ANTH 103- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 17 pages long!)

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 103
• Professor: Finley

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Required text: serena nanda and richard l. warms, cultural anthropology, 11th edition. It is common for anthropologist to feel confused and disoriented when they first arrive to their field sites: postmodernism has not been accepted now by all anthropologists, historical linguistics studies how languages are related to each other. Pe(cid:374)(cid:272)er"s descriptive sociology: globalization has changed the ways that anthropologists work and write. Le(cid:449)is he(cid:374)r(cid:455) morga(cid:374)"s a(cid:374)d ed(cid:449)ard t(cid:455)lor"s (cid:862)e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374)ar(cid:455) a(cid:374)thropolog(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:449)as the stud(cid:455) of the history of human society from simple technology and social institutions to complex ones. It manipulates dangerous and controversial themes in american culture: researchers who study interpersonal space generally refer to three different ranges of space. Language has many symbolic components, and it is considered a symbol system: a tuareg man wears his veil at different positions on his face in different social situations. Increasing domination by large corporate farming operations and decline of family farm.