Spring, 2004

Overview: There are 40 questions on the exam for a total of 60 points (some questions count for 2 points). The questions include true-false, multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank. Look at the sample questions for examples of each of these.

The following is an outline of course lectures, readings and films from the beginning of the semester until Monday, March 15. Each question on the exam will come from this outline, so the best strategy is to fill in as much content into the outline below. On this exam, you will not need to memorize dates, names nor Korean terms. You need to be familiar with definitions but you do not need to memorize them.

I. Etymology of Anthropology

A. Anthropos

B. Logos

1. Different meanings of ‘logos’.

II. Anthropological subfields.

A. Physical/biological anthropology.

1. Human Evolution

a. Emergence of Homo sapiens.

1. Hominids

b. Paleoanthropology

2. Human Variation/Adaptation

a. Difference between variation and adaptation.

1. Body shape.

2. Acclimitization

B. Archaeology–Definition

1. Pre-history

2. Historical archaeology

3. Ethnoarchaeology

a. The Rathjee garbage project.

C. Linguistic Anthropology–Definition

1. Historical linguistics

a. Proto-Indo-European.

2. Descriptive Linguistics.

a. Salvage anthropology.

3. Sociolinguistics–Definition

a. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

1. Gas explosion

b. Ethnography of Speaking.

D. Cultural Anthropology–Definition.

1. Characteristics.

a. Fieldwork and Ethnography.

1. Monaghan’s and Just’s fieldwork.

2. The story of La Ninde.

b. The importance of culture.

1. E.B. Tylor’s definition.

2. Cultural relativism

c. Holism.

2. Extended example–The Culture of Meat

a. Levi-Strauss and "raw and cooked."

b. Characteristics of meat consumption in the U.S.

c. Examples of fieldwork one might do in order to discover

the "culture of meat."

III. Anthropological Understandings of Culture.

A. Heterogeneity.

B. Modernization and Modernity

1. Definitions and Examples.

C. The Polygon of Culture

1. The 4 dimensions.

2. Example #1–Ghost Dance.

3. Example #2–McDonald’s in Korea

D. Globalization–the latest stage of modernization.

1. Characteristics.

2. Increasing inequalities between and within nations.

IV. The Melodrama of Mobility

A. Nancy Abelmann’s fieldwork.

B. Life story and cultural schema.

C. Korean history, Joseon Dynasty-present.

D. Characteristics of Joseon Dynasty

1. Neo-Confucianism

2. Class Structure

3. Gender

V. Ch’unhyangjeon (2000)

A. Exampls of Neo-Confucianism, Class Structure and Gender.

B. Shamanistic origins of the story of Ch’unhyang.

VI. 20^th century Korea-present.

A. History.

B. . Changes in society.

1. Urbanization

2. Education

3. Military

VII. Yeopkijeokin keunyeo (My Sassy Girl) (2001)

A. Examples of Neo-Confucianism, Class Structure and Gender

VIII. Melodrama of Mobility (con.)

A. Heteroglossia and soap operas.

B. The Laundress and "Son and Daughter."

C. The Moviegoer and "The Thorny Branch Flower"

D. Patriarchy and "Romance Papa."

IX. Cultural Acquisition

A. Enculturation–Definition

1. Example--Drinking

B. Appropriation–Definition

1. Example–Zuni Myth

2. Example–Trobriand Cricket.

3. Example–Melodrama

C. Ideological reproduction–Definition

1. Example–Schooling in New Jersey

2. Example–Education Mother, Mi-yon’s Mother

D. Hegemony–Definition

1. Example–Patriarchy in South Korea.

2. Example–Gender in the U.S.

X. Alternative Modernities