Weeks 14-16: Anthropology 11--Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Review for Test 4 (May 2, 2002) Covering Chapters 9, 13, and 11:

Family and Household  (242- 267)

Culture and the Supernatural  (360- 387)

Grouping by Sex, Age, Common Interest, and Class   (296 - 321)

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Professor John Wolford
Department of Anthropology
University of Missouri-St. Louis

Email: wolfordj@msx.umsl.edu


Disclaimer: This review sheet does not purport to be all-inclusive of all possible material that will be covered on the test. In fact, it is not all-inclusive.  It is the responsibility of the student to cover the assigned readings and to know the lecture material sufficiently well to do well on the test. This review sheet is intended only to be an aid to studying for the test.
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Outline for Chapter 9 Outline for Chapter 13 Outline for Chapter 11
Definitions for Chapter 9 Definitions for Chapter 13 Definitions for Chapter 11
Lecture Notes for Chapter 9 Lecture Notes for Chapter 13 Lecture Notes for Chapter 11

Links to Section Headings inside this page:

Chapter 9 (Family) Outline  |  Chapter 9 (Family) Terms  |  Chapter 13 (Supernatural) Outline  |  Chapter 13 (Supernatural) Terms  |  Chapter 11 (Groups) Outline  | Chapter 11 (Groups) Terms  |  Groups to Know  | People to Know

 

Chapter 9: Family and Household (242 - 267)


The Core Questions of this Chapter—know how to answer them • What is the family?

• What is the difference between family and household?

• What are some of the problems of family and household organization?

 

 

Family and Society

  • Original study: The ephemeral modern family

Functions of the Family

  • Nurturance of children

• Economic cooperation

Family and Household

Form of the Family

  • The nuclear family

• The extended family

• Residence patterns

Problems of Family and Household Organization

  • Polygamous families

• Extended families

• Nuclear families

• Anthropology applied: Dealing with infant mortality

• Female-headed households

Ch. 9: Family and Household, 258-285:

TERMS TO KNOW

250 household  
251 conjugal family  
253 extended family  
254 patrilocal residence  
256 matrilocal residence  
256 ambilocal residence  
257 neolocal residence  
257 avunculocal residence  

Related Terms from Chapter 8: Sex and Marriage


     
225 family  
225 consanguine family  
225 nuclear family  
225 polygyny  
227 polyandry  
228 serial monogamy  

Related Terms from Chapter 10: Kinship and Descent


270 descent group  
271 unilineal descent  
271 matrilineal descent  
271 patrilineal descent  
280 lineage  
282 clan  
282 totemism  

 


 

Chapter 13: Culture and the Supernatural (360 - 387)


The Core Questions of this Chapter—know how to answer them • What is religion?

• What are religion’s identifying features?

• What functions does religion serve?

The Anthropological Approach to Religion

The Practice of Religion

  • Supernatural beings and powers  
• Gods and goddesses

• Ancestral spirits

• Animism

 
• Sir Edward B. Tylor (1832-1917)


• Animatism


• Religious specialists

 
• Priests and priestesses

• Shamans
 

• Original study: Healing among the Ju/'hoansi of the Kalahari


• Rituals and ceremonies

 
• Rites of passage

• Rites of intensification
 

Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft

  • Witchcraft
  • Ibibio witchcraft

Chapter 13: Culture and the Supernatural (360 - 387): TERMS TO KNOW

 
364 religion  
366 polytheism  
366 pantheon  
368 animism  
369 animatism  
370 priest or priestess  
371 shaman  
374 rites of passage  
374 rites of intensification  
374 separation  
374 transition  
374 incorporation  
378 imitative [or sympathetic] magic  
378 contagious magic  
378 witchcraft  
382 divination
385 revitalization movements

Chapter 11: Grouping by Sex, Age, Common Interest, and Class (296 - 321)


The Core Questions of this Chapter—know how to answer them • What principles, besides kinship and marriage, do people use to organize societies?

• What is age grading?

• What are common-interest associations?

• What is social stratification?
Grouping by Gender

Age Grouping

• Institutions of age grouping

• Age grouping in African society
 

Common Interest Associations

• Kinds of common-interest associations  
• Men's and women's associations


• Associations in the Post-Industrial world
 

• Original study: Indigenous peoples in Cyberia

Social Stratification

• Class and caste
  • Anthropology Applied: Anthropologists and social impact assessment


• Mobility

• Gender stratification

• Development of stratification
 


Ch. 11: Grouping by Sex, Age, Common Interest, and Class (296 - 321):  TERMS TO KNOW

301 age grade  
301 age sets  
302 common-interest associations  
308 stratified society  
309 egalitarian societies  
309 social class  
309 caste  
312 verbal evaluation  
312 symbolic indicators  
313 mobility  
314 closed class societies  
314 open class societies  

Groups to know:

 
Mundurucu, Amazonia, S. Am.

People living in kibbutzes, Israel

Inuit, Arctic Circle

United States society

Tory Islanders, Ireland, Europe

Nayar, India, Asia

Maya, Mexico/Guatemala, N. Am.: patrilocality

Communal movement, USA, 1960s

Hopi, USA, N. Am.

Ju/’hoansi, Kalahari, Africa: ambilocality & healing by shamans

Mbuti, Republic of Congo, Africa

Trobriand Islanders, Melanesia, Asia
 

Tewa, Pueblo Indians, USA Southwest

Aborigines, Australia: rites of passage

Mende, Liberia, West Africa: female rite of passage

Ibibio, Nigeria, Africa: witchcraft

Swazi, Swaziland, Africa: modern medicine and traditional beliefs

Navajo, USA Southwest: witchcraft
 

Iroquois, USA

Jewish cousin clubs, NYC, USA

Tiriki, Kenya, Africa

Cyberia

Indian caste system, India, Asia

Maya, Mexico/Guatemala, N. Am.: stratification

Hutu, Tutsi, Rwa peoples: Rwanda, Africa


People to Know

Dr. Margaret Boone, on public health issues and cultural factors, Washington, DC

Anthony F. C. Wallace, on religion and on revitalization movements

Edward B. Tyler, on animism

R. R. Marett, on animatism

Arnold van Gennep, on rites of passage

James George Frazer, on magic and religion

Heinrich Schurtz, on group theory

Sue Ellen Jacobs, on social impact assessment, New Mexico
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