Exam 3 Study Guide

Anthropology 105

 

The third and final exam is during the final exam period on Tuesday, May 4, from 8-11 AM, in our regular classroom, SB 212.  A review session will take place on Thursday, April 22 in class—material up to and including that day will be covered!

 

Know the definitions of the following terms, taken from both readings and lecture:

Anthropology

Four-field approach

Social anthropology

Archaeology

Biological Anthropology

Linguistics

Applied anthropology

Society

Culture

Diffusion

Independent invention

Principle of Uniformitarianism

Principle of Superposition

Feature

stratigraphy

Relative dating

Paaleopathology

Molecular anthropology

Systematic survey

Intrusive survey

Taphonomy

Absolute dating

Profile

Planview

Radiocarbon dating

Flotation

Screening/sieving

Foraging

Simple forager

Excavation

Complex forager

Ethnoarchaeology

Ethnographic analogy

Food production

Domestication

!Kung San

Neolithic revolution

Fertile Crescent

Hilly flanks of the Zagros

Broad-spectrum revolution

Natufians

Sedentism

Sickle-harvesting

Bands

Tribes

Big Man societies

Chiefdoms

Complex chiefdoms

States

Primary states

Secondary states

Circumscription

Egalitarian society

Social stratification

Ranked society

Settlement hierarchy

Craft specialization

Halafian

Cuneiform

Mesopotamia

Empire

Middle Mississippians

Cahokia

Mound 72

First Contact

Ethnocide

Genocide

Pluralism

Nation-state

Ethnographic present

Assimilation

Ecological anthropology

Migration

Colonialism

Multiculturalism

Forced assimilation

Contact

Postcolonial

Intervention Philosophy

Development anthropology

Increased equity

Overinnovation

Underdifferentiation

Hegemony

Cultural imperialism

Indigenization

Essentialism

Imperialism

Disease pool

Disease vector

                                                     


Think about the following issues and be prepared to write paragraphs about them:

 

How to learn the anthropology of a people through archaeology and material culture

Archaeology of foragers

The importance of provenience and careful records in archaeology

The effects of food production and domestication on a culture/society

Types of political organization—bands, tribes, chiefdoms, complex chiefdoms, and states and their effects on the archaeological record and the people who live in them.

How states form, how they survive or do not survive, and how they fall.

The Effects of contact between cultures, colonialism, and postcolonialism

How to dig up a  First Contact.

Anthropology/Archaeology/Biological anthropology and politics