In this unilineal system, descent is traced through the male line.
What is patrilineal?
100
This belief system involves a rejection of the supernatural.
What is atheism?
100
E.B. Tylor believed that different stages of religious belief corresponded to these.
What are different stages of material "advancement"?
100
This term refers to a biased perspective that involves an assumption of European cultural superiority.
What is Eurocentrism?
100
In class we listened to a podcast on this speech practice, for which young women in particular are currently being criticized in the media.
What is vocal fry?
200
This marriage practice is common among the Mosuo.
What is "walking marriage"?
200
This intellectual movement in Europe involved a skepticism of faith-based knowledge in favour of scientific empiricism, and greatly influenced early anthropological analyses of religions.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
A Nacirema "listener" is really this.
What is an American psychologist?
200
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?
200
In foraging, horticultural, and pastoralist societies, the social division of labour is primarily based on these two criteria.
What are age and gender?
300
Marriage is regulated according to these two principles that determine whether an individual should marry within or outside of a particular group.
What is endogamy and exogamy?
300
This the progression of religion at different evolutionary stages, as proposed by E.B. Tylor.
What is Animism -- Polytheism -- Monotheism?
300
Religion involves beliefs and practices related to these.
What are supernatural beings and forces?
300
All economic systems involve these three things.
What are production, distribution and consumption?
300
This is the smallest unit of sound that can be altered to change the meaning of a word.
What is a phoneme?
400
This term refers to a marriage practice in which individuals can only be legitimately married to one person at a time.
What is Monogamy?
400
"Mana" is an example of this kind of belief.
What is animatism?
400
This involves a belief in many important deities, no one of which is supreme.
What is a polytheistic religion?
400
A birthday present is an example of this.
What is generalized reciprocity?
400
If a team of hockey players avoids shaving their beards during playoffs, so as not to end their winning streak, it is an example of this magical belief/practice.
What is taboo?
500
On a kinship chart, this shape would symbolize a deceased male kin member.
What is a triangle with a line through it?
500
In his TED Talk, Wade Davis describes Buddhism as this.
What is a "science of the mind"?
500
This early anthropologist theorized that magic ritual helps reduce anxiety and uncertainty.
Who is Bronislaw Malinowski?
500
This term refers to kinship based on marriage.
What is affinity?
500
Voodoo is an example of magic that depends upon this principle of thought.
What is the "law of similarity"? (Or imitative magic).