Instructions: On the mid-term exam, you will be asked to define FIVE of eight terms, all of them chosen from the list below. For each term, identify where it comes from (the reading, author, and/or lecture topic), explain what it means, and discuss its significance. Each term will be worth five points, for a total of 25 points.

Tylor's definition of culture
Characteristics of culture
Evolution
Charles Lyell
Charles Darwin
Herbert Spencer
Lewis Henry Morgan
Edward Burnett Tylor
Savagery-Barbarism-Civilization
comparative method
Franz Boas
Alfred Kroeber
Ishi
Yahi
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
genius of a people
Kondo
situated knowledge
Malinowski
Torres Straits Expedition
Malinowski's vision of fieldwork
imponderabilia
corpus inscriptionum
participant observation
Malinowski's diary
Tsembaga
Roy Rappaport
pigs
"ritually regulated ecosystem"
kaiko
rumbin
functionalism
Emile Durkheim
mechanical/organic solidarity
7 basic needs of the individual
structural functionalism
Radcliffe-Brown
Ruth Benedict
patterns of culture
moetotolo
Derek Freeman
taupo
anthropological veto/negative instance
Stanley Hall
adolescent stress hypothesis
experimental anthropology
intersubjective communication
double historical situatedness
interpretive anthropology
culture as texts
Geertz's definition of culture
thick description
winks vs. twitches
cockfight
deep play
 

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