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| A society with a relativity small population (20-25) that focuses on the foraging of wild animals and plants. They tend to be very mobile. |
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| A society with a small population (30-100) that focuses on small scale farming. Human labor is the primary driving force here. |
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| Societies move from lowest level (Bands) to highest tier (States) due to increasing technologies and systems. |
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| Bands have the oldest political structure of any of the social systems. They are typically foraging societies and everyone is treated equally. The leaders in Bands are elected due to experience and knowledge. |
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Tribes have a larger populations than Bands. They are usually kinship based and elders hold the power in the society.
- Political roles more permanent. |
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| The leader of a village that is usually there just to settle disputes. |
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| A person who has the job of settling disputes among tribes and villages. |
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| A chiefdom is a society with a larger population than a Tribe and has a permanent form of government. The power of this system is usually in the hands of one person. |
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| A state has complex, concentrated populations that are supported by agriculture and industry. There is a high degree of class inequality and borders exist. |
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| A persons free will. Can be limited by social structures in society. |
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| These people flourished for centuries from 600-1150. Built largest buildings in pre-Colombian N. America. |
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Intensive Agriculture is the primary substance strategy of state and global scale societies.
- Emerged 5000 years ago.
- Made permanent settlements feasible. |
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| Sex is a biological categorization based on genetics. |
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| Gender is meanings that a society assigns someone. |
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Differences between males and females besides the primary and secondary sexual features.
- Height
- Weight
- Strenght |
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| A society where the differences between men and woman are very vast. The men are very lazy and the women take most of the responsibility. |
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| Studied sexual differences around the world. She concluded that differences in genders are socially defined. |
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| Gender Stratification reflects the unequal distribution of rewards and benefits in a society. |
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| A society where females tend to stick together after marriage, the men typically leave. |
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| A society where all of the males stick together. The men typically do all of the hard work and physical violence tends to exist. |
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| Culture has always been changing but now it changes a lot faster. Cultures change to adapt and globalism causes change. |
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| Globalism is the transition of cultures to large scale social and economic systems. |
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The three waves of globalism were;
1) Age of the mongols/Romans
2) Age of Imperialism
3) Now |
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| The third wave started around 1970 and is characterized by the removal of free trade barriers and the rapid flow of ideas and people. |
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| The field of anthropology that specializes in studying cultural relationships with health and medicine. |
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| Sub field of medical anthropology that deals with traditional medicines. |
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The measurable feature of any ethonomedical system.
- Biomedicne is often criticized as being impersonal. |
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| A particular perspective in medical anthropology. |
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| Critical Medical Anthropology |
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| How certain people health is reflected in social inequality. (Blacks) |
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| An observation from with in the particular culture. |
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| An observation from an outside, attempts to be culturally neutral. |
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| A branch of agriculture focused on raising livestock. |
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