History of Anthropology
This term is used to identify a non-standard or stigmatized form of a language; it may also be called a “dialect.”
What is vernacular?
This is the set of practices used by members of a society to acquire food.
What is subsistence method?
The three kinds of leadership discussed in Life without Chiefs by Marvin Harris are...
What are Head Men, Big Men and Chiefs
Gifts that are given without agreeing upon the exact value of the gift, nor the time frame within which it should be returned, demonstrates
What is generalized reciprocity?
The idea that one's group is better than any other is called....
What is ethnocentrism?
The vocabulary of a language is called a
What is a Lexicon?
In a pastoralist society, wealth and status are measured by the....
what is the number of animals a person owns?
Nineteenth century anthropologists identified three stages of “cultural evolution,” which were called (in this order of development)
What is Savagery, barbarism, and civilization?
Anthropologists focus on three phases of economic production, which are....
What are production, exchange, and consumption?
He is considered the Father of American Anthropology.
Who is Franz Boas?
A speaker uses several language varieties in a particular interaction when they are...
What is Code-switching?
What is a surplus?
The ability to induce behavior of others in specified ways by means of coercion or use or threat of physical force is called...
What is power?
True or False, Economic Anthropology focuses on how people should act when making economic decisions.
False. It focuses on how people actually act.
This is the process of learning culture as it is transmitted by others.
What did Deborah Tannen, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University argue about the differences between men's and women's speech styles?
What is men tend to use styles that show status and competitiveness, while women tend to use styles that are cooperative and assert equality.
True or false:
The agriculturalist subsistence strategy is geared toward producing subsistence for families rather than for surplus.
False.
The perception that an individual has a valid right to leadership is called...
What is legitimacy?
This mode of production is based on farmers or herders producing for themselves and their families, but also giving a portion of their goods or labor to their leaders.
What is Tributary production?
He believed that race could be determined from skull size and thus, intelligence.
Who is Samuel George Morton?
What was Sapir and Whorf’s main argument?
The language one speaks plays a critical role in how one thinks about the world
Foragers have a broad spectrum diet, that is, they....
What is they have a diet based on a wide range of food resources?
This student of Franz Boas focused on Black folk culture in the south, a topic usually ignored at that time, writing works such as Mules and Men and Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
A person’s attempt to take advantage of another person economically is called...
What is negative reciprocity?