ANT 102 Dr. Dorothy Wills
Lecture material:
See pieces of the Chart of Elements of a Sociocultural System in Lecture Notes #10.
Completed unit on Kinship and marriage: types of marriage, residence rules, kinship terminology, kinship diagramming, the family (text from powerpoint on #2 Lecture Notes)
Unit on Political organization and social control: issues of decision-making, locus of authority, stateless vs. state government, continuum of band/tribe/chiefdom/feudal system/nation-state, interrelation with social stratification; concept of egalitarian vs. hierarchical. See text from powerpoint on #2 Lecture Notes.
Belief systems unit, some of powerpoint in #2 Lecture Notes, definition of religion, classification of types, differences between types, possession cults, secret societies, traditional healers, terms: ancestor 'worship' (and why it's a misnomer), fetishism, 'idolatry' (and why it's wrong), taboo.
Modern world unit (see #2 Lecture Notes), characteristics and problems of the modern world, applied anthropology.
Don't forget you are responsible for the film, too. See notes in #5 Lecture Notes.
SAMPLE QUESTIONS:
Short answer:
Distinguish between 'headman', 'big man/woman', and 'chief.
What is the role of tetrodotoxin in voodoo religion?
Why does Frances Moore Lappe say she uses the term "underdevelop" as a verb?
What do practitioners of CRM do?
Essay:
The classification of belief systems presented in class might be interpreted as an evolutionary sequence by some people. Do you agree with this perspective? Why or why not?
Look at the Critical Questions at the end of the chapters in E & E.
You will have a question related to 'your' indigenous people (from Assignment #4) asking you to compare them to some other people from your readings.
There will be a kinship diagramming question.
There will be a question asking you to either design an anthropology course for high school students, solve a fieldwork problem, or perform a consulting role as an anthropologist with a business or government project.