1. What is `the whole field of Anthropology'?

2. What is the `theory of social evolution'?

3. What does Boas mean when he poses the question `How can we recognize the shackles that tradition has laid upon us'?

4. What does the term `cultured individual' mean when used by Boas?

5. How did anti-Semitism shape Boas' life work?

6. What two factors drew immigrants to America at the turn of the century?

7. What was so unusual about British Columbia that made it unique for the study of culture?

8. What is the historic context within which American Anthropology developed?

9. How did early 20th century American (and other) anthropologists use `the race concept'.

10. What was Boas' view of race?

11. Boas' detailed study of Native American skeletal material was very suggestive. Of what?

12. What does the term `romantic Anthropology' refer to?

13. Boas stressed Anthropology's role of developing `moral education'. What is he referring to?

14. From what you can tell, what is the potlatch ceremony?

15. The Kwakiutl (shown in this video anyway) seem appreciative to Boas for his work. Why?

16. Reference is made to `the old way of doing things' in some cultures and that it is `the proper way'. Why is this the case in many traditional societies?

17. What role did George Hart play in Boas' field work?

18. There is a conflict between the photographer Joseph Curtis and Franz Boas. What is the essence of their disagreement?

19. Boas had very specific ideas of the principles of setting up a museum collection. What were they?

20. Why did Boas change the focus of Anthropology from museums to universities?

21. Why did Boas give so much emphasis to film in his work?

22. The film narrator refers to a tendency of anthropologists to have a `my people' complex. What does this mean?

23. Why did language structure (linguistics) play such a central role in Boas' understanding of culture? How important is it from your point of view?

24. What was the `new frame of reference' Boas gave to Anthropology?

25. What was the 1890s US immigration debate all about?

26. There was an old idea about `the absolute stability' of race which circulated in US anthropological circles until Boas challenged it. What is this idea?

27. At the end of the video it is suggested that Boas' ideas about race were not taken seriously in the USA until the rise of Nazism in Germany. How is that Boas' thinking coincided with US strategic foreign policy goals of the time?

Why is it that in some societies tradition is paramount while in others it is not.