Concepts/terms- Be prepared to write several sentences about the meaning and
significance of each term:
state
elite noble
corvee labor taxation
circumscription
urban revolution class
caste
peasant poverty
Dharma
proletariat
Sumeria Olmec
Teotihuacan Hawaii
Bunyoro
race ethnicity
one-drop
rule
assimilation racism
ethnocentrism
ethnic cleansing genocide
prejudice
dehumanize
biological sex gender
power gender
circumscription berdache
male supremacist complex wage
gap leisure
gap
Mundurucu West
Africa Iroquois
religion religious
cult animism
magic science
sacred
profane
Baseball Magic AIDS
crisis
taboo totem
ritual
individualistic shamanistic
communal
ecclesiastical !Kung
Yanomamo
Masai Hopi
revitalization
mother corn creation
myth fourth
world
Katcinas paho
piki
Applied Anthropology holism
emic
etic advocacy
NAGPRA
environmental protection health and medicine
poverty
cultural resource management globalization
colonialism
indigenous peoples indigenous
cultures commercialization
Essay- Be prepared to write a formal essay approximately 2 pages in length discussing
each of the following topics (Use correct grammar, punctuation, capitalization,
etc.):
1) What is a “state,” and what is the “price of progress?” Who pays the cost of civilization? Does America have social classes? Poverty? An “elite” or privileged class? Compare states with the traditional forms of political institutions of the !Kung, the Yanomamo the Masai and the Trobriand Islanders. In your discussion, include several indigenous states from assigned class readings.
2) How is power circumscribed for women? Among racial and ethnic minorities? What is the cultural basis for racial, ethnic and gender prejudice in the United States, and how can it result in wage inequities? Discrimination in opportunities for education, fair housing and jobs? What is “ethnic cleansing,” and does it affect life in the United States? In Utah? In Salt Lake City?
3) What different types of religious cults are found in human societies? How
do they differ in their associations with other attributes of human cultures
(e.g., political organization, subsistence, kinship, etc)? What does it mean
to be a good Hopi? Discuss the major attributes of the Hopi religion and Hopi
social and political organization. How does it fit within the classification
of religious cults previously discussed? In what ways does the Hopi worldview
differ from that of the !Kung? The Masai? The Yanomamo? Islam? Christianity?