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Kinship   how humans classify themselves (and others); an emic classification of relatedness. Includes biological relatives and fictive kin Determines membership in decent groups  
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Fictive kin   non-biologically based kinship  
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Decent groups   kin based corporate group that organizes people and resources  
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apical ancestor   (the top) Decent is traced from one common ancestor  
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Demonstrated decent   lineage—members can recite the names of the forebears in each generation from the apical ancestor through the present  
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Stipulated decent   clan  
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Biological kinship construction   based on biological decent and relatedness: by blood  
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Cultural kinship construct   based on society’s definition, may include distant and/or fictive kin depends on the culture who is included  
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Kinship reckoning/kin terms   words used for different relatives in a particular language  
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Genealogical kin type   the actual genealogical relationship  
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Nuclear family   consists of parents and children, normally living together in the same household. Lasts as long as the parents stay together  
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Matrilineal   kinship is traced through the mother; children join the mother’s group at birth and remain a member for life  
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Patrilineal   traced through father; automatically belongs to the father’s group  
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Ambilineal   members can choose lineage, no one is automatically excluded  
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Lineal reckoning   paternal generation kin terminology with four terms: same term for father brother and mother brother and same for mother sister and father sister EXAMPLE: the united states  
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Bifurcate merging kinship   mother and mother sister called the same term, father and father brother share the same term; mother brother and father sister are called by different terms EXAMPLE: Cherokee  
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Generational kin ship   two terms for parental generation: one for mother, mother sister, father sister; another for father, father brother, and mother brother EXAMPLE: Kalahari San  
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Linage vs. Clan   members of clans state their decadence, but do not biologically trace genealogical links. Lineage is based on demonstrated decent.  
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Benefits of kin membership   food, power, ritual, law, residence, and inheritance  
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Exogamy   rule requiring people to marry outside their own group  
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Endogamy   rule/practice of marriage between people of the same social group  
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Monogamy   the taking of one spouse, one relationship  
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Pologamy   multiple spouces; multiple simultaneous relationships= plural marriage  
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Polyandry   plural marriage when woman takes more than one husband  
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Polgyny   man takes more than one wife  
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Postmerital residence   Matrilocal, Patrilocal, Ambilocal, or Neolocal  
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Matrilocal   couple moves to wife’s mother’s community; children are raised in mother’s community  
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Patrilocal   couple moves to husbands father’s community; children raised in dad’s community  
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Ambilocal   couple chooses between the mother and the father’s community  
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Neolocal   couple establishes a new place of residence= “home of their own”  
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Bridewealth   compensation given to the brides decent group for loss of progeny  
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Dowry   compensates the husband’s family for privilege of interfamilial relationships  
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Social organization as adaptation to natural environment:   (blank)  
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Cherokee   Economy: labor-intensive maize agriculture Key resources: narrow floodplains, female laborers Clans: matrilineal Inheritance: matrilineal Marriage: monogamy, exogamous Postmerital residence: matrilocal Allegiances: large political alliances  
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Nuer   Economy: cattle herdingKey resources: cattleClans: polygyny, if men can pay progeny priceInheritance: patrilinealMarriage: patrilinealPostmerital residence: patrilocalAllegiances: segmentary organization  
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Pahari   Economy: land-intensive agriculture Key resources: small fields Inheritance: traditionally patrilineal; land subdivided equally among son’s household Marriage: monogamy; fraternal polyandry Allegiances: limited  
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Kalahari San   Economy: foraging Key resources: no heritable resources Clans: none Naming system: everyone is kin- generational Inheritance: none but access to water holes Marriage: monogamous Postmerital residence: neolocal Allegiances: integrated, egalitarian  
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Subsistence   source from which food and other items necessary for existence are obtained; Controls population growth and impacts the technology that is required for survival. Has enormous ecological ramifications.  
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Sociopolitical systems must be looked at as a whole. Why?   Ecological, socio-cultural, political, and economic systems can not be understood independently of one another.  
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“Primitive Peoples”   not living fossils, but they challenge our notion of progress- shows that human evolution is not progressive or linear  
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5 ways of making a living   Foraging, Horticulture, Pastoral herding, Agriculture, and Industrialism  
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Foraging   getting food directly from nature, oldest form of subsistence, influenced by the evolutionary development of our species  
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Horticulture   shifting cultivation- slash and burn- oldest form of agriculture, non mechanized form of agriculture  
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Pastoral herding   food producing strategy of adaptation based on care of herds of domesticated animals  
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Agriculture   agrarian, intensive use of land and labor, continuous cultivation. Low tech  
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Industrialism   highly capitalized, high tech production  
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Intensive strategies   intensive use of land and labor, continuous cultivation- low tech, requires lots of land  
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Extensive strategies   sheep and cattle farming in areas with low agricultural productivity. Heavily dependent on input  
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Inuit Eskimo Case Study   modern hunters and gatherer: Subsistence food economy underpins their society. Whaling acting as a socially binding force. Subsistence as vital to the emotional well-being of the community. Subsistence economy embodies traditional values and beliefs, sub  
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AG Anth   the comprehensive, holistic, and temporal study of humans and their interaction with the environment. Emphasis on food production on a global scale to improve world wide production of food and fiber.  
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Ethnoecology   the study of how all different people utilize and interpret their knowledge of their environmental domain- parallel to biological sciences and ecology.  
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Green revolution   bringing western industrial agriculture to the third world in order to feed the starving masses. With the idea that peasants are rational decision makers so all they need is some modern inputs to accelerate crop yield.  
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Upside to green revolution   debatable increase in production  
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Downside to green revolution   uneven development and increased social stratification. Detrimental to the ecology of the farm land.  
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Anthropology OF agriculture   describes agricultural societies in terms of evolutionary types, level of energy use, intensification, and comparative environmental adaptations  
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Anthropology IN agriculture   the use of anthropological methods to improve the methods of and surrounding agriculture  
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Reasons for maintaining heirloom vegetables in Appalachia and the Sierra Madre   although utilitarian reasons for agrobiodiversity maintenance are important, cultural reasons for the persistence of folk crop varieties may be more important from the perspective of farmers themselves  
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Characteristics of Sustainable agriculture   focus on environmentally friendly and culturally sensitive systems of agriculture characterized by high biological diversity, local organic inputs, horizontal and fair trade markets, and human rights. Allows local farmers to maintain traditional lifestyl  
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Neolithic revolution   domestication of plants and animals, in 7 different, independent places over thousands of years  
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7 places where food production was independently invented   Middle East, South China, North China, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Mexico, South Central Andes, and the Eastern US  
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Middle East   domesticated wheat, barley, sheep, goats, cattle, pigs earliest date: 10,000  
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South China   domesticated rice, water buffalo, dogs, pigs earliest date: 8,500-6,500  
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North China   domesticated millet, dogs, pigs, chickens earliest date: 7,500  
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Sub-Saharan Africa   domesticated sorghum, pearl millet, African rice earliest date: 4,000  
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Central Mexico   domesticated maize, beans, squash, dogs, turkeys earliest date: 4,700  
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South Central Andes   domesticated potato, quinoa, beans, camelids, guinea pigs earliest date: 4,500  
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Eastern US   domesticated goosefoot, marsh elder, sunflower, squash earliest date: 4,500  
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Domestication   the process by which humans gain control over the reproduction of certain plants and animal species-through genetic modification, through selective breeding, ordering of environments.  
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Old world domestication   domestication of animals (sheep, goats, cattle, pigs, horses, water buffalo, dogs, chickens), staple crops (wheat, millet, sorghum, rice, barley), and lentils, peas, and chickpeas Resulted in: Genetic modifications, Population growth, Spread of farming t  
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New world domestication   domestication of animals (llamas, dogs, alpacas, turkeys, and guinea pigs), caloric staple crops (maize, potatoes, manioc [cassava]), and beans, squash, goosefoot, marsh elder, sunflower, and quinoa. Transition from: Nomadic foraging to the beginnings of  
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Sedentism   the stabilization of people groups, stay in one area. Result of intensive agriculture where large farm areas form and yield crops for long periods of time. A consequence of a particular mode of obtaining food- agriculture.  
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Natufians   widespread Middle Eastern culture dated between 12,500 and 10,500 b.p.; subsisted on intensive wild cereal collecting and gazelle hunting and had year-round villages.  
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Domestication in Fertile Crescent vs Mexico   Mexico demonstrated new world domestication tactics, while the fertile crescent used old world.  
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Redistribution   major exchange mode of chiefdoms, many archaic states, and some states with managed economies—when goods, services, or their equivalent move from the local level to a center  
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managed economies   when goods, services, or their equivalent move from the local level to a center  
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Reciprocity   one of the three principles of exchange; governs exchange between social equals; major exchange mode in band and tribal societies.  
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Generalized Exchange   exchange between closely related individuals. An exchange is made with no expectation of anything in return  
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Balanced Exchange   an exchange between people who are more distantly related that are members of the same band or household.  
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Negative Exchange   an exchange with someone outside or on the fringe of their social systems. A way of establishing friendly relations with outsiders. Involves the attempt to get something for as little as possible in return, even if one must be dishonest or cheat.  
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Band   basic unit of social organization among foragers. A band includes fewer than 100 people; often splits up seasonably  
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Tribe   based on horticulture or pastorilism. Socioeconomic stratification and central rule are absent, no means of enforcing political decisions  
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Chiefdom   intermediate between tribe and the state; kin based with differential access to resources and a permanent political structure  
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State   based on a central government and socioeconomic stratification- a division of society into classes  
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Egalitarian   society most typically found among hunter-gatherers; lacks status distinctions except for those based on age, gender, and individual qualities, talents, and achievements  
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Stratified   class structured; stratified societies have marked differences in wealth, prestige, and power between social classes  
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Horticulture vs. agriculture   both nonindustrial; horticulture is low tech, low maintenance where land may lay fallow for a long period of time; agriculture requires continuous and intensive use of land and labor  
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Minute men   activist organization started in april 2005; monitor the us-Mexican border’s flow of illegal immigrants—“citizens neighborhood watch” over our border  
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Humane borders   offers water stations in high moving areas along the border- have 70 stations  
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Immigration policy   deals with the transit of persons across its borders  
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Enforcement policy   makes rules for enforcing immigration rules  
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Globalization   accelerating interdependence of nations in world systems linked economically and through mass media and modern transportation systems; the interconnectedness of the world, every aspect  
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History of globalization   term first used in the 1980’s= goes back to the silk road and slave trade—officially began during the Enclosure Movement in England (1750-1860: privatization of land)  
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Economic globalization   perpetual economic growth premised of free trade --rapid world growth, buying and selling of services—requires little to no resources. Seen as a solution to global poverty and environmental degradation; growth has risen drastically but quality of living  
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Free Trade   wages and production conditions determined by market forces; reduction or elimination of tariffs (taxes on imported goods)  
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Players in free trade   The corporation, IMF (international monetary fund), World bank, WTO (world trade organization) and GATT (general agreement on tariffs and trade)[became the WTO in 1994], NAFTA (north American free trade agreement)  
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Fair Trade   producers guarantee a fair/just wage  
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Global and US wealth distribution   concentrated in north America, western Europe, and Australia  
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Article 27   Mexican government changed its constitution to gain the support of US and Canada for NAFTA  
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Ejido   privatizes communal agricultural lands  
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IMF/World Bank/ Bretton Woods   1944- resulted in privatization; countries receiving aid money (SAPs) must meet the set conditions: reduce public spending, open markets for foreign imports, produce domestic goods for export  
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SAPs   structural adjustment programs  
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Colonialism   the political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time.  
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Development-   (blank)  
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Colonies   Settled colonies or Extractive colonies: Majority of colonies Natural resources Agricultural products  
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Progress/white man’s burdon   the notion that all human societies go through the same stages, savagery, barbarism, and civilization, but some have “progressed” more than others. Cultural roots of progress go back to the enlightenment, missionization- bringing “progress” to other coun  
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Cultural imperialism   when acculturation continues against the wishes and interests of the less powerful culture  
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Neo colonialism   modern day colonization  
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Environmental/ecological ANTH   human-environment interaction through space and time  
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Historical ecology   interdisciplinary study of: Landscape change through space and time, where: “landscape”= the spatial manifestation of relations between humans and their environment  
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“landscape”   the spatial manifestation of relations between humans and their environment  
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Political ecology   linkage between power and social/environmental conditions.—those in power shape the ways in which we all interact with our environment (to some degree) and therefore the environment itself.  
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Conservations of what   biological diversity, ecological processes, and others.  
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“Wilderness”   anglo construct, what westerners deem as the wild  
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Yellowstone   worlds first nat’l park: 1872- forced removal of indigenous inhabitants, but we will never know how they impacted the wilderness  
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Sarengeti   same as Yellowstone, only in Africa  
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Masai   Kenyan warrior tribe, semi-nomadic: “wilderness” and its people  
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Community-based conservation (CBC)   encourage and empower locals to share in decision making; maintain local access to natural resources.  
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CAMPFIRE   communal areas management program for indigenous resources—Zimbabwe (1980s) Anthropology links conservation to social development and uses ethnography  
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ICDP   integrated conservation and development program  
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Stakeholders   something  
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