Below are terms to know and a brief
outline for each chapter and from
lectures. The exam will be mostly,
if not all, multiple choice. It
will also include a kinship diagram from which I will ask questions.
I. Language (Chapter 4)
A. Descriptive linguistics--phonology,
morphology and syntax; historical linguistics
B. Language and
culture—ethnolinguistics; Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; sociolinguistics
C. Silent language as part of
symbolic communication
descriptive linguistics
phonology
phoneme
morpheme
syntaxethnoli
nguistics
historical
linguistics
sociolinguistics
Sapir-Whorf
hypothesis
kinesics
Black
English Dialect
lingua
franca
pidgin
creole
II. Subsistence Strategies (Chapter
5)
A. Models: evolutionary, ecological,
and evolutionary-ecological models
B. Foraging, horticulture,
pastoralism , and agriculture as subsistence strategies
neoevolutionary
model
Oldowan tools
Acheulean hand ax
eecological model
optimal foraging model
evolutionary-ecological model
technology
traditions
foraging
carrying capacity
bands
family band
patrilocal band
reciprocity
generalized reciprocity
balanced reciprocity
negative reciprocity
egalitarian
low energy budget
horticulture
nomadic pastoralism
transhumance
transhumance
slash and burn (swidden)
nomadic pastoralism
agriculture
redistribution
market exchange
III. Kinship and Marriage (Chapter
6)
A. Exogamy and Endogamy, the Levirate
and the Sororate
B. Marriage forms and functions:
monogamy, polygamy, polygyny, polyandry, group marriage, sister exchange
marriage
C. Mate choice and marriage finance:
bridewealth and dowry
D. Family:
family of orientation, of procreation, extended and expanded residence rules
E. Residence
rules patrilocal (virilocal), matrilocal (uxorilocal), matrifocal, avunculocal,
bilocal residence, matri-patrilocal
exogamy
nuclear family
endogamy
levirate
sororate
status
role
monogamy
polygamy
polygyny
polyandry
sister exchange
cross cousin
parallel cousin
bridewealth
dowry
half-marriage
family of orientation
consanguineal kin
family of procreation
affinal kin
kinship system
extended family
household
neolocal residence
patrilocal residence
virilocal residence
shabano
matrilocal residence
uxurilocal residence
matrifocal residence
avunculocal residence
bilocal residence
ambilocal residence
matri-patrilocal residence
IV. Kinship and Descent (Chapter 7)
A.
Functions of kinship systems; ideal versus real patterns of kinship
B.
Descent groups (study the various groups in the book)
C.
Types of lineages
D.
Parallel and cross-cousins revisited; terminological systems
role
status
ascribed
status
achieved
status
descent
group
lineage
patrilineage
agnates
matrilineage
bilateral
descent kindred
double
descent
ambilineal
descent
clan
totem
phratry
moiety
segmentary lineage
cross-cousin
parallel cousin
kinship term
bifurcate
V. Sex and Gender (Chapter 8)
A.
Factors affecting gender roles: kinship, economic resources, ideology
B.
Perspectives on human sexual behavior; sexual attraction and behavior
gender
sex
sexual
dimorphism
gender
role
heterosexuality
homosexuality
mahu
berdache
Margaret Mead and early gender studies