ANTHRO 104 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tagula Island, Endogamy, Patrilineality
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Format of the test is 20 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer (could be one word to a sentence or two), and two short essay questions (about a paragraph or so). Notes from the movie first contact video was from tribe on papua new guinea. The people taking the footage weren"t actually anthropologists but miners looking for gold. The natives thought the brothers were spirits of their dead ancestors coming back. They figured out they were really human beings by examining the feces and the women had sex with them. Something very distinct in the movie was the territorial line. Another important theme in the movie was exploitation. Before the miners came to the island, there wasn"t really a system of leaders in place and once the miners were there, they became sort of the leaders. Also, the brothers got the natives to work for them and bartered for women (were bought for shells).
