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Subsistence
Case Studies/Monique and the Mango Rains
Marriage
Kinship and Descent
100
To marry within a designated group of people
What is endogamy?
100
A food procurment strategy based on crop production without soil preparation, fertilizers, irrigation, or use of draft animals (hand tools, no plows or draft animals)
What is horticulture?
100
A pattern of exchange among many trading partners in the Trobriands and other South Pacific Islands.
What is the kula ring? or what is an example of balanced reciprocity?
100
This type of marriage custom is most common in Nepal and Tibet.
Where is fraternal polyandry most widely practiced?
100
related by blood
What is consanguineal?
200
A descent group consisting of two or more lineages that trace their origin to a mythical ancestor
What is a clan?
200
A food producing strategy based on herding. Must have extensive knowledge of the appenvironment.
What is pastoralism?
200
Cattle were the main animals providing food source to these peoples.
What animals did the Nuer rely on?
200
The family you are born into or adopted
What is family of orientation?
200
this descent group traces its consaguineal relatives back to a common ancestor.
What is a unilineal descent group?
300
To marry outside a designated group of people
What is exogamy?
300
People who practice this subsistence strategy have higher energy budget, division of labor, and larger populations.
What is horticulture?
300
In chapter 6 of Monique in the Mango Rains, Kris realizes that the strange appearance of the anatomy of the women she has assisted in childbirth may be a result of this procedure.
What is an example of female circumcision in Monique and the Mango Rains?
300
family in which children are produced
What is family of procreation?
300
In this descent group, both mother's kin and father's kin are related to their offspring.
What is a bilateral descent group?
400
A marriage custom in which a widower marries a sister of his deceased wife.
What is a sororate?
400
Kin-based groups, tribes, and chiefdoms are apparent with this subsistence strategy.
What is pastoralism?
400
In chapter 8, Monique hears bad news that someone has died in Liberia
Where does Pascal die?
400
newly married couple sets up a household in a new location rather than moving in with a relative
What is neolocality?
400
This lineage organization is segmented, based on patrilineal descent-group structure, and composed hierarchicallly.
What are some characteristics of Segmentary Lineage Organization?
500
A group of two or more clans that have a tie to one another, often based on historical relationship
What is phratry?
500
A subsistence strategy based on intensive continuous use of land for production of plant foods (began about 10,000 years ago, begin to see surplus and increased specialization)
What is the agricultural revolution?
500
The Nuer practice this type of lineage organization
Who practices segmented lineage organization?
500
married couple and children are included in this family type.
What is a nuclear family?
500
smallest unit in which members live in the same village and share a common ancestor.
What is minimal lineage?