Study Guide
- See detailed chapter outline in your book… (Chapter outline= study guide).
- See Chapter summaries for big picture content and key terms→ see chapter readings for explanations/ key terms in context.
- All these questions are associated with key terms and concepts from the textbook.
- The exam is 50 multiple choice/ T-F…. and 4 written questions.
BIG PICTURE
-What is the anthropological perspective and why is it important?
-What is culture? What purpose does it serve?
-What is the legacy of colonialism? Why have post-colonial societies faced so many difficulties?
-What is the concept of Race? What is the origin and how does it continue to affect humans globally? How is race is a social construction with real social consequences?
SMALL PICTURE
Chapter 9
-What is social control?
-What are forms of power?
-What are the different forms of political systems (features)?
Chapter 10
-Why is it difficult for anthropologists to study religion?
-How do anthropologists define religion/ magic?
-How does religious practice vary? Specialists? Access to the supernatural?
Chapter 11
- What is a tradition? Is tradition really traditional? What are the cultural implications of tradition?
- What are the ways that culture changes? The implication for different modes? For example power→ acculturation/ ethnocide…… innovation/ diffusion
Chapter 12
- What is Colonialism/ what was its purpose?
- What are the 7 legacies of colonialism? Be able to explain… for example “loss of economic independence”... How? Why? ect...
Chapter 13
- How did former colonies achieve political independence? Why did they struggle to achieve economic independence?
- What is the plural society? Why does it create a particularly tricky situation for the creation of a nation-state?
- How do states by their nature create included and excluded groups? What happens to those that fall outside the state’s definitions of a citizen/ member of the nation?
Chapter 14
-Why economic dependence? Why underdevelopment? How does underdevelopment serve the interests of developed nations?
-How has the notion of “Development” changed over time? What are the cultural costs of development?
Chapter 15
- TBA in class.
