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| What, in general, do anthropologists study? What are the four traditional sub-fields of anthropology? What questions are the focus of these sub-fields? |
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| Who, where, when, what kind of subsistence economy do/did they depend on. |
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| (headman, political system) How does the headman derive his power? How is this different from a king, landlord, or your boss at work? |
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| How does carrying capacity relate to different kinds of subsistence systems? |
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| know this diagram in detail. It represents the basic categories by which anthropologists analyze culture. |
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| What is cultural relativism, explain why it counteracts the influence of ethnocentrism. |
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| (participant observation, ethnography, genealogical method, cultural relativism) How do anthropologists define culture? What is included? How is it studied? |
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| What are the three culture scales identified by Bodley? What are their primary characteristics? |
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| division of labor by gender |
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| (domestic organization, subsistence system, economic system) |
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| (subsistence system, pastoralism) |
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| domestic mode of production |
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| (domestic organization, subsistence system, economic system) |
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| (cultural systems diagram, kinship, marriage, family, descent, lineage, household, post-marital residence) |
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| (related terms Describe the key features of "the dreaming" in aboriginal worldview. How is the dreaming integrated into aboriginal life and culture? What are dreaming paths, totems and dreamtime ancestors? |
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| (linguistics, cultural anthropology) What is the difference between emic and etic views of culture? Why is this difference an important focus of anthropology? |
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| Your book uses the term "cultural transmission," and sociologists use the term "socialization." |
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| (ways of knowing) What is a belief? Where do beliefs come from? Are all beliefs equally accurate? What is the practical difference between internalizing knowledge and simply having access to knowledge? What is the formula for knowledge? |
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| (subsistence system, band, tribe) How do foragers survive? What work do they do? What technologies, both material and intellectual, do they use to survive? What are the limitations of foraging, and what kind of impact does foraging have on the environment? |
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| describe the "good life" that is discussed in your textbook. What, according to Bodley, are the elements of a just and good society? |
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| health and life expectancy |
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| How does the health and life expectancy of tribal people compare to people at other culture scales? What does dental health comparisons show? How about comparisons with industrializing cities? |
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| infrastructure, structure, and superstructure |
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| What are the characteristics of each of these levels of the socio-cultural system? How do they change in different culture scales? |
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| (self-interest, social power, ideological power, economic power, military power) This idea is a key organizing theme for this course and the textbook. Can you explain why? |
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| The textbook definition can be confusing. Kinship terminology describes the diverse ways that individuals define and keep track of their family relationships. This diversity is often depicted in kinship diagrams. Kinship is a part of domestic organization and is defined by systems of marriage and descent). |
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| matrilineage / patrilineage / bilineal / ambilineal |
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| (kinship, marriage, domestic organization) |
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| matrilocal / patrilocal / neolocal/ avunculocal |
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| (cosmology) What are natural symbols and why might they be particularly important to tribal peoples. |
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| pastoralism / pastoralists |
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| (kinship, domestic organization, marriage) What is a functional advantage of polygeny to African pastoralists? |
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| (worldview, politics) What evidence opposes the view that race is a scientific biological concept? |
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| (liminal phase, age grade) |
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| This is the organizing theory of the textbook. |
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| What is social Darwinism, and what assumptions make it an incorrect ethnocentric view? |
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| (SSC Shamanic State of Consciousness) |
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| (forest fallow system, swidden, horticulture, subsistence system) |
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| What are the elements of social power and how are they connected to culture? |
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| This is a general term refers to the basic types of economic systems that cultures have used to acquire resources for survival. There are four key types of subsistence system and a number of subtypes. What are they, and what are their basic features? This is a foundational question for this course. |
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| subsistence intensification |
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| (carrying capacity) What are the advantages and sacrifices associated with this process? |
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| (subsistence system, economic system) What are the social consequences of producing surplus? How does this influence the structure of society? |
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| (cultural systems diagram, emic/etic, cosmology, cosmogony, ideological power, myth, ritual, art, philosophy). |
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