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