Unit 6
This branch of anthropology studies past cultures through the material remains people leave behind.
What is archeology?
This is a set of beliefs and practices that relate to the supernatural.
What is religion?
A socially recognized union between two or more people. It is a universal feature of human cultures.
What is marriage?
The process of adopting the beliefs, values, rituals, and other behaviors that are part of the culture you grow up in
What is enculturation?
The attempt to eliminate a racial, ethnic, or religious group.
What is genocide?
These sites were occupied during the time before writing was invented.
What are pre-historic sites?
The belief in more than one diety.
A person’s position in a group, relative to other group members.
What is status?
This form of journalism is an in-depth look at a topic
What is investigative journalism?
This document that outlines the basic human rights that everyone on the planet should have.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
This includes all the material remains of human activity in every part of the world where humans ever lived.
What is the archeological record?
The Native American religions are examples of this.
What are folk religions?
A marriage in which a man can have more than one wife
What is polygyny?
The movement of individuals among social classes
What is social mobility?
This era is given its name because there was no direct conflict between major powers.
What is the Cold War?
A house is an example of this.
What is a feature?
These are religious specialists who are believed to have special powers because they are in direct contact with the supernatural.
What are Shamans?
Important norms that are deeply rooted in a group’s belief system.
What are mores?
This term refers to countries with little industrial base and low development in terms of health care, education, and life expectancy.
What is developing?
According to the Democracy Index, this is the least democratic government in the world.
What is North Korea?
The precise location of an artifact or feature is called its...
What is provenience?
This is a collection of beliefs and practices drawn from most of the major world religions and Chinese folk religions.
What is the New Age Movement?
This naming system distinguishes relatives on the basis of generation (parents from children), gender (brothers from sisters), and closeness of biological relationship (siblings from cousins).
What is the Inuit kin-naming system?
Female leaders looked to this Native American tribe as a society with gender equality when trying to imagine an America in which women had more equality.
Who are the Iroquois?
This agreement, which began in 1994, bonded the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?