Anthropology

101.07
Final Exam Study Guide

Final Exam Date/Time: Thursday, April 26th @ 1:25pm-2:40pm
Bring: Pen/Pencil

Questions: 50 questions total; 100pts
• 40: multiple choice @ 1.5pts each
• 10: short answer@ 4pts each

Topics: Cumulative; exam will cover a little of everything

Section 1
• 4 fields of anthropology
• Culture vs. society
• Emic/etic
• Ethnocentrism vs. Cultural relativism
• Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead (what did they do?)
• The Nacirema article

Section 2
• “Lucy”
• Processual and Post-processual archeology
• Homo-erectus
• Homo-sapiens
• Theories on how H. sapiens emerged
• Aspects of what constitutes a civilization
• Easter Island
• NAGPRA
• The Kennewick man article

Section 3
• Race
• Ethnicity
• Jane Goodall
• Small vs. great apes
• Ota Benga
• Each person is product of what...?
• Helminth Article

Section 4
• Language is...
• Symbols, icons, Index
• Phoneme/morpheme
• Hegemony/power
• Codeswitching
• The Code-switching article

Section 5
• Sex vs. Gender
• Fieldwork- interviews, field notes, reflexivity
• Types of reciprocity
• Participant-observation
• Sexual dimorphism, sexual selection
• Males vs. Females
• In Search of Respect (chapter 1 only)

***Also, think of what concept(s) of this class really resonated with you and how you might
apply those concepts outside of the class-room. Think of concrete, specific examples. ***