STUDY GUIDE ELLER

Study Guide

1. See detailed chapter outline in your book… (Chapter outline= study guide).
2. See Chapter summaries for big picture content and key terms→ see chapter readings for explanations/ key terms in context.
3. All these questions are associated with key terms and concepts from the textbook.
4. 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.