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49 Cards in this Set
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What was the Age of Exploration about?
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1. Move out of Europe
2. interest in Science/Discovery 3. Humans became subject of study for other humans |
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What was evolution about?
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1. Controversial but took hold
2. Flawed but popular 3 idea of looking at other cultures systematically |
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What were the two main things evolution had wrong?
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1. Increased perfectibility-nope
2. Don't automatically get better |
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What did Boez talk about?
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"Culture is more than its parts"
-every culture is the product of a unique set of circumstances (you cant compare them) |
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What important thing comes out of Boez's idea?
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The genesis of cultural relativism
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What did Boez believe in?
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American Historical Particularism (heirarchy of cultures)
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Tyler the british anthropologist tried to explain what?
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Systematically tried to explain other cultures
Cultures fall from grace to varying degrees |
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Morgan the US anthropologist theory was what?
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-studied indians
-created various stages that could categorize any culture in the world into three base systems |
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What were Morgans Hierarchy of Cultures?
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1. Savagery-no technology just forager
-Fire, pottery, bow 2. Barbarism-domestication of animals, agriculture, metalworking 3. Civilization-alphabet and writing |
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What is culture?
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Lense through which people make sense of their world
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E.C. Question?
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Chocolate Chip Cookies from Rossare's
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British anthropologist, Malinowski though what?
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Culture is just the sum of its parts
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What is social theory?
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frames what your gonna look at and not
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Kinship Terms:
Affinal? |
people who are related to you by marriage
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Kinship Terms:
Consanguinial? |
people related to you by blood
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Kinship Terms:
Patralineal? |
recognize kinship only through the male side of the family
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Kinship Terms:
Matralineal? |
recognize only through the female side of the family
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What was Ward about on Kinship?
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Matronology-no such thing as illegitimate children
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What are Kinship studies?
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specific ways to who counts as a relative and who doesn't
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What was the dealio with Mead?
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studied Samoa and reported it was a bad period of time for girls sexually
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What was the dealio with Freeman?
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Somoa was a period of time when girls and women explore sexual activity (its a good time)
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Name some things of Pompeii?
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Violence (rape extremely rare)
Sex not baggage laden No such thing as illegitamcy |
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Food collection Term:
Hunting and gathering? |
systematic collection of wild plants and animals
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Food collection Term:
Horticulture? |
Uses HUMAN ENERGY (hand tools) to grow
small scale crop production |
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Food collection Term:
Pastrolism? |
live off animals (domestic)
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What are some uses of animals?
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1. Food source
2. Building materials 3. Fuel-dung 4. Clothing 5. Labor Source |
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Food collection Term:
Agriculture? |
Food production system characterized on animals
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Food collection Term:
Industrialization? |
kind of labor being used
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Whats the difference between horticulture and Agriculture?
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difference of intensity of labor and resources involved
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What is post-industrialization?
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Its no longer cost effective to produce from our own country
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What is economic anthropology?
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economic system of non western culture
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What are the three terms related to Reciprocity?
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1. Balance-exchange of equal value of goods
2. Generalized- gift giving but without expected payback 3. Negative-get something for less than you put in |
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The US is what kind of economy?
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Market economy!
Good and services are moved around for a standardized economy |
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Levels of Political Organization?
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1.Band-foraging perhaps (nomadic)-most would say their leaderless
2. Tribe-group of normally independent communities that might share a language (gotta have some kind of unifying factor) 3. Cheiftain-multiple local groups organized under a single ruler 4. State-centralized political system (RIGHT TO USE FORCE) |
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What are 3 things of cheiftain?
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A. Scale
B. Form of authority C. Hereditary |
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What is Applied Anthropology?
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Doing anthropology to solve a problem in the real world
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Religion Term:
Monotheistic? |
One God
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Define Pathrilocal.
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residence after marriage in association with the husband's father's relatives.
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Define Matrilocal.
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residence after marriage in association with the wife's mother's relatives.
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Define animism.
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Spirit beings that live everywhere in nature
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Define Animatism.
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World is inhabited by an impersonal power (s)
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What are the 2 qualifiers of Religion?
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1. Non Believers
2. Ethnocentrism |
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What are three ways Religion attributes to?
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1. Form of Social Control
2. Form of education 3. Social solidarity |
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Define Religion.
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Some kind of belief in the supernatural
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Define Exogamy.
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marriage outside the group
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Define Endogamy.
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marriage inside the gorup
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Name 4 ways religion is transmited
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1. Individualistic
2. Shamanistic: religion meditated through part time specialists 3. Communally: get together as a group (Quakers) 4. Specialist: permanent specialization (ministers) |
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Define Patriarchal.
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where a father figure and males have authority.
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Define Matriarchal.
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where a mother figure and females have authority.
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