Fall Semester Exam Review Sheet
ANTH 1120 FALL SEMESTER EXAM REVIEW SHEET
Exam format: Term definitions (1-2 sentences), short answer questions (3-4 sentences), and longer answer questions (1-2 paragraphs)
Exam length: 2 hours
Nation-states and identities
The nation and identity: how are national identities created and what ensures their success or failure?
-The construction of an “other”
-The other can live outside or inside the borders of the nation-state
-Immigration is another way in which others are produced
-Immigrant others are often constructed in terms of racial/ethnic identities.
-Race and ethnicity are important features in national identity narratives of who belongs and who doesn’t
-National identities are also created and reinforced is through educational institutions
3. Videoclips with the different messages about being Canadian
-What are the words, images and sounds that are used to describe Canadian national identity? Who and what is canadain?
-Violence carried up by national state is often physical but can also can include symbolic violence
-Refuges or diasporic communites are often part of nation states. Violence is often at the heart of those types of communities.
-We are all neighbors documentary.
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Terms:
culture ethnocentrism ethnocentric fallacy relativism relativistic fallacy armchair anthropology participant observation fieldwork ethnographic method socio-cultural anthropology applied anthropology identity enculturation egocentric view of the self sociocentric view of the self gender third gender gender hierarchy hegemonic masculinity rite of passage world view metaphor ritual myth revitalization movements syncretization creole ethnography nation-state nationalism multiculturalism
Short Answer Questions:.
1. Identify and briefly explain two challenges in doing fieldwork.
2. Identify and briefly explain two steps in the fieldwork process.
3. Identify and briefly define two sub-disciplines of anthropology
4. Identify and briefly define two branches of
Exam format: Term definitions (1-2 sentences), short answer questions (3-4 sentences), and longer answer questions (1-2 paragraphs)
Exam length: 2 hours
Nation-states and identities
The nation and identity: how are national identities created and what ensures their success or failure?
-The construction of an “other”
-The other can live outside or inside the borders of the nation-state
-Immigration is another way in which others are produced
-Immigrant others are often constructed in terms of racial/ethnic identities.
-Race and ethnicity are important features in national identity narratives of who belongs and who doesn’t
-National identities are also created and reinforced is through educational institutions
3. Videoclips with the different messages about being Canadian
-What are the words, images and sounds that are used to describe Canadian national identity? Who and what is canadain?
-Violence carried up by national state is often physical but can also can include symbolic violence
-Refuges or diasporic communites are often part of nation states. Violence is often at the heart of those types of communities.
-We are all neighbors documentary.
-
Terms:
culture ethnocentrism ethnocentric fallacy relativism relativistic fallacy armchair anthropology participant observation fieldwork ethnographic method socio-cultural anthropology applied anthropology identity enculturation egocentric view of the self sociocentric view of the self gender third gender gender hierarchy hegemonic masculinity rite of passage world view metaphor ritual myth revitalization movements syncretization creole ethnography nation-state nationalism multiculturalism
Short Answer Questions:.
1. Identify and briefly explain two challenges in doing fieldwork.
2. Identify and briefly explain two steps in the fieldwork process.
3. Identify and briefly define two sub-disciplines of anthropology
4. Identify and briefly define two branches of