ANTH 2322 Global Cultures Fall 2016

Dr. Ryan Guide One UTA

General suggestions: Look at the terms at the end of each chapter. I have not reproduced them on this guide. You should watch the videos, but I will not draw specific details from them unless I cover them in class.

Readings: I would suggest that you abstract the readings. I won’t ask about details, but you should be able to give the main idea/findings/argument for each reading, whether we have discussed them in class or not. The readings that will be on this test are on Blackboard: Miner, Cooper, Bower, Chagnon, and Diamond.

The test will consist of multiple choice, fill in and short answer questions, with one short essay. There will be a choice of essay questions. Bring paper and pen/pencil to the exam.

Ch. 1 The Discipline of Anthropology and the Concept of Culture

1. What are the major fields of anthropology? Be familiar with the fields and subfields

discussed in the chapter.

biological anthropology
archaeology
linguistic anthropology
cultural anthropology

2. What is the “fifth field” in anthropology? How is applied anthropology different from

theoretical anthropology?

3. Be able to list at least four areas of specialization within cultural anthropology (medical,

educational, etc.)

4. Distinguish between the emic and etic approaches in anthropology.

5. What is culture? What are the characteristics or features of the “culture concept”?

6. What are cultural universals? Be able to give examples.

7. How do we “learn” our culture? [enculturation]

8. What methods might an anthropologist use to collect data?

9. What is participant-observation? What are the strengths and weaknesses of

this research method? (See Ch. 3 for more information)

10. What is culture shock?

11. Be able to define and discuss cultural relativism and ethnocentrism.

12. I also discussed applied anthropology in lecture. What are some similarities and

between applied and theoretical anthropology?

13. You be familiar with all the terms listed on p. 23 of the text.

Chapter Three: Schools of Thought and Methods of Cultural Anthropology

1. Review the notes posted on Blackboard

2. Be familiar with the researchers I mentioned in class, such as Tylor, Morgan, Malinowski,

Levi-Straus and Harris.

3. What are some of the important ideas of postmodernism, and how has it affected the way

that ethnography is done?

4. What was Malinowski’s contribution to fieldwork methods?

5. What is the difference between ethnography, ethnology, and ethnohistory? (p.77)

Terms:

Binary contrasts Neo-evolutionism

Cognitive anthropology Participant-observation

Culture change Postmodern approach

Cultural ecology Subsistence strategy

Cultural materialism Structural functionalism

Cultural relativism Symbolic anthropology

Diachronic versus synchronic perspective Universality versus relativism

Emic versus etic perspective

French structuralism

Functionalism

Historical particularism

Inductive approach

Kula ring

Level of socio-cultural integration

Materialism versus idealism perspective

Political Organization

Some of this information is incorporated into Ch. 11, but I have chosen to discuss it separately.

The lecture outline is on Blackboard. For this test, focus on types of political organization.

1. What are the characteristics of political organization for bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and

states?

2. How do features of political organization integrate or “make sense” with other social systems

such as economic systems? What it the usual type of subsistence pattern found with each?

The chart on p.243 of your text will be helpful here.

Chapter 11: Ecological Adaptation and Economic Exchange

1. You should be able to compare and contrast the subsistence patterns of foraging,

pastoralism, horticulture, intensive agriculture, and industrial agriculture. Be able to give

examples of each from the text and/or lecture.

2. What social characteristics are generally associated with the subsistence patterns?

3. What does “symbolic ecology” mean? (pp. 243-245) The authors use the example

of Rappaport’s working with the Tsembaga Maring of highland New Guinea. What other

kinds of questions do anthropologists with an ecological perspective address? [human-

animal relations, ecological change]

4. What was the formalist-substantivist debate?

5. Be familiar with Polanyi’s categories of economic systems [reciprocity, redistribution, and

market systems]

6. What are the three types of reciprocity defined by Marshall Sahlins?

7. We will return to the issue of globalization later in the semester. For this test, read the

text material through p. 261.

8. What is the kula ring? The potlatch?

Terms (from the list on pp. 267-268)

Agriculture (intensive, extensive) Reciprocity (generalized, balanced, negative)

Band Redistribution

Big Man society State

Chiefdom Subsistence strategy

Economic system Sustainable development

Egalitarian society Symbolic Ecology

Foragers (hunter/gatherers) Tribe

Formalist/Substantivist debate World Systems Theory

Headman Karl Polanyi

Kula ring Emmanuel Wallerstein

Market exchange

Nomadic

Pastoralism

Potlatch

Please bring a pencil, pen, and paper to the exam.

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