Race & Ethnicity:

Race
Eugenics
Brazil’s Whitening of Race
Miscegenation

Social race
Phenotype
Hypodescent
Racial caste system vs. racial class system

Ethnicity
Ethnic groups

Racial/ethnic composition in US
Racial/ethnic composition in Los Angeles

Imagined communities
Nationalities
Diaspora

Assimilation
Plural society
Multiculturalism

Ethnic conflict
Prejudice
Stereotype
Discrimination
De facto
De jure
Ethnic expulsion
Refugees

Gender & Sexuality:

Gender vs. Sex

Gender division of labor
Productive gender roles
Reproductive gender roles
Double day
Public/private dichotomy
Gender stratification
Gender stereotype

Gender among hunters & gatherers
Gender among horticulturalists
Matrilineal vs. patrilineal descent
Matrilocal vs. partrilocal residence
Gender in agricultural societies
Ester Boserup
Gender in industrial societies
Glass ceiling

Gender and colonialism in Latin America
Machismo
Marianismo

Sexuality
Sexual orientation (4 types)

Heterosexism
Homophobia
“coming out”

Kinsey Scale of Sexual Orientation

Sambia and ritualized homosexuality

Third genders
Two-spirit
Hijars
Transgenderism

Language & Communication:

Language
Primate call systems

Stages of verbal language acquisition

Sassure
Signifier vs. signified
Parole
Chomsky’s universal grammar
Creole languages
Pidgin languages
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Non-verbal communication (kinesics)
Gender & non-verbal communication (Tannen)
Gender, games and communication (Wood)
Gender and verbal communication (Tannen)
Rapport talk vs. report talk

Phonology
Phoneme
Morphology
Morpheme
Lexicon
Syntax

Sociolinguistics
BEV
Copula deletion
Historical linguistics
Proto language
Daughter language

Marriage:

Bridewealth vs. dowry
Progeny price
Sati

Types of marriage
Serial monogamy
Sororate
Levirate

Incest taboo
Marriage exogamy vs. marriage endogamy
Affinal vs. consanguinal relationships
Caste

What does marriage do?

Divorce
In US
Worldwide

Kinship:

What does kinship do?
Kinship symbols

Basic categories of kinship
Marriage
Affinal vs. consanguinal relationships
Descent
Unilineal descent
Matrilineal vs. patrilineal descent
Cognatic descent
Bilineal descent
Parallel descent
Ambilineal descent
Bilateral descent
Lineages and clans
Apical ancestor
Demonstrated descent vs. stipulated descent
Totem
Fictive kinship

Eskimo kinship terminology

Family residence types
Post-marital residence rules

Changes in US family household organization (1970s-2000s)

Religion & Spirituality:

Wallace’s kinds of religions
Shamans
Jivaro

Animism
Polytheism
Monotheism

Agnostic
Atheistic

Rites of passage
3 stages of

Tylor
Durkheim
Totem
Eliade
Sacred vs. profane
Religious syncretism
In Americas
Orishas

Antimodernism
Fundamentalism

World religions
Change in US religious belief

Health & Illness:

Disease
Illness

Medical anthropology

Medical system
Biomedicine
Ethnomedicine
Shaman

Folk illness
Susto
Evil Eye
Nervios

Hot and Cold Foods

Birth
Traditional Birth Attendants (Midwives)
In US

Films:

“Taboo – Sexuality”
“Jesus Camp”

Readings:

Challenge of Human Diversity: pp. 13-15, 18-20, 30-32, 43, 45, 61-64, 94-98
Classic Readings in Cultural Anthropology: Chapters 9-13.

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