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
- READING REQUIREMENTS
- CHS. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8! (note figures in book emphasized in lectures:
- Fig. 5.3, p. 115
- Fig. 5.5, p. 122
- Fig. 7.3, p. 160)
- MAJOR THEMES IN LECTURES
- PATTERNS OF COMMUNITY: CHIMPS AND HUNTERS AND GATHERERS (BAND SOCIETIES)
- PHYSICAL EVOLUTION OF HOMINIDS
- PRESSURES IN BOTH COMMUNITY FORM AND EVOLUTION:
INTERNAL SOCIAL, EXTERNAL SOCIAL, PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT AND POTENTIAL RESOURCES
- RESULT: SOCIAL COMPLEXITY
- EMERGENT INSTITUTIONS IN BANDS
- FAMILY (PAIR BONDING IN MULTIMALE GROUP)
- RITUAL
- EXCHANGE AS CONDITIONED BY FAMILY, RITUAL, AND NEIGHBORS (e.g.: generalized, balanced, and negative reciprocity
- SPEECH: STORY-TELLING, MYTHS, VALUES AS MORAL GUIDES
- REVIEW OF SAMPLE EXAM