Basic Terms
Names
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Kinship
100
The study of humans
Anthropology
100
Father of modern Anthropology
Franz Boas
100
The belief then every society evolves in ONE way towards ONE goal
Unilinear Evolution
100
Blood Relative vs Married Relaltive
Consanguineal vs Affinal relatives
200
The 4 branches of Anthropology
Cultural
Biological
Archaeology
Linguistic
200
This anthropologist is credited with the ideas of Relativism, Moral Relativism, and Cultural Relativism
Franz Boas
200
What are 5 aspects of culture?
1. Learned
2. Shared
3. Symbolic
4. Patterned
5. Dynamic
200
Using the term My Mother vs Mom
Term of Reference vs Term of Address
300
What is Kinship?
How we trace our relations to others / Who can you marry
300
Who is Malinowski?
Denounced Armchair Anthropology
Worked in depth in the Trobriand Islands
Used participant observation
300
Define Social Darwinism
"survival of the fittest" evolution applied to human civilization.
300
When the mother's brother is the central male authority
Avunculate
400
Ethnocentrism is when...
The belief that one’s own culture is ‘correct’, ‘natural’, and superior to all others, and other groups should be judged by one’s own local standards
FOUND IN EVERY CULTURE
400
Napoleon Chagnon worked with ....
The Yanomami
400
What are the differences between matrilineal, patrilineal, and bilineal descent?
matrilineal - tracing decent through the mothers family
patrilineal - tracing decent through the fathers family
bilineal - tracing decent through both parents lineage
400
Hawaiian Kinship System
500
Define Emic vs Etic perspectives
Emic: Insider’s perspective -“How local people think”
Etic: Outsider’s perspective- Generalizations /interpretations of behaviors/practices
500
Who is Charles Darwin?
Naturalist that defined our definition of natural selection
500
What is the Kula Ring?
a traditional ceremonial exchange system of the Trobriand Islanders and other groups in Papua New Guinea
500
A Kinship system where the your father's brother and mother's sister are the same term of address, but your mother's brother and father's sister are different.
(Hint: Think Crow and Iroquois)
Bifurcate Merging