Anthro 101: General Anthropology
WSU Vancouver, Fall 2013
Exam 3 Study Guide
Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology
Exam 3, the final, is Wednesday, Dec. 18, at 9:00 AM in this classroom, VMMC 22
The final is 40% of your grade
Do the assigned readings! These include Chagnon text, the Pinker text, and the handout article on the
Nacirema.
Bring a DARK writing instrument. Scantrons will be provided. You will NOT be allowed to keep the test
booklet.
You can download the overheads we have seen in lecture at:
http://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/course-folders/anth-101-nicole-hess/
-to open the site, use the password: hess101
-the sets of slides that will be covered on Exam 2 are called “Exam 3 set 1 of 3 Sociocultural”
“Exam 3 set 2 of 3 Band Tribe Chiefdom State” and “Exam 3 set 3 of 3 Language.”
Films on reserve at the library are:
The Feast (29 min.) F2520.1.Y3 F434 2007 DVD; intro the Yanomamö
Magical Death (29 min.) F2520.1.Y3 F434 2007 DVD; belief in the supernatural in the Yanomamö
Dead Birds (83min.) F2520.1.Y3 F434 2007 DVD; ritualized, revenge-based warfare among the Dani
A Father Washes his Children (15min.) F2520.1.Y3 F434 2007 DVD; paternal investment in the
Yanomamö
Films NOT on reserve at the library are:
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (161 mins.); Arctic population and familial conflicts; you can probably find
this online
Ocamo is My Town and New Tribes Mission (~45 min.); culture change in the Yanomamö due to the
activities of Catholic missionaries and Protestant missionaries; you are unlikely to be able to view these
online if you missed them during class
We skipped the film The Akha Way
Your scored from the 3 exams will be weighted (30-30-40), and grades will be assigned using the following
policy, as indicated on the syllabus:
The top 30% of scores will receive an A or an A- (20%A, 10% A-)
The next 30% of scores will receive a B+, B, or B- (10%B+, 10%B, and 10% B-)
The next 30% of scores will receive a C+, C, or C- (10%C+, 10%C, and 10% C-)
The bottom 10% of scores will receive a D+, D, or F (~3%D+, ~3%D, and ~3%F)
*WSU administrative policy does not allow grades of A+ or D-
Terms and Concepts to study (This is NOT an exhaustive list of important points. You are responsible for
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all lecture material covered AFTER the 2 exam, all films viewed in class, the Nacirema handout, and the
Chagnon and Pinker texts; see the posted slides and consult your lecture notes.
Sociocultural anthropology
Hobbes/Rousseau
Cultural relativism
Cultural construction
Western European colonialism
Example: global maps
Social complexity: band, tribe, chiefdom, state
Patterns of subsistence
Characteristics of culture
Methods, History, Theory
Sex, marriage, family, kinship
Culture change
Missionaries and colonialism
ethnocentric
society
culture
ethnography, ethnographer
indigenous
raiding
reciprocal obligation with gifts/favors
waiteri
headman
tribe
shabono
shaman
ebene
hekura
child betrothal
social stratification
social circumscription (Chagnon)
geographic circumscription (Carneiro)
micro and macro village movement
jaguar myth
Yanomamö cosmos
mother’s brother
cross- v. parallel cousin marriagesedentism
cultural evolutionism
impersonal supernatural power
cultural model for illness
biomedical model for illness
functions of sorcery/witchcraft
ways of categorizing cultures
kinship diagrams – meanings of symbols
Methods? Participant-observation
Band
Tribe
Chiefdom
State
Linguistic Anthropology
BEV
SAE
Critical ages
Pidgin
Creole
Sign language
William’s syndrome
Broca’s aphasia
Wernicke’s aphasia
Instinct
Evolutionary psychology
Phoneme
Morpheme
Parts of speech
Universal grammar
Sentence tree
Ethnocentrism
Labov
Nicaragua study
Sign Language
Lipreading
Specific language impairment
“chatterbox” syndrome
language development
error-fixing in children leaning grammar
Wild children and language
ape language
gene/language evidence for human diaspora