Welcome to Anthropology 100G:

Principles of Human Organization: Nonwestern Culture

Fall Semester 1999

Dr. Alexander Moore


Lecture Outlines: Week Five


Sept. 28, 199

PRE-MIDTERM REVIEW

  1. READING REQUIREMENTS

    1. CHS. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8! (note figures in book emphasized in lectures:
      1. Fig. 5.3, p. 115
      2. Fig. 5.5, p. 122
      3. Fig. 7.3, p. 160)

  2. MAJOR THEMES IN LECTURES
    1. PATTERNS OF COMMUNITY: CHIMPS AND HUNTERS AND GATHERERS (BAND SOCIETIES)
    2. PHYSICAL EVOLUTION OF HOMINIDS
    3. PRESSURES IN BOTH COMMUNITY FORM AND EVOLUTION:
      INTERNAL SOCIAL, EXTERNAL SOCIAL, PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT AND POTENTIAL RESOURCES
    4. RESULT: SOCIAL COMPLEXITY

  3. EMERGENT INSTITUTIONS IN BANDS
    1. FAMILY (PAIR BONDING IN MULTIMALE GROUP)
    2. RITUAL
    3. EXCHANGE AS CONDITIONED BY FAMILY, RITUAL, AND NEIGHBORS (e.g.: generalized, balanced, and negative reciprocity

  4. SPEECH: STORY-TELLING, MYTHS, VALUES AS MORAL GUIDES

  5. REVIEW OF SAMPLE EXAM