A Very Short Introduction

• Edward Tylor

• Lewis Henry Morgan

• ethnography, ethnographer

• importance and distinctiveness of enthnography

• advent

• interpretative

• purview

• storytelling is typical of anthropology

• Dou Donggo

• massif

• Bima Bay

• island of Sumbawa

• Javanese Majapahit empire

• fervent

• by and large

• suzerain

• stalwart

• Bimanese

• Nggahi Mbojo

• trouper

• hamlet

• teak

• thatch

• galvanized iron

• self-sufficient subsistence

• swidden rice

• maize

• millet

• malaria

• tuborculosis

• dysentery

• roguish

• kerosene

• Yucuita is the oldest cotinuously inhabited settlement in America, going back to 1350 BC.

• Mixtec, Mixteca

• mestizos, Afro-Mexican

• arid

• sccummbed

• zapote

• Nuyooteco, Nuyoo

• prankster

• unserstatement

• mangy

• hoot

• Royal Anthropological Society

• the American Anthropological Association

• groups of people -- family, class, tribe, nation

• intellectural forebears

• culture and society

• narrow opening of a wide door