Anthropology
Brideprice refers to..
A gift to the brides family from the grooms side
Define pastoralism
A mode of livelihood based on domesticated animal herds and the use of their products
In medical anthropology illness refers to...
A persons perceptions and experiences of certain socially devalued states
Large extended households are most prevalent in which mode of livelihood?
Agriculture
Social ranking on the basis of caste is...
An ascribed system
Elements of Buddhism in Northwest Nepal
Attending weekly gatherings at a Monastery
Religion is....
Beliefs and behaviors concerning supernatural beings and powers
Is sex biological or cultural?
Biological
Define isogamy
Both the bride and groom are well educated
What's one reason why foragers typically have low rates or population growth?
Breastfeeding occurs over frequent and long periods of time, thereby surpassing ovulation
When doing fieldwork, establishing rapport...
Can involve exchanging gifts with the local people
What system is legally enforced by the government
Caste system
Define displacement
Communicating messages about events in the past or future
Is gender biological or cultural?
Cultural
Is research guided by a hypothesis inductive or deductive?
Deductive
Cultures can create kinship via which of the following?
Descent, sharing, and marriage
Common characteristic of the eskimo kinship terminology
Different terms distinguish between parents and the parents siblings
What's the study of cross cultural health systems?
Ethnomedicine
A typical epic approach might involve the study of...
Events that have meaning for members of a particular cumture
TF: In "Baseball Magic" more latin america players use magic than US players
False
TF: body modification is NOT common among indigenous people around the world
False
TF: more men than women migrate internationally
False
TF: the increase in industrial/digital societies is resulting in fewer nuclear households
False
TF: world population grew faster with the introduction of agriculture than at any other time in human history
False
TF: Cross-culturally womens speech and language patterns often include tag questions?
False: it reflects a womans position in society
TF: people you regularly meet for social gatherings are your primary social group?
False: secondary social group
TF: children in horticultural societies tend to be more immature than children in agricultural and industrial societies?
False: they're self sacrificing
Generalized reciprocity is a mode of exchange that is most Typical in which mode of livelihood?
Forageds
Which mode of livelihood are neolocal residence for married couples associated with?
Foraging
Which mode of livelihood is bilineal descent involved in?
Foraging societies because it provides flexibility and reflects fluid social arrangements
Define confederacy
Formal alliance of chiefdoms
In which country would you expect to find and explicitly pro-natalist agenda?
France because of its state level policies
The social distribution of the disease kuru in papys New Guinea was based on which micro cultural factor?
Gender
A factor in high rates of wife abuse in rural kentucky is..
Geographical isolation
Compared to temperate-climate foragers, circumpolar foragers....
Have a more sharply differentiated gender division of labor
Children have the most tasks in which mode of livelihood?
Horricultue
Which mode of livelihood is matrilineal descent involved in?
Horticulturalists, the mode in which women often have significant responsibility
Unbalanced exchanges includes....
Human trafficking, market exchange, and gamblig
Which mode of livelihood is unilineal descent involved in?
In modes with a fixed resource base-horticulture, pastoralism, and agriculture-because it provides stability
Which mode of livelihood has below-replacement-level fertility
Industrial/digital economy
Is leadership in bands formal or informal?
Informal
The culture materialist perspective uses a three level model of culture that includes:
Infrastructure, structure, and superstructure
Social functions of religion include....
Insight that helps us to understand what happens after death
Typically circular migrants are also...
Labor migrants
Compared with family farming, corporate farming is...
More geared to production for sale
Magic is....
Most likely to be practiced in situations of uncertainty
Define code-switching
Often associated with elements of glotticentrism, involved changing vocab but in the same language, and indicates to the listener that the person speaking has numerous micro cultural affiliations
The ecological/epidemiological approach in medical anthropology involves...
Study of how the natural environment interacts with culture to cause disease
Define matrilineal.
System of descent in which kinship is traced through the female line
A sociolinguist would argue....
That cultural norms impact language and its uses, and that ones language reflects ones social class and status within society
Define authority
The ability to use force in order to bring about results
Define Hypogyny
The bride is much taller than the groom
The difference between cross cousins and parallel cousins is defined by what factor?
The gender of the egos parent of whom the cousins parent is a sibling
Define hypergyny
The groom is from a wealthier family than the bride
Brideservice involves..
The groom working for the brides family
Cultural relativism
The idea that each culture must be understood in terms of its own values and beliefs and not by the standards of another
What's one thing most cultural anthropologists agree on?
The importance of doing fieldwork
Cultural anthropologists link the modes of reproduction to....
The modes of livelihood
The lifeboat mentality is...
The number of people in a group should not be increased cause it will reduce resources available to those already in the group
Polyandry involves..
The potential for emotional hardship for all those involved
What's the Hawthorne effect?
The tendency for respondents to change their behavior to correspond with the researchers interests
Whats the sapir-whorf hypothesis?
The way people use language affects the way they think
A common feature of people who take on "third gender roles" among Native American cultures is...
Their general acceptance by society
TF: bilineal descent systems are less commin than ulineal descent systems?
True
TF: the Queen of England is an ascribed status
True
TF: the United Nations has declared the "right of return" to be an inalienable human right.
True
TF: the minangkabau culture is the worlds largest matrilineal culture?
True
TF: a culture should be studied as a whole
Trye
How is a persons class position determined?
Usually measured in terms of income level
Chain migration
When migrants come to places to be near friends and relatives who have already migrated there
In a patrilineal kinship system where would a married couple most likely reside?
With or near the parents of the groom
Compared to a family, a household may include..
People who are not related by kinship
State-sanctioned violence, coercion, and standing armies are involved in what?
Political control
Band, tribe, chiefdom, and state are terms used to describe....
Political organization
Romantic love can exist in which kind of marriage system?
Polyandrous
What's medical pluralism?
Presence of multiple health systems within a society
What's an anthropologists first responsibility?
Protect the people they're studying from harm related to the research
Difference between a migrant and refugee
Refugees are scared to stay in their habitual residence
Ethnigraphy
Research method for learning about culture that Involves living in a culture for an extended period while gathering data
Define Kinship diagram
Research tool showing the relatives known by an individual or "ego"
Carnival is an example of...
Ritual of inversion
What's an example of the interpretivist approach in medical anthropology?
Showing how a song sung by a shaman might help a woman through a difficult birth
Culture is not....
Statis
In the second stage of the demographic transition, birth rates______ while death rates ________.
Stay the same/fall drastically