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Anthropology 101 Fall 2015: Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology Term List

This is not a comprehensive study guide for all the topics and concepts we covered in class. It is however,
a good place for you to start. You should be able to understand the concepts from this list. That is, you
should be able to define concepts and understand how they work and how they relate to other concepts.
Below this list of terms are some additional questions to guide your studying.
Oct 24/26-30
Culture
Enculturation
Socialization
5 components of culture
Kiowa
Saleema Initiative
Holism
Human agency
Ethnocentrism
Cultural relativism
Janice Boddy
Female genital mutilation
(FGM)/Female genital cutting
(FGC)
Stori Tumbuna Film
The Lak People
The Song
Nov. 2-6
Dialectic of fieldwork
Emic perspective
Making meaning
Myth
Play
Metacommunication
Framing/Reflexivity
Art
Art by intention
Art by appropriation
Ritual
Rites of Passage
Shamans
Priests
Worldview
Religion
Religious practices/behaviors
Syncretism
Shakespeare in the Bush
Nov. 9-13
Language/Linguistics

Human communication
Openness
Displacement
Arbitrariness
Duality of patterning
Semanticity
Prevarication
Linguistic reality principle/SapirWhorf Hypothesis
Linguistic determinism
Pragmatics
Ethnopragmatics
Discourse genre
Heteroglossia
Linguistic ethnocentrism
Language ideology
Linguistic competence
Communicative competence
Cultural Greetings
Language loss
Language revitalization
The Linguists (film)
Nov. 16-20
Economy/Economics
Economic motivation- different
models
Production
Modes of production
Kin-ordered mode
Tributary mode
Capitalist mode
Distribution/Exchange
Reciprocity (3 kinds)
Redistribution
Market exchange
Consumption
Explanations for consumption
patterns
Cornelios Beans example

Ju/hoansi
Globalization
Cultural imperialism
Cultural hybridity
Cosmopolitanism
Human rights
Human rights vs. culture
Human rights = ones right to
culture
Border Thinking
Buen Vivir
Nov. 30-Dec. 4
Social inequality
Cultural construction of different
categories
Naturalizing Discourse
Gender
Class
Caste
Race
Ethnicity
Ethnic Groups
Nation
Nation-state
Nationality
National Identity/Nationalism
Medical Anthropology
Biomedicine
Disease
Sickness
Illness
Suffering
Health
Culture-bound syndromes
Biocultural
Subjectivity
Illness narratives
Trauma
Structural Violence
Embodied inequality

Additional questions to consider and guide your studying


How can we take a cultural relativist approach to FGM/FGC?
What does it mean that culture is not a monolith?
What makes human language unique from primate call systems?
How does the Kiowa example illustrate culture change?
What do the film clips from The Linguists tell us about language loss and language revitalization?
How does culture influence consumption patterns? We discussed several examples in class.
We discussed several examples in class of how globalization has created tensions in how multicultural
societies respect and recognize different cultural beliefs and practices. Be sure you understand these
examples and how they related to this discussion.
Domestic violence in Hawaii
Buen Vivir and border thinking
Ecotourism in Ecuador
Kichwa in Ecuador
Cambodian factory fainting
How do anthropologists study topics like gender, class, caste, race, ethnicity, nationality?
How does the Korwa example illustrate the concept of trauma?
What is structural violence and what examples discussed in class/reading illustrate this concept?
How does capitalism/globalization affect health around the world? Think of examples from class/ reading.

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