ANTHRO 250

Cultural Anthropology

Midterm

Key term ID Section:

Choose 5 key terms from the list to define in 3 COMPLETE sentences each. Make
connections by provide examples

witchcraft subculture cultural diffusion ethnography

holism enculturation rite of passage dialects
ritual magic code-switching shaman

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Short Answer Section:

Choose 2 of the 4 following questions and respond to each in 1 full paragraph (6-8
sentences, using topic sentence, provide evidence/ examples)

 How are cultural relativism and ethnocentrism opposites?

 How do cultural anthropologists conduct research? What types of
questions do they? What type of evidence do they use?
 What is the relationship between language and culture? Provide examples
 What are cultural universals? Why do anthropologists study them?

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Short Essay Section: Choose 1

-Response should be 3 paragraphs long, and argument driven including a thesis
(intro w/ thesis/ body/ conclusion)

 What is religion?
 How do we acquire culture?
 Describe the Yanomamo culture
o (Environment, diet, location, history, marriage, gender, values,
religion, politics, etc.)
 What does religion do for a society and individual? (Role of culture in
culture/ society- what does it do for the self)