Vocabulary
Family
Death
Men vs. Women
Marriage
100
The belief that all people are created equally and deserve the same rights and opportunities.
What is egalitarian?
100
These people’s nurturing is considered a gift rather than an obligation.
What is fathers?
100
These people are obligated to contribute labor, food, pigs, or ceremonial valuables upon certain occasions, especially during mortuary feasts.
What is everyone?
100
They hunt with spears, killing animals such as wild pig and crocodile.
What are men and women?
100
To be considered a good marriage partner, a young person must do one of these two things.
What is be a hard worker by creating foodstuffs and household goods for use at feasts?
200
At the beginning of this stage, young people produce foodstuffs and household goods.
What is exchange careers?
200
This is something a father’s matrilineal kin must be compensated with when someone dies.
What is valuables?
200
Young people are expected to repay debt with kin with this.
What is equivalent valuables?
200
This gender is responsible for building houses.
What is men?
200
This is something rewarded to young people who work hard on a zagaya.
What is a greenstone axe blade?
300
A memorial feast at which young people are expected to work hard.
What is zagaya?
300
Primary childcare is taken care of by this gender, though both genders are loving parents.
What is women?
300
True or false: men and women decide whether mortuary and other exchanged are worth the prestige and captial.
What is true?
300
These people paddle and pole canoes.
What is men and women?
300
Men and women spend their days proving to people these characteristics, which are very important in Vanatinai society.
What is strong and reliable?
400
This is the country Vanatinai is part of.
What is Papau New Guinea?
400
This age of person is typically known for their wealth, skill, and knowledge about exchange.
What is 30-60s?
400
This person excreted upon the father as an infant and the father cleaned it up without complaining.
What is the deceased?
400
This gender is considered “the owner of the garden."
What is women?
400
Big men and big women inherit these things from their parents and matrilineal kin.
What is land, ceremonial valuables, and exchange partners?
500
People with successful exchange careers and generally people with rights to large tracts of good garden land.
What is big men and big women?
500
A big belief of this society that is displayed through all people being able to choose their own partners, work how and where they want to work, and acquire supernatural knowledge and power, among other things.
What is autonomy?
500
Three reasons people in Vanatinai die so young.
What is malaria, childbirth, infectious diseases (pneumonia and tuberculosis), sudden/mysterious deaths?
500
These people typically create shell-disc necklaces.
What is men and women?
500
Parents of young children refrain from this because of their extra subsistence and childcare obligations.
What is extensive exchange activities?
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