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30 Cards in this Set
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Kinship Diagrams
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Show unilateral or bilateral relationships in respect to both a matrilineal or patrilineal aspect
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Gini coefficient
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shows the income dispersion of a nation. 0 being even and 1 being totally uneven.
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Countries with most uneven distribution of wealth.
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Namibia
South Africa Botswana Brazil Panama |
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Street Youth subculture
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Street youth often found a common identity within themselves that revolved around the rejecting of the post industrial world.
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Bilateral Descent
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A kinship descent giving equal weight to both the mother and father's side of the ancestry line.
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India Caste structure
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A form of social stratification that limits and individual to a certain group based on class and other socioeconomic limiting factors like income and descent.
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Fictive Kinship
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Assigning kinship such as a brother or sister relationship to someone you aren't actually related to. This is a reaction among many street kids to see fictive kinship as a sort of way to make up for the lack of relationships at home.
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Exogamy
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also known as outbreeding, it is the breeding between individuals who are not genetically similar as to avoid breeding with those who are too similar and to cause genetic defects.
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Matrilineal Kinship structure
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Patrilineal kinship structure
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Trobrian Islanders Kinship
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matrilineal. Yams are used a gifts for the women getting married and they are grown by the woman's father and brother.
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Rural Chinese Kinship
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Patrilineal Descent. Women is expected to marry into a man's family and man is responsible for his aging parents.
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Patriarchy
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A society in which men hold power.
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Matriarchy
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A society in which women hold power
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Mosuo
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A matriarchal and matrilineal society of around 40,000 in Rural china. Known as the Kingdom of women
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Walking Marriage
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The Mosuo don't get married. They just agree to be together. The man is always responsible for his family and the women her own. The man doesn't intervene in the woman's family. She cares for the children.
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Ju/hoansi kinship
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Bilateral
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Dala
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The Trobrian islander matrilineage viewpoint. Where a long time ago, a brother and sister rose fromt the ground to begin a new Dala, a new ancestry.
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Exogamy for matrilineage and patrilineage.
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Marrying outside your own group
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Reciprocity
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reciprocity is a way of defining people's informal exchange of goods and labour; that is, people's informal economic systems.
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Trobrian Wealth exchange
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All about Yams.
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Ethics in Anthropology
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The anthropologist must do no harm to the individual being studied.
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Value of virginity of a bride
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in Ju Hoansi virginity isn't an issue.
In Trobrianders virginity is seen as the "virgin birth" dala concept. In Rural Chinese, it is necessary for the women to be a virgin upon marriage. |
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Feminist Theory in anthropology
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tring to remove the more male centric approach to anthro viewpoints. Eg// women view differences in gender by different criteria.
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Egocentrism
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the tendency to perceive, understand and interpret the world in terms of the self.
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Sociocentric viewpoints
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Orientated towards one's own social group. Regarding one's own social group as superior to others.
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Kula ring
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a ceremonial exchange system conducted in Papa new guinea in which 18 groups including Trobrianders exchange goods that are circled north.
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Potlatch - Tsimshian
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A ceremonial gift giving performed by the people of the northwest coast.
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Marx on class
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Class struggle is the foundation of society and as societies advances, class struggle evolve and grows more complicated.
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Samuel George Morton - Ideology of racism
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Created and justified the scientific racism that prolonged african slavery in america.
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