This is when individuals solve conflicts without violating cultural rules for behaviour.
What is infralegal negotiation?
100
This belief system involves a rejection of the supernatural.
What is atheism?
100
E.B. Tylor believed that different stages of religious belief corresponded to these.
What are different stages of material "advancement"?
100
This kind of cultural change occurs when people recombine cultural knowledge into new forms.
What is innovation?
100
When women migrate from poorer to wealthier countries, most of them engage in this kind of labour.
What is domestic work?
200
These three types of actors constitute a political system.
Who are the public, authorities, and leaders?
200
This intellectual movement in Europe involved a skepticism of faith-based knowledge in favour of scientific empiricism, and greatly influenced early anthropological analyses of religions.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
A Nacirema "listener" is really this.
What is an American psychologist?
200
This term refers to the process that occurs when an individual (or group) must adapt to the cultural practices of a host group.
What is acculturation?
200
This new subfield of anthropological research examines how human worlds are being transformed through technological innovation and use.
What is cyborg anthropology?
300
These actors have the right to make and enforce public policy.
Who are authorities?
300
This the progression of religion at different evolutionary stages, as proposed by E.B. Tylor.
What is Animism -- Polytheism -- Monotheism?
300
Religion involves beliefs and practices related to these.
What are supernatural beings and forces?
300
This culinary practice is an excellent example of how global networks and flows shape local worlds.
What is sushi?
300
This is the smallest unit of sound that can be altered to change the meaning of a word.
What is a phoneme?
400
In anthropology, this term refers to the cultural knowledge that people use to settle disputes by means of agents who have the recognized authority to do so.
What is law?
400
"Mana" is an example of this kind of belief.
What is animatism?
400
This involves a belief in many important deities, no one of which is supreme.
What is a polytheistic religion?
400
The World Bank, IMF, and multi-national corporations are all examples of this.
What is a transnational institution?
400
Amber Case says that cellphones (and other communication technologies) are an example of this kind of phenomenon, which alters the relationship between time and space.
What is time-space compression?
500
Popular support for public policy can be achieved through these two means.
What are legitimacy and coercion?
500
In his TED Talk, Wade Davis discussed the Elder Brothers of Columbia, describing their belief system as such.
What is a belief of sacred geography?
500
This early anthropologist theorized that magic ritual helps reduce anxiety and uncertainty.
Who is Bronislaw Malinowski?
500
This ability to cross political and social borders is more concentrated in the hands of individuals from wealthier countries and classes.
What is social mobility?
500
Voodoo is an example of magic that depends upon this principle of thought.
What is the "law of similarity"? (Or imitative magic).