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This form of descent characterizes Bhil social organization in the Indian town of Ratakote.
What is patrilineal?
100
This is the term given to people in China who leave their homes in order to work in cities as non-permanent residents.
Who are migrant labourers?
100
The anthropologist studied this group of hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari.
Who are the !Kung?
100
This is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common.
What is pidgin?
100
This is the term for kinship based on marriage.
What is affinity?
200
Fraternal polyandry in Tibet occurs most frequently among this class of people.
Who are landowners?
200
Deann Borshay Liem was born here.
What is Korea?
200
In his article, Jefferson Fish compares American conceptualizations of race, to these Brazilian categorizations of people according to physical difference.
What are "tipos"?
200
This is another term for "African American Language"
What is ebonics?
200
This is the term given to the practice of marrying within a community/group.
What is endogamy?
300
Nancy Scheper-Hughes studied this practice, which involves the deliberate neglect of sick infants, leading to their death.
What is passive infanticide?
300
In the film, Last Train Home, Zhang Changhua and Chen Suqin travel to this city for work.
What is Guangzhou?
300
The title of Scheper-Hughes' article/book, "Death Without Weeping", refers to this phenomenon, often observed in conditions of extreme poverty with high infant mortality rates, whereby parents attempt to avoid bonds of affection with infants in order to better cope with potential loss.
What is delayed parental attachment?
300
According to Sheldon, when you give a gift you're also giving this.
What is an obligation?
300
This is a form of marriage where one woman is simultaneously married to two or more men.
What is polyandry?
400
This practice involves having multiple sexual relationships at one time, with the knowing consent of all people involved.
What is polyamory?
400
This is Deann Borshay Liem's Korean name.
What is Kang Ok Jin?
400
Nelson's article, "Eskimo Science", is based on his ethnographic observations of hunter-gatherer expertise in this part of the world.
What is Alaska?
400
We watched this short film in our unit on linguistic anthropology.
What is "Skwerl"?
400
This refers to the systematic inequality between groups in a society.
What is stratification?
500
This is a social prohibition against marrying consanguinal relatives.
What is an incest taboo?
500
This is the Korean name that the orphanage gave the Borshay's when they adopted Deann.
What is Chang Jung Hee?
500
Jack Weatherford studied the impact of the cocaine industry on this Bolivian community.
What is Pocona?
500
This is the name for the household registration system in China.
What is Hukou?
500
This UNESCO statistician came to speak about global measures for out of school children.
Who is Sheena Bell?