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69 Cards in this Set
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Egalitarian
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Prestige based on age and gender
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Foraging Expectations for Men and Women
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Males- hunting and Fishing
Females- Gather and collect |
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What is a "Band"?
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A group of people that amounts to less than 100 who are related by blood or marriage
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Name 5 adaptive strategies
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Horticulture, Forgaging, Pastoral-ism, Industrialism and Agriculture
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Horticulture
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Using simple tools.
eg. Hoes and Digging Stick |
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Terracing
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Oman
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Transhumance
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Part of the village moves with the herd and the majority stay with the village.
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Pastoralists mostly live where?
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Live mainly in the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Sub Saharan Africa
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Factors of Production
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Land, Labour and technology
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Small Scale agriculturalists
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Peasants
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Reciprocity
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Social equals are exchanged, such as within marriage or a personal tie.
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Three degrees of reciprocity
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Generalized, balanced and negative
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Generalized reciprocity
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Giving a gift, however not expecting one in return. Sheldon - TBBT
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Negative Reciprocity
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Deals with giving gifts to acquaintances
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Ecological Anthropology
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Potlach and Cultural Practices
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The San
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Bushmen
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Chiefdom
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both State and Tribe
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Socio-Political Structure consists of 3 things
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Bands, Chiefdoms and States
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Ascribed Status
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Forced Status
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Pantribal Solidarities
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When tribes come together, usually in war
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Archaic States
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Early States
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Wealth is a form of...
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Economic Status
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Power is a form of...
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Political Status
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Prestige is a form of...
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Social Status
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The Fiscal System supports...
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rulers, the nobility and other specialists.
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Nuclear Family
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Immediate family. Parents and Children
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Neo- Cality
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finding a home of your own
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Caste
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Religion
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Sexual Dimorphism
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The anatomic difference between males and females
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Gender roles
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Stereotypes of what women and men should do in a society
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Patriarchy
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Men Rule
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Matriarchy
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Females Rule
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Animism
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The earliest form of religion- focuses on spiritual beings
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Polytheism
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Belief in multiple gods
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Monotheism
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Belief in one god, all powerful
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Melanesians
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Believe in Mana. Sacred impersonal force which exists in the universe.
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Liturgical Orders
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Words and Actions
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Liminality
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(Limitless) Living in a time which is out of time
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Totems
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Animal, Plants, Geographical Features
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Shamans
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Religious Officials
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Capital
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Wealth
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World System Theory
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Wealth and Power in different countries
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Core Countries
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Most power. (Big Three)
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Post Colonialism
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Study of interactions between European Nations and societies that have been colonized.
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Intervention Philosophy
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"Guides" Native Americans in specific directions
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Ethnicity
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Identification with a feeling part of something
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Nationality
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Ethnic groups that wish to stay like their own country
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Prejudice
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Devaluating
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Cultural Colonialism
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Internal domination by one group and its culture/ideology governing over someone else.
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Genocide
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the deliberate elimination of a group
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Ethnocide
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Forced assimilation
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Refugees
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People which flee a country
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applied anthropology
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Perspectives, theory and methods to understand human nature
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Ethnographers
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Participant Observers
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Malinowski focused on which branch of anthropology?
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Practical anthropology
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Development Anthropology
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Economic Development
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Increased Equity
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Less poverty and more spread out wealth
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Over Innovation
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Too much change
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Under-differentiation
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Less developed countries which are passed off as more alike than they actually are.
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Anthropology and Education
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Classrooms and homes
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Urban Anthropology
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Basic research applied in dimensions
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Medical Anthropology
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Academic/theoretical, Applied/Practical. Used by all four sub-fields
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Greenhouse Effect
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Keeps the Earths surface warm
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Ecological Anthropology
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How Cultural beliefs play into human adaptation to environments
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Ethnoecology
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Societies, Environmental practice and perceptions
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Westerinization
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Influence of the Western world
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Cultural Imperialism
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Culture that has spread out
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Indigenized
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Modified to fit the local culture
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Essentialism
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Viewing a society as established, real or frozen
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