Final

Question 1

Levirate

Answer 1

brother dies, you marry him

Question 2

Sororate

Answer 2

sister dies, you marry her

Question 3

Iroquois

Answer 3

parallel cousins, cross cousins. Patrilineal.

Question 4

Sororal

Answer 4

polygyny: sisters marry into the family

Question 5

Why polyandry?

Answer 5

• lower population
• increase wealth
• limited women

Question 6

Shade

Answer 6

implied insult

Question 7

Reading

Answer 7

exaggerate a flaw

Question 8

vogueing

Answer 8

safe form of shade, dance war.

Question 9

Name 3 way in which to group people

Answer 9

• sex (gender)
• age
• social stratification

Question 10

What are three ways to categorize social stratification?

Answer 10

• wealth
• power
• prestige

Question 11

What are three types of prestige?

Answer 11

• respect
• esteem
• approval

Question 12

What is the difference between caste and class?

Answer 12

Class: there is mobility, it is an achieved status.
Caste: fixed, hereditary. a scribed status

Question 13

What are the 4 Varnas of the Indian caste system?

Answer 13

• Brahmin: preists & scholars
• Kshatriya: nobles, warriors
• Vaisha: merchants
• shudra: laborers

(dalit): untouchables

Question 14

what is “pollution” in regards to the indian caste system?

Answer 14

caused by the mixing of varnas

Question 15

what is a decentralized group?

Answer 15

a band, tribe. No “point” person.

Question 16

what is a centralized group?

Answer 16

chiefdom, state. prime minister, premiere, etc.

Question 17

Rosita worl

Answer 17

protector of Alaska’s indigenous rights and traditions, head of Sealaska

Question 18

Claude Levi-Strausse

Answer 18

amazon, brazil. professor in NYC. KINSHIP, reciprocity in marriage. Authored “race and history”.

Question 19

what is the Jewish Eruv?

Answer 19

by creating a barrier which surrounds a city or town or neighborhood. Its purpose is not to keep people out but to keep jewish people in for religious reasons. Disregards singular houses and creates one big home.

Question 20

Laura Nader

Answer 20

American. Brother is Ralph Nader. Wrote “Naked Science”. She studied the world’s power elite.

Question 21

William Ury:

Answer 21

conflict resolution

• “Getting to yes”
• “Getting past no”
• “getting to peace”

Question 22

Michael J. Harner

Answer 22

expert on shamanism

-drumming and hallucinogens to attain shamanic state of consciousness

Question 23

what three things are in the Canadian constitution?

Answer 23

Good Government, order, peace

Question 24

2 types of control (describe)

Answer 24

• internal (moral)

- external (sanctions)

Question 25

describe positive and negative sanctions

Answer 25

P: an incentive to conform N: disapproval (words-death) N: informal (social) formal (law) Law: religious, secular

Question 26

Religion (LIM)

Answer 26

- explains the unknown - Notions of right and wrong - Decision making to higher power - maintains social solidarity

Question 27

Religion (WALLACE)

Answer 27

- set of rituals - rationalized by myth - mobilized by supernatural powers - achieving or preventing transformation

Question 28

Ritual

Answer 28

religion in action

Question 29

animism/animatism

Answer 29

animism: ghosts animatism: force (mana)

Question 30

shamen

Answer 30

- part time - unique power intermediary - religious entrepreneurs

Question 31

3 rites of passage

Answer 31

separation transition incorporation

Question 32

rite of intensification

Answer 32

a ritual that takes place during a crisis in the life of the group and serves to bind individuals togethe