2. What is the commentator referring to when he comments that 'human life first took shape in Africa long before it evolved anywhere else'.

3. How did the advent of farming change African culture?

4. What were the main problems that needed to be solved to establish agriculture in Africa?

5. What does the term `Koi technology has remained essentially stone age' refer to?

6. Although the `Twa' or pygmies are simple hunter-gatherers, as exemplified in the video, it would be a mistake to consider them `primitive'. Why?

7. a. What technological advance made settled life possible in Africa?
    b. How old/successful is this culture?

8. Although a Pocot village looks `hopelessly primitive and squalid', this impression is deceiving. Why?

9. What is the basis of Pocot economic life?

10. What historic problems needed to be overcome to successfully breed cattle under tropical conditions?

11. The narrator says `a woman must be given cattle at marriage and so must her father'. Who does the giving? Why?

12. How do we know that Lacoriangualo has a lot of cattle?

13. Why do the Pocot insist on accumulating as many cattle as is humanely possible?

14. How have the Pocot succeeded in breeding camels to suit their needs?

15. What are `age groups' among the Pocot?

16. What is the relationship of the Pocot to the global economy?

17. What is `the essence' of Pocot life?

18. a. For what purpose is cow dung used?
      b. How is it used in China? Medieval Europe?

19. How is it that women among the Pocot have a `high level of self respect'?

20. What is the purpose of kolia among the Pocot?

21. Why is it that among the Pocot that women marry young and men marry later in life?

22. `Pocot society is organized by age'. What does this mean?

23. Who cannot dance with each other among the Pocot? Why?

24. a. How old is agriculture in sub-Sahara Africa?
      b. What impact did it have on human cultural patterns?

25. What is the significance of Nok culture in central Nigeria?

26. What are the consequences of the use/development of iron on African village life?

27. How do we explain the evolution of centralized governments from village farming communities?

28. In the minds of his subjects, what gives the king of Socor his power?

29. a. Under what circumstances do the development of specialist crafts take place?
      b. What was the main sexual division of labor among specialists?

30. What did the encargo among the Socor?

31. What was the `decisive skill' among the Socor?

32. What gives blacksmiths their special power?

33. What are the basic elements of Dogonsurvival?

34. How do the Dogon organize their work to overcome the problems of water shortage?

35. What gives the fox such power in Dogon religion?

36. In Dogon religion, why did the gods withdraw to heaven?

37. Why was it important for the newly dead to join `the community of ancestors'? (try to figure it out)

38. What is the `darman dance' really about?