Download St. Charles Community College Fall 2015 Introduction to Cultural

St. Charles Community College Fall 2015
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology ANT 102-01
Exam 2 Study Guide: Textbook Chapters 5-9
Reader articles (Ties that Bind but not Inuit Paradox)
5 videos
Chapter 5: Making a Living
 Understanding of the 5 methods of “making a living” (also called adaptive strategies):
Foraging, Horticulture, Pastoralism, Agriculture, & Industrialism
 You should have a general idea of what was important about each group of people we
studied—from class lectures (including videos) and Reader articles.
 What is potlatching?
 What is redistribution? Examples from different cultures?
 What are the 3 types of reciprocity? Be able to give an example of each.
Chapter 6: Political Systems
 What is the difference between stratification and egalitarianism?
 What is the difference between laws and norms
 How did the Inuit resolve conflicts, particularly adultery and wife stealing?
 Main features of bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states (or nation-states) in terms of wealth,
power and prestige.
 What was the Igbo Women’s War?
 What are the definitions of wealth, power, and prestige?
Chapter 7: Kinship, Marriage, & Families
 What is a sororate? Levirate?
 What is dowry? Lobola?
 What are endogamy and exogamy?
 What is the difference between clans and lineages? Between stipulated and demonstrated
descent?
 Difference between nuclear family and extended family; examples from various cultures
 What are zadrugas and tarawads? Among which societies do we find them?
 Which cultures practice patrilineal descent/patrilocality? Which cultures practice
matrilineal descent/matrilocality?
 What are some non-Western types of marriage, and which cultures practice them?
 What are polygyny and polyandry? Why do societies practice them?
 What is fraternal polyandry? Which culture practices it, and why?
 What is the walking marriage among the Mosua of China?
Chapter 8: Gender
 What is the difference between sex and gender?
 Which cultures practice homosexuality, and in what context?
 What do anthropologists think is the purpose of incest restrictions? If a society is strictly
matrilineal or strictly patrilineal, how does that affect their incest restriction?





What is the domestic-public dichotomy?
From the video “The Third Sex”: Check the study guide, posted in Canvas
What is a berdache, which societies recognize this, and what kind of life did a berdache
lead?
The definitions of cissexual and androgyny
How does the importance of gender vary in bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states (or
nation-states)
Chapter 9: Religion
 What are Tylor’s 3 stages of the evolution of religion? What are the main differences?
 Know the definition, and be able to describe an example, of religion, communitas, mana,
taboo, liminality, leveling mechanism
 What is the difference between “sacred” and “profane” in terms of religion?
 What are cargo cults?
 Why do societies use witchcraft accusations?
 Differences between mana in Melanesia and mana in Polynesia.
 3 stages of a rite of passage
 What are the 5 key characteristics of religion?