INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY EXAM 3 STUDY
INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY EXAM #3 STUDY GUIDE
Here is a list of topics to study for the third exam. Again, keep in mind that this is not an exhaustive list and does not constitute everything that will be on the exam.
Readings come from Dirk Van Der Elst’s Culture as Given, Culture as Choice, chapters 2, 3, 4, 8, and 9.
There will be questions from the films viewed in class: Caribou Kayak; The Meaning of Food: Food & Culture; Himalayan Herders.
From Culture As Given, Culture As Choice by Dirk Van Der Elst, some concepts to know: distinguish between behaviors that are innate versus behaviors that are learned (chapter 2), distinguish between “culture” and “society” (chapter 3), define “symbols” and “gestures” (Chapter 4), define “deviance” and “syncretism” (chapter 8), and define “science” and “hypothesis” (chapter 9).
Concerning the anthropologists and their schools of thought, as discussed in class: don’t memorize their birth and death dates. Know the anthropologist and the main idea that their school of thought emphasized. For example: Franz Boaz’s historical particularism was a reaction against what the earlier cultural evolutionists were saying; every culture is unique and has its own particular history.
Know what Participant Observation is, and what is involved in it.
Be able to define: culture, world view, etic versus emic descriptions, ethnography, language, language dialects, language families, the open, stimulus-free, and flexible nature of language, dialects, phones, phonemes, morphemes, the different subsistence patterns, economics, allocation, production, distribution, reciprocity, redistribution, and market exchange.
For my NDSU students: don’t forget to bring an opscan form.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask. My e-mail is Travis.Kitch@minnesota.edu for my MSCTC students and Travis.Kitch@ndsu.edu for my NDSU students.
Good luck,
Travis
Here is a list of topics to study for the third exam. Again, keep in mind that this is not an exhaustive list and does not constitute everything that will be on the exam.
Readings come from Dirk Van Der Elst’s Culture as Given, Culture as Choice, chapters 2, 3, 4, 8, and 9.
There will be questions from the films viewed in class: Caribou Kayak; The Meaning of Food: Food & Culture; Himalayan Herders.
From Culture As Given, Culture As Choice by Dirk Van Der Elst, some concepts to know: distinguish between behaviors that are innate versus behaviors that are learned (chapter 2), distinguish between “culture” and “society” (chapter 3), define “symbols” and “gestures” (Chapter 4), define “deviance” and “syncretism” (chapter 8), and define “science” and “hypothesis” (chapter 9).
Concerning the anthropologists and their schools of thought, as discussed in class: don’t memorize their birth and death dates. Know the anthropologist and the main idea that their school of thought emphasized. For example: Franz Boaz’s historical particularism was a reaction against what the earlier cultural evolutionists were saying; every culture is unique and has its own particular history.
Know what Participant Observation is, and what is involved in it.
Be able to define: culture, world view, etic versus emic descriptions, ethnography, language, language dialects, language families, the open, stimulus-free, and flexible nature of language, dialects, phones, phonemes, morphemes, the different subsistence patterns, economics, allocation, production, distribution, reciprocity, redistribution, and market exchange.
For my NDSU students: don’t forget to bring an opscan form.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask. My e-mail is Travis.Kitch@minnesota.edu for my MSCTC students and Travis.Kitch@ndsu.edu for my NDSU students.
Good luck,
Travis