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Anthro 201 Exam 2 Note Cards
WWU James 201 Fall 2012
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
11/01/2012

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Term
Foraging
Horticulture
Pastoralism
Agriculture
Industrialism
Post-industrial / information
Definition
What are six modes of production or subsistence?
Term
Mana
Definition
an impersonal supernatural force that flows in and out of people and objects
Term
Hinduism
Definition
Buddhism was formulated in part as a protest against aspects of?
Term
Revitalization movement
Definition
Organized movements that occur during times of change. Involve perceived loss of traditional cultural values.
Term
Foraging
Definition
a food-procurement strategy that involves collecting wild plants and animals
Term
Horticulture
Definition
a food-procurement strategy based on crop production without soil preparation, fertilizers, irrigation or use of draft animals
Term
Pastoralism
Definition
a food-procurement strategy based on herding
Term
Agriculture
Definition
a food-procurement strategy based on intensive, continuous use of land for the production of plant foods. it typically includes one or more of the following: cultivation of soils, use of fertilizers, and irrigation
Term
Industrialism
Definition
a food-procurement strategy based on the use of machinery in place of human labor.
Term
Optimal-foraging model
Definition
aims to understand how foragers gather food with the least expenditure of time, calories, and other factors
Term
foraging
Definition
For more than 90 percent of human history, our ancestors lived by ______
Term
cultural ecology
Definition
the study of the processes by which a society adapts to its environment
Term
ethnographic present
Definition
Describing culture groups as if they were still living the way they did when enthographers first recorded their ways of life
Term
Foraging
Definition
Reciprocity and sharing is strongest among populations using what mode of production?
Term
Technology
Definition
the knowledge, tools, and skills used by humans to manipulate their environments
Term
Plant cycles, seasonal weather conditions
Definition
What patterns were recognized in nature that led to the gradual development of agriculture?
Term
nomadic lifestyle
Definition
The defining feature of pastoralism is _______ for continued access to pasture and water
Term
ownership, rights
Definition
Agriculture differs from horticulture in terms of land _____ and water _____.
Term
contagious magic
Definition
A Navajo witch's ability to cause you physical pain because
they have a piece of your hair is an example of ___
Term
Aspect of social control and 'power of religion', opiate the
masses
Definition
According to lecture, Marx's main analysis of religion in
society was based on:
Term
animatism
Definition
a belief in an impersonal power over which people have some measure of control
Term
animism
Definition
belief in specific spirits associated with nature and natural
phenomena
Term
appropriation
Definition
Taken without permission and the borrowed elements in art
Term
Art as a form of resistance as well as claiming space/territory
Definition
An anthropological interpretation of the use of graffiti in urban area is
Term
Authenticity
Definition
Occupying the "inbetweenness" of race, gender, and class boundaries through constant contradiction
Term
A white person making money off of rapping because it
threatens the norm of rap music
Definition
What ethical issues related to authenticity are associated with Eminem rapping?
Term
balanced reciprocation
Definition
a form of exchange with the implicit or explicit expectation of return
Term
imitative magic
Definition
a type of magic based on the notion that working magic on an image of an animal or person will cause the same effect on the actual animal or person
Term
Cheaper milk from U.S --> Jamaican dumped out milk---> free trade agreement. Jamaican consumers buying U.S powdered milk because it was cheaper also applies to potatoes, chicken, and beef
Definition
Based on the film Life and Debt, how does foreign debt influence agricultural production in Jamaica (milk, potatoes, chicken, beef)? Identify the intermediate steps in this relationship.
Term
Body art asserts cultural identity. Signifies clan membership or symbolism. Moko tattoos, piercing of skin, scarification and introducing new pigments
Definition
Body art examples from text (Maori moko ex)
Term
By actively using them. (Because of large scale mobility, users often do not have formal rights or title to lands used)
Definition
How do pastoralists claim their land rights?
Term
Can't have exact representation of humans
Definition
Cultural proscriptions on art - West Africa Yoruba (Nigeria)
Term
Concentrate landholdings under control of an economic elite who create and control capital/debt markets
Definition
When capital is required for agricultural production,
environmental variability in crop productivity eventually lead to
the _____ of landholdings
Term
metaphor
Definition
A form of thought and language (or symbolizing) that asserts a meaningful link between two expressions from different semantic domains
Term
religious syncretism
Definition
The blending of different religions
Term
Symbolic value
Definition
a denotative meaning behind specific object or event
Term
Functional value
Definition
the literal meaning of what the purpose of the object is for
Term
Authentic value
Definition
created by a group of people
Term
doctrine
Definition
_____ more explicitly defines the supernatural than does myth
Term
Egalitarian society
Definition
Refers to members of a society having equal access to status, power, and wealth
within the same category as age or gender
Term
Ethno-ethetics
Definition
Local cultural definition of artist quality is known as _____
Term
euphoria
Definition
_____ is an altered state of consciousness, during which an individual has experiences different from those encountered during normal awake states or while dreaming
Term
Foraging/tools
Definition
The first evidence of early human subsistence strategies comes from
Term
Hajj
Definition
Upon completion of a pilgrimage to Mecca many Muslims achieve the status of
_____
Term
Halloween (Switching roles/Carnival)
Definition
______ is an example of a ritual of inversion
Term
direct labor is do it yourself and depersonalized is global system doing if for you
Definition
How does direct labor differ from
depersonalized consumption?
Term
One may be stuck in between phases that can defined in both phases and it is also
risky
Definition
How does liminality relate to ritual
transitions?
Term
Religion differs from play because playing allows a metaphorical link while religion lets us believe an actual reality
Definition
How does religion differ from play?
Term
By gathering food and Policy/cuts education
Definition
How is agriculture related to food security,
how about national debt and SAPs?
Term
Fine Art is deemed as more significant and more valuable. Society makes fine art seem like it is rare, expensive, symbolic value for market, and trained artist. While, folk art is anonymous and common.
Definition
How is value related to the production of art
in US culture?
Term
Graffiti, hip-hop music
Definition
Identify examples of art as a form of
resistance
Term
Negative reciprocity
Definition
Imbalanced exchange results in a ____
Term
imitative magic
Definition
In anthropological terms, using voodoo doll to inflict harm on someone is an
example of____
Term
know the person who produces the goods that meet your needs
Definition
In personalized consumption you _____
Term
Transformation-Representation. David is sculpted and framed to the context of the character within the bible.
Definition
In the anthropology of art, what
differentiates David from a rock?
Term
Industrial
Definition
Specialized production and comodification of labor are the defining features of ___ production
Term
magic
Definition
In the past anthropologists proposed that religion developed out of the failure of___ to explain the world or answer the 'big questions'
Term
marginal
Definition
Pastoralism mainly exists today in ______ landscapes
Term
mobility
Definition
The defining feature of pastoralism is ______ for continued access to pasture and water
Term
barter
Definition
Exchange of products that does not involve currency
Term
commodity money
Definition
Currency in the form of valued objects such as shells or gold
Term
fiat money
Definition
Paper currency backed by a nation-state's claim of its value
Term
Mongonga nuts
Definition
For the Ju/'hoansi, or !Kung San of the Kalahari ______ is the major source of dietary calories?
Term
Must be connected and control all steps. No price negotiation
Definition
What are the costs and benefits of vertically integrated factory farming?
Term
myth
Definition
Convey messages about the supernatural through metaphors within the story itself. In addition, defines the metaphor linking life and the world to what is real and what is sacred
Term
No. All cultures don't always separate supernatural to natural sacred things
Definition
Is natural-supernatural distinction a cultural universal?
Term
Satisfying minimum needs or requirements for survival
Definition
Non-market based consumption aims to __________
Term
Offer a single answer and thus social cohesion through shared symbols and rituals
Definition
What are cultural functions of religion?
Term
religious syncretism
Definition
From an analytical anthropological perspective the Virgin of Guadalupe is an example of ______
Term
rites of passage
Definition
Separation, transition, reintegration are three steps typically included in ____.
Term
rituals
Definition
a series of actions that are carried out in essentially the same order and format to achieve something meaningful
Term
sacred space
Definition
Bear Butte South Dakota is an example of _____ to the Sioux
Term
Shaman
Definition
A part-time practitioner of the supernatural who has special powers to mediate between the supernatural world and the community
Term
priest
Definition
A full-time supernatural practitioner who is part of a bureaucracy
Term
prophet
Definition
A person, usually charismatic, who has had direct
communication with a god. Often receives a message that articulates
a plan of action for the group
Term
witches
Definition
Beings having the the power to affect the lives of humans, often in negative ways, but a supernatural being in human form never admits to being a witch even when condemned to death
Term
Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism
Definition
During the New Years festival in Taiwan you see aspects of which faiths?
Term
Generalized reciprocity, Balanced reciprocity, Negative reciprocity
Definition
What are Sahlins' three types of reciprocity?
Term
Negative reciprocity
Definition
An economic exchange aimed at receiving more that is given. --possible because of
haggling/stealing
Term
Balanced reciprocity
Definition
Exchange and gift giving with the expectation of a return of equal value within a
reasonable period of time. --keeps mental records and expects something back and both giver and receiver are on
parr regarding wealthiness
Term
Generalized reciprocity
Definition
Institutionalized gift giving and exchange between close kin; accounts are not kept,
and there is no expectation of immediate return
Term
Floods and water usage. Labor intensive
Definition
What issues were discussed regarding rice agriculture in SE Asia?
Term
Industrial agriculture the most, foraging the least
Definition
Which mode of production allows individuals to
amass the most wealth? The least?
Term
Zimbabwean are more laid back to talent, US is more demanding and strict, and Brazil is more broad = when regarding the Carnival
Definition
Why does Zimbabwean view of dancing differ from the US view of dancing, (Brazilian too)??
Term
The Yurok used serving spoons, obsidian blades, white deerskin, acorn mush paddles to display their social wealth.
The Kuna had "Molas" a form of blouse that also enforced social status. These both signify utilitarian value
Definition
Yurok and Kuna cases from text/lecture
Term
Liminality
Definition
the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the ritual is complete
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