Anthropology
Chapter 1: What is Anthropology?
Pages 3-24
Part 1: Terms
Anthropology
applied Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
culture
General Anthropology
holistic
Science
sociolinguistics
archaeological Anthropology
ethnography
ethnology
linguistic Anthropology
theory
biological Anthropology
food production
physical Anthropology
Part 2: Questions
Answer Questions 1-5, Page 22. Write a short essay for each question.
Anthropology
Chapter 2: Applying Anthropology
Pages 25-42
Part 1: Terms
Applied anthropology
practicing anthropologists
cultural resource management (CRM)
medical anthropology
disease
illness
health-care systems
curer
scientific medicine
microenculturation
Part 2: Questions
Answer Questions 1-5, Page 40. Write a short essay for each question.
Anthropology
Chapter 12: Applying Anthropology
Pages 251-268
Part 1: Terms
Informed consent
Participant observation
Diary/field notes
Genealogical method
Etic approach
Interpretive anthropology
Longitudinal research
Random sample
enculturation
ethnology
field techniques
interviews/interview schedule
life histories
rapport
sampling
questionnaire
key or cultural consultants (key informants)
salvage ethnography
ethnographic realism
reflexive ethnography
ethnographic present
multisided research
survey research
sample
variables
complex societies
social indicators
Part 2: Questions
Answer Questions 1-5, Page 267 (Write a short essay for each question)
Anthropology
Chapter 13: Culture
Pages 270-287
Terms
Enculturation
symbols national culture ethnocentrism
“linguistic”
“cultural habits” “biological urges”
culture
Core values
“cultural adaptive kits”
maladaptive
“contested” culture
“Culture wars” ideal culture
real culture
“social glue”
“agency”
practice theory
international culture
cultural diffusion
subcultures
cultural relativism
human rights
cultural rights
IPR
universal cultural features “generalities”
“cultural particularities”
exogamy
nuclear family
universal life-cycle events
acculturation
independent invention
globalization
Questions
Answer questions 1- 5 page 286
6. Make a list of the different definitions provided for “culture” in this chapter and who devised them (for
example, Geertz’s definition).
Anthropology
Chapter 18 Terms & Questions
Pages 397-416 (* represents a terms from an earlier chapter)
Part 1: Terms
nuclear family* extended family*
descent groups*
family of orientation
family of procreation
zadruga
patrilocal
tarawad neolocality
expanded family households
extended family households
collateral household
blended families
matrilineal descent
patrilineal descent
unilineal descent lineages/clans
apical ancestor
demonstrated descent
stipulated descent totem
local descent group
patrilocality
matrilocality
unilocal rules
ambilineal descent
kinship calculation
ego
genealogical kin types
bilateral kinship calculation
matrilineal skewing
bilateral kinship
functional explanation
lineal kinship terminology
lineal relative
collateral relatives
affinals
bifurcate merging kinship terminology
generational kinship terminology bifurcate collateral kinship terminology
Part 2: Questions
Answer questions 1, 2, 4 &5, page 414 (Critical Thinking Questions)
Answer question #1, Internet Exercises”, page 415. The url is:
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/axfight/index.html The voice over narration is located in drop down box
at top of frame.
Answer #2, under “Internet Exercises”, page 415 The Url is: http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/cgibin/uncgi/ethnoatlas/atlas.vopts
Anthropology
Chapter 19 Terms & Questions
Pages 419-439 (* represents a terms from an earlier chapter)
Part 1: Terms
marriage plural marriages fraternal polyandry
common-law marriages
civil marriages
genitor
pater
affinal relationships*
exogamy
incest
parallel cousins cross cousins
moiety organization
Describe the 4 theories to explain the Incest Taboo.
endogamy
homogamy
caste system (varnas & jati)
royal incest
manifest function latent function
primogeniture
maters
berdaches
bridewealth (brideprice) progeny price
dowry
sate
patriarchy
plural marriage (polygamy)
polygyny
polyandry
sororate levirate
serial monogamy
Part 2: Questions
Answer questions 1-5, page 438 (Critical Thinking Questions)
Answer #2, under “Internet Exercises”, page 439 The Url is: http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/cgibin/uncgi/ethnoatlas/atlas.vopts
You may substitute Internet Question #1 for #2 if you like.
Anthropology
Chapter 20: Gender Terms & Questions
Pages 441-463
* indicates term from previous chapter
Part 1: Terms
sexual dimorphism
gender
gender roles
gender stereotypes
gender stratification
“swing activities”
domestic
domestic-public dichotomy (private-public contrast)
matrilocality*
patrilocality*
matrons matrifocal societies
patrilineal-patrilocal complex
extradomestic
patriarchy
“feminization of poverty” sexual orientation
List/define the four types of sexual orientation
Part 2: Questions
Do questions 1-4, page 462.
5. Describe the gender patterns found in foragers, horticulturalists and agriculturalists.
6. Do some research and describe the current state of gender and same-sex marriage in the United States
today. Make sure you cite your sources.
Anthropology
Chapter 14: Ethnicity and Race
Pages 288-311
Terms
ethnic group
ethnicity “status” “ascribed”
achieved statuses
“situational negotiation of social identity” minority group majority group
“multiple identities”
race
racism
social races
rule of descent
hypodescent
“racial categories”
“multiracial”
interracial
people of color “visible minority”
homogeneous culture
intrinsic racism
cultural assimilation
phenotype
apartheid
stratified societies
intelligence and environmental explanations
nation
state
nation-state
nationalities
diasporas
negritude
“imagined differences”
assimilation
“melting pot”
plural society
“ethnic boundaries”
multiculturalism “ethnic revival” prejudice
stereotypes
discrimination
ethnocide
forced assimilation
ethnic expulsion refugees
colonialism
Third World
cultural colonialism
transnationalism
Questions
Answer questions 1- 5 page 311
6. Compare and contrast the American culture to those of Japan and Brazil.
7. Describe the debate that has occurred over intelligence tests regarding different ethnic groups.