Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Anth 271
kinship, social organization, psychological and political anthropology
157
Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
11/10/2008

Additional Anthropology Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
lineage
Definition
relationship between parent and child connects back to common ancestor.
assigns legal status
controls distribution of property and goods
all members substitutable
usually about 5 generations deep
vary in size
Term
matriarchy
Definition
women run household
mother's brother tends to have much power
Term
clan
Definition
composed of multiple lineages, descended from a common ancestor, often a mythic figure. harder to reckon kinship.
Term
fictive kin
Definition
given kin title, but not blood related.
Term
society
Definition
groups of people who live together, interact. based on shared geography, language and customs.
Term
social group
Definition
recognized and named groups of people organized on basis of shared interests, with particular division of labor and shared sets of goals.
Term
social network
Definition
Term
status
Definition
publicly recognized social position, often named.
Term
role
Definition
set of rights and responsibilities that come with a status
Term
ascribed status
Definition
status that you are born with. cannot change.
Term
achieved status
Definition
status that is acquired through work
Term
institutions
Definition
clusters of social statuses and group that share a common factor
Term
social structure
Definition
social statuses in terms of social interactions and enduring relations of individuals in social groups
Term
social organization
Definition
role relationships that come into being as societies, move through time together
Term
functionalism
Definition
societies exist to fulfill basic human needs
Term
structural functionalism
Definition
Term
complex (civilized)
Definition
based on law, sociology, organic
Term
small scale (primitive)
Definition
based on kinship, anthropology, mechanical
Term
mechanical solidarity
Definition
kinship based on societies where all necessary means for survival can be carried out by families
Term
organic solidarity
Definition
division of labor, not self sufficient, large scale, specialized divisions of labor that cannot stand on their own.
Term
Durkheim
Definition
1858-1917
Term
economy
Definition
material wealth
Term
power
Definition
control over people, ability to make people do things that they don't want to do.
Term
prestige
Definition
honor given to group or individual, acknowledges social standing
Term
egalitarian society
Definition
equal access to wealth, power and prestige
Term
ranked society
Definition
equal access to wealth and power. greater access to prestige.
Term
stratified society
Definition
unequal access to wealth, power and prestige. institutionalized, caste system
Term
sodality
Definition
any sort of group that cuts across kinship relationships
Term
age-set
Definition
rough groups of people born around the same time
Term
age grade
Definition
sequence of statuses gone through as age
Term
secret society
Definition
group of people with secret knowledge, perform public works
Term
caste
Definition
membership ascribed at birth, mobility not allowed, endogamous, occupational roles, ranked on basis of purity and pollution, dietary restrictions
Term
proletariat
Definition
have access to labor, no wealth
Term
bourgeoisie
Definition
have access to capital, means of production.
Term
class society
Definition
social mobility is possible
Term
caste society
Definition
social mobility is not allowed
Term
race
Definition
culturally defined categories based on physical appearance and assumed geographical origins
Term
hypodescent
Definition
bloodline
Term
colorism
Definition
subtitles in race.
lighter black vs. darker black
Term
social race
Definition
higher social class, higher race. supercedes social classification.
Term
ethnicity
Definition
social differentiations based on culture.
race, customs, appearance, mannerisms, geography, religion
Term
miscegenation
Definition
marriage outside one's ethnic or racial group
Term
genocide
Definition
physical extermination of group of people
Term
ethnocide
Definition
destroy culture
Term
sex
Definition
biological, physical differentiation between males and females
Term
gender
Definition
cultural
Term
individualism
Definition
humans are separate from other humans. individuals sacrifice freedoms to be members of society. every man is an island, pursue own interest.
Term
determinism
Definition
causal chain of events that cause events to happen without any individual free will
ex. -biological determinism, cultural determinism
Term
agency
Definition
person's ability to reflect on their culture, to look at culture rationally, make choices about what they'll do and act on these choices
Term
ruth benedict
Definition
1887-1948
Term
cultural configurations
Definition
ways certain cultural systems are more likely to introduce certain personality types
Term
Apollonian
Definition
God of art, sun, rationality, individual
Term
Dianysian
Definition
God of wine, chaos, theatre, social
Term
personality
Definition
ways of thinking, feeling and acting that a person practices that are consistent over time
Term
basic personality structure
Definition
emerges from interactions between primary social institutions (child rearing, sexual expression, economic practices) and secondary social institutions (ritual and religious elements used to cope)
Term
modal personality
Definition
typical personality of a cultural group, through statistical method
Term
projective test
Definition
informant will project personality through answers in test
Term
enculturation
Definition
ways that children learn all the practices, learn how to be an adult in a society
Term
child rearing practices
Definition
ways in which adults teach children how to behave properly.
ex.- story telling, swaddling, weaning, potty training
Term
Freud
Definition
anthropologists paid attention to his views of enculturation and child rearing as examples of causing cultural personality
Term
social psychosis
Definition
patterned on basis of social system it comes from
Term
self
Definition
human individual as separate from other individuals and things in society
Term
self actualization
Definition
ability of self-aware individuals to pursue own goals, even in face of opposition
Term
self awareness
Definition
individual's own assessment of one's strengths, weaknesses, likes/dislikes in the social world
Term
social constituted person
Definition
define themselves by role or status
Term
individual self
Definition
Term
independence training
Definition
child rearing practices that teach children to be self-reliant individuals
ex.-potty training, tying shoes, doing chores, getting a job
Term
dependence training
Definition
child rearing practices that focus on teaching social roles and statuses to promote interest of group over that of individual
ex.-arranged marriage, sharing
Term
ethnoscience
Definition
documents the ways that different cultural systems categorize the world, tries to find patterns within categories
Term
cognitive capacity
Definition
innate ability to reason,
humans universally categorize the world around them, everyone has the same cognitive capacity.
Term
cognition
Definition
way that humans see the world, categorize the world and incorporate information
Term
etic
Definition
phonetic, study of all possible sounds, outsider accounts
Term
emic
Definition
phonemic, sounds within a cultural group, insider accounts
Term
cognitive anthropology
Definition
cross cultural study of the effect that culture has on perception and cognition
Term
schema
Definition
related parts under single category. key cognitive unit in which configuration overshadows the part, meanings emerge from shared social roles
Term
prototype
Definition
classification of things in world which one is familiar, classification of other things in world based on
Term
cognitive style
Definition
way that particular group or individual solves problems
Term
global style
Definition
looking at big picture first, then details
Term
articulated style
Definition
details first, then big picture
Term
subjectivity
Definition
interior experiences of persons that are shaped by the location in a particular field of power relations
Term
emotion
Definition
patterns of affect, categories of feelings that are culturally specific
Term
trauma
Definition
severe suffering caused by agents of forces outside of the individual's control
Term
structural violence
Definition
political, economic or social structures that enable violence differently for different groups of people
Term
psychosis
Definition
Term
ethnography
Definition
description of people
Term
political structure
Definition
relations within a territorial system between groups of persons who live in spatially well-defined areas and are conscious of their identity and exclusiveness
Term
people
Definition
all persons speak same language and have same culture, consider themselves to be different from like aggregates
Term
nation
Definition
politically centralized
Term
tribe
Definition
Term
field work
Definition
Term
influence
Definition
ability to persuade someone to follow your lead
Term
coercive vs. persuasive
Definition
physical force vs. words
Term
authority
Definition
power becomes institutionalized, power attached to a social status
Term
politics
Definition
ways in which power relations affect social relations and the competition for power, involves study of government
Term
government
Definition
status holders carrying out decisions for the welfare of the group
Term
political anthropology
Definition
focuses on 4 main issues:
how leadership is manifested in society,
how leadership is acquired, performed and maintained,
how disputes are settled,
how power and authority are utilized
Term
political ecology
Definition
study of how access to natural and cultural resources are controlled and contested; how people are linked to the environment
Term
political economy
Definition
interested in division of labor in society and politics that underly this, creation of, consequences
Term
unilineal evolution
Definition
Term
head man
Definition
person who is selected to represent group to outsiders, doesn't necessarily have power within the group
Term
big man
Definition
person who has influence to negotiate and organize complex arrangements and exchanges
Term
situational leadership
Definition
not permanent status
Term
chiefdom
Definition
fixed rankings, one lineage has higher standing than another. chief part of the lineage, has status, authority and power.
Term
state
Definition
Term
nation-state
Definition
boundaries should line up. one ruler for all people who share language and culture
Term
bureaucracy
Definition
technical definition. ruler can delegate positions of power, supported by system of taxation, redistributes taxes in form of public works
Term
law
Definition
technical. cultural mechanisms for resolving conflicts, disputes and behavior infractions. law includes fighting, dispute resolution..
Term
sanctions
Definition
penalty allocated in the case of non compliance with authority, can exist outside formal legal code
Term
substantiative law
Definition
formal law, applies to all members of society with particular attributes
Term
procedural law
Definition
describes how lawbreakers are to be treated
Term
civil
Definition
private disputes between individuals before court, relying on legal code
Term
criminal
Definition
crimes against society, wronged party doesn't get to punish offender
Term
law code
Definition
Term
nationalism
Definition
members of a nation have a sense of ...
Term
marriage
Definition
change in social status, sexual access, economic access, legitimacy in kin group
Term
incest taboo
Definition
sexual relations are prohibited between certain relations
Term
endogamy
Definition
practice of marrying within a certain group, forbidding marriage outside of group
Term
exogamy
Definition
marriage outside of village/kingroup
Term
sister exchange/alliance theory
Definition
one brother exchanges sister for another family's sister, to cement family relationships, arranged marriage
Term
bride wealth
Definition
system in which groom's family makes some sort of material trade for bride, compensation for taking bride. if marriage dissolves, bridewealth is to be returned
Term
dowry
Definition
material payment or land that accompanies bride to groom's family from parents or kin group
Term
dowry death
Definition
wife is encouraged to commit suicide/burned to death when dowry promised is not received
Term
bride service
Definition
groom works for bride's family before allowed to marry bride
Term
monogamy
Definition
one man, one woman in marriage
Term
polygamy
Definition
one man/woman, many partners
Term
polygyny
Definition
man with multiple wives
Term
soraral polygyny
Definition
one man marries sisters
Term
polyandry
Definition
one woman with multiple husbands
Term
fraternal polyandry
Definition
one woman marries brothers
Term
plural marriage
Definition
many wives, many husbands. often in communes
Term
serial polygamy
Definition
having multiple husbands or wives, but one at a time
Term
sororate
Definition
widower marries wife's sister
Term
levirate
Definition
widow marries husband's brother
Term
divorce
Definition
marriage dissolves
Term
neolocal residence
Definition
bride and groom move into new household
Term
patrilocal/virilocal residence
Definition
bride moves in with husband's family
Term
matrilocal/uxorilocal residence
Definition
husband moves in with wife's family
Term
avunculocal residence
Definition
bride is incorporated into husband's uncle's family
Term
ambilocal/bilocal residence
Definition
bride and groom choose where to move, either bride or groom's household
Term
duolocal
Definition
husband lives with family, wife lives with family, may be in place of a divorce
Term
conjugal family
Definition
based on marriage: mother, father, children
Term
non-conjugal family
Definition
mother and children, or father and children
Term
nuclear family
Definition
mother, father, children. consists of two generations
Term
polygynous family
Definition
husband, all wives, all children, two generations
Term
joint family
Definition
brothers, sisters and families all live together in one household. two generations
Term
extended family
Definition
3 or more generations
Term
blended family
Definition
divorced parents and children move into sam household. two generations
Term
family by choice
Definition
conjugal relationship between two members of same sex
Term
kinship
Definition
social organization on basis of birth, marriage and nurturance that determines the rights and obligations of the individual
Term
feuding
Definition
Term
descent
Definition
culturally defined relationships based on birth and nurturance
Term
affinal kin
Definition
linked by marriage
Term
consaguineal kin
Definition
tend to be those linked by blood
Term
bilateral/cognatic descent
Definition
kinship traced along both mother's line and father's line
Term
unilateral kinship
Definition
either mother's OR father's line
Term
patrilineal/agnatic
Definition
reckoned along father's line
Term
matrilineal/uterine
Definition
reckoned along mother's line
Supporting users have an ad free experience!