To ensure that you fully understand the material covered in the chapter, consider the following questions. You can either write the answers or try discussing them with a friend or classmate. For more study questions, refer to the end of each chapter in the textbook.

1			What aspects of the culture concept do anthropologists agree on, and which parts are debated? List five reasons why you think the culture concept is difficult to define.
2			Supply an argument for the importance of anthropology. Focus your answer on the learned and shared nature of culture. Support your argument with specific examples from your own experience and from class readings.
3			Discuss why anthropologists consider race a cultural construct.
4			What did definitions of culture written before 1940 leave out that is now considered essential to a definition of culture?