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This document is a study guide for a final exam on anthropology concepts. It provides a list of key terms, concepts, and topics covered in the course, including subsistence strategies, politics, kinship, social identity, and belief systems.

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FINAL EXAM REVIEW – here are some terms and concepts you should study SUBSISTENCE STRATEGIES – know all four we discussed -review the worksheet you did for homework - slash and burn/swidden horticulture -satellite camps -carrying capacity -economics (3 types of reciprocity, re...

FINAL EXAM REVIEW – here are some terms and concepts you should study SUBSISTENCE STRATEGIES – know all four we discussed -review the worksheet you did for homework - slash and burn/swidden horticulture -satellite camps -carrying capacity -economics (3 types of reciprocity, redistribution, market) POLITICS -Service’s concept of politics -Fried’s concept of politics -how anthropologists study politics -concepts of power and authority -achieved status -ascribed status -bigman/headman -simple/complex chiefdom -Weber’s concepts of stratification FIRST FARMERS -Natufians -vertical economy -domestication -Neolithic/Paleolithic -Broad-spectrum revolution -how to see early attempts at domestication -artificial selection CITIES AND STATES -criteria to be a state by Fagan -Jericho -Çatalhöyϋk (structures, burials, importance) -Mesopotamia/Sumerian region -Indus River Valley -Jenne-Jeno -Great Zimbabwe -Mesoamerica/Olmec -archaeological evidence of urban centers -urban revolution -possible causes of state formation KINSHIP AND DESCENT -nuclear family -descent groups -family of orientation/procreation -parallel/cross cousin -consanguines -affines Unilineal descent -lineage -endogamy/exogamy -patrilineage, matrilineage -incest taboo Nonunilineal descent groups -arranged marriage -bilateral descent -dowry, lobola, bride service, exchange of females -clan -levirate/sororate -Residence – patrilocal, matrilocal, neolocal -monogamy -polygamy -polyandry (regular and fraternal) -polygyny (regular and sororal) SOCIAL IDENTITY/GENDER -Sex (biology) -sexual dimorphism -Gender (culture) -gender role -gender stereotype -gender stratification -Third genders -domestic-public dichotomy -roles in a patriline/matriline -cisgender/intersex -gender identity -sexual orientation BELIEF SYSTEMS -Durkheim and sacred/profane -social control of religion -Tylor – animism, polytheism, monotheism -anthropomorphic -zoomorphic -naturalism -anthropopsychic -totem -mana -magic -Ritual – rite of passage (separation, liminality, reincorporation) and rite of intensification -revitalization movement -Cargo Cults WORLD SYSTEM -capital - Core, Semi-periphery, Periphery -Columbian exchange -monocropping -Industrial Revolution -bourgeoisie/proletariat -colonialism/imperialism -role of Britain and France in colonization -postcolonial -intervention philosophy APPLIED and ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY -early applications of applied -development anthropology -anth and education -medical anthropology -urban anthropology -business and anthropology -public anthropology -globalization -single- and multi-sited research -anthropogenic affect -greenhouse effect -cultural imperialism -indigenization

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