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:
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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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Diffusion |
Independent invention |
Principle of Uniformitarianism |
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Principle of Superposition |
Feature |
stratigraphy |
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Relative dating |
Paaleopathology |
Molecular anthropology |
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Systematic survey |
Intrusive survey |
Taphonomy |
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Absolute dating |
Profile |
Planview |
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Radiocarbon dating |
Flotation |
Screening/sieving |
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Foraging |
Simple forager |
Excavation |
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Complex forager |
Ethnoarchaeology |
Ethnographic analogy |
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Food production |
Domestication |
!Kung San |
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Neolithic revolution |
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Hilly flanks of the Zagros |
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Broad-spectrum revolution |
Natufians |
Sedentism |
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Sickle-harvesting |
Bands |
Tribes |
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Big Man societies |
Chiefdoms |
Complex chiefdoms |
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States |
Primary states |
Secondary states |
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Circumscription |
Egalitarian society |
Social stratification |
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Ranked society |
Settlement hierarchy |
Craft specialization |
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Halafian |
Cuneiform |
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Empire |
Middle Mississippians |
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Mound 72 |
First Contact |
Ethnocide |
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Genocide |
Pluralism |
Nation-state |
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Ethnographic present |
Assimilation |
Ecological anthropology |
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Migration |
Colonialism |
Multiculturalism |
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Forced assimilation |
Contact |
Postcolonial |
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Intervention Philosophy |
Development anthropology |
Increased equity |
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Overinnovation |
Underdifferentiation |
Hegemony |
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Cultural imperialism |
Indigenization |
Essentialism |
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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