Anthropology

9 Final Exam Study Guide (Fall 2016)

** Please note the Final Exam places a strong emphasis on the second half of the
course. There are, however, concepts that we developed in the first half of the class
that we returned to discuss again post-midterm. So, in addition to this study guide
we advise you to look over the Midterm Study Guide as well and take special note of
any concepts that have carried over to the second half of the course **
Religion (as defined by Geertz)
Symbol
Ethos
Moods & Motivations
Worldview
Models of & Models for Reality
Religious Response to Limits of Interpretability, Endurance, & Moral Insight
Being Between (Stoller)
Rationality vs. Mentalities
Law of Contradiction
Malinowskis Functionalist Account of Magic
Evans-Pritchards Account of the Granary
Multiple Realities and Shifting Perspectives (Schutz/Geertz)
Commonsense, Scientific, Aesthetic, & Religious Perspectives
Action vs. Reflection/Ritual vs. Everyday Life
Instilling Religious Perspectives
Ritual
Rites of Passage
Embodiment (Stoller/Merleau-Ponty)
Deutero-Learning
Social Scientific vs. Religious Adherents Perspectives on Ritual
Sex, Sexuality, Gender
Configurationalism

Mead on Sex and Temperament

The Paradox of Womens Power in Yap
Power
Coercive Power
Persuasive Power
Politics
Stratification
Hierarchy
Class
Hegemony (Gramsci)
Liberalism
Neoliberalism
Liberal Feminism & Critiques of Nonliberal Traditions
Postcolonial Feminism (Third Wave Feminism)
Abu-Lughods Critique of Saving Muslim Women
Agency (Mahmoods Version)
Freedom (Sartre)
Secularity/Secularism
Nonliberal Tradition
Egyptian Mosque Movement & Gendered Piety
Subjectivation (Foucault)
Gender as Performance (Butler)
Paradox of Subjectivation
Habitus
Bodily Hexis
Malaka (Mahmood, in Lecture)
Liminality (Tuner, in Lecture and Ghannam)

Mobility (Ghannam)
Zaki & Zakiya (Ghannam)
Structures of Conjuncture
The Content of Modernity & Tradition
Orientations to Modernity
Antimodermism
Fundamentalism
Denial of Coevalness
Technological Transformation & Sensory Experience in Egypt (Hirschkind)
Live vs. Taped Sermons
Rhetorical vs. Ethical Orientations to Sermons
Hearing with the Heart
Sam (hearing), Ansat (paying close attention), Asgha (being silent in order to
listen)
Intellectual vs. Ethical Listening
Sensory, Affective, Gestural & Expressive aspects of Ethical Listening to Sermons
Differences between Stollers Ethnographic Practice in West Africa and New York
City
Immunological vs. Embryological Thinking
Hauka Spirit Possession
Mimetic Faculty
Epistemes
Sensuous Anthropology
Wood, Mud, and Art
History of Long-Distance Trading in West Africa
Trade, Economics, Islam, and Social Relations
Medical Anthropology
Suffering & Its Varieties (Contingent, Routinized, Extreme)

Social Suffering
Culture-Bound Syndrome
Nervos & Its Symptoms
Medicalization Defined
Medicalization, Hunger, & Nervos in Brazil
Collective Bad Faith & Common Misrecognition (Bourdieu)
Continuous Liminality (Stoller)
Village of the Healthy vs. Village of the Sick
Genji How
Sorcery, Ritual, and Setting the World Straight
Sonhay Sorcerers & Cancer Patients
Human Rights/Cultural Rights
The Story of Fina Kamara
Jacksons Critique of Human Rights & Reconciliation Discourse in Sierra Leone