Exam 1 Study Guide
Anthropology 105
The first exam is in class on Tuesday, September 22. A brief review session will take place on Tuesday, September 17 in class—the material covered in class on September 17 will NOT be on the exam.
Know the definitions of the following terms, taken from both readings and lecture:
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Anthropology |
Four-field approach |
Social anthropology |
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Archaeology |
Biological Anthropology |
Linguistics |
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Applied anthropology |
Society |
Culture |
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Subculture |
Ethnography |
ethnology |
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Participant observation |
Cultural Relativism |
Emic perspective |
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Etic perspective |
Human universal |
sociolinguistics |
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Ethnocentrism |
Longitudinal research |
Franz Boas |
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Enculturation |
Acculturation |
Ethics |
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Historical Particularism |
Structural Functionalism |
Structuralism |
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Bronislaw Malinowski |
Cultural rights |
Human rights |
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Nuclear family |
Extended family |
Collateral family |
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Patrilocality |
Matrilocality |
Neolocality |
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Patrilineal kinship |
Matrilineal kinship |
Bilateral kinship |
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Ambilineal kinship |
Blended family |
Unilineal descent |
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Family of orientation |
Family of procreation |
Kayasa |
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Pater/mater |
genitor |
Monogamy |
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Generational kinship terminology |
Bifurcate merging kinship terminology |
Lineal kinship terminology |
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Serial monogramy |
Polygyny |
Polyandry |
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Incest taboo |
Parallel cousin |
Cross cousin |
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Royal incest |
Dowry |
Brideprice/bridewealth |
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Endogamy |
Exogamy |
Race |
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Ethnicity |
Hypodescent |
Phenotype |
Think about the following issues and be prepared to write paragraphs about them:
How the four-field approach works
Ethics in ethnographic fieldwork
Cultural relativism vs. Individual rights
Doing fieldwork, and biases in fieldwork
The Trobriand Islanders
The function of marriage and kinship patterns
The cultural meaning of some aspects of modern culture—sports, holidays, etc.
Race, Ethnicity, Society, and culture