ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Emic And Etic, Margaret Mead, Franz Boas
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Study questions for the first mid-term exam: you will be writing two short essays (300 words two pages i. e. , two sides max for each answer!) Note that the exam is worth 20 marks -- 10 marks are for the two essays (5 marks each) and the remaining 10 marks are for 10 true/false and 10 multiple choice questions, i. e. , mark each. If you have any questions about the exam, please ask me in class: anthropology as a discipline has often been criticized for its strong links with colonialism. Explain in your own words why you agree or disagree with the contention that anthropology is \(or was) a handmaiden of the colonial project. However, he notes that on empirical grounds, these moments of valorization and critique of human inequality have opposite excesses, in that, in practical terms, the delineation of human diversity and the exposure of inequality work at cross-purposes.
