Hard to Remember Questions for INTRO
Cognatic clan
A clan that reckons descent through both their mother and father is called a
Creole
A language of mixed origin that developed from a complex blending of two parent languages is called
Created; natural
A number of societies have the notion that men are _______ and women are _________
Biocultural
A paradigm that emphasizes humans that are made up of complex biological, cultural, and psychological processes is
Prejudice
A preformed, usually unfavorable opinion about people who are different is
Closely tied to important social institutions, such as kin networks, trading ties, and political structure
A substantivist would be most likely to explain the Kula cycle as
Summarizing symbol
American flag
Gender/sex systems
Anthropologists commonly refer to the ideas and social patterns a society uses to organize males, females, and those who do not fit either
Cognatic
Clans come in three types: matrilineal, patrilineal, and
Elaborating symbol
Dinka and Nuer and cow
Understanding how other societies make sense of selves, persons, and emotions
Ethnopsychology is largely concerned with
True
Genetically speaking, humans are a remarkably homogeneous species: there is far greater variation within human groups than there is between them
Genealogical method
If you wanted to study patterns of kin relations in a community, which method would you use?
Determinism
Jared Diamond's view that nature and environmental conditions (availability of oxen, for example) shape the characteristics and lifeways of a group of people is known as environmental ___________
True
Many non-Western societies have conservation traditions that are based on distinct principles of human-nature relationship
Women challenge men's domination over them by arguing and issuing ultimatums
Masculinity in Mexico
Corporate group
Most families function as groups of real people who work together toward common ends. Such family groups are referred to as
Native symbols
Sherry Ortner three kinds of culturally powerful symbols include everything except
Sign
Stoplight
Showed colonial governments that non-Western societies have order without formal government
The importance of structural functionalism is that it
Adjudication
The legal process by which an individual or council with socially recognized authority intervenes in a dispute and unilaterally makes a decision is
Morphology
The study of grammatical categories, such as tense and word order, is called
Sociolinguistics
The study of how sociocultural norms and contexts shape language use in society
Morphemes
Units that are made up of a combination of the smallest meaningful bits of sound are
Parole
When anthropologists study the way people use language in real settings (0n the street) rather than as a set of grammatical rules, they are focusing on
They are to blame for their sickness
Which of the following activities or behaviors is not part of the American sick role?
Surnames
Which of the following do Americans traditionally inherit patrilineally?
How one's research or advocacy can reinforce social inequalities and suffering
Which of the following is a dilemma facing an ethnographer of transgender people in the United States
Intersubjective
Which term refers to the knowledge about other people that emerges from relationships?
Cognate words
Words that came from the same ancestral language and originated from the same word are called