How do kinship relations play in the tradition of displaying and giving away yams?  Specifically, what does the yam display reveal about the relationship between the gardener and the kin to which he gives the yams?
Describe the role that yams play in the married life of Trobrianders.
How do yams reflect a woman’s value to both her husband and her matrilineage?  Why is this significant in Trobrianders’ culture?
In Trobriand culture the amount of yams a man collects is in proportion to the amount of power that he has.  Because a man depends of other to give him yams, and cannot grow yams for himself, how is the view and role of “power” affected?
Explain the significance of 'thick' description and why it is better than 'thin' description according to Geertz.
Why are winks and twitches much more complex then what they appear to be on the outside?
How are the wink and twitch examples related to Cohen and his sheep?
Why is meaning so different when you're "inside" the village rather than "outside" the village?
 In Lee's chapter "Subsistence: Foraging for a Living," he studies the Ju/'hoansi "tribe."  This "tribe" uses its kaross for what?
What term best describes the Ju/'hoansi: band, tribe, chiefdom, or state?  Why?
The Ju/'hoansi tribe are mainly trappers and vegetarians. True or False
True/False:  Hunters of the Ju/'hoansi tribe are able to tell how long in minutes or hours it has been since an animal has passed a certain point just by looking at their tracks.
What is the main way that the Ju/'hoansi tribe maintain egalitarianism?
What is the hxaro trade network for the Ju/'hoansi tribe?
Spencer argues that society is like an organism, as it gets more parts it gets more complex.  Please explain this argument.
Explain Spencer's argument in terms of structure.  Can a structure increase? What kinds of structure count?
Critique Spencer's assertion that society is like an organism.
Explain the binary opposition theory as described by structuralist Edmund Leach.
What metaphor does Levi-Strauss use for the expression of culture as explained by Leach?
Explain French Structuralism.
What major contributions did Malinowski make to the discipline of anthropology?
What is structural duration?
How would Gluckman, a structural functionalist, view the Kula exchange differently than Malinowski, a functionalist?
Describe Geertz's writing on Balinese cockfighting.  Include traditions and rules and anything else important about the cockfighting in the Balinese society.
In Geertz sheep reading, which group(s) "understood" the sheep.Which group(s) did not understand the sheep?
Give three of Roseberry's critiques in the Sheep or the Cockfight.
Who is Ibn Khaldun and what is 'asibiya?
Explain the four field approach.
List the four main subfields of anthropology and what they study.
Explain Tylor's view on participant observation.
What makes anthropology distinctive?
How is cultural anthropology different from social anthropology?
Within the structuralist point of view, explain why culture is viewed as a language.
What is Lee trying to say about the hunter and gatherer quality of life through his discussion of thier work hours?  Explain the work hours, then explain his point.
How does the naming system of the Kung demonstrate that this seemingly "simple" society is actually complex?
Critically discuss the notion of "simple" societies using examples from the course.
Explain the relationships that exist between people bearing the same name, and those relationships that result because of name-sharing in Kung society.
Explain the differences between bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states.  Into which schema does the Kung fit and why?
According to Lee, how does the principle of "wi" work?
How does the social organization of the Kung benefit the society as a whole?
What methods do the Kung have for insuring egalitarian resource distribution?
What are the three changing processes in "How Berber Matter in the Middle of Nowhere"?  Explain each of them.
What are the differences in Tylor's methods of getting his information and Boas's methods, according to Hatch?
Describe culture in Tylor and Boas's terms according to Hatch.
What are Tylor and Boas's theories based upon?  Explain.
What are the main differences between Tylor and Boas?
Name the founding father of anthropology.
In Roberts's community, like many others, how did people see class divisions and how did they believe the divisions were made?
Was it generally easier for men or women to move to a higher-class according to Roberts?  Why?
How does Roberts say a family could suddenly find better economic status?  Once they had reached better economic status, did their social prestige become higher as well?  Why or why not?
What class did Roberts hail from?  How did the people of his class division react to the Socialist doctrine before 1914?
Rank the classes, from most prestigious to the least prestigious,on the class structure pyramid according to Roberts.
Why does Roseberry ( along with many others) compare Geertz's essay, "Notes on the Balinese Cockfight " to a text? Is this appropriate?
In Donham's article about Maale production, what was the limiting factor of production and why?
In Donham's article about Maale production, state and discuss the two great spheres which the labor tasks were divided into.
In Donham's article about Maale, discuss the developmental cycle involving the position of the wives and their husbands.
According to Donham, what were the three genders in traditional Maale and why?
In Donham's article discuss the Maale marriage customs, in particular the image of men and women.
What are the three main productive inequalities in the Maale culture?
How did the Maale people distinguish between genders?
What role did the Maale men play in marriage and reproduction and how is this important in their society?
Do you think that if you know about the productive inequalities in Maale means you know about the Maale culture?
What did Dohnam say about the way he ignored history behind the productive inequaliites and how does this mirror the Marxist view?
Compare and contrast the "master symbol" of Maale political economy" with the "master symbol" of our political economy.
For each of the three “functionalisms” identify the theorist(s) associated with it and one or two major points about the theory itself.
What kind of methods did Malinowski use to obtain his research and how did they affect anthropology as a science?
Explain the main points of Functionalism and how a functionalist anthropologist would interpret the ritual performed on the beach before natives embark on the Kula exchange of arm bands and necklaces throughout the Trobriand Islands.
How does Structuralism make use of language and what is the role of binary opposition in this theory?
Compare the French Structuralist with the Interpretivist view of society as a text.
What does Gluckman mean by structural duration?  Give an example.
What key ideas does Geertz leave out when discussing the Balinese cockfights that makes it difficult to analyze his arguments?
According to Roseberry, what's the major problem with Geertz's metaphor of culture as text?
According to Roseberry, what two aspects of culture are missing from Geertz's description of culture?
What aspects of Roseberry's arguments are Marxian in nature? Explain.
Explain dialectical materialism and how it relates to Roseberry's arguments.
What differences are there in the "Marxian" perspectives of Roseberry and Donham?
How do the Yanomamo make their living?
Why does Chagnon want to discover the names of individual Yanomamo?
How is Chagnon's theoretical orientation different from Lee's?
What is Chagnon's argument with Levi-Strauss? (pg. 144-145)
Why is Chagnon thought to be "fierce" when the Yanomamo see a picture of him hugging his mother-in-law?
Compare the way the Yanomamo manipulate kinship terminology with the way the Kung manipulate kinship terminology.
Where do the Kung live?
Where do the Yanomamo live?
Where are the Trobriand Islands?
Where do the Maale live?
Describe Ensel's depiction of racism in Morocco.
Define race.
Compare racism in Morocco to racism in the United States.
What different groups are studied by Ensel and how do they make their living?
Contrast Gellner's study of Moroccans with Ensel's.
According to Gellner, how are Berbers able to maintain equality?
Contrast Gellner's description of Berber life with Crawford's description.
Define segmentary theory.
Draw a patrilineage of at least three generations and ten people.  Choose and ego and label everyone according to Hawaiian kinship terminology.
Draw a matrilineage, choose an ego, and label everyone according to Eskimo kinship terminology.
Draw an example of cross-cousin marriage.
Draw an example of parallel-cousin marriage.
What is "alienation?"
What is "species being?"
What is a "labor theory of value?"
What does Marx think all people have in common?
Why does Marx think societies change?
If Geertz is following Weber and Roseberry is following Marx, how can we see the debate between Weber and Marx in the work of Geertz and Roseberry?
What is ideology?
How is ideology different from culture?
What makes the Salford slum "classic?"
List the four field approaches to anthropology
In the article, "How 'Berber' Matters in the Middle of Nowhere," what were the three major processes changing life?
In Hatch's article, who did actual fieldwork? (Tylor or Boas)?
What is teleology?
What is Roseberry demonstrating with the fiesta?
Discuss Geertz's quote, "culture is not a power... it is a context" (1973:14).
In Ensel, what are Hartani and Sharifs?
Discuss the "webs of significance" important to Hartani and Sharifs in Ensel's work in Morocco.
Why does Lee see sharing as key to Ju/hoansi social life?
How do Tylor and Boas differ in terms of how they see 1.custom and 2. emotion?
What are Boas's "revolutionary notions" according to Hatch?  (see pg. 19)
How does Boas see anthropology as being like astronomy or the study of erosion?
What are Dr. Crawford's three main stated goals for this class?
According to the AAA Website, approximately how much genetic variation exists within a particular group as opposed to between different "racial" groups?
What is the relationship between alleles (gene types) that control physical features such as skin color and alleles that control other characteristics, such as intelligence or athletic ability?
Why were Jews once thought to be "racially" superior basketball players?
If race does not exist, why can't black people get a cab in Manhattan?
Contrast the notion of social hierarchy in Roberts with Chagnon, Lee and Marx.