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The final will consist of 100 points, 30 of which are multiple choice and 20 are true/false. In addition, there will be four short answer questions each worth 5 points each, and one in-class essay worth 30 points.
The final will focus on the last topics of the course, including sex and gender (chapter 10), politics (chapter 12), religion (chapter 14), the arts (chapter 15), colonialism (chapter 16), and globalization (chapter 17).
You may bring ONE 3 inch by 5 inch index card to the final with notes.
MWF 9 am final is scheduled for Monday, December 15 from 8 to 10 am in Cloud 221.
MWF 10 am section final is scheduled for Thursday, December 18 from 8 to 10 am in Cloud Hall 221.
MWF noon section final is scheduled for Friday, December 19 from 8 to 10 am in Cloud Hall 266.
Bring a #2 pencil for the scantron form.
The following terms and concepts will be on the final:
Politics and World Systems:
acculturation
colonialism
cultural evolution - technology, social organization, and ideology
diaspora
diffusion - direct borrowing and stimulus diffusion
direct borrowing and stimulus diffusion
globalization and global capitalism
hegemony
indigenous people
industrialization
innovation
enculturation
socialization
assimilation
Law of Cultural Dominance
political systems: bands, tribes, chiefdoms, states
postmodernity
Key Concepts in Anthropology:
emic/etic
ethnographer
human adaptation
informant
reciprocity - balanced, generalized, negative
symbols
Sex, Gender, and Marriage:
anthropologists - families and households
model: core gender identity, gender role, sexual orientation
gender roles in USA
gender stratification
roles of biology and culture
two-spirit
Religion and Ritual:
definition of religion
spirit world’s reflection of social world
canonical and indexical information
mana
peyote
rites of renewal, reversal, passage / ad hoc rituals
taboos
totemism
animatism
The Arts:
aesthetics and culture
art and tourism
Specific cultures from Class and the Book:
Aztec
Dani
Dine (creation story)
Hopi
Inuit
Ju/’hoansi
Maori
Films:
Masai Women and The Lau of Malaita.
There will be ONE in-class essay in class worth 30 points. Below are the essay topics. You should choose an essay in advance and plan an outline. You may bring one 3 inch by 5 inch index card to class with notes on definition, terms, quotes that pertain to the essay and/or the final topics in general. You may NOT write the final essay in advance - it must be done in class.
___You have experienced two major types of ethnography in this class: written and visual. What are the strengths and weaknesses of visual ethnography? Go beyond the obvious (i.e. film allows a feeling of eyewitness for the audience) and mere opinion ("I liked this one rather than that one...") Consider moral and ethnical concerns and the emic/etic contrast as well as what visuals can and cannot accomplish in recording human cultural activity. You may consider the observer effect, direct observation and participant observation, cultural relativism, the use of narration, etc. Examples and comparisons should be chosen from the films Do You Speak American?Part I, Sewing Woman, Masai Women, Dance and Trance of Balinese Children, Rain in a Dry Land, and The Lau of Malaita.
___What are the connections between art and ritual? How are the two mutually reinforcing? Why do you think such connections are so strong between art and ritual?
___Using examples, discuss how body art, including clothing, intersects with gender, status, and religion.
___Discuss ONE of the major historic anthropologists that were mentioned in class this semester. They are Lewis Henry Morgan, Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Claude Levi-Strauss. Do you find his/her ideas on culture valid? Why or why not?
___Describe gender roles and relations in traditional Iroquois society. May it be said that different, but balancing rights and obligations assigned to the genders resulted in a high degree of gender equality?
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