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Encountering the Past
| 1. Understand what the author means when he talks about the past as a “foreign country” that we can visit. |
| 2. Explain how anthropology, along with its many subfields, has a holistic approach and an integrative methodology. |
| 3. Describe the differences between archaeology and paleoanthropology. |
| 4. Explain the thought processes behind such ideas as creationism, catastrophism and uniformitarianism. |
| 5. Recognize the flaws in Lewis Henry Morgan’s cultural stages theory of savagery, barbarism and civilization. |
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