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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

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