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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
05/07/2009

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Cultural Adaption
Definition
Complex of ideas, activites, and technologies that enable a people to survive or even thrive
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Cultural Evolution
Definition
Culture changes over time
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Progress
Definition
the notion that humans are moving forward (becoming more advanced)
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Convergent Evolution
Definition
ALREADY ALIKE cultures devolope similar cultural adaptions
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Parallel Evolution
Definition
DIFFERENT cultures develop similar cultural adaptions
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Culture Area
Definition
geographic region in which a number of societies follow similar patterns of life
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Ethnoscientists
Definition
anthropolgists who focus on identifying the principles behind native idea systems
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Neolithic
Definition
new stone age
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Horticulture
Definition
cultivation of crops carried out with simple hand tools such as digging sticks or hoes
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Agriculture
Definition
cultivation of plants USING TECHNOLOGIES
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Mixed Farming
Definition
growing crops AND breeding animals
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Transhumance
Definition
VERTICAL seasonal movement of livestock between altitudes
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Pastoralism
Definition
Breeding and managing herds of domesticated animals
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Economic System
Definition
organized arrangement for producing, distributing, and consuming goods
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Reciprocity
Definition
exchange of goods and services, of approximately equal value, between 2 parties
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Potlatch
Definition
ceremonial event where a chief gives away stockpiled food
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Market Exchange
Definition
buying and selling of goods and services, with PRICES SET BY RULES OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND
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Informal Economy
Definition
network of producing and circulating marketable commodities, labor, and services that for various reasons escape gov control
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Bride Service
Definition
when the groom works for the bride's family
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Dowry
Definition
payment of a womans inheritance to her husband
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Consanguineal Kin
Definition
blood relatives
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Affinal/Conjugal Kin
Definition
related through marital ties
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Kindred
Definition
immediate family you hang out with all the time
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Endogamy
Definition
marriage w/n a particular group of individuals
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Exogamy
Definition
marriage outside a group of individuals
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Serial Monogamy
Definition
marrying partners in succession
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polygamy
Definition
one person with multiple spouses
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polygyny
Definition
man married to more than one woman
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polyandry
Definition
woman married to lots of men
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Group Marriage
Definition
several men and woman have sexual access to each other
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Parallel cousin
Definition
child of a FATHERS brother or MOTHERS sister
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Cross Cousin
Definition
child of a MOTHERS brother or a FATHERS sister
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Nuclear Family
Definition
smallest family unit, two parents and offspring
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Extended Family
Definition
2 or more closely related nuclear families clusterd into a large domestic group
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Patrilocal Residents
Definition
married couple lives in fathers place. favorable for men with dominant roles
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Matrilocal residence
Definition
married couple lives in mothers place
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Ambilocal Residence
Definition
married couple may choose mother or fathers residence
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Neolocal residence
Definition
married couple lives in a new location
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Kinship
Definition
network of relatives within which individuals possess certain mutual rights and obligations
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Descent group
Definition
any kin-ordered social group with a membership in the direct line of descent from a real or fictional common ancestor
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Unilineal Descent
Definition
establishing group membership solely through male or female line
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Matrilineal Descent
Definition
traced through female line
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patrilineal descent
Definition
traced through male line
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Fission
Definition
original lineage splits into new, smaller lineages
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Lineage
Definition
unilineal kinship group descended from common ancestor who lived 4-6 generations ago
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Clan
Definition
members of several lineages who claim common decent from a remote ancestor
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Totemism
Definition
belief people are related to animals
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Phratries
Definition
large supraclan units
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Double Descent
Definition
when male and female lineages are accepted at the same time
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Bilateral descent
Definition
people trace descent from all ancestors regardless of gener/side of the family
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Moeiety
Definition
when society is divided into 2 major descent groups
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worldview
Definition
body of ideas that members of a cultur share concerning shape and substance of their reality
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Religion
Definition
organized system of ideas about the spiritual sphere or the supernatural along with associated ceremonial practices by which people try to interpret and influence aspects of the universe beyond their control
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Spirituality
Definition
individual/concerned with sacred, distringuished from material matters
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Animism
Definition
nature is animated by distinct persnonalized spirit beings seperable from bodies
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Animatism
Definition
nature is enlivened or energized by an impersonal spiritual power
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Cargo Cult
Definition
spiritual movment in reaction to disruptive contact with western capitalism
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