Anthropology Final

applied anthropology

intersex

ethnography

ethnicity

multi-sited research

Mitochondrial Eve

Domestic-public dichotomy

gender

Kula ring

Potlatch

Divine king

ideology

Boasians

Ascribed status

developmental anthropology

ethnographic analogies

domestication

resistance

problem-oriented ethnography

gender stratification

cuneiform

historical particularism

ethnocentrism

Agency

universal grammar

cultural relativism

lineage

clan

Shamanism

Seriation

archaeology

neolithic revolution

participant observation

acculturation

sexual dimorphism

patriarchy

focal vocabulary

"big man"

Armchair anthropology

animism

Emic perspective

Etic perspective

Kenyanthropus platyops

dendrochronology

needs functionalism

Structural functionalism

foramen magnum

thomson's nose rule

Broad Spectrum Revolution

Bourgeoisie

Proletariat

Industrial alienation

Pre-clovis hypothesis

Peter Metcalf

Ethnology

Hegemony

city state

racial classification

artifact

anthropology

behavioral modernity

exploitation colonialism

settler colonialism

modern world system

Holistic

genealogical method

the industrial revolution

Homo habilis

theoretical perspective

Franz Boas

Intensive Agriculture

Archaic Period

polygamy

woodland period

capital

Syntax

Capital

syntax

social archaeology

regional center

subculture

fossil

law of superposition

medical anthropology

natural selection

genotype

hominid

multiculturalism

Assimilationist model

linguistic relativity

proconsul

primatology

What are the four fields of anthropology?

How does prejudice become discrimination?

What is economic anthropology? What is its relationship to traditional economics?

What does an increase in single mother households mean for poverty?

how do descent groups traced to real or mythical ancestors have differential social hierarchies?

What does body decoration and ornamentation indicate?

Why did Spencer Wells (from the Ted Talk we watched in class) believe that humans left Africa so recently (60,000ya) as opposed to earlier?

describe what it means when Anthropologists claim that the discipline is both "holistic" and "comparative"

What is physically different about anatomically modern humans compared to non-anatomically modern humans?

Why did bipedalism begin to develop in our early ancestors

What is meant by the term "Mitochondrial Eve" (as used by Spencer Wells) and about how long ago did she exist?

Why are exogamous marriages both biologically and socially adaptive?

What is a vision quest?

Explain how military training follows the steps of rite of passage

What are the characteristics of Karl Polyani's three economies?

Why is race a social construct and not biological?

what are some ways that anthropologists can tell when crops became domesticated? How does the phenotype change?

What is a "cabinet of curiosities"? Describe the relationship between these cabinets and early anthropology?

Explain how twins can have identical genotypes but different phenotypes.

Explain the difference between punctuated and gradual evolution

What were some of the biological impacts of the earliest farming?

How are multiculturalism and the assimilationist model different?

What are the modes of production in industrial v. nonindustrial societies?

What was the shift in war monuments that occurred with WWI?

What is burial analysis and how could you determine an individual's status from this type of research?

What are the two major types of dating in archaeology?

Describe the emphasis at UGA on ecological and environmental anthropology and the relationship between these two terms.

How can you determine bipedalism?

Explain the cultural practice of widowhood in the context of subordinate social status

What is Fredrik Barth's (European social anthropology) feelings on ethnicity?

What is the difference between horticulture and agriculture?

Why do scientists believe that we developed bipedalism?

Discuss Arthur van Gennep's approach toward deconstructing a rite of passage and provide an example of a rite of passage.

What are the two main theories on the development of behavioral modernity?

Give an example of when the US prescribed to the assimilationist model to the detriment of an ethnic group

Name and describe three methods used in identifying an archaeological site

When are Durrington Walls and Stonehenge linked?

Explain and give a historic example of independent innovation.

What are two historical roots of the modern world system?

Describe the environment change that occurred in the Upper Paleolithic. What evolved due to this change in climate?

Why is the context of an artifact at an archaeological site so important to study?

What biological tendencies do we (as humans) share with other primates?

What happens when political organizations increase in size?

Why do people from different parts of the world have such different skin color?

What was Robert Hertz' framework for understanding death?

What three things discussed in class did the Industrial Revolution require? What were the socioeconomic effects of the Industrial Revolution?

What and where did Margaret Mead study?

What is a pro and con of using surveys to collect ethnographic information? How can these issues be accounted for?

What is the difference between disease and illness as viewed by medical anthropology?

What are the scales of human society put forward by Elman Service?

Name two effects of European contact with the New World

In what ways does the study of archaeology differ from the study of art history?

Where were the earliest states in the Old World and the New World? Provide an example for each.

What are three characteristics of monuments?

Although this country is based on the principle of “separation of church and state,” in reality it is not always so clear-cut. Explain how this is so and provide an example of an area where we see the two realms intersect.

What is the archaeological - or cultural - significance of the early evidence of stone tool use? Also, what are these stone tools called and where were they first found?

Why are cultures not disappearing as early anthropologist thought?

What insight to Basques and Kurds provide anthropologists into the concept of nationality?

Who were our first ancestors to radiate out-of-Africa? Describe the characteristics of both of these species.

What is the difference between sex and gender? Why are both of these ways of defining people problematic?

Explain how the three components of Immanuel Wallerstein’s World Systems Theory are related to one another: Core, Periphery, and Semi periphery....

How do enculturation and acculturation differ?

What are the two main phases of colonialism?

Why do states collapse? Please give 4 explanations.

How do some anthropologists believe environmental circumscription led to social stratification in the first state societies?

What are some benefits of collecting genealogies and life histories?

What is the difference between achieved and ascribed status?

What plants and animals were domesticated in East Asia? What plants and animals were domesticated in the New World?

Describe the Laetoli Footprints found in Tanzania, and their significance for paleoanthropology/archaelogy

Who is Svante Paabo? What is his profession? What was his contribution to the study of Neanderthals?

Explain the difference between ethnicity and race, and how both are considered socially constructed categories

What is the difference between polytheism and monotheism?

Explain how the 'carving up' of Africa has caused political strife today...

What are the major biological and cultural adaptations associated with: Australopithecus afarensis; Australopithecus boisei; Homo habilis Homo Erectus; Homo neanderthalensis; Homo sapiens

What did archaeologists find in holes around Stonehenge and what do these finding reveal about the social hierarchy of the people who lived at the time?

What are the two definitions of Globalization considered by anthropologists?

Compare and contrast the effects of the Neolithic Revolution and the Industrial Revolution on human societies. In what ways were they similar? In what ways were they different? How do these transformations demonstrate the links between biology and culture?

Identify the genus and species of the crania represented in this diagram and describe the adaptive strategies (economy and diet) and key technological developments associated with each species

You are a cultural anthropologist preparing to conduct fieldwork. Pick a field site and define an anthropological question that you are interested in exploring. Describe the methods that you plan to use and why you would choose those methods to answer your question.

With reference to theories and concepts discussed in class, explore the ways in which the language that we use to describe the world around us also constructs how we experience that world. Use the U.S. census as an example of how this process might work.