Back up your final answers with examples from the
lecture and texts.
1. What are some problems with the model Morgan created?
2. What aspects of American, or another nation’s, culture mimic the Kula ritual
discussed by Malinowski? Why is the Kula ritual so important to the islanders?
3. If Mead views other non-Western societies as “primitive people”, would she be able
to remove the biases she speaks out against while studying the adolescent girls in
Samoa? Do you feel that these theorists were able to put aside their biases when
writing their ethnographies?
4. When attempting to study a culture, where is the happy medium between being an
impartial observer and submerging oneself into a culture to fully understand it?
5. How have the personal lives of these theorists affected how they viewed the cultures
they studied and how they viewed anthropology in general?
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