Anthropology Test 12-5

ANTH 120: Introduction to Anthropology: Culture and Society

Final Exam Study Guide

Terms and Concepts:

Myth, Magic, and Religion

Houdenosaunee/Iroquois – creation myth and its impact on worldview and society

Biblical Creation Myth and its impact on early Israeli worldview and society

Different consequences of different worldviews

Myth

Worldview

Metaphor

Religion

Religious practice: prayer, feasting, physiological manipulation, taboos

Rituals

Rites of passage

Apache Womanhood ritual

Animism

Different religious organizations (priests vs. shamans)

Shamanism – common beliefs of shamanistic/animistic cultures

Dobe Ju’/Hoansi healing rituals

Magic

Science (its worldview and its relation to magic)

Science and eugenics

Myth of objectivity

Social impacts of science

Technology

Essential elements for biological life

Endosymbiosis

Complex Systems Theory (Nonlinear Dynamics)

Autopoesis

Emergence

Culture as an emergent property of human networks

Technology as an emergent property/extension of culture

Marshall McLuhan’s ideas about technology as an extension of the senses

Links between economy, technology, and violence

The Shock Doctrine

Neoliberalism

Perpetual growth myth

Impacts of modern globalized capitalism on society and environment

Network Society

The Global Casino

Technology as social control

The Panopticon

Lessons from Amish hackers

Violence

Relationship between inequality and violence

Relationship between colonialism and violence

George Washington

Dobe Ju/Wansi

Ju/Wansi conflict resolution

Semai enculturation of nonviolence

Components shared by peaceful societies

Cosmology

Readings:

Gmelch – Baseball Magic

Loaded, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Films:

Shock Doctrine

This Changes Everything

Items in bold italics are candidates for short answer questions.