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Agricultural Revo
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 3
02/11/2008

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Horticulture
Definition
"1. Domesticated crops, garderns, and used hand tools. 2. Division of labor (men farm) 3. Proper relations in horticultre (slash and burn)"
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Pastorialism
Definition
1. domesticated animals 2. Trade w/ other groups
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Intensice Agriculture
Definition
1. The intensification of production 2. Surplus produce and the extraction of surplus goods 3. Private ownership of means of production (vs. means of subsistence) 4. Division of labor social stratisfication and social inequality
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3 basic models of incest taboo
Definition
1. Avoidance of inbreding defects (biological model) 2. Psychological impact of chiildhood intimacy 3. Social alliance model: edogamy vs. exogeny
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incest taboo
Definition
the prohibition of sexual relations btw certains people
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core of incest taboo
Definition
mother-son relations
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levirate marriage
Definition
when a man dies and his brother marries his wife
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ghost marriage
Definition
arranging a marriage for 2 deceased people a living woman marriage to a ghost husband
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woman to woman marriage
Definition
when a woman does not provide her husband with a male heir so she becomes a woman husband and takes a wife. That wife then procreates with a male but the children are considered to be the woman husband's kids. Status is raised for both the woman husband and the new wife. the woman husband is expected to give up sex.
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family
Definition
"2 or more people related by blood, marriage or adoption"
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household
Definition
includes people that live in your house that are not family
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nuclear family
Definition
"close knit (father, mother, kids)"
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extended family
Definition
"closely related multiple couples related by blood, adoption, or marriage"
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functions of family
Definition
"production, reproduction, and socialization "
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conjugality
Definition
husband & wife relationship
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self-awareness
Definition
"the ability to identify oneself as an individual, to reflect on one-self, and to evaluate oneself"
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personality
Definition
"the distinctive way a person thinks, feals, and behaves "
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