Study Guide for Exam #1, Cultural Anthropology

I.  Multiple Choice: Some of these are similar to those on your quizzes, but several will cover material assigned that I did not quiz you over, aspects of the readings discussed in class and material from class presentations, as well as the online study guide that goes with your book.  Most, if not all, of your exam will be multiple choice with perhaps some true and false and matching.

II.  Know the terms below as they relate to Chapters 1-3 in Lenkeit, to Children of the Forest, as well as to lectures.

anthropology archaeology features site historical linguistics paleoanthropology Mbuti worldview cultural relativism enculturation diffusion race UVB rapport etic perspective stratified random sample informal interview egalitarian foragers Ituri Forest & its dangers nomads arobo Bambuti	cultural anthropology ecofacts historical arcaeology biped sociolinguistics quadruped life shock postmodernism homogeneous cultures ideal culture microculture UVR string figures participant observation formal interview unstructured interview endogamous types of reciprocity nuclear family linguistis safari ants molimo	ethnography prehistoric archaeology behavioral archaeology biological anthropology ethnolinguistics primatology holistic culture innovation real culture plasticity folate emic perspective judgement sample structured interview genealogical method cross cousin types of Mbuti Pygmies Tore experimental archaeology bridal price The Efe and the Lese	ethnology artifact middens descriptive linguistics physical anthropology forensic anthropologist ethnic group attribute invention subculture melanin culture shock random sample key informant cline life history sanctions lingua franca Lodi applied archaeology Apalura “noble savage”
contemporary human variation studies animism cultural resource management (CRM)

III. The outline below might help you organize your notes:

I.  The Scope of Anthropology and its Subfields  

A. Subfields of Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology-Ethnography and Ethnology 

1. Archaeology and its subfields

2. Linguistics- Descriptive linguistics, Historical linguistics, Ethnolinguistics and Sociolinguistics 

3. Biological Anthropology--Paleoanthropology, Primatology, Contemporary Human Variation Studies,

Forensic Anthropology  

B. Cultural ethnocentrism and Cultural relativism   

C. Postmodernism in Anthropology

II. The Concept of Culture and some key figures (Tylor, Boas, Mead, White, Geertz, and others))

A. Cognitive processes, Behaviors, Material creations 

B. Characteristics of Culture 

C. Ideal Culture and Real Culture

D.    Subcultures and Ethnic Groups, Race

III. Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology 

A. Preparing for the Field, Ethics, Theoretical Models

B. Approaches to Ethnography--Classic ethnography, Reflexive ethnography

C. Culture shock, Life shock

D. Techniques of Gathering Data

IV.  Sample Ethnography: The Mbuti Pygmies

A. Modes of Subsistence, Social Organization, Kinship, Politics, Economics, Clothing, Shelter, Weapons a& Tools, Attitudes toward sex, Religion, Beliefs, Naming Practices, Foodways, Rituals, Dancing, Art, etc.

B.  Review and fill in part of the chart in Lenkeit’s appendix on how to read an ethnography.