Anthropology 101 Final Review

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specific for my final. Culture to Globalization.
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What is Ethnography --> Yanomamo film description of a society's customary beliefs, behaviours, & attitudes
What is Ethnohistory studies based on history of a society @ 1 or more points in time
characteristics of Foraging (4) - collecting plants/animals - marginalized areas - nomadic/semi-nomadic - modern foragers have some dependence on food production/producers
Pastoralism (2 types + 1) - 2 types: -transhumant (short alt distance) - nomadic - usually don't eat their animals (trade w cultivators)
characteristics of Horticulture (4) - grow crops with simple hand tools - extensive or shifting (slash and burn) - hunting/fish - fairly large densely populated communities (semi-sedentary)
characteristics of Agriculture (3) - permanent fields - need to fertilize - uses one or more intensive tech (irrigation, terracing, draft animals, machines)
characteristics of Agricultural Societies (3 + 2 Risks) - large populations in cities/towns - craft specialization & complex political org. - large diff in wealth RISKS: ~ more likely to have famines or food shortages ~ produce for market: monocropping, high yield
Types of Distribution of Goods & Services (3) - Reciprocity - Redistribution - Market Exchange
Features of RECIPROCITY (3) - Generalized: exchanges between closely related people (parental groups) - no obligation to reciprocate - payoffs: survival of kin group/care in old age
Features of BALANCED RECIPROCITY (2) - usually w greater social distance (trading partners) - social relations may be strained if no reciprocity (eg: sharing, Kula ring, barter)
Features of NEGATIVE RECIPROCITY (1 + example) - social distance is the greatest and recip is most calculated eg: horse raiding on Plains, salmon raiding on Fraser River
Features of REDISTRIBUTION (1 w 3) - accumulation of goods for redistribution : >important in agri. or poli. hierarchies > usually tribute payment > ares may not have equal potential (- Potlatch with chiefs.)
Features on MARKET EXCHANGE (2) - prices subject to SUPPLY & DEMAND - common in societies that are economically productive
Economics of Marriage (WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO, GOT TO DO W IT) - bride price/wealth - dowry - bride service - gift exchange -exchange of females
what is EXOGAMY? - marrying outside own kinship group/community
what is ENDOGAMY? - marrying within a group
what is LEVIRATE? when the widow marries the dead husband's brother
what is SORORATE? when the husband fricks the wife's sister if she dies or is infertile
WHAT HAPPENS IF U PROCREATE W UR COUSIN INCEST! (ew)
what are PARALLEL COUSINS? (patrilineal system) children of father's brother
what are CROSS-COUSINS? (patrilineal) children of father's sister
what is POLYGYNY + reasons(3) + example - 1 husband, hella wives - household productivity, prestige, social position - Kanuri of Bornu, Nigeria
what is POLYANDRY + reasons (2) + example - 1 wife, hella husbands - less women + agri. base Paharis in W Himalayas
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE EXAMPLE Nuer of Sudan - survival of patrilineage - woman can marry woman if father only has daughters
Basic social units ("families") (2) - nuclear family - band (eg: Shoshone)
characteristics of AMBILINEAL DESCENT? (3) - includes *all* children - live w wife's or husband's group - foraging bands
what is AVUNOLOCALITY? husbands & wives expected to live with husband's mom's brother
4 systems of Kinship Terminology - LINEAL - BIFURCATE MERGING - GENERATIONAL - BIFURCATE COLLATERAL
LINEAL KINSHIP TREE - societies like US & Canada where nuclear family is important Uncle - Aunt - Mother = Father - Uncle - Aunt ~~ doesn't distinguish paternal sides
BIFURCATE MERGING TREE -iroquois/crow/omahou -splits mother/father, merges same-sex siblings of each parent Uncle - Mother - Mother = Father - Father - Aunt
GENERATIONAL KINSHIP TREE -Hawaiian system - merges parents & their siblings -only 2 terms father - mother - mother = father - father - mother
BIFURCATE COLLATERAL -Sudanese - seperate terms for each kin type in parental group MB - MS - Mother = Father - FS - FB
Categories of Socio-political Organization (4) -Band (Yanomamo) -Tribe (Yanomamo) - Chiefdom (Polynesia) -States (usually in "advanced" societies)
Kinds of Power (3) -Interpersonal -Organizational -Structural
what is INTERPERSONAL POWER? ability of one individual to impose their will on another
what is ORGANIZATIONAL POWER? individuals or social units limiting actions of others in certain social settings
what is STRUCTURAL POWER? controls allocation of social labour & organizes social settings
ways of Diffusion (4) - Secondary innovation - Migration - Rebellion - Cultural "loss" (assim., acculturation, imperialism)
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