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ANTH 160 FINAL
The University of Kansas Anthropology 160 FINAL Brent Metz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In the Trobriand Islands, your lineal authority figure is | Mother's brother - Avunculocal |
| Culture | Patterns of understanding, routines and dispositions shared in a society via symbolic communication |
| Ethnocentrism | Judging another culture solely by the standards of ones own culture |
| IMF (International Monetary Fund) | Help for countries paying off loans |
| Westernization | Push for economic development |
| Vagrancy law | Forcing the poor to work |
| Polyculture | multiple crops on one land |
| Free Trade | Gov't does not interfere with exports - no taxes or tariffs |
| Open Market | Market that is accessible, equal opportunity |
| Ethnocide | Eliminating a culture |
| Commodity MOney | Item of value that can be traded |
| Perpetual Growth | The percent an economy must grow each year to stay healthy - 3% |
| Capital | Assests used to invest or earn more wealth - credit money |
| Money | Paper that is used as evidence of value but not redeemable |
| Industrial Pork | Industry buys off Gov't officials |
| GDP | Total amount of goods and services a country produces in one year |
| Subsidy | Grant or other financial assistance given by one party for the development of the other |
| NAFTA | NA can trade w/o tariffs |
| GATT | Take away taxes on all trade |
| SAP | Shifts governmental funding from subsidies, education, healthcare, and puts i into security initiatives |
| FLSA | Fair Labor Standard Agreementyou cant lie to someone about the job |
| Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals | lets kids who arent criminals and are attending school have temporary residence |
| Ju/Wasi | Bilateral |
| Contemporary US | Bilateral, neolocal |
| Traditional China | Super patrilineal |
| Identity | Peoples behaviors towards us defines our social identity |
| Ethnography | When the researcher actually lives in the environment they are researching in |
| Susto/espanto | Physiological manifestation of socail stress |
| New Racism | Racial Profiling |
| Identity Toolbox | Some characteristics of persons used almost universally to differentiate group individuals |
| How many calories does it take to produce ONE calorie | 8-12 calories of mostly non-human labor |
| Positive Identities | Attempt to establish a positive identity by attributing themselves to characteristics they believe are desireable |
| Negative Identities | Attempt to construct a negative identity for others by attributing undesirable characteristics |
| Bracero Program | U.S. Men went to war, so America brought in Mexicans to work |
| Hegemony | thinking your culture is natural |
| Ethnocentric Fallacy | everyone else is doing everything wrong and you are right |
| Relativistic Fallacy | what everyone else does is okay. whatever works for them. |
| Amazonian | slash and burn settled more near water (better protein) gender complementary cross cousins/ bilateral have a headman and shaman |
| Aborigines | Dreams~ Numenous (out of body), empirical (spiritual) Cross- cousin marriage Male dominant Can't talk to mother-in-law Patrilineal |
| Gini Co-efficent | Measure the amount of inequality 0=equal 1= extreme in-equality |
| Maasai/ African Cattle People | Can marry dead people (have genitor) Cattle always goes to brides family Kin based on territory |
| Hinduism and Islam | 1/3 of Worlds population Dravidian: Southern tribal (Buddhism/ no great religion) Sino-Tibetan: Tribal/ Empire (Buddhism/ no great religion) Indo-European: North India, Palestine, Nepal (Hinduism) |
| The Aztecs | Corn. Gods need blood, cannibalism. Hunters and gatherers, very little work and stress. More food= more work= more technology, labor intensive for bigger populations. |
| Exogamy | Marry out/marry in. They have to marry out of their band and clan |
| Horticulture | Gardening, no fertilizers |
| Slash and Burn Horticulture | Burn dried vegetation after cutting down 8 months before, and then burns everything. Ashes then go into the soil then plant seeds after. |
| Castes/Varna | Hierarchies of people w/ unequal rights, privileges, opportunities and restrictions ascribed at birth |
| Socio-Economic Status | Hierarchies of people w/ unequal rights, privileges, opportunities and restrictions both ascribed at birth and achieved in one's lifetime |
| High Group | Strong boundaries, solidarity and distrust, Us Vs. Them mentality (Xenophobia) |
| Low Group | Weak boundaries, no mutual aid |
| High Grid | Internal differentiation, segregation |
| Low Grid | Internal freedom, equality |
| Hierarchist | High Group/High Grid |
| Individualist-Competitive | Low Group/Low Grid |
| Egalitarian | High Group/ Low Grid |
| Fatalist | Low Group/High Grid |
| Hermit | No Group/ No Grid |
| Sapir Whorf Hypothesis | Language determines how we think, experiences shape language |
| Most Herding Society Lineage | Patrilineal |
| Arthashastra | A book depicting the ideal Hindu Kingdom |
| Coercion | Regressive fines/mutilation, military spies, entrapment, torture |
| Sunni | Leadership based on Muhammad's teachings |
| Shia | Leadership based on patrilineal descent from Muhammad. Has died out. |
| Emic | Insider explanation as to why cows are sacred |
| Etic | Outsider explanation as to why cows are sacred |
| Confucianism | Humanistic teachings for maintaining moral order |
| Cottage Industry | Working out of the home |
| Arizona Proposition | Cut services, criminalize, deputize all public officers |
| Proposed Sensenbrenner Anti-terrorism Bill | Criminalizing unlawful immigration and deputizing state officials |
| Operation Gatekeeper | Stopped NAFTA refugees |
| Industrial Agriculture | Highly profitable for those monopolizing technology and distribution, but costly for general population |
| Immigration Reform and Control Act | Legalized over 1 million undocumented |
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