Exam 1 Study Guide

Anthropology 105

The first exam is in class on Thursday, February 11. A brief review session will take place on Tuesday, February 9 in class—the material covered in class on February 9 will NOT be on the exam.

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
Subculture	Ethnography	ethnology
Participant observation	Cultural Relativism	Emic perspective
Etic perspective	Human universal	sociolinguistics
Ethnocentrism	Longitudinal research	Franz Boas
Enculturation	Acculturation	Ethics
Historical Particularism	Structural Functionalism	Structuralism
Bronislaw Malinowski	Cultural rights	Human rights
Nuclear family	Extended family	Collateral family
Patrilocality	Matrilocality	Neolocality
Patrilineal kinship	Matrilineal kinship	Bilateral kinship
Ambilineal kinship	Blended family	Unilineal descent
Family of orientation	Family of procreation	Kayasa
Pater/mater	genitor	Monogamy
Generational kinship terminology	Bifurcate merging kinship terminology	Lineal kinship terminology
Serial monogramy	Polygyny	Polyandry
Incest taboo	Parallel cousin	Cross cousin
Royal incest	Dowry	Brideprice/bridewealth
Endogamy	Exogamy	Race
Ethnicity	Gender	Sex

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