Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
MAT Anthropology
Anthropology Topics to Study for the Miller Analogies Test (MAT)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| anthropocentrism (aka humanocentrism) | belief that humans are most important creatures in the world |
| balanced reciprocity | exchange of goods in which the value of each good is equal |
| cultural materialism | view that social life is a reaction to the practical problems of mortal life |
| diffusion | spread of ideas |
| ethnocentrism | practice of judging another culture based on your own culture's ideals |
| focal vocabulary | set of words to describe something important to a particular group of people |
| generalized reciprocity | exchange of goods in which the value of each good is not exactly calculated but a fair balance is expected over time |
| humanism | belief that humans are of great value and that science is greater than faith |
| indigenous | native to a specific place |
| joint family | two or more related families living together which are all part of the same extended family |
| kinesics | interpretation of body language and nonverbal communication |
| Levirate marriage | the brother of the deceased man marrying the widow by obligation |
| linguistic relativity (aka Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) | idea that language affects the way its speakers think |
| negative reciprocity | exchange of goods in which each party intends to profit |
| nomad (aka itinerant) | member of society that moves around instead of settling in one place |
| oligarchy | power in society resting only with a few |
| redistribution | altering the distro of goods and wealth based on "scientific" principles |
| religous cosmology | a way of explaining the origin of the universe |
| structuralism | view that each part of a culture cannot be understood without understanding the culture as a whole |
| Ruth Benedict | American--"The Races of Mankind" uses scientific evidence to challenge racism |
| Franz Boas | German-Amer--father of modern anthropology |
| Clifford Geertz | Amer--symbols |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Amer--Harlem Renaissance |
| Andrey Korotayev | Russion--cross-culture studies |
| Grover Kranz | Amer--Bigfoot |
| Edmund Leach | Brit--ethnographic work |
| Murray Leaf | Amer--South Asia |
| Claude Levi-Strauss | French--human traits were the same in all geographic locations |
| Alan Macfarlane | Brit--England, Nepal, Japan, China |
| Bronislaw Malinowski | Polish--participant observation |
| Marcel Mauss | French--significance of gift giving |
| Margaret Mead | Amer--promoted broadening of sexual mores in Western culture |
| Alfred Radcliffe-Brown | Brit--structural functionalism |
| Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff | Austrian--tropical rainforest cultures |
Created by:
Pippin14
Popular Standardized Tests sets