Study Guide Midterm Exam
Cultural Anthropology
Fall 2005
What is Anthropology?
What is Forensic Anthropology?
What is the difference between
Ethnography and Ethnology
What is the difference between
Sociology and Anthropology?
Archaeologists study…..? Why?
What is the difference between
prehistoric and historic archaeology?
How old are the oldest historical
records?
What are the goals of Science?
What is the relation between the concept
Of race and colonialism?
Can we classify people easily according
to race?
Is there a relationship between race and
culture?
What is the relationship between the
concepts of culture and society?
The primary adaptation of humans is…?
What are the functions of Culture?
What is the nature of sex roles in forager
societies?
What is a society?
What are the other sub-orders of the
primates?
What are the characteristics of primates?
Which primates are most closely related
to us?
Where did modern humans originate?
Linguistic Terms:
Linguistics
Morphology
Syntax
Phonetics
Words
Morphemes
Phones
Phonologist
Morphologist
Grammer
Morphology + Syntax = Grammar
Historical Linguistics
Position of the Larynx
Origins of the Alphabet
Role of language in culture
Meaning of Tabula rosa.
“Coming of Age in Samoa”
National Character Studies
What is personality?
Cultural materialism
Biological Fitness
Biological Evolution
Carrying capacity
Maximum sustainable yield
Savagery, barbarism, civilization
When did bipedalism evolve?
Functionalism, structuralism, Structural
Functionalism
Male and female contributions to forager
diets.
Two types of pastoralism
Horticulture vs. Agriculture
Arbitrary nature of symbolic language
When did agriculture arise?
What did Malthus say in his population
paper?
What is teleosis, and why is it dismissed
in science?
Microevolution vs. Macroevolution?
Homo habilis, Australopithecus
Deep Structure