CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 200 -
KNOWLEDGE SURVEY - LESSONS 7 - 11
This is a Knowledge Survey rather than a test. There are no right or wrong answers. While you will not be graded on this survey, please be very candid in your responses!

By completing this survey, both at the beginning and at the end of the lessons your instructor will be able to gauge your initial level of knowledge and then measure the amount of knowledge you gain during the semester. This information will help your instructor modify and improve the course and program.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Read each statement carefully and then choose a response based on the following instructions:

Choose 1=V.LOW as your response to the item if you are not at all confident in your skills in the area and do not feel you can demonstrate these skills on a test/essay/research paper.

Choose 2=LOW as your response to the item if you feel only minimally confident about your skills in the area and can barely demonstrate these skills at a reasonable level on a test/essay/research paper.

Choose 3=MEDIUM as your response to the item if you feel fairly confident about your skills in the area and can demonstrate these skills at a reasonable level on a test/essay/research paper.

Choose 4=HIGH as your response to the item if you feel quite confident about your skills in the area and can demonstrate these skills at a high level on a test/essay/research paper.

Choose 5=V.HIGH as your response to the item if you feel extremely confident about your skills in the area and can demonstrate these skills at a very high level on a test/essay/research paper.

PLEASE EVALUATE YOUR ABILITY TO DEMONSTRATE
EACH OF THE FOLLOWING SKILLS:


Type In Your Name and the Code Word -- (See the Instructions on Our WebCT BB)
-
CHECK A BUTTON TO INDICATE THE BEGINNING OR END OF THIS SERIES OF LESSONS: 		BEGINNING END
-
-
-
LESSON # 7 "PATTERNS OF SUBSISTENCE: FOOD FORAGERS & PASTORALISTS"
- Student Learning Outcomes -
Upon successful completion of ANTH.200, the student should be able to:

V.LOW
1 		2 MIDDLE
3 		4 V.HIGH
5
-
L7-1. Understand that culture is the mechanism by which humans meet their basic survival needs.
-
L7-2. Define adaptation.
-
L7-3. Describe the concept of culture area.
-
L7-4. Compare the European settler's use of the Great Plains culture area with that of the native American Indians.
-
L7-5. Describe the importance of food-foraging, or hunter-gathering subsistence pattern.
-
L7-6. Describe the characteristics of a hunting-gathering way of life and cite example of this kind of society.
-
L7-7. Identify several elements of human social organization that developed as a result of the food-foraging way of life.
-
L7-8. Explain why the hunting-gathering way of life promotes "egalitarianism" among its members.
-
L7-9. Describe the characteristics of the pastoral way of life and cite examples of pastoral cultures.
-
-
-
LESSON # 8 "PATTERNS OF SUBSISTENCE: HORTICULTURE & AGRICULTURE"
- Student Learning Outcomes -
Upon successful completion of ANTH.200, the student should be able to:

V.LOW
1 		2 MIDDLE
3 		4 V.HIGH
5
-
L8-1. Describe the significance of the transition from hunting-gathering to a food-producing way of life. Identify when this transition first occurred.
-
L8-2. Describe the characteristics of the horticultural pattern of subsistence. Cite examples of horticultural societies.
-
L8-3. Describe the natural environments in which food-producing ways of life are found.
-
L8-4. Describe intensive agriculture and its relationship to the rise of cities.
-
L8-5. Briefly describe the characteristics of pre-industrial urban life.
-
-
-
LESSON # 9 "ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY"
- Student Learning Outcomes -
Upon successful completion of ANTH.200, the student should be able to:

V.LOW
1 		2 MIDDLE
3 		4 V.HIGH
5
-
L9-1. Define economic system.
-
L9-2. Recognize that natural resources, labor, and technology are essential ingredients for the production of goods and services.
-
L9-3. Describe three patterns for the sexual division of labor and a typical pattern of division of labor by age in a traditional society.
-
L9-4. Describe various ways land resources may be allocated for purposes of economic production.
-
L9-5. Define technology and describe two examples of technological knowledge in nonindustrial societies.
-
L9-6. Define and describe three systems of distributing goods in nonindustrial societies: reciprocity, redistribution, and market exchange.
-
L9-7. Describe barter (including silent trade) as a form of negative reciprocity.
-
L9-8. Describe the conditions necessary for redistribution to emerge as a system of economic distribution.
-
L9-9. Explain the potlatch of the Kwakiutl Indian as a display of wealth and a "leveling mechanism."
-
L9-10. Describe the functions of the marketplace in non-industrial societies.
-
L9-11. Explain why expansion of business ventures into Third-World countries makes the study of economic anthropology important.
-
-
-
LESSON # 10 "THE HIGHLAND MAYA - A CASE STUDY IN ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY"
- Student Learning Outcomes -
Upon successful completion of ANTH.200, the student should be able to:

V.LOW
1 		2 MIDDLE
3 		4 V.HIGH
5
-
L10-1. Describe the subsistence pattern of the Highland Maya.
-
L10-2. Describe the functions and importance of cargo positions in the Maya society.
-
L10-3. Explain in what ways the cargo system serves as a leveling mechanism among the Maya.
-
L10-4. Discuss how the cargo system contributes to a feeling of community and regional solidarity and the importance of such solidarity.
-
L10-5. Explain how the cargo system of the Maya helps to maintain inequalities between the Maya Indians and the mestizos.
-
-
-
LESSON # 11 "SEX AND MARRIAGE"
- Student Learning Outcomes -
Upon successful completion of ANTH.200, the student should be able to:

V.LOW
1 		2 MIDDLE
3 		4 V.HIGH
5
-
L11-1. Define marriage from a cross-cultural perspective.
-
L11-2. Define incest taboo and suggest several explanations for its cultural universality.
-
L11-3. Distinguish between endogamy and exogamy and describe their purposes.
-
L11-4. Define the following forms of marriage: monogamy, polygyny, polyandry, group marriage, serial monogamy, levirate and sororate, and indicate their relative frequency.
-
L11-5. Contrast the mate selection patterns of more traditional societies with those of present-day North American societies.
-
L11-6. Describe the custome of bride price, bride service, and dowry.
-
L11-7. Recognize the wide variety of customs and traditions regarding divorce.
-
-
-
Student Learning Outcomes -
Upon successful completion of ANTH 200, the student should be able to:
-

V.LOW
1 		2 MIDDLE
3 		4 V.HIGH
5
-
L0-1. Compare the topics and interactions of the major subfields of cultural anthropology including archaeology, ethnology and linguistics.
-
L0-2 Explain how anthropologists study economics, the family, kinship, political and religious systems, personality development, creative expression and cultural change.
-
L0-3 Explain how applied anthropological research can be used in social planning and development and in problem solving.
-
L0-4 Demonstrate and understanding of culture useful in discussing cross-cultural issues in Hawaii, the United States and the world.
-
L0-5 Describe several cultures in Africa, Europe and the Americas, including their adaptation, language, political and social systems and problems.
-
L0-6 Describe several cultures in Asia and the Pacific Islands including their adaptation, language, political and social systems and problems.
-
L0-7 Describe careers in health, human services, education and other fields using anthropological perspectives.
-
L0-8 Produce a research report based on fieldwork to describe a subcultural scene in Hawaii using college-level writing.
-
L0-9 Produce a research report based on published ethnographic fieldwork to describe another culture using college-level writing and citations.

MAHALO NUI FOR COMPLETING THE
ANTHROPOLOGY 200
KNOWLEDGE SURVEY!