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| An economy based on farming innpermanent fieds with heavy investment of labor, water, storage facilities, and other resources, and usually including domesticated food and fiber crops and draft animals. |
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| The more or less even exchange of goods and services in the nonmarket transaction of reciprocity |
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| In societies without states or other formal organization, a loosely structured and semistable group of fifteen to sixty people, usually members of related nuclear family households, who reside together and travel together. |
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| The process of assigning a market price to an increasing amount of the goods and services that a people once exchanged outside the market by gifts, barter, and ceremonies. |
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| The degree of specialization among individuals in the performance of economic tasks. |
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| Wealth transferred from the bride's family to the groom's family at the time of marriage. |
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| The study of the wat economic ideas and practices are linked to the rest of a culture. |
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| The shared ideas and practices involved in the production, distribution, and consumption of needed goods and services in a society. |
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| The degree to which a human activity is simultaneously part of more than on cultural institution, such as kinship, politics, religion, or economics. |
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| Extended family household |
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| A household of at least two married couples mliving together and connected by kinship. |
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| An economy based upon gathering undomesticated plants and hunting undomesticated animals; sometimes colled "hunting and gatherin" |
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| A charitable gift of goods and services or one that does not expect a return directly linked to it. |
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| The recognized leader of a band; from a cross-cultural comparative perspective, the least powerful type of a political leader. |
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| Cultural anthropology's treatment of ideas and behaviors as interrelated elements of larger cultural systems, such as a culture, or even a community of interacting cultures. |
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| An economy based on hand-cultivation of crops and domesticated plants; may include some domesticated animals and some foraging. |
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| A group of persons whi maintain a domicile, being the place where they cook and sleep. |
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| A method of distributing goods and services in which some arbitrary medium of exchange--such as copper bars, or bolts of cloth, or "money"--defines the value of a good or service and facilitates its exchange for other things. |
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| The practice of marrying one spouse at a time. |
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| The cheat or shrewd deal, in which one party to the exchange benefits at the other party's expense. |
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| A household of only one married couple, with or without their children, and typically no other kin persons. |
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| Acquiring goods and services in quantities and at rates that natural resources are depleted and waste disposal becomes difficult. |
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| The study of the way economic behavior and power relationships influence each other. |
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| Post-marital residue rule |
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| The cultural stipulation concerning which kin persons a newly wedded couple should live with. |
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| Distributing goods and services as gifts or trade rather than in a market exchange. |
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| The pooling of wealth in a focal figure, such as a chief or tax authority, who then disperses the wealth, usually back to the donors. |
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| The process of simplifying a problem to account for only those factors or variables that can be observed or controlled. |
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| The level of analysis selected to investigate a society's or culture's organization. |
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| The degree of specialization of men annd women in the performance of economic tasks. |
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| A web of feedback interactions among parts in a system. |
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| Referring to the tools and procedures for producing, distributing, and consuming that which the culture defines as its goods and services. |
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