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
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