Marriage and Kinship
Famous Anthropologists
Stuff we might have forgotten
People and Cultures
Anthropology of Religion
100

This is the type of marriage where one woman marries multiple brothers.

What is Fraternal Polyandry?

100

This anthropologist worked in the Trobriand Islands, where he developed Participant-Observation and constructed a functionalist theory of Magic.

What was Malinowski?

100

This invalid social theory, attributed to Herbert Spencer, is often confused with Darwinian models of evolution based on Natural Selection.

What is "Survival of the Fittest" (i.e. Social Darwinism).

100

This type of social organization, historically displayed by the Ju/'hoansi of the Kalahari desert, is characterized small, nomadic groups of people living in egalitarian relationships built upon norms of generalized reciprocity.

What is Band organization? (Simple and Complex)

100

This concept refers to a belief that the world is animated by spirits that interact with humans.

What is Animism?

200

This the type of ritual, like a marriage, accompanies movement through the life cycle and is found in every culture.

What is a Rite of Passage?

200

This theorist, considered the father of Symbolic Anthropology, saw cultural as a cognitive map consisting of symbols and their meanings. He suggested the anthropologist's job is to provide "Thick Description".

Who was Clifford Geertz?

200

These are the three "non-communicative" functions of language?

What are: Classification, Social Bonding, and Creating/Reflecting Social Realities

200

This horticultural group of people in the Brazilian and Venezuelan rainforests are known for their shamanic warfare between villages.

Who are the Yanomami?

200

This term refers to a full-time (paid) specialist in a stratified religious organization.

What is a "priest"?

300

This is at the term for a lineage that is traced through the mother's line.

What is Matrilineal kin?

300

I am the anthropologist who, along with my student Benjamin Whorf, suggested that language has a powerful influence on the thought patterns of a culture.

Who was Edward Sapir?

300

This perspective focuses on how the people perceive their own experiences and culture (as opposed to the perception of outsiders).

What is "Emic"?

300

This group of people, living in China, have been identified as one of the closest things to "Matriarchy" in the modern world, evidenced by the "walking marriage" ritual.

Who are the Mosuo?

300

This person is a part-time specialist who serves as a mediator between animistic forces and humans.

Who is a shaman?

400

This term refers to a household comprised of at least three generations of related individuals.

What is Extended Family?

400

I am not an anthropologist, but my theory of consumer religion draws heavily upon anthropological theories of religion.

Who is Del DeChant?

400

We are the three types of reciprocity (exchange without money).

What are generalized, balance, and negative reciprocity?

400

This pastoralist society in Tanzania measure wealth and status by the number of animals individuals own.

Who are the Maasai? 

400

According to Malinowski, religious rituals, like magic, are correlated with this.

What is stress?

500

This cultural rule emphasizes marriage outside the primary social group.

What is "Exogamy"?

500

I am the anthropologist who identified four levels of socio-cultural integration (social organization): Band, Tribe, Chiefdom, State.

Who is Elman Service?
500

As defined by Tyler, I am the complex whole of art, law, morals, beliefs, and customs acquired by people as members of society.

What is "Culture"?

500

This group, living in Tanzania, are hunters and gatherers that are also embedded in the global economy.

Who are the Hadza?

500

This is the term anthropologists use to describe ritual acts that are intended to bring supernatural forces under one’s personal control. 

What is "Magic"?

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