Anth 130 Spring 2010
Exam 3 Study Guide
Exam 3 is:
Section 4 (11 am class) Wednesday June 9 8:00-10:00 am Here (Dean 203)
Section 1 (12 pm class) Thursday June 10 12:00-2:00 pm Here (Dean 203)
Section 5 (1 pm class) Tuesday June 8 12:00-2:00 pm Here (Dean 102)
Readings: Haviland Chapters 12-15
Topics: Political Organization, Religion, Art, Class presentations about culture and globalization
Lectures: 2/16 through 3/12
Boxed Documents: Dispute Resolution and the Anthropologist (pg. 289), Healing among the Ju/’hoansi
of the Kalahari (pg 307-308), Reconciling Modern Medicine with Traditional Beliefs in Swaziland (pg.
310), Peyote Art: Divine Visions among the Huichol (pg 331), Globalscape (pg. 340).
Articles: Rhode, CultureTubeAnthro Video, Sosis, Krutak
Videos: The Ax Fight, The Three Worlds of Bali (?), TBA?
Know these Terms:
Power
Prestige
band
Ju/hoansi
Tribe
Kapauku Big Man
Tiv
Segmentary lineage system
chiefdom
18th century Polynesia
state
nation
Yanomamo (video: The
Axe Fight)
Religion
Ghosts and ancestral spirits
Animism
Animitism
Mana
Taboo
Gods
spirits
magic
monotheism
polytheism
shaman
priest/priestess
magic
Ibibio
Witchcraft
Voodoo
Art
Tattoo (tatau)
Samoa
ethnomusicology
Tuva
Dance
Folklore
legend
myth
tale
Know this person:
E.B. Tylor
Know these questions: include everything that you know about each of these questions
including examples and ethnographic case studies or societies from class material where
appropriate.
1) Describe the characteristics of bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states. Why are these
characteristics associated with each type of political system? Provide and describe an
ethnographic example of each (Ju’hoansi, Kapauku, 18th century Polynesia, any modern state).
What is the role of power and prestige and how is it distributed in each type of political
organization?
2) Discuss why states are unstable political systems. Provide an example. Discuss the difference
between a nation and a state. Provide examples.
3) Discuss how cultures resolve conflict through peaceful and violent means. Which types of
political organizations are most likely to use internalized controls and which are most likely to
use externalized controls? Be able to discuss the Ju’hoansi (in book and lecture) and the video
The Axe Fight.
4) List and discuss three theories about the function of religion. Why do all cultures have
religion?
5) Discuss the different kinds of supernatural beings (including those of human and nonhuman
origin of ghosts and ancestral spirits, animism, animitism and mana, gods, and spirits). Include
ethnographic examples discussed in class material (Malayo-Polynesia).
6) Discuss how ideas about the role of males and females in early Israelites society relates to
their views about gods and goddesses.
7) Compare and contrast a priest/priestess and a shaman. What types of societies are these two
types of religious specialists found? Why?
8) Define magic. Describe the two types of magic and provide ethnographic examples of each.
Can magic and religion coexist? How?
9) Why is witchcraft found in so many societies? Be able to describe Ibibio witchcraft (pg. 314).
10) Discuss body decoration and adornment (tattoos, scarring, piercings, clothing, jewelry).
What kinds of information can be communicated through these art forms? Provide examples and
ethnographic examples.
11) Describe how anthropologists study art using several approaches (aesthetic, narrative, and
interpretive).
12) Describe the functions of music and provide ethnographic examples for each (especially
Tuva and those found in the text).
13) Be able to describe three types of folklore (myth, legend, and tale) and what each can reveal
about a culture (know about the Abenaki myth and a tale in Ghana).
14) What are the functions of art?