Final Exam Study Guide i ii i ii As usual the materials listed are the central approach for the exam but I cannot list every detail concept theory and case study on a study guide Students are under obligation to have read and attended classes If I did not specifically address a concept or example expressed in the text and you did understand how it relates to what I did address students were obligated to pursue clarity whether with me or some other academic anthropological source 1 Chapter 15 and 16 will be covered in as far as the material pertains to globalization a Chapter 15 Sections In What Ways is Religion Both a System of Meaning and a System of Power Pp 598 604 1 Pay particular attention the concept of the authorizing processes This concept translates to other phenomena involving the powerful and the less powerful How is Globalization Changing Religion Pp 610 615 b Chapter 16 Sections Why Does the Distribution of Health and Illness Mirror that of Wealth and Power Pp 642 646 How Is Globalization Changing the Experience of Health and the Practice of Medicine Pp 646 654 2 Students are responsible for all of Chapter 11 14 and Chapter 17 a Building on the chapters discussions students should also understand the historical relationship between colonialism and the construction of identities of the less powerful both within nations and on the global stage as mechanism for immigrant class statuses i The article by Lila Abu Lughod and Judith Goode are likely to be used as case examples These articles may be the bases to test your abilities to transfer ideas and apply anthropological theory and concept to case study material When know a concept you should be to see novel examples and recognize the similarities to other phenomena that has been presented in the text and or lecture If you have not done so you should read these articles immediately You may wish to prepare questions to ask me in class or even for open discussion ii 3 Films a People like US The film discuss class as more than economics It focused on how ordinary Americans think about other ordinary Americans as juxtaposition to their own social class groups i Race Ethnicity Gender Materialism were all relevant to how class ideologies are shaped b Economic Systems This film illustrated chapter concepts by giving specific cultural examples of from Chapter 12 Global Economic and Chapter 14 Power and Political as economic system do not operate separate from other social institutions especially power and stratification i Some examples on the exam may refer to 1 The South Africa group the Ju Hoansi as foragers in the Modern Era and the Consequences of engaging in the wage labor system over traditional modes of Subsistence 2 The Yomo from Nepal as a traditional pastoralist society in the midst of globalizing and now engaged in wage labor 3 Market Exchange and Culture a Ashanti Women s Markets of Ghana b Japan s fish market also used as an example in textbook c Race the Power of an Illusion I recognize that we saw this film earlier in the semester however I have made several references to its relevance in modern patterns of US immigrant Particularly to the ways in which the legal system was used to create barriers shaping immigration ideology around the concept of assimilation and acceptance of groups as situated between the white and black racial binary in American citizenship discourses
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