The subfield of Cultural Anthropology
Culture and Exchange
Subsistence
Kinship
Political Organization
Social Control
100
Sweaty, with stomach cramps and full of regret.
What is most peoples reaction to Taco Bell?
100
This is the type of reciprocity that is most common in families of cultures all around the globe.
What is generalized reciprocity?
100
This form of subsistence has been used by humans for more than 90% of the time we have existed as a species.
What is hunting and gathering, also called foraging?
100
Panda-monium
What is Tony's all asian Metal Band?
100
Led by an elder who is respected for her wisdom, sometimes called a headwoman.
What is a band?
100
Mechanism to ensure people follow acceptable forms of behavior
What is social control
200
The tendancy of members of a culture to see their own culture, and their culture's ways of doing things, as better than other cultures.
What is ethnocentrism?
200
An Original Amazon Echo Dot
What Tony has in his pocket?
200
Bophadeez.
Which Nutz?
200
When men are allowed to marry more than one woman at a time.
What is polygyny?
200
Holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in a territory.
What is a state?
200
The way some Inuit populations resolve quarrels.
What is a Song Duel
300
The process of learning all aspects of one's own culture.
What is enculturation?
300
Bonita works for 40 hours and earns $1000. She and her employer both know what they are getting and when they are getting it with this form of exchange.
What is balanced reciprocity?
300
Cultures with this form of subsistence have the most social stratification, or the biggest gap between the poor and the rich.
What is industrial agriculture?
300
Following marraige, the bride and groom live in close proximity to the groom's family.
What is patrilocal residence?
300
The chief leads by example, as among the Yanomami.
What is a tribe?
300
The most effective form of social control when the members of society recognize that following certain rules is in their best interest
What is an Internalization of the moral codes
400
Erin spent three years in the Amazonian Rainforest in Brazil living with the Yanomami. At the end of her research, she wrote a monograph describing the culture of the group. Anthropologists call this type of monograph a/an . . .
What is an ethnography?
400
Anthropologists agree that Christmas gifts are an example of this form of exchange.
What is balanced reciprocity.
400
We see populations of around 200-300 with this subsistence.
What are pastoralism and horticulture?
400
1. Your mom, 2. Your mom, 3. Your mom, 4. Your mom, 5. Your mom
What is the only appropriate response to the Email Elon Musk sent to Government Employees?
400
Numerous tribes are organized under one leader, who inherits his position from his father.
What is a cheifdom?
400
The form of social control involves the threat of punishment from the gods or ancestral spirits for deviation from the norm.
What is Super Natural Punishment
500
The most common type of research method used by cultural antropologists.
What is ethnographic research, also called participant observation?
500
Where everyone has bascially the same amount of power and the same amount of wealth.
What is egalitarian(ism)?
500
Has the most full-time specialization, and only a small part of the population actually prodces food to feed everyone.
What is industrial agriculture?
500
This is our culture's most typical form of residence following marriage.
What is neolocal residence?
500
The type of political organization we see in Brazil, Sweden, Canada, Morth Korea, and the U.S.
What are states?
500
What is imititive Magic?
600
When we learn about a culture from the perspective of those in the culture, in order to understand their reasons for what they do.
What is cultural relativism?
600
Part of our symbolic culture that we use for almost all of our exchanges.
What is money?
600
This occurs when pastoralists move their herds to higher ground, such as hilltops, in the summer to eat the grass growing there.
What is transhumance?
600
Though kinship patterns vary from culture to culture, this is a constant in cultures around the world. Hint: It occurred Garden of Eden.
What is the incest taboo?
600
CULTURE CHANGE: When one's own culture is combined with something from a different culture to create something new. Hint: Trobriand Cricket is the example from class.
What is syncretism?
600
Laws that are formalized and special institutions are created to enforce them.
Codified Laws