Anthropology
What does anthropology study?
What is the term for the practice of marrying OUTSIDE of your group?
Exogamy
What type of adaptation is wearing a thick coat when the weather is cold?
Cultural
Dialect, accent, vocabulary, etc.
What is the term for a religion that has multiple gods?
Polytheistic
What is another subfield of anthropology (besides cultural)
BONUS: Name all three to double your points
What is the name for sustainable farming that uses methods like slash and burn farming to maintain the fertility of the soil?
Horticulture
Darker or lighter skin, tan
Sunblock, clothes, shelter, supplements
What is the term for changing the way you speak based on the audience?
Code switching
What is the term for something that is forbidden?
Taboo
What is the approach of understanding a culture that is from the outside, perhaps the view of an anthropologist, rather than from within the culture
Etic
What is the political organization based on equality, where there are few members and decisions are reached through consensus?
What disease is Sickle Cell Anemia an adaptation to?
Malaria
What is the 'preferred' form of speech, used in formal settings, in academia, and on the news?
Prestige Speech
(Standard American English)
What is an art object that is crafted specifically with the intention of having religious significance, often housing a spiritual entity
Fetish
What is the method of research used by cultural anthropologists?
Ethnography
What type of exchange is a potluck?
Redistributive
What is the name for a negative effect or aspect of adaptation?
Maladaptive
What is the branch of linguistics that focuses specifically on the intersection of language and culture?
Sociolinguistics
What is a religion that is the combination of practices and beliefs from two different religions?
Syncretic
Name an anthropologist that we discussed in class
Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski, Margaret Mead
Clifford Geertz, Kossina, Noam Chomsky, etc.
What is the type of exchange that is often done with a person close to you, and which has no expected time of return?
Generalized Reciprocal Exchange
What is the term that describes the development of the same adaptation in different places without any influence between them?
Parallel Evolution
BONUS: What is a parallel evolution we discussed in class
What term describes a group of words that would only be understood and used frequently by a group sharing interests?
Volleyball: spike, libero, dig, ace, setter
Focal vocabulary
What is the first stage of a rite of passage?
Separation
BONUS: What are the other stages?