Midterm

Question 1

Four-field approach

Answer 1

Archaeology

Linguistics

Physical Anthropology

Cultural Anthopology

Question 2

Society

Answer 2

A bunch of people in a group

Question 3

Culture

Answer 3

A way of seeing the world differently than others

Question 4

Subculture

Answer 4

Smaller group within a culture

Question 5

Ethnography (what would we write)

Answer 5

A collection of written records of people that are being studied

Question 6

Ethnographic record

Answer 6

One individual person’s story

Question 7

Ethnocentrism

Answer 7

Assuming your race is better than other races or assuming your way is automatically the correct way

Question 8

Cultural relativism

Answer 8

Getting to know and understanding other cultures

Question 9

Holism

Answer 9

Refers to considering the “whole”

Question 10

Ethnography (what we do)

Answer 10

Something anthropologist do to have something to record

Question 11

Fieldwork

Answer 11

Physical work for info on one culture. Going somewhere else to study and research a culture.

Question 12

Participant observation

Answer 12

Anthropologist engaging in the culture

Question 13

Ethnographic interview

Answer 13

A story from someone in the culture that is being studied

Question 14

Etic

Answer 14

And the outsiders perspective using the concepts and categories of the researchers culture to describe another culture

Question 15

Emic

Answer 15

An insider’s perspective using the concepts in categories of the culture understudy to describe cultural phenomena

Question 16

Substance strategies

Answer 16

Meaning you have nothing more then what you need to live

Question 17

Foraging

Answer 17

Hunting and gathering

Question 18

Horticulture

Answer 18

Small scale gardening

Question 19

Agriculture

Answer 19

Large scale farming

Question 20

Pastoralism

Answer 20

Herding animals

Question 21

Mercantilism

Answer 21

Surviving by making trades for goods

Question 22

Industrialism

Answer 22

Manufacturing of goods for trades

Question 23

Production

Answer 23

Gathering food and trading

Question 24

Distribution

Answer 24

Reciprocity and redistribution.

Question 25

Reciprocity

Answer 25

The practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit, especially privileges granted by one country or organization to another.

Question 26

Generalized reciprocity

Answer 26

Refers to the non-market exchange of goods or labor ranging from direct barter (immediate exchange) or two forms of gift exchange where a return is eventually expected (delayed exchange) as in the exchange a birthday gifts

Question 27

Balanced reciprocity

Answer 27

I don't know the difference between balanced and generalized

Question 28

Negative reciprocity

Answer 28

Doesn't care about the relationship in trading goods because they most likely will never see each other again

Question 29

Demand sharing

Answer 29

Look up

Question 30

Redistribution

Answer 30

Create and maintain social inequality through converting material wealth into social wealth. (Prestige)

Question 31

Prestige

Answer 31

More successful and or higher social status

Question 32

Market exchange

Answer 32

Market exchange has negative reciprocity because they don't care about the relationship and trading goods because most likely they will never see them again

Question 33

Law of supply and demand

Answer 33

Products that are in high demand and lower quantities usually cost more than products that are not in high demand and have larger quantities.

Question 34

General-purpose money

Answer 34

I don't know

Question 35

Consumption

Answer 35

What happens to distributed products, what we call ownership.

Question 36

Ownership

Answer 36

Goods and products that you have consumed

Question 37

Capital

Answer 37

Money + time

Question 38

Kin-based society

Answer 38

A small scale society including bloodline relatives and relative by marriage

Question 39

Kinship

Answer 39

Bloodline relatives (consanguineal) Relatives by marriage (Affinal)

Question 40

Consanguineal kin

Answer 40

Bloodline relatives

Question 41

Affinal kin

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Relative by marriage

Question 42

Nuclear family (immediate)

Answer 42

Your mother, father and, any siblings

Question 43

Bilateral kinship systems

Answer 43

Kinship through mothers and fathers side of the family. (two sides)

Question 44

Unilineal kinship systems

Answer 44

Kinship through mothers or fathers side of the family. (only one side)

Question 45

Patrilineal

Answer 45

Considers kinship through father side of the family

Question 46

Matrilineal

Answer 46

Considers kinship through mother side of the family

Question 47

Direct line of descent

Answer 47

Downline of kinship

Question 48

Incest taboo

Answer 48

Any cultural rules or norm that prohibits sexual relations between closely related persons

Question 49

Parallel cousins

Answer 49

Cousins of your father's brother or mother's sister

Question 50

Cross cousins

Answer 50

Cousins through your father's sister or mother's brother

Question 51

Exogamy

Answer 51

Marriage outside of family

Question 52

Endogamy

Answer 52

Marriage inside of family

Question 53

(Serial) monogamy

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Marriage to one spouse at a time but multiple times

Question 54

Polygyny

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Many wives

Question 55

Polyandry

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Many husbands

Question 56

Patrilocal

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Newly married couple lives with husband's family after wedding

Question 57

Matrilocal

Answer 57

Newly married couple lives with wife's family after wedding

Question 58

Neolocal

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Newly married couple finds a new place to live other than with family

Question 59

Bride wealth

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Bride price

Question 60

Dowry

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Property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their wedding day for the marriage

Question 61

Levirate

Answer 61

Look up

Question 62

Sororate

Answer 62

Look up

Question 63

Gender

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Cultural interpretation of sex

Question 64

Sex

Answer 64

Male or female

Question 65

Gender role

Answer 65

What men and women do in society

Question 66

Gender stereotype

Answer 66

Who the society expects you to be as a man or woman

Question 67

Gender identity

Answer 67

The gender you think you are (transgendered or cisgendered)

Question 68

Sexual orientation

Answer 68

Who you are attracted to. (heterosexual or homosexual)