History of Anthropology
This refers to the vocabulary of a language.
What is lexicon?
This is the set of practices used by members of a society to acquire food.
What is subsistence method?
The perception that an individual has a valid right to leadership is called...
What is legitimacy?
Gifts that are given without agreeing upon the exact value of the gift, nor the time frame within which it should be returned, demonstrates.....
What is generalized reciprocity?
The idea that one's group is better than any other is called....
What is ethnocentrism?
This is the minimal unit of sound that can make a difference in meaning, but that does not carry meaning itself
What is a phoneme?
In a pastoralist society, wealth and status are measured by the....
what is the number of animals a person owns?
This group played a crucial role in the formation of state societies when they became geographically circumscribed, allowing an elite minority to control their labor and means of subsistence.
Who are peasant farmers?
Anthropologists focus on three phases of economic production, which are....
What are production, exchange, and consumption?
He is considered the Father of American Anthropology.
Who is Franz Boas?
This is the idea that language structures and limits human thought and knowledge, including how people perceive the world, think, and interact with it.
What is linguistic determinism?
What is a surplus?
The four levels of socio-cultural integration characterized by Elman Service are...
What is band, tribe, chiefdom, and state?
This is a form of violence in which a social structure or institution harms people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs.
What is structural violence?
This theory, that was later refuted, states that all societies evolved through stages from simple to advanced
cultural evolutionism
What did Deborah Tannen, a linguistics professor at Georgetown University argue about the differences between men's and women's speech styles?
What is men tend to use styles that show status and competitiveness, while women tend to use styles that are cooperative and assert equality.
People whose gardens supply the majority of their food are called...
What are horticulturalists?
Societies that have greater differentiation between individuals and their kin groups, resulting in sumptuary rules that permit higher-status individuals to wear distinctive clothing or other decorations, are called....
What are ranked/rank societies?
This mode of production is based on farmers or herders producing for themselves and their families, but also giving a portion of their goods or labor to their leaders.
What is Tributary production?
He believed that race could be determined from skull size and thus, intelligence.
Who is Samuel George Morton?
What was Sapir and Whorf’s main argument?
The language one speaks plays a critical role in how one thinks about the world
The cultural norms and attitudes surrounding food and eating are known as...
What is foodways?
Each of the four types of socio-cultural integration can be identified as....
What is egalitarian, ranked, or stratified?
The Kula Ring of the Trobriand Islands, a ceremonial exchange of arm bands and necklaces, best illustrates....
What is balanced reciprocity?