Study Guide
Anthropology Test
Unit 1: What is Anthropology?
We will have our first written test on Tuesday, October 27. Please read through this list and be
prepared for each term. The test will be multiple choice, fill in the blank, matching, short
answer, and one essay.
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
- Basic roots of anthropology: Enlightenment of the 18th and 19th century in Europe
- Definition of cultural anthropology (what do they study?)
- Ethnocentrism
- How is anthropology different from other social sciences?
- Role of anthropology in global world
FIELDWORK AND ETHNOGRAPHY
- Basic definitions
- Participant observation
- Type of data gathered
- How/methodology of gathering data
- Role of interviewing/face to face
contact
- Ethics involved
CORE TERMS
- Agency
- Community
- Comparative
- Cultural Relativism
- Culture
- Ethnographic
- Meaning
- Process
- Qualitative
- Social Reproduction
- Society
CULTURE
- Definition of culture
- Enculturation
- Acculturation
- Culture shock
- Cultural relativism
- Universalism vs. cultural relativism debate
ANTHROPOLOGISTS
- Franz Boas
- Bronislaw Malinowski
- A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
- Ruth Benedict
- Maragart Mead
- Claud Levi-Strauss
- Clifford Geertz
- Napoleon Chagnon
THEORIES
- Functionalism
- Structural-functionalism
- Structuralism
- Cultural Relativism
- Symbolic Anthropology
- Evolutionary Anthropology