In this unilineal system, descent is traced through the male line.
What is patrilineal?
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
The anthropologist Richard Lee gave an ox as a gift to this cultural group.
Who are the !Kung?
100
Latso and Juma return to their village near this lake in China.
What is Lugu Lake?
200
This marriage practice is common among the Mosuo.
What is "walking marriage"?
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 is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common.
What is pidgin?
200
Malinowski did research among this group of people in the South Pacific.
Who are Trobriand Islanders?
300
Marriage is regulated according to these two principles that determine whether an individual should marry within or outside of a particular group.
What is endogamy and exogamy?
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
All economic systems involve these three things.
What are production, distribution and consumption?
300
This is the smallest unit of sound that can be altered to change the meaning of a word.
What is a phoneme?
400
This term refers to a marriage practice in which individuals can only be legitimately married to one person at a time.
What is Monogamy?
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
A birthday present is an example of this.
What is generalized reciprocity?
400
This refers to the systematic inequality between groups of people.
What is stratification?
500
This practice involves having multiple sexual relationships at one time, with the knowing consent of all people involved.
What is polyamory?
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 term refers to kinship based on marriage.
What is affinity?
500
Voodoo is an example of magic that depends upon this principle of thought.
What is the "law of similarity"? (Or imitative magic).