Cultural Anthropology
Final Study Guide
FOOTHILL Winter 2015
Review the following anthropological concepts. Look to the PPTs and your Book as aides, and
make sure you can apply the vocabulary words in context and to the Annual Editions readings.
Extended family
Reread the Annual Editions stories
Conjugal family
assigned for Weeks 4-6. Make sure you
Social control vs. Cultural control
can apply terms on the left to these
Affinal vs. Consanguineal Kin
stories.
Endogamy vs. Exogamy
Know how to draw a Kinship chart –
Polygamy, Polygyny, Polyandry
Review charts from the “Families,
Monogamy, Serial Monogamy
Kinship and Marriage” Powerpoint, and
Marriage and its relationship to sexual activity
your in-class kinship diagram exercise.
Group Marriage
Know what EGO is, and what
Fictive Marriage (Marriage by Proxy)
Consanguineal Kin, Affinal Kin, Cross
Neolocal, Ambilocal, Patrilocal, and Matrilocal residence
Cousins and Parallel Cousins are, and
Dowry
how to apply them to a hypothetical
The function of Descent Groups
Kinship chart.
Matrilineage, Patrilineage, Ambilineage
Hawaiian, Eskimo and Iroquois kinship systems
Clan
Lineage
Kindred
Kinship
The relationship between elders and cultural literacy
Age grade vs. age set
Caste vs. class
Stratified vs. egalitarian
Open class society
Bands vs. Tribes vs. Chiefdoms vs. States (know the charts from the “Political Systems” Powerpoint)
How social order is maintain in bands and tribes
General Reciprocity vs. Negative Reciprocity vs. Balanced Reciprocity
Redistribution
Market exchange
Internal vs. external controls
Sanctions, Law
Religion
Magic
Witchcraft
Functions of religion, magic, witchcraft
Polytheism vs. Monotheism
Pantheon
Shaman vs. Priest
Origin of the word “Shaman”
Animism vs. Animatism
The steps in a rite of passage ceremony as laid down by Van Gennep (Separation, Transition, Incorporation)
Imitative vs. Contagious Magic
The purpose of revitalization movements
The effects of culture on individuals
cont…
The connection between Myth and Worldview
Acculturation vs. Genocide vs. Ethnocide
Primary innovation vs. secondary innovation
Diffusion
Syncretism
Cultural loss
Modernization, globalization
Trobriand Cricket
Anthropologists and the holistic perspective
The negatives and positives of Ethnocentrism
Structural violence
Pluralistic society
The cultural effects of multinational (global) corporations
More…
Know the real-world
examples for the above
concepts/terms (when they
are brought up) in the
Review the slide on Cargo Powerpoints!!!
Review the video shorts from
Cults! (Religions and
the Powerpoints! Specifically
Spirituality Powerpoint).
those for the various types of
Know where they occurred,
Witchcraft, and the various
why they occurred, and what
cultural examples of Marriage
ultimately happened to them
and Family.
Review your movie
notes from:
*Ongka’s Big Moka
(Vimeo)
*Maasai: A
Warrior’s Rite of
passage
*The Worst Job in
the World
(Films on Demand off
Foothill Library’s
Page)