Development

STUDY GUIDE MILLER

Study Guide

1. See “Contents” in your book… (Contents= 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 are the distinctive features of cultural anthropology? Why are they important?

-What is culture?  What purpose does it serve?

- How does mode of livelihood relate to….. consumption/ exchange/ reproduction/ social groups/ stratification/ power and political order/ expressive culture/ ect….?  How does the Holistic perspective play into this?

-What is social stratification? In what ways is society stratified? What are the implications for individuals in the lower/ higher strata?

SMALL PICTURE

1. What is happening in West Papua New Guinea?
2. What is the natural resources curse?
3. Achieved vs Ascribed position?
4. Social stratification as it relates to Race, Class, Gender ect....
5. Diaspora? Migration?
6. Patriarchy/ Matriarchy
7. Power/ Authority/ Influence
8. Political organizations: types/ examples... implications for the State.
9. Militarism? Social control? Policing?
10. War/ Drone war? Implication.
11. What is communication? Forms ect...
12. Creole/ pidgin
13. Displacement/ productivity of language
14. Sapir Whorf hypothesis
15. Sociolinguistics--> examples AAVE/ regional accents ect....
16. Who is Kanzi? Why should we care?
17. Magic and Religion? What is the difference?
18. Forms of magic (Tyler)...
19. How are beliefs expressed?
20. Why do people turn to magic and religion?
21. Animatism?
22. Rituals? Examples?
23. Types of religious specialists?
24. religious syncretism?
25. religious pluralism?
26. revitalization movement? Examples.
27. Videos from IN/ OUT of class
28. Expressive culture?
29. Art? Fine/ Folk... implications
30. Ethno-esthetics
31. ethnomusicology
32. Material/ intangible cultural heritage
33. Museums...
34. Repatriation.... NAGPRA
35. Migration/ immigration: motivations for... causes and dynamics of...
36. Internal/ International/ Transnational
37. IDP/ refugee/ institutional/ Development-induced migration
38. push/ pull theory
39. Remittance
40. acculturation/ assimilation
41. development/ poverty  

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ART continued......

Week 12: Religion

READ: CHAPTER 12
WATCH IN CLASS:

Week 12: ART

Week 12: ART
READ: Chapter
DO: Watch in class:

Week 11: Communication

READ: CHAPTER 11

WATCH IN CLASS:

Week 8: Kinship and Domestic Life

TO DO THIS WEEK ASAP:
MIDTERM EXAM: Take exam on Blackboard by Thursday.
READ: Textbook Chapter 8
HOMEWORK: WORK ON FIELD NOTES
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Watch in Class

Week Seven: Disease/Illness

Week 7: Ch 7. Kinship

TO DO THIS WEEK ASAP:

READ: Textbook Chapter 7

HOMEWORK: START WORKING ON FIELD NOTES THE NEXT ASSIGNMENT IS DUE IN TWO WEEKS----- STUDY FOR THE MIDTERM EXAM

WATCH: 

Week Six: Reproduction and Human Development

TO DO THIS WEEK ASAP:
READ: Textbook Chapter 6

HOMEWORK: WORK ON FIELD NOTES (follow directions from assignment #1 (minus the background) X 3)

WATCH: 

Week Five: Consumption and Exchange

TO DO THIS WEEK ASAP:
READ: Textbook Chapter 5
READ: Article Eating Christmas in the Kalahari    (link to pdf format)

HOMEWORK: WORK ON FIELD NOTES (follow directions from assignment #1 (minus the background) X 3)

EXTRA VID:

Watch IN Class

Watch IN Class

Week Four: Livelihood

TO DO THIS WEEK ASAP:
READ: Textbook Chapter 4
Watch: Desert of Skeletons

Week Three: Human Origins

TO DO THIS WEEK ASAP:
READ: Field Notes 
READ: Assignment #1 Details/ Ask questions in Class
READ: Textbook Chapter 2 
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Week Two: Study of Culture

TO DO THIS WEEK ASAP:
READ: Textbook Chapter 1
READ: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/03/anthropology-inc/309218/
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Watch:

Watch in Class 8/30

Week One: INTRO

TO DO THIS WEEK ASAP:
READ: Nacerima. Link 1, Link 2 PDF
Start to READ: Textbook Chapter 1
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Watch: