Answer 6 questions about Small Places, Large Issues by Eriksen, Thomas Hylland, Cultural Anthropology Quiz

Book used: Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology 3rd edition by Eriksen, Thomas Hylland.

1.
 What arenormsandsanctionsand how are they related? How do norms
and sanctions provide insight about different social systems and societies? In
your response please be sure to draw from andproperly
citespecific passages from
relevant readings, to include pertinent authors and debates, as well as your
experiences to support your answer.

2.  Define and
compare/contrastsocial
structure,social
organization,social
systems, andsocial
networks. In your response please be sure to draw from andproperly citespecific passages from relevant
readings, to include pertinent authors and debates, as well as your experiences
to support your answer.

3.  Consider the question ofkinshipanddescent.
The readings suggest that depending on the cultural context, kinship has very
specific definitions that are neither simply biological nor reducible to social
relatedness. What does this mean? Discuss this in terms of “exogamy”
and “endogamy” and in your response please be sure to draw
from andproperly citespecific passages from relevant
readings, to include pertinent authors and debates, as well as your experiences
to support your answer.  

4.  What does the phrase“decolonizing the
anthropological mind”mean?
In your answers be sure to draw from andproperly
citespecific passages from
relevant readings, to include pertinent authors and debates (e.g., Said’s
critique of “Orientalism,” Todorov’s critique of “primitive Otherness,” etc.),
as well as your experiences to support your answer.

5.  What areAppadurai’s five dimensions in
global cultural flowand
what are some contemporary examples that might be described by this framework?

6.  “Man is to woman
as culture is to nature.”Discuss
some of the reasonswhy
this statementis
considered to beproblematicby scholars. In your response please
be sure to draw from andproperly
citespecific passages from
relevant readings, to include pertinent authors and debates, as well as your
own experiences to support your answer.