Midterm Study Guide Cultural Anthropology
Participant observation
Archaeology
Best way of ensuring people have the right to maintain their own culture
Transplant tourism
Enculturation
Defining characteristic of sharing the same culture
Han ethnic group
Social structure
Malinowski
Culture: consistency vs harmony
Urgent anthropology
Applied anthropology
“study up” (Laura Nader)
Digital ethnography
Earliest ancestral primates
Which primate uses mediators
Costs and benefits of bipedalism
Evolutionary medicine
Upper Paleolithic
Dialect
Kinesics
Edward Hall’s proxemics (4 categories of relevant space)
Self-awareness, when does it develop in children
Naming ceremony
Aymara Indians and naming children
Yanomamo men “culture personality”
Food foraging societies
Cooperative hunting strategies
Horticulture
Horticulture and tributary system of land ownership
Where should an anthropologist’s first fieldwork
Human relations area files
Proxemics
Independence training
Agriculture vs horticulture
Multi-sited ethnography
Essay Questions, there will be two versions of the exam with 2 different essay questions, at the exam
you will only write a response to one question.
1. What is the relationship between culture, society, and the individual?
2. What is the measure of a society’s success?
3. What is the relationship between anthropology and colonialism?
4. Name what you believe to be three core values predominant in U.S. society. Then discuss how
these affect daily life and behavior in individuals and groups