Anthropology
Study of ALL humans
What is Anthropology?
Language
What is the primary way in which humans learn their culture?
Distribution
-Gamy
What root word means "marriage"?
Reification
Physical Anthropology
What branch of anthropology looks at disease, bones, primates, genetics, and evolution?
Functionalism
This theory, proposed by Bronislaw Malinowski, states that social institutions exist to maintain social order (and lower stress).
290,000+ years
Exogamy
What cultural belief mandates that a person marry outside of their "group" (ex: French prince marries a German princess) to expand social alliances?
Emic perspective
What is the "insider's" perspective on their culture?
Ethnocentrism
What judgmental belief system maintains that their way of thinking and doing things is the best?
Closed System
What type of communication system do animals have?
Food Producer
What phrase collectively describes horticulturalists, pastoralists, and agriculturalists?
Chiefdom
What political organization was the first to have a leader make laws and judge lawbreakers?
Neolithic Revolution
What was the most important cultural change in the history of mankind?
Ethnography/Participant Observation
What is long-term, immersive research that requires anthropologists to live with, live as, the people they study?
Enculturation
What word means "learning a culture"?
Domestic Production
What type of production is kin-based, less efficient, but provides pride of ownership/creation?
Lower Stress, Raise Chance of Survival
Why do people voluntarily give up their personal freedom and follow laws?
Ethnicity
Cultural Relativism
What belief states that you should attempt to see things from that culture's point of view?
Culture
What do humans have - and animals lack - that enables them to survive in every environment?
Redistribution
What do you call the collecting of goods or services by one person or entity to be portioned out to others at a later date?
Raise Children
What is one of the main reasons for marriage?
Assimilation
What word describes the adoption by minority groups of the customs and traditions of the dominant culture?
Cultural Evolution
What do you call the discredited view that all cultures move through stages (savage, barbarian, civilized)?
Paralanguage
What do you call communication that uses sounds, gestures, and facial expressions - but which is NOT words?
Horticulture
What type of subsistence pattern describes small groups of people who do all the work associated with small-plot farming?
Class
Name the open organization type in which people can move up - and down - the economic ladder (rich to poor to rich).
Sexual Asymmetry
What phrase describes the fact that males can make many babies a year, while women are limited, on average, to one baby/year?