Kinship/Descent
Economic Systems
Political Systems
Society & Religion
Odd & Ends
100
In the first of these, a woman can have more than one husband at the same time, in the second, it's the other way around.
What is the difference between Polyandry and Polygyny?
100
Foraging, managing, cultivation/horticulture, extensive agriculture, and intensive agriculture.
What are plant - based subsistance strategies?
100
This defined territory has a centralized power base and monopolizes control over the use of force.
What is a state?
100
This is the belief in spirit beings animating the natural world.
What is animism?
100
In the film "The Nuer", young boys had this done to their foreheads in order to do undergo one of these.
What is a rite of passage?
200
This is what you follow if you can traced your descent through either the mother or father’s line.
What is ambilineal descent?
200
These are social groups of people who earn their livelihood acquiring food by hunting/fishing and collecting wild plants and animals.
What are bands, hunter/gathers, or foragers?
200
In this form of society, status is not assigned at birth, in fact what little status there is, is based on achieved works.
What is egalitarianism?
200
The first is an individual who, through ecstasies and dreams acts as an intermediary to the spirit world. The second is a person who is charismatic, heals, has experienced personal revelations, and has followers.
What is the difference between a shaman and a prophet?
200
This is the acquisition or use of goods because they add prestige or status, not because they are necessary. (Not to be confused with neurotic consumption, done when we think we need something because advertisers have convinced us it will make us lovable, bring us happiness, or increase our inherent self-worth.)
What is conspicuous consumption?
300
In purely anthropological terms, this is what is called relationghip through marraige.
What is affinity?
300
Generalized, balanced, and negative.
What are the 3 types of reciprocity identified in the book, "The Gift"?
300
This process, which is a particular, contemporary configuration in the relationship between capital and nation-states, causes the loss of cultural diversity, and was boosted by Industrial Revolution in technological and economic innovations.
What is Globalization?
300
The first is a non-human representation of the apical ancestor of a clan, while the second is a cult to the ancestors.
What the difference between a totem, and totemism?
300
In the lecture presentation, The Gift of the Mask, these were the two dimensions expressing the idea of "the gift" in their dance.
What are vertical, with respect to reciprocity to the animist spirits, and horizonal, with respect to reciprical, heterarchical relationships with other social groups?
400
In a house following this residence pattern we would normally find only a husband, wife, and their children living together.
What is neolocality?
400
These are people whose subsistance pattern focuses on herding domesticated animals such as cattle, sheep, goats, camels, and the yak.
Who are pastoralists?
400
This is what we have in the world today since many states are coincided with nations.
What are Nation-States?
400
When you violate these you may be santioned by society, but would not normally be punished by a controlling authority, as when breaking a law.
What are norms?
400
This is an imagined community - a category currently utilized to describe large groups of people within a state's borders ... it's like a kinship category where members share a common history and territory.
What is ethnicity?
500
In the first case, the woman brings wealth of some sort into the marriage, in the second, the groom pays the woman's family.
What is the difference between dowry and bride price?
500
In this theory of economics, the primary elements are labor, means of production, and mode of production.
What is Production Theory (or the Marxist Approach)?
500
Strong forms of this type of political philosophy can sometimes lead to ethnocide and genocide.
What is nationalism, or, "the desire of individuals with common historical roots to control a particular territory".
500
A) compromised kin groups based on rules of residence and descent; B) societies to which membership and types of labor are ascribed at birth with no social mobility; and C) system of differentiation not based on kinship but on access to wealth.
What are clans, castes, and class?
500
Well, this is of course "... that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, arts, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by [humans] as a member of society” (Tylor 1871).
What is culture?
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