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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
12/12/2008

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What is a city?
Definition
high populaton density
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What are the characteristics of a city?
Definition

Agriculture Innovation
Diversification of Labor

Marked by a Central Government

SIgnificant Social Stratification

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Where and when did cities emerge?
Definition
6000 to 4000 years ago in Neolithic villages
Term
Theories about how cities emerged?
Definition

Hydraulic theory

Trade

Action Theory

Social Circumspection

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What is marraige?
Definition
culturally sanctioned union between 2 or more people
Term
What does a marriage do?
Definition
establishes obligations and rights (sex, labor, property, child rearing, status)
Term
What are the types of marriage?
Definition

Monogamy- 1 spouse

Polygamy- Multiple spouses

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What is culture?
Definition
Culture is created by all that is learned, shared, symbols, integrated, and dynamic.
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How is culture learned?
Definition
It is learned rather than biologoically inherited; enculturation
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How is culture shared?
Definition
a set of ideas, values, perceptions, and standards of behavior
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How does a culture have symbols?
Definition
sounds, gestures, and other things that are abritrarily linked to something else
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How is culture intergrated?
Definition
by examinging its connections to related cultural features
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How is a culture dynamic?
Definition
It is ever changing
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What is language?
Definition

A way of communication through sound, but not always, organized by a set of rules.

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What is sociolingustics?
Definition
the study of language while examining its impact on a culture and society.
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What is ethnolinguistics?
Definition
A branch of linguistics that studies relationship
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