STUDY GUIDE - IMPORTANT WORDS AND CONCEPTS

Exam 3 - Check in class for additions to the list

Bring a #2 pencil to the exam.

 

Non-kin based Social Organization

age grades

age sets

common interest associations

class/caste  (mobility)

 

Politics

Leadership

  bands (hunting & gathering)-situational

  tribes (gardening)-headmen & Big Men

  chiefdoms (agriculture)-chiefs

  states-kings/queens

power and authority

maintaining control

egalitarian/stratified

how states evolved

 

Handout on Bands/Tribes/Chiefdoms/States

  warfare

  formal laws

 

Religion

functions of religion

animism

soul beliefs

  shrunken heads

mana

sacred and profane

shaman v. clergy

functional equivalents of religion

4 types of religious activity:

 -individualistic

 -shamanistic

 -communal

 -ecclesiastical

rites of passage 

rites of solidarity

vision quest

science, magic and religion

religion mirrors the social structure

 

Deviance and Insanity

Pribliqtoq

Windigo Psychosis

Schizophrenia

 

Art, Music, Verbal Arts

functions of the arts

functions of music and dance

myths

legends

tales

urban legends

Levi-Strauss and structural analysis

 

World Trends/Culture Change

innovation

diffusion

culture loss

acculturation

population growth

resource use

 

Films      

Trekking on Tradition

Religion and Magic

 

Assigned Readings