Anthropology 5 Fall 2011
Midterm Study Guide
Make sure you can use the below terms
in context (i.e. understand the terms,
don’t just memorize their definitions!)
Become familiar with the following terms and their contexts. Look to your quizzes as aides. While the Midterm may include
additional terms/concepts from in-class examples, if you know the below you will do well.
Ch 1The Anthropological Study of Religion
Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Linguistics
Archaeology
Holism
Participant Observation
Foraging Bands
Horticulture
Pastoral Nomads
Ethnography
Ethnographer
Ethnographic Present
Culture Area
The Fore of New Guinea
Etic Analysis
Emic Analysis
Ethnocentrism
Cultural Relativism
Modernity
Postmodernism
Religion
Animism
Supernatural
Culture
Sacred
Positivism
Animatism
Marxist Approach to religion
Functional Approach to religion
Collective Conscious
Reification
Interpretive Approach to religion
Psychosocial Approach to religion
Bronislaw Malinowski
Franz Boas
Operant Definition
Agnosticism
Review the PPTs and film notes! You
will see material from these on the
Midterm
Ch 2 Mythology
Myth
Legend
Folktale
Worldview
Urban Legend
Social Charter
Functional Analysis of myth
Structural Analysis of myth
Psychological Analysis of myth
Franz Boas
Collective Unconscious
Archetypes
Origin Myth
Flood Myth
Apocalypse
Trickster god
Trickster Myth
Hero Myth
Monomyth
Ch 3 Symbols
Symbols
Displacement
Arbitrary
Openness
Swastika
Pentacle
Circle with Point
Yin Yang
Cross
Fish Symbol
Acrostic
Psychoduct
Sacred Color
Sacred Art
Periodic Ritual
Chronotope
Canonization
Kiva
Totemism
Totem
Syncretism
Idiophones
Membranophones
Cordophones
Aerophones
Ch 4 Ritual
Ritual
Prescriptive Ritual
Occasional Ritual
Protective Rituals
Therapy Rituals
Ethnobotany
Ideological Ritual
Status
Rank
Separation
Transition
Incorporation
Age Set
Age Grade
Cicatrization
Subincision
Infibulation
Revitalization Ritual
Pilgrimages
Tabu
Ch 5 Altered States of Consciousness
Altered State of Consciousness
Fasting
Right Temporal Lobe
Left Temporal Lobe
Orientation Association Structure
Sympathetic System
Migraine
Entoptic Phenomena
Therianthrope
Yom Kippur
Ramadan
Sacred Pain
Stigmata
Adaptive Altered State
Maladaptive Altered State
Ganga
Spirit Possession
Unitary State
Rastafarians
Ebene
Ch 6 Religious Specialists
Religious Specialists in small-scale societies
Religious Specialists in large-scale societies
Shaman
Priest
How a Shaman is chosen
Axis Mundi
Neoshamanism
Tensegrity
Core Shamanism
Commodification
Healer
Herbalist
Diviner
Prophets
Handsome Lake
Wavoka
Ngundeng Bong
Les Trois Frères cave and its role in shamanic Altered States of Consciousness
Where and with whom the term “Shaman” originates
Yakut Shamanism
Akimel O’odham (Pima) Shamanism
Korean Shamanism
Shamanism vs. Neoshamanism (major differences)
Eastern Orthodox Priests (different offices and types of rituals performed)
Zuni Priests (and how they understand a kiva)
Okinawan Priestesses (What a kami is, and the distinction between Kaminchu and Yuta)