ANTHROPOLOGY 260 / FALL 2015

EXAM #2 REVIEW SHEET

Exam #2 covers Guest Chapters 6-11 & 15 + class lectures + other assigned readings + films

Know key terms from all readings Sexuality

(especially those in bold in lectures) Views of sexuality
Adaptive strategies (5) key features o United States
o foragers o Cross-cultural examples
o horticulture Sexology
o agriculture Marriage equality in the U.S.
o pastoralism Kinship in non-industrial societies
o industrialism Nuclear families
Patterns of exchange Descent groups
o market exchange Lineage vs. clans
o redistribution Post-marital residence
o reciprocity Kinship classification
Forms of reciprocity Exogamy vs. endogamy
Social construction of race Monogamy vs. polygamy
o Brazil Types of polygamy
o United States Functions of marriage
Racism Gift exchanges
Whiteness and white public space Egalitarian societies
Construction of ethnicity Ranked societies
Ethnic conflict Systems of stratification
Ethnicity as resource Theories of stratification: Marx,
Ethnic coexistence (assimilation, Weber, Bourdieu, Mullings
multiculturalism) Income vs. wealth
State, nation, nation-state, Roots of poverty
nationalism Core elements of religion
Sex vs. gender Theories of religion: Durkheim,
Gender identity, performance Marx, Weber
Gender roles Shamanism
Alternate sexes/genders Functions of religion
Gender stratification, stereotypes, Rites of passage
ideology

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