Production
Type of production system that involves the care of herd animals
What is Pastoralism?
- What kinds of animals?
Your aunt/uncle's children would be a part of this generation
What is Ego's Generation?
A small kin-based group with no formal relation to another group
What is a band?
- What is the next step up from a band? After that?
A qualitative kind of data collection where you are doing participant observation
What is ethnography?
- What is participant observation?
A type of production system that can only sustain a small group of people and needs to move around seasonally
What is Foraging?
- How do foragers make their living?
Name at least three ways to use a biological kin type to describe your uncle
E.G.: M = Mother, F = father, S = Son, D = Daughter, etc
What is MB, FB, FZH, SZH, FBH, MBH?
A doctor is an example of this kind of status
What is an achieved status?
- What is the difference between an achieved and an ascribed status?
Shell necklaces and arm shells are examples of this Trobriand type of wealth
What are Kula Valuables?
The most "productive" and yet inefficient production system
What is Industrialism?
- How can something be productive, and yet inefficient?
1.) A group of people who trace their ancestry in a unilineal way from a common ancestor AND their descent type
2.) A group of people who believe they are related from a common ancestor AND their descent type
1.) What is a Lineage and Demonstrated descent?
2.) What is a Clan and Stipulated descent?
The United States is an example of this kind of political organization
What is a state?
- What kinds of leaders do states have?
- What are they based on?
- Are people related?
The Trobriands are:
- Patrilineal or Matrilineal?
- Corporate lineage or not?
- A Band or a Chiefdom?
What is Matrilineal, Corporate Lineage, and a Chiefdom?
- what do all of these mean?
Wet Rice Farming and Swidden Agriculture are examples of what kinds of production systems?
(Order matters!)
What is Intensive and Extensive Agriculture?
- What is the difference between the two?
Fraternal Polyandry is practiced in some parts of the Himalayas to solve these problems
What is...
- limited farming land (needing to keep population size in line with resources available)
- limited labor (need to organize labor efficiently to complete everything they need to get done)
What solutions did they come up with?
The difference between social capital and cultural capital:
Social Capital is WHO you know and Cultural Capital is WHAT you know
- What is the third kind of capital we talked about?
Difference between Matriliny, Matrilineal, and Matriarchal? Name the difference between two of them for points
- Matriliny: refers to the practice/system of tracing ancestry through your maternal line
- Matrilineal: refers to the adjective that describes a matriliny system
- Matriarchal: refers to a social structure where woman hold the power/authority