ANTHRO

ANTHRO 101 FINAL will consist of 100 multiple choice questions to test your knowledge of key terms, core concepts, theories and methods of Anthropologydiscussed throughout the course. Questions for the Final will be based on material covered in lectures, class discussions, readings from Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology (this includes terms and concepts from chapter Introductions and essays/articles in the book) and films/ film clips. This Final is cumulative. You may wish to review the study guide for any concepts ,terms, anthropologists and theorists of note that you do not know. The FINAL has a value of 25 points or 25% of grade.

I. Anthropology as a discipline. You should be able to define what anthropology is, when it emerged as a discipline, and know the fields of Anthropology as well as differences in subfields.

II. Key words and core concepts: terms and concepts covered since the last mid-term include:

     
Accommodation

Acculturation

Acculturation studies

Action Anthropology

Adaptation

Adjustment Anthropology

Administrative Anthropology

Advocacy Anthropology

Aesthetics (cultural)

Affinal kin

Agency/ structure

Animatism

Animism

Anthropology (definition, four fields)

Applied Anthropology

Art (functional and aesthetic)

Assimilation

Authority

Autoethnography

Band

Bridewealth

Bride service

Business Anthropology

Caste

Chiefdom

Clan

Class

Climate change

Convergent evolution

Core values

Coercion

Cohabitation

Cosmology

Critical cultural relativity

Cultural adaptation

Cultural change

Cultural contact

Cultural control

Cultural diffusion

Cultural diversity

Cultural ecology

Cultural hybridization

Cultural loss

Cultural relativity

Cultural resource management

Culture and personality

Culture, characteristics of culture

Culture, explicit culture & tacit culture

Culture, dominant culture, subculture, counterculture

Culture shock

Cyberethnography or digital ethnography

Dependence training/ Independence training

Desecration

Dimensions of social organization: class, race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation

Distribution

Divination

Division of labor

DOMA –Defense of Marriage Act

Descent group (Bilateral/unilineal)

Diaspora

Diffusion

Dowry

Ecology

Economic system

Ecosystem/ ecosystem collapse

Egalitarian societies

EGO

Eliciting devices

Enculturation

Environment (physical & cultural)

Ethics in research

Ethnic group

Ethnicity

Ethnocentrism

Ethnocide/ genocide

Ethnology

Ethnography

Evolution

Exchange/ reciprocal exchange

Extended family

Family (orientation, procreation)

Fetish

Fieldwork

Folklore

Foraging

Frames

Formal/ informal economy

 

Gender

Gendered division of labor

Genocide

Globalization

Go-between

Guest workers

Honor killing

Horticulture

Household

Hunting and gathering

Hypothesis

Ideal culture/ real culture

Idealist perspective/ materialist perspective

Imagined community

Immigrant

Immigration

Indigenous culture

Industrialism

Industrial society

Inequality

Informed consent

Innovation (primary and secondary)

Insurgency

Interviews: formal and informal

Key consultants

Kin (and fictive kin)

Kindred

Kinship

Kinship system (Classificatory and descriptive)

Kula/ kula ring

Language

Law

Legend

Liminality

Lineage

Magic (imitative & contagious magic)

Mana

Mantra

Mapping

Market economy

Market exchange

Metaphors

Modal personality

Modes of subsistence

Marriage

Material/ Immaterial culture

Matrilineal/Patrilineal descent (and ambilineal descent)

Matrilocal residence

Medical pluralism

Metaphors

Migration

Modernization

Monogamy (and serial monogamy)

Monotheism/ polytheism

Multiculturalism

Multisited ethnography

Myth/ muthology

Naïve realism

Nation

National character studies

Neo-liberalism

Normal/ abnormal in Social context

Natural

Neolocal residence

Non-linguistic symbol

Norms

Nuclear family

Orientation: object, spatial, temporal, normative, gender

Pantheon

Participant observation

Pastoralism •

Patrilocal residence

Patrimonial authority

Peasant studies

Policy

Political organization, political system

Politics

Polyandry/Polygamy/Polygyny

Phonology/phonemes/morphemes/ grammar

Pilgrimage

Policy

Polyandry/Polygamy/Polygyny

Postindustrialism

Potlatch

Power

Production

Prayers

Proxemics

Public/ private

 

 

Qualitative and quantitative research

Quincineara

Race as a social construction

Rank societies

Reciprocal exchange

Reciprocity

Redistribution

Refugees

Religion

Remittances

Revitalization movement

Rites of passage

Rites of intensification, of purification

Ritual performances

Rituals: sacred and profane

Role

Rumspringa

Sanction (positive/negative)

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Salvage ethnography

Second shift

Secularization

Secularization thesis

Self-awareness

Self-control

Semantics

Shaman/ shamanism

Slash and burn

Social acceptance

Social imaginary (five scapes of globalization)

Social groups

Social network

Social situation

Social stratification

Stages of rites of passage

Social acceptance

Social and cultural construction of space

Social and cultural construction of time

Social construction

Social remittances

Social structure (infrastructure & superstructure)

Society

Socio-culturalapproach to anthropology

Socio-linguistics

Sorcery

Speech

Spirit possession

Spiritual lineage

Spirituality

States / nations

Status and role

Stratified societies

Structuralism

Structural violence

Structural changes

Studying cultures at a distance

Studying up

Subsistence economics

Subsistence strategies

Supernatural force (personified)

Support

Symbols

Symbolic anthropology

Symbolic interactionism

Syncretism

Taboo

Technology

Theory

Theories of being human

Totemism

Tradition

Transnational

Treaty

Tribe

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People

Ultimate problems

Unilinear evolution/ multilinear evolutionism

Units of production

Universalism

Values/ Transcendent values

Volags

Windsor vs the United States

Witchcraft

World system

Worldview

Xenophobia

III. Anthropologists, social scientists, and theorists-You should know the main ideas of articles in the Conflict and Conformity : Readings in Cultural Anthropology book, 15th edition by David W. McCurdy, Dianna Shandy and James Spradley. You should be able to identify and know the contributions of the following people:

Benedict Anderson

Hoyt S. Alverson

Arjun Appadurai

Gregory Bateson

Ruth Benedict

Theodore C. Bestor

Franz Boas

Laura Bohannon

Philippe Bourgois

Sarah Boxer

Edward Burnett ( E.B). Tylor

Susan A. Crate

Lee Cronk

Carole Delaney

Jill Dubisch

Cora DuBois

Emile Durkheim

Penelope Eckert

Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild

Edward Evans-Pritchard

Paul Farmer

 

Jefferson M. Fish

Clifford Geertz

George Gmelch

Jane Goodall

Arjun Guteratne and Kate Bjork

Michael Harner

A.M.Hocart

Edward Hall

George Hicks

John Hostetler

Alfred Kroeber

Richard Borshay Lee

Claude Levi-Strauss

Ralph Linton

Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala

Bronislaw Malinowski

Karl Marx

David W. McCurdy

Margaret Mead

Horace Miner

Lewis Henry Morgan

Rachel Mueller

 

Laura Nader

Sherry Ortner

Sonia Patten

Richard K. Reed

Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar

Edward Sapir

Jessica Smith Rolston

Dianna Shandy

Dianna Shandy and Karine Moe

James Spradley

Claire Sterk

Rachel Stryker

Deborah Tannen

Victor Turner

Arnold Van Gennep

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Anthony Wallace

Immanuel Wallerstein

Max Weber

Benjamin Whorf

Nathan Williamson

Eric Wolf

 

 

IV. FILMS/ FILM CLIPS/ VISUAL MATERIAL: You should be able to state the main idea(s) of films/ film clips watched in or referenced in class this term as well as be able to articulate core concepts or terms discussed in relation to them:

· In the Land of the War Canoes

· Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh

· Life and Debt

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