Theorizing Gender and Patriarchy
Economics
Religion, Magic, and Science
Medical Anthropology
Environmental Anthropology
100

What is the name for the form of marriage practiced by Tibetan brothers who share a wife?

Fraternal polyandry

100

Anthropologists focus on three phases of economic production, which are ______________

Production, Exchange, Consumption

100

How did the early theorist, Sir James Frazer, characterize the spiritual beliefs that he documented?

He dismissed them as “false” and “absurd.”

100

Why might humans be susceptible to obesity based on our ancient history as foraging peoples?

Food shortages among foragers would give a selective advantage to those individuals who could retain body fat.

100

What was the most common reason Marind community members gave for the apparent effectiveness of the revitalization ritual?

That the corporation-backed representatives were sorcerers themselves, as evidenced by their ecological destruction and manipulative financial practices.

200

Term used to describe an indigenous Hawaiian person who exists "in the middle," embodying both masculine and famine traits.  

Māhū

200

The social relations through which human labor is used to transform energy from nature using tools, skills, organization, and knowledge, is called ___________

Modes of Production

200

What is the name for knowledge systems developed over countless generations,  based on individual and collectively learned experiences and explanations of the world, verified by elders, and conveyed and guided by experiential learning, and by oral traditions and other means of record keeping?

Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Traditional Knowledge, or Indigenous Knowledge

200

The approach that considers health to be the absence of disease or dysfunction, and that disease can be identified as one of the following: a pathogen, malfunction of the body’s processes, or a physiological disorder is the _____________

Biomedical or Biowestern Medical approach

200

The period (epoch) in geological time in which the effects of human activities have altered the fundamental geochemical cycles of the earth is referred to the

Anthropocene

300

A two spirit person of the Zuni Pueblo represents a ____________________.

third gender role that is “not man” and “not woman.”

300

Which mode of production is characterized by subsistence food-getting, egalitarianism, and labor organized on the basis of kinship relations?

Domestic production

300

Which element of religion offers an explanation for the origin and history of the world?

Cosmology

300

When an ill person describes the origin of their suffering as coming from a fright or shock, they are using which type of ethno-etiology?

Emotionalistic

300

Which countries produce the least greenhouse gas emissions per capita, and receive the most harmful effects of global warming?

Global south, third world, former colonies

400

This set of gender ideologies associated masculinity with risk-taking and the public sphere, excluding women from leadership in early environmental organizations in the U.S. 

The "Cult of True Manhood"

400

Gifts that are given without agreeing upon the exact value of the gift, nor the time frame within which it should be returned, demonstrates __________.

generalized reciprocity.

400

For Sylvia Federici, the torture inflicted on unwed women and midwives during the 1500s was a result of __________________.

Constructing the body as a site of discipline for the development of capitalism

400

This group of people was experimented on during the 1940s and 1950s to develop a tuberculosis vaccine. 

Inuit communities in Alaska

400

Indigenous communities in the U.S. suffered intentional destruction crucial subsistence sources when white Euro-American settlers purposely targeted bison for extinction. What is this called?

Ecocide

500

A belief system developed by those in power to rationalize and perpetuate systems of inequality is called ___________

a legitimizing ideology.

500

Darjeeling tea companies are marketing their product with labeling practices that appeal to Western consumers. Meanwhile, the workers who pick tea leaves in Darjeeling, India

still work within a highly unequal system in which they rely on plantation owners for pay, food, housing, and medical care.

500

The Nagol land diving ceremony is a dangerous ritual that is meant to create a sense of communitas or unity. Therefore, it can be described as a __________.

Rite of intensification.

500

What explains outbreaks of Cholera in the mid-18th century in cities like New York and London?

Cholera is a water-borne bacterial illness resulting from a lack (or destruction) of water treatment infrastructure coupled with dense urban contact. 

500

Brazilian rubber tapping is an example of this form of development

sustainable development