Anthro 2A Midterm 2

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Band

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Different localized units

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Tribes

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Operates without central authority

DO NOT HAVE CHIEFS

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Chiefdom

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Chief: central point of authority

Kinship structures still important

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State

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Localized units that are pulled together in a single cohesive operating group with central authority

Operates based on territory not who you're related to

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Coercive apparatus

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Standing army, police, court systems, prisons

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4th World Peoples

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People who have had some sort of autonomy and have been forcibly pulled into a state

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Stratification

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Dividing societies of people into ranked groups of people

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Strata

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Caste system (India)

Class (US)

Race (South Africa Apartheid)

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Egalitarianism

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People are of been footing, equal rank and status

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Status

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A position occupied by an individual in a social structure

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Achieved status

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earned, done something to achieve the status, by virtue of ones qualities/attributes

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Ascribed status

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Inherited status, move into the position

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Role

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Particular behaviors, obligations associated with specific status

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Status set/Role Set

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Collection of status and roles held simultaneously

May have role conflicts

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Authority

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Relationship between a person and other such that the person has a legit right to tell the others what to do

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Headman

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Achieved status, not ascribed

By virtue of ones qualities

No authority

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Bigman

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RUN some sort of institution that brokers relationships between different political units/groups

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Chief

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Ascribed status

Authority of office

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Ethnogrpahy

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Go live with population of interest and fully immerse into their society and culture for some time

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Holism

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The importance of context; must be considered in the whole of their context

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Mens wealth

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yams, stone axe blades, pigs, clay pots

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Women wealth

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Skirts, banana leaf bundles

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Sex

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biological differences between males and females

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Gender

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Cultural meanings put upon perceived biological differences

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Binary opposition

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Opposites; male and female, one is what the other is not

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Domestic domain

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Household

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Public domain

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Reactions between/beyond households

Marketplace, townhall

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Baloma

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Spiritual ancestor

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Waiwaia

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Spirit child, brought by the abloom and put into a living empty women to impregnate her

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Socery

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Attack on lineage

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Owners

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Members of the deceased lineage

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Workers

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All other who do the work of mourning

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Kinship

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Central component of social organization

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Who are ones kin?

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Special people to be sorted out from other people you know

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Kin terms

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List of words that have psychological reality to native, help organize how native thinks in that way

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Biological kin types

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Actual genealogical relationships

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Nuclear family

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Mother and father and unmarried family

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Extended Family

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With members outside the nuclear family

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Bilateral descent

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doesn't trace equally through males or females

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Unilineal descent

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Trace exclusively through males or by females

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Patrilineal

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Traced only through males (belong to group of the fathers)

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Matrilineal

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Traced only through females (Belong to group of mothers)

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Lineage

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Group of people who can trace descent in a unilinear manner from a common ancestor

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Clans

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Groups of unilinearly related lineages, group of people who believe themselves to be related in a unilinear manner from a common ancestor

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Bilateral kinship

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Are not groups in psychosocial regards

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Corporate functions

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Collectively controlling resources as a group

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Affines

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Relatives by marriage

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incest taboo

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A cultural phenomenon, divides the social work into two meaningful groups

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Exogamy

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Marrying outside ones own group

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Endogamy

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Marrying inside own social group of category

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Monogamy

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Marrying one spouse

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Polygamy

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Marry multiple spouses at the same time

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Polygyny

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Multiple wives

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Polyandry

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Multiple husbands

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Land tenure

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inheritance of land, eventually land will be exponentially divided until there is none left

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Primogenture

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Only eldest son inherits

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Patrilocal Residence

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Husband and wife move to the husbands community, maybe even same complex as his parents

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Matrilocal residence

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Husband and wife move to the wife community, maybe same complex as her parents

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Neolocal residence

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Husband and wife move to new community

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Bridewealth

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Payment from grooms group to the bride's group

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Dowry

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Transfer of wealth from the brides group to the husbands group

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Goody

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Kind of inheritance for daughters