Glossary:
Readings:
Diamond: Chapters 8, 9, & 10
Nolan & Lenski: Chapter 5
Presentations:
Glossary:
| achieved status | values | totemism |
| ascribed status | band | beliefs |
| carrying capacity | clan | cognitive ability |
| consensus | taboos | animism |
| customs | endogamy | hunting and gathering society |
| exchange reciprocity | exogamy | fecundity |
| fertility | gathering | headman |
| hunting and gathering era | infanticide | reciprocity |
| internalization | life expectancy | monogamy |
| population density | nomad | polyandry |
| polygamy | polygyny | shaman |
Essays:
On your next exam you will be asked to demonstrate that you have read and mastered the course material. You should take the time now to answer the following essay questions to create your study guide for that exam. Address the questions fully and completely in your own words and voice. Prepare your answers now.
According to Nolan and Lenski, what are the genetic foundations for sociocultural evolution?
Describe the economic system of hunting and gathering societies.
In what ways does the mode of production set limits on hunting and gathering social structure and culture?
Short
Answers:
The following short answer questions are from your readings and may well appear on your next exam. Each can be answered with a short paragraph of three or four sentences; please use your own words and voice. You are encouraged to answer these questions now to create your study guide for that exam.
According to Nolan and Lenski, what technological innovations occurred between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago?
What impact did these innovations have on population?
Why was the rate of population growth so low in hunting and gathering societies?
Why are most hunting and gathering groups nomadic?
Describe the political system of hunting and gathering societies.
On what basis and to what extent are hunting and gathering societies stratified?
Describe the cultural life of a typical hunting and gathering society.
What were the major factors limiting crop domestication among eastern U.S. Native Americans?
What is the autocatalytic process. Give an example.
What is the "Anna Karenna Principle" applied to the domestication of animals/
What were the advantages of the Fertile Crescent regarding early food production?
Why was the spread of crops from the Fertile Crescent so rapid?
What is the significance of the east-west axis of the Eurasian continent tot he spread of food crops?
What is it about the Americas that made the spread of food production more difficult than in Eurasia?
Persistence Hunting: