Study Guide
Final Exam
Cultural Anthropology
Political
Organization
Differs in 3 dimensions
Characteristics and examples of
Bands, Tribes, Chiefdoms, States
-Benefits of state level political
system
-Theories regarding the formation of
states
Social
Control
-Social norms
-Positive sanctions
-Negative sanctions
-Informal means of social control
(examples)
-Formal means of social control
(examples)
Kinship Organization
Age-Grade Organization
Association Organization
Political Leadership and Gender
Political Organization and External Affairs
Religion
definition
Magic
definition
Types
of religions
Common
features of religion and magic
Differences
between religion and magic
Witchcraft
Functions
of religion
The Practice of Religion
Religious Specialists
Religion and Cultural Change
Definition
of Art
Oldest
examples of art
Types
of art found in small and large-scale societies
Functions
of Art
Verbal
arts and examples discussed in class
Verbal arts
The Art of Music
Pictorial Art
Applied
Anthropology (Project Camelot, Forensic Anthropology, Does it differ from
academic Anthropology? Examples discussed in class,
Stimulus for new jobs, American Anthropological Association code of conduct)
Medical
Anthropology (Scope, Medical Practitioners, Cultural Concept of Sickness, Kuru,
Environment, Culture, Biology)
Culture
Change (Rates of Change, Inventors, Innovators, Diffusion, Patterns of
Diffusion,
Obstacles to Culture Change, Acculturation)
Change
and development
Modernization
theory
World
Systems theory
Neocolonialism
Multinational
Corporations
Mechanisms of Change
Repressive Change
Revitalization Movements
Rebellion and Revolution
Modernization and the “Underdeveloped” World
The Cultural Future of Humanity
Problems of Structural Violence
The
future of humanity
World Hunger
Overpopulation
Pollution
The
test will cover chapters 12-16 in your textbook
Bring
a Scantron and number two pencil (with a good eraser) to the final exam.