Anthropolgy Review Sheet 9-11

Question 1

What is the “dead other”?

Answer 1

Those who were “other” in life and death.

Question 2

What are the two links between anthropology and the dead other?

Answer 2

1. 19th-century anthropology is part of creating the “dead other.”
2. 20th-century anthropology tries to end the treatment of the “dead other.”

Question 3

What is the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)

Answer 3

The act allows Native graves to be protected and not buried and returns the remains that were taken.

Question 4

What are the two problems with returning remains and funerary items?

Answer 4

1. Haven’t been cataloged
2. Bought by private collectors

Question 5

Who was Geronimo

Answer 5

The Apache chief and shaman

Question 6

What is Skull and Bones

Answer 6

A society for undergraduate seniors

Question 7

What is Freshkills Landfill

Answer 7

The landfill used for the debris from 9/11

Question 8

What is anthropophagy

Answer 8

cannibalism

Question 9

What is a taboo?

Answer 9

Things that shouldn’t be done
1. objects not to be touched
2. words not to be spoken
3. actions not to be done

Question 10

What are the four kinds of anthropophagy?

Answer 10

1. psychopathic (Dahmer)
2. survival (Oregon Trail-Donner Party, 1846)
3. ritualistic (The Mexica)
4. dietary (You’re eating people by choice)

Question 11

What are the four kinds of anthropophagy?

Answer 11

1. psychopathic (Dahmer)
2. survival (Oregon Trail-Donner Party, 1846)
3. ritualistic (The Mexica)
4. dietary (You’re actually eating people)

Question 12

What are the four kinds of anthropophagy?

Answer 12

1. psychopathic (Dahmer)
2. survival (Oregon Trail-Donner Party, 1846)
3. ritualistic (The Mexica)
4. dietary (You’re actually eating people)

Question 13

What is the highest respect of anthropophagy

Answer 13

ritualistic cannibalism

Question 14

What is the lowest respect of anthropophagy

Answer 14

dietary cannibalism

Question 15

Why did anthropologists construct the cannibal other?

Answer 15

The “other” is so different from us (culturally) that they probably eat people. So we can other them.

Question 16

How will the decisions we make today change tomorrow?

Answer 16

We have the CHOICE to do what we want with our lives

Question 17

What period are we currently in?

Answer 17

The Anthropocene

Question 18

What has been at the foundation of the human species’s success

Answer 18

migration

Question 19

What is cultural DNA?

Answer 19

a collection of genetic instructions used in any culture’s growth, development, functioning, and reproduction.

Question 20

What are the Great Truths of Human Migration?

Answer 20

1. Lead to ethnic and cultural diversity
2. Most powerful force of cultural, economic, and political change
3. It will continue to shape the future of humanity and our world

Question 21

What are the main reasons for human migration?

Answer 21

1. social instabiltiy
2. environmental change
3. economic opportunity

Question 22

What are the two kinds of migration?

Answer 22

1. Voluntary (guest workers, immigrants) or forced (refugees, asylum seekers, people being deported)
2. Temporary or permanent

Question 23

What are the four great human migrations?

Answer 23

1. Out of Africa
2. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (16th century-19th century)
   influences: music, culture, art, politics, literature,
   sports, science, economics
3. Western Europeans’ migration to the Americas (18th century-19th century
   influences: mutated Western Europe, death of
   millions of natives due to disease and the
   destruction of culture (manifest destiny/reservation
   systems
4. Global Migration (mid 20th century-21th century)
   influences: globalization (healthcare, agriculture,elections in Europe and the United States focused on migration)

Question 24

The three main reasons for migration

Answer 24

1. Climate Change
2. Conflict
3. Social/Economic Chaos

Question 25

Could we have a next fifth migration? If so, what will we be?

Answer 25

yes, and we would be an extraterrestrial species