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ANTH 2010 FINAL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Polyandry | This is when women are married to many men (often brothers). This is really rare. Marquesan islanders practice it. |
| Polygyny | This is multiple women married to the same man. This does not mean that every man has multiple wives but that every man is allowed to have multiple wives. Lots of cultures practice this. |
| Monogamy | One person to another person. In our society we get to choose. |
| Patrilocal Residence | The social system where a married couple lives with or near the husband's parents. |
| Matrilocal Residence | Is a societal system where a married couple lives with or near the wife's parents. |
| Neolocal Residence | A social convention where a married couple lives separately from both sets of parents. |
| Affinal Kin | People who are related through marriage, not by blood. |
| Descent Groups | is any kin-ordered social group with a membership in the direct line of descent from a real (historical) or fictional common ancestor. |
| Bilateral Kin | Descent down both lines: the mother's and father's line. |
| Unilateral Kin | Descent down one line |
| Clans | are extended unilineal descent groups which claim common descent from a distant (often mythical) ancestor. They do not have to share a residence, but often meet at certain times of the year to perform rituals and reaffirm their relationship. |
| Totemism | Is a special form of clan structure in which the clan claims to be related to some particular plant or animal, or objects. |
| Moieties | When a society is spilt into two groups based on descent. The idea is all over the world. |
| Animism | The belief that nature is animated (enlivened or energized) by distinct personalized spirit beings separable from bodies. |
| Monotheism | This means that you have one god. Majority of religions are this. |
| Polytheism | This means have multiple gods. |
| Taboo | Is a rule or law that if violated will result in a penalty inflicted by magic, spiritual force, or religion. |
| Witchcraft | Often used in societies without centralized authority (Bands and Tribes) to keep social peace. Blame common place ill luck, disease, and other bad fortune on magic. Threat of negative magic. Fears with being called a user and fear of having it used on. |
| Healers/Shaman | Often thought to have been one of the first kinds of specialists that many human societies create. Typically thought as healers who can harness the powers of the spirits or souls around them. |
| Applied Anthropology | People argue that anthropology has little real world value, but it actually has much to offer in the business world. Examples would be corporate anthropology and CRM. |
| Primary Innovation | The creation, invention, or chance discovery of a completely new idea, method, or device. |
| Secondary Innovation | The deliberate application or modification of an existing idea, method, or device. |
| Diffusion | The spread of certain ideas, customs, or practices from one culture to another. |
| Cultural Loss | The abandonment of an existing practice of trait. Usually this is the replacement of one trait by a newer or better one. Sometimes, however, this is simply forgetting some technology. |
| Saami Pastoralism | Reindeer herders that live in Norway. Began adopting new technologies like snow mobiles in the 1960s, lost traditional cultural skills and men had to start getting jobs outside of the community. This changed herding practices, that killed lots of reindeer |
| Ethnocide | The violent eradication of an ethnic groups collective cultural identity. |
| Japanese Business Cards | There are certain rules in Japan for business cards such as not stuffing it in your pocket, making notes in blank areas on the card, bending it or damaging the card, no excuses for running out of card, carrying it loosely in a pocket. Applied anthro. |
| Shared Culture | The sharing or not sharing of cultures leads to ethnic groups-people who identify themselves as a distinct group based on shared ancestry or various cultural features. |
| Learned Culture | Culture is not coded in your genes. The process through which people learn the culture they are in. |
| Symbolic Culture | There are symbols, both auditory and visual, which means something to a culture. While some people outside the culture can interpret it, often it requires being in the culture to understand the whole meaning. |
| Integrated Culture | The cultures and subcultures that you are in affects a lot of what you do. What you believe religiously can affect who you marry, what you eat, etc. |
| Dynamic Culture | Culture changes and reacts to outside forces and inside changes. |
| Why is language so important to humans? What does it allow us to do and when did it develop? | |
| What is driving the family shown in Dadi's family apart? What is the major shift? | |
| Tell me what the three distinct types of religions are, give an example of each. Can we know how many people practice each religion? Why or why not? |
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