Take out your
Study Guide
for the Anthropology Test
• Study for Test (10 min)
• Test (45 min)
• Read Chapters 1-2 (30 min)
• Take out your study guide
• Look over major terms and quiz each
other
• Any questions on topics?
• Scoot the desks apart
• Use blue or black pen
• Be clear in your responses
• Good luck!
• Reading Guide (30% of your grade)
• As you read, you will need to annotate/take
notes on where you see the 8 themes
• Look for evidence you could use in a paper
•Do you remember the
themes?
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2.1 Individuals, groups and society
2.2 Societies and cultures in contact
2.3 Kinship as an organizing principle
2.4 Political organization
2.5 Economic organization and the environment
2.6 Systems of knowledge
2.7 Belief systems and practices
2.8 Moral systems
• To help on your IB exams, Paper 1 and Paper 2!!
• For example:
• Explain the relationship between gender
roles and power in a society.
• Evidence: 2.1 Individuals, Groups, and Society: In
the Hmong culture, a child’s birth was completely
attended to by only the mother, with the father not
being allowed to even look at her body. He could
bring her hot water, but nothing else. She labored,
delivered, cut the cord, and washed the baby
herself, as birth is strictly a female gender role. (pg.
1-2)
• For example:
• Discuss identity in relation to personhood.
• Evidence: 2.1 Individuals, Groups, and Society: In
the Hmong culture, a child is not fully considered a
member of the human race (personhood) until she
is named on her third day of life in a ceremony
called a hu plig, or soul-calling. If it died in the first
three days, it wasn’t given a funeral, which may be
a cultural reaction to the 50% infant mortality rate.
pg. 9-10
• An example of a theme with specific evidence
• Need to include the anthropological terms from the
Theme Cheat Sheet
• Ex: power, kinship, role, reciprocity, etc
Social and cultural organization
(3) 1 example with specific evidence and relevant term (1) accurately used
(2) 2 examples with specific evidence and relevant term (1) accurately used
(2) 4 examples with specific evidence and relevant term (2) accurately used
(1) 5 examples with specific evidence and relevant term (3) accurately used
• By the end of the book, you should have TWENTY evidence
examples (Think: mild, medium, hot, fire)
• However, you will write down/annotate way more than that
as you go.
• Then, at the end, you will choose your best 20 examples to
put in the guide
• So you want to keep track as you go…
• Spend the rest of class reading Chapters 1-2
• Annotate and look for themes as you go
• At least 3 examples per chapter
• Be ready to have a reading quiz and discuss
themes on Thursday, Oct. 29
“Spirit Catches You”
• Chapter 1
• 2.2 Cultures in Contact
Any theme that
you find… it
doesn’t have to be
these 3. I’m just
showing you an
example.
• 2.1 Individuals, Groups Society
• 2.6 Systems of Knowledge
• Chapter 2
• Example 1
• Example 2
• Example 3
Do the exact same
thing for Chapter 2.
Just three examples
from any themes.