Weeks 1-4: Anthropology 11--Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Review for Test 1 (February 07, 2002)  Covering Chapters 1, 2, 16: Nature of Anthropology  (2-29) Nature of Culture  (32-53) Anthropology and the Future  (452-485) & Toelken, "Folklore & Cultural Worldview"; & Handler & Linnekin, "Tradition, Genuine or Spurious"

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Chapter 1 (Anthro) Outline  |  Chapter 1 (Anthro) Terms  |  Week 2 (Tradition and Worldview) Outline  |  Week 2 (Tradition and Worldview) Terms  | Chapter 2 (Culture) Outline  |  Chapter 2 (Culture) Terms  |  Chapter 16 (Future) Outline  | Chapter 16 (Future) Terms  |  Groups to Know

Ch. 1: The Nature of Anthropology, 2-29: Outline of the Chapter

What is anthropology?

What do anthropologists do?

How do anthropologists do what they do?

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Putting the World in Perspective (xxiv-xxxiv)

Nature of Maps

Kinds of Maps

Eurocentric Maps  
• Mercator (1569)   • Mollweide (1805)   • Van der Grinten (1904)   • Robinson   • Peters Non-Eurocentric maps  
• Japanese   • Turnabout (1982)

Maps and Worldview
 
 

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Chapter 1: The Nature of Anthropology (2-29)

 
Development of Anthropology (6-7) PEOPLE:

Frank Hamilton Cushing 1857-1900

Matilda Coxe Stevenson 1849-1915 Return to Top

Anthropology and the other Sciences (7-8)

The Discipline of Anthropology (8-22)

Physical anthropology (or biological anthropology) [8]  
ANTHROPOLOGY APPLIED: Forensic Anthropology (9-10)  
Clyde Snow   Cultural anthropology (8-19) Archaeology (11-13)   Linguistic Anthropology (13) Ethnology (aka Sociocultural Anthropology) (13-19) ORIGINAL STUDY: Encountering Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rico (15-17) Anthropology and Science (19-25) PEOPLE: George Peter Murdoch 1897-1985 (23)   Difficulties of the scientific approach (20-23)   PEOPLE:  (all on p. 22) Franz Boas 1858-1942 Fredric Ward Putnam 1839-1915   John Wesley Powell 1834-1902 Real Culture

Ideal Culture

  Comparison in Anthropology (23-25)  
PEOPLE:  (on p. 25)    George Peter Murdoch 1897-1985 Anthropology and the Humanities (25-26)

Humanistic anthropology

Question of Ethics (26-27)

Anthropology and Contemporary Life (27-29)

Ch. 1: The Nature of Anthropology, 2-29: Terms to Know

 

Pg No. Haviland	Anthropological Term	Anthropological Definition from Haviland, Cultural Anthropology, 10th edition
06	anthropology
08	physical anthropology
08	cultural anthropology
09	forensic anthropology
10	culture-bound
11	archaeology
13	linguistic anthropology
13	ethnologist
13	ethnography
13	participant observation
14	holistic perspective
14	informants
18	applied anthropology
19	fact
19	hypothesis
20	theory
28	ethnohistory

Also:

real culture:

ideal culture:

Week 2: Tradition (Handler & Linnekin) & Worldview (Toelken): Outline of the Articles

Etymology of tradition

Reification

Two strains of people's understanding of what tradition means

Popular understanding of tradition

Academic, or analytical understanding of tradition

Twin Laws of Folklore, as applied to tradition

People's traditional behavior

active bearers of tradition

passive beareres of tradition

Nature of worldview

European American Worldview

The Primal Context

Individual Orientation

Individual Deportment

Cultural Deportment

Cultural Philosophy and Folklore

Navajo Worldview

The Primal Context

Individual and Cultural Orientation

Individual and Cultural Deportment

Cultural Art and Artifact

Week 2: Tradition (Handler & Linnekin) & Worldview (Toelken): Terms related to the Articles

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Ch. 2: The Nature of Culture, pp. 32-53: Outline of the Chapter

What is culture?

How is culture studied?

Why do cultures exist?

The Concept of Culture (34)

Characteristics of Culture (34-42)

Culture is shared (36-40)

               Anthropology Applied: New Houses for Apache Indians (38)
 

Culture is learned (40-41)

Culture is based on symbols (41)

                 Important Scholars: Leslie A. White, 1900-1975 (42)
 

Culture is integrated (41-42)

Important Scholars: A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, 1881-1955 (43)

Studying Culture in the Field (43-46)

Important Scholars: Bronislaw Malinowski, 1884-1942 (47)

Original Study: The Importance of Trobriand Women (44-46)

Culture and Adaptation (47-50)

[Cultural Adaptation] (47-50)

Functions of Culture (48)

Culture and Change (48-49)

Culture, Society And The Individual (50)

Evaluation of Culture (50-52)

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Ch. 2: The Nature of Culture, pp. 32-53: Terms to Know

Ch. 16: Anthropology and the Future, pp. 452-485: Outline of the Chapter

What can anthropologists tell us of the future?

What are some present-day trends in cultural evolution?

What problems will have to be solved if humanity is to have a future?

The Cultural Future of Humanity   (454-474)

Global Culture (455-457)

The Rise of the Multinational Corporations (457-463)

ORIGINAL STUDY:  STANDARDIZING THE BODY: THE QUESTION OF CHOICE  (pp. 446-462)

Global Culture: A Good Idea or Not? (464)

Ethnic Resurgence (465)

Cultural Pluralism (466-470)

Guatemalan Cultural Pluralism  (466-470)

ANTHROPOLOGY APPLIED:   ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN (p. 472)

Ethnocentrism (470-471)

Global Apartheid (471-474)

Problems of "Structural Violence"  (474-483)

World Hunger (475-477)

Pollution (477-479)

Population Control (480-482)

The Culture of Discontent (483)

Ch. 16: Anthropology and the Future, pp. 452-485: Terms to Know

Groups to know:

Zuni Indians, North America

Tucson, Arizona Garbage Project

Aboriginal Australian women

Maya, Mexico/Guatemala, N. Am.

Peruvian villagers, South America

Abenaki Indians, northeastern United States

Navajo Indians, United States

European Americans, North America

Amish, North America

Apache indians, United States

Tongan-Americans, United States

Kapauku, Papua New Guinea

Trobriand Islanders

Sahara Desert nomads, Africa

Taliban, Afghanistan

Inuit, Nunavit province, Canada

Ladinos, Guatemala

Cultual Survival, Inc.

Whites/non-Whites, South Africa

China (re: one-child families)