: Shakespeare in the Bush
Feb 22
1 pts
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Unit 1: Reading Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
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Unit 1: Discussion Assignment Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
Feb 22
8 pts
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Unit 1: Food Taboos Case Study
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Unit 1: Insulting Food Names
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Unit 1: An Exploration of the Connection Between Food and Cultural
Identity
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Unit 1: Recap of Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism
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Unit 1: Exploration of the Recap
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Unit 1: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Timed Exam OBJECTIVE
PORTION
Feb 24
10 pts
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Unit 1: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology ESSAY PORTION
Feb 24
7 pts
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Unit 1: End of Unit Participation Introduction
Feb 24
1 pts
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Unit 1: Congratulations You Finished Introduction to Cultural
Anthropology Module
Unit 2: Fieldwork: Doing Cultural

Anthropology
Unit 2: Fieldwork: Doing Cultural Anthropology
Prerequisites: Unit 1: Introduction to Anthropology and Primary
Concepts
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Unit 2: Fieldwork Module Preview
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Be sure to have Comments sent to you in settings
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Unit 2: Fieldwork and Ethnography: How to do Cultural Anthropology
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Unit 2: Fieldwork Preview of Assignment
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Unit 2: Fieldwork Introducing Methods Part One
Feb 29
1.75 pts
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Unit 2: Fieldwork Chapter Reading: Development, Practice and
Considerations of Fieldwork
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Unit 2: Fieldwork: Chapter Reading Micro-Assessment
Feb 29
3 pts
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Unit 2: Fieldwork Introducing Methods Part Two
Feb 29
2 pts
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Unit 2: Reading How to Do Fieldwork in the Music Industry
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Unit 2: Fieldwork: Ask the Anthropologist
Unit 2: Fieldwork Film: The Anthropologists
Feb 29
6 pts
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Unit 2: Fieldwork Exit Criteria Quiz/Examination
Mar 2
21 pts
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Unit 2: Do a Practical Field Study Observation
Mar 2
20 pts
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Unit 2: End of Unit Participation Fieldwork
Mar 2
2 pts
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Unit 2: Fieldwork Double Check
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Unit 2: Congratulations You Finished This Week's Module on Fieldwork
and Methods
Unit 3: Subsistence
Unit 3: Subsistence
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Unit 3: Module Overview Subsistence
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Unit 3: Introduction to Subsistence
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Unit 3: Chapter Subsistence: Foodways in Different Environments
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Unit 3: Reading Micro-Assessment Subsistence Chapter
Mar 7
4 pts
SubmittedModule item submitted and is complete
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Unit 3: Introduction to Subsistence
Mar 9
4.5 pts
Scored at least 2.0Module item has been completed by scoring at
least 2.0
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Unit 3: Traditional Foraging: Then and Now
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Unit 3: Bitter Melons
Unit 3: Bitter Melons Assignment
Mar 7
6.5 pts
ContributedContributed to this module item and is complete
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Unit 3: Subsistence Pastoralism to Industrialism
Mar 9
3.5 pts
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least 1.0
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Unit 3: Subsistence Visualization
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Unit 3: Case Study: Worlds Apart Trobriand Islands & Americans
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Unit 3: Video Micro-Assessment Trobriand Island World's Apart
Mar 9
2 pts
Unit 3: Worlds Apart - Trobriand Islands Discussion Board to Share
about the Case Study
Mar 9
3 pts
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Unit 3: Subsistence Exam: Part One OBJECTIVE style
Mar 9
15 pts
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Unit 3: Subsistence Exam: Part Two WRITING
Mar 9
6 pts
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Unit 3: End of Unit Participation Subsistence
Mar 9
1 pts
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Unit 3: Congratulations You Finished This Week's Module Subsistence
Unit 4: Economics in Different Cultural

Systems: Systems of Exchange
Unit 4: Economics in Different Cultural Systems: Systems of
Exchange
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Unit 4: Module Overview Economics
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Economics- The Meaning of Exchanges
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Economics Fundamental Reading
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Unit 4: Economics Chapter Reading Micro Assessment
Mar 16
4 pts
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Unit 4: Economics: Lecture Overview
Mar 14
7 pts
Unit 4: Economics Discussion Reciprocity
Mar 14
7 pts
Unit 4: Economics Case Study: Crooked Beak of Heaven
Mar 14
4 pts
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Unit 4: Research Assignment: Link to Assignment
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Unit 4: Economics: Records of Obligations
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Unit 4: Money
Mar 16
3 pts
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Unit 4: Economics Exit Quiz Part One OBJECTIVE
Mar 16
18 pts
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Unit 4: Exit Standard Quiz Part Two WRITTEN
Mar 16
6 pts
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Unit 4: Economics Assignment Researching Crooked Beak of Heaven
Mar 16
6 pts
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Unit 4: Congratulations You Finished This Week's Module Economic
Systems
Unit 5: Kinship and Marriage

Unit 5: Kinship and Marriage
Module Completed
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Unit 5: Module Overview Family Organization
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Unit 5: Marriage and Households: Patterns in Different Societies
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Unit 5: Introduction to "Family"
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Unit 5: Chapter Reading on Kinship and Marriage
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Unit 5: Kinship and Marriage Reading timed quiz
Mar 21
6 pts
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Unit 5: Kinship Presentation Who is Family
Mar 21
4.5 pts
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Unit 5: The Cultures that Don't Have Marriage
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Unit 5: The Mosou Today
Unit 5: Considering the Mosou
Mar 21
3 pts
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Unit 5: Kinship Kin Terms and Systems of Kin Terms
Mar 21
4 pts
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Key Kinship Charts for Reference
Unit 5: Case Study Discussion Marriage and Family Life in India: Dadi's
Family
Mar 21
6 pts
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Dadi's Family Case Study Names and Kin Terms for Reference
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Unit 5: Marriage Lecture Part One
Mar 23
3.5 pts
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Unit 5: Fraternal Polyandry
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Unit 5: Fraternal Polyandry Clip
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Unit 5: Marriage Residences and Contracts
Mar 23
2 pts
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Unit 5: Arranged Marriages
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Unit 5: Arranged Marriages
Mar 23
3 pts
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Unit 5: Kinship Assignment Applying the Concepts Chart Literacy
Mar 23
20 pts
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Unit 5: Kinship/Marriage Exit Quiz Part One
Mar 23
20 pts
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Unit 5: Kinship/Marriage Exit Quiz Part Two
Mar 23
10 pts
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Unit 5: End of Unit Participation Family Life
Mar 23
2 pts
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Unit 5: Double Check all tasks are completed in this Unit
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Unit 5: Congratulations You've Completed the Unit
Unit 6: Gender
Unit 6: Gender
Module Completed
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Unit 6: Module Overview Gender
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Unit 6: Gender and Gender Inequality
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Unit 6: Introduction to Gender
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Unit 6: Reading Chapter on Gender
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Unit 6: Gender Reading Quiz
Mar 28
4 pts
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Unit 6 Introduction to Gender Lecture
Mar 28
5 pts
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Unit 6: Exploring additional Genders Cross Culturally
Unit 6: Gender and Communication
Mar 28
6 pts
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Gender Stratification
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Unit 6: Gender Stratification
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Unit 6: Gendercide
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Unit 6: Gender and the One Child Policy in China an Update
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Unit 6: Explorations in Gender Stratification
Mar 30
10 pts
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Unit 6: Case Study Masai Women
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Unit 6: Masai Women Micro-assessment
Mar 30
4 pts
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Unit 6: Gender in Film
Apr 2
6 pts
Unit 6: Sharing Results
Apr 2
2.5 pts
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Unit 6: Exit Criteria Essay Exam Gender
Mar 30
10 pts
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Unit 6: Congratulations You Finished This Weeks Module on Gender
Unit 7: Political Organization and Social

Stratification
Unit 7: Political Organization and Social Stratification
Module Completed
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Unit 7: Module Overview Social Control and Stratification
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Politics & Social Stratification
Unit 7: Choosing Project for "Food Where Does it Come From" Due at
the End of Unit 8
Apr 4
1 pts
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Unit 7: Chapter Readings on Politics
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Unit 7: Stratification Reading Quiz Micro Assessment
Apr 4
4 pts
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Unit 7: Political Organization and Social Stratification Part One
Apr 4
4 pts
Unit 7: Let's talk about Ongka's Big Moka
Apr 4
6 pts
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Unit 7: Political Organization and Social Stratification Part Two
Apr 6
3 pts
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Unit 7: Consequences of Ethnic Division
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Unit 7: Social Inequality and the East Side
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Unit 7: Social Stratification
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Unit 7: Objective Questions Political Organization and Social
Stratification
Apr 6
27 pts
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Unit 7: Essay Portion Politics and Degrees of Inequality
Apr 6
10 pts
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Unit 7: End of Unit Participation Social Inequality
Apr 6
2 pts
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Get Started On your Food Biography Assignment
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Unit 7: Congratulations You Finished This Weeks Module Social Control
Unit 8: Globalization: The World Today

and Summary
Unit 8: Globalization: The World Today and Summary
Module In Progress
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Unit 8: Module Overview Globalization and Synthesis
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Globalization
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Unit 8: Power Colonialism Globalization
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Unit 8: Reading Power Conquest
Apr 11
5 pts
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Unit 8: Culture Change and Contact
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Unit 8: Understanding Contact in Relationship to European
Expansionism
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Unit 8: Colonial Legacies Map
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Unit 8: The Urge for Spices and Exotic Medicines
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Unit 8: Why People Can't Feed Themselves
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Unit 8: How the Potato Contributed to the Modern World
Unit 8: Worlds Apart: Rendille
Apr 11
7 pts
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Unit 8: The Price of Progress
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Unit 8: Globalization Exit Quiz Objective Style/Short answer
Apr 11
17 pts
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Unit 8: Link to Your Food Biography Assignment
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Preparing for the Finals
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Review: Where the primary case studies are located
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🥚 Holistic Anthropology in Song
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Cumulative: Institutions and Case Studies
Apr 13
46 pts
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Kinship Charts and Globalization/Big Theme Essays

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What we're going to think about for review is what we did.

And we had the topics that we looked

someone like me to give you an account of what it is like somewhere.

see shaved ice.

everybody. The, the issues regarding dissent systems.

terms of absolute labor,

agriculture, what is your economic system? Matrilineal.

worrying about like reproducing with her husband.

Unit 1: Introduction to Anthropology and Primary Concepts

Unit 2: Fieldwork: Doing Cultural

Unit 4: Economics in Different Cultural

Unit 5: Kinship and Marriage

Unit 7: Political Organization and Social

Unit 8: Globalization: The World Today

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