Cultures and places
Linguistics
Stratification
Potpourri
Famous Anthropologists
100
We are considered the last "full-time" hunting and gathering society.
Who are the Ju/'hoansi (!Kung, San, Bushmen)
100
These are basic speech sounds
What are phones?
100
This is the opposite of Stratification
What is egalitarianism?
100
This is the perspective that requires one to put their cultural biases aside and understand another culture according to its own logic
What is cultural relativism?
100
I am considered the first professional American Anthropologist
Who is Franz Boas?
200
This is where the Inuit live.
What is the Arctic?
200
This is the hypothesis that there is a strong relationship between language, thought, and culture
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hyphothesis?
200
When population increases, this usually follows
What are intensification, specialization, surplus, and stratification
200
This is the methodology for recording culture
What is ethnography/participant observation?
200
I am the anthropologist who coined the phrase, "Participant-Observation"
Who is Malinowski?
300
Chief Raoni (Raopnee) is our most famous Chief.
Who are the Kayapo?
300
These are meaningful combinations of sounds?
What are morphemes?
300
This is the economic system most closely associated with Chiefdoms
What is Redistribution
300
This is the type of kinship terminology system that distinguishes by gender and generation?
What is the Eskimo System?
300
My theory of structuralism focused on the classification of information according to binary opposition
Who is Levi-Strauss?
400
This is the mountainous island where the Etoro and the Hua live
Where is Papua New Guinea?
400
These are minor contrasts between sounds that are significant enough to distinguish meaning
What are phonemes?
400
Explaining gender stratification according to association with scarce and valuable resources based on division of labor is which type of theory?
What is Materialist?
400
This is the unintentional practice of psychic magic
What is witchcraft?
400
Though not an anthropologist, my theory of Materialism see religion as a mask and mirror of socio-economic relations
Who is Marx?
500
This is the place where negative reciprocity, in the form of symbolic sheep raiding, is related to masculinity.
Where is Crete?
500
These are 3 non-communicative functions of language
What are: classification, social bonding, and creating and reflecting social realities?
500
This is the most stratified type of social organization
What is the State?
500
These people are full time specialists that work for Bureaucratic religions.
Who are Priests/Priestess?
500
I am the mentalist who said religion "answers ultimate questions"
Who is Geertz?
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