SOAN 110 - Final Exam Review
The final exam will include: 1) short answer questions; 2) critical response questions; 3) essay questions.
• Short answer questions will focus on key terms from the second part of the class (see course slides and list below).
• Critical response questions will invite you comment on selected texts, images and other materials form anthropolical perspectives.
• Essay questions will ask you to synthesize concepts and ethnographic studies we have considered throughout the term.
Answers to questions should draw on class notes, readings, and films.
Topics and Terms
Political Economic Approach
Cultural Ecology
Adaptation
Human Evolution
Culture Core
Subsistence Strategies
Economic Anthropology
Reciprocity / Redistribution / Market
Delayed Reciprocity
Structural Violence
Symbolic Violence
Kinship
Affine / Consanguine
Marriage
Mater / Pater
Household
Residence Rules/Preferences
Family of Orientation
Family of Procreation
Lateral / Lineal Kinship
Kindred / Lineage
Endogamy / Exogamy
Parallel Cousins / Cross Cousins
Magic / Religion / Science
Animism / Polytheism / Monotheism
Homeopathic Magic
Contagious Magic
Sacred/Profane
Beliefs / Rites / Church
Social Solidarity
Civil Religion
Liminality / Communitas / Rites of Reversal
Linguistic Anthropology
Language Evolution (claims and critiques)
Linguistic Relativism
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Phoneme
Referential / Indexical Meaning
Referential / Performative Languages
Marked / Unmarked
Dialect
Register
Code Switching
Direct Indexicality / Indirect Indexicality