Anthropology; Midterm 2

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Bridewealth

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a customary gift before or after marriage from the husband and his kin to the wife and her kin

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Marriage

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a relationship between groups

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Progeny Price

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Children born to wife are full members of her husband's descent group

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Unilineal Descent

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The Descent rule uses one line only, either male/female line

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Patriarchy

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A political system ruled by men in which women have inferior social and political status

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intersex

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encompasses a group of conditions involving discrepancy between the external genitals & internal genitals

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Lineage

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A group of people who can demonstrate descent through sex

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Dowry

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A marital exchange in which the bride's family or kin group provides substantial gifts when their daughter marries

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Bilateral Descent

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Trace descent through both man and woman

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Reciprocity

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-The exchange of goods and services, in which it appears as if people give according to ability and take according to need

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Capital

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When you have money and you use it to make more money.
ex. investing

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Sexual Orientation

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A person's habitual sexual attraction to and sexual activities with; persons of opposite sex, same sex or both sexes

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Putting-Out Supplies

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Someone supplies the material and the other would make it

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Clan

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people who claim descent through men or women (but not both) from a common ancestor

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Endogamy

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Rules to marry in group
ex. race, sex, nationality, religion

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Mode of production

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a combination of relations of productions and means of productions

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Purpose of production

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for use or exchange

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Bhil

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A kinship centered world, everything they do based on kin

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Extroverted Development

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Development heavily influenced by the outside, not inside
ex. Mexico produces what we want b/c we are biggest buyers

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Enclosure Movement

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took the land from people, so people had to work in factories to get wages

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Economy

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System of production, distribution, and consumption of resources

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Market Economy

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All goods and services are brought and sold on a price market

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Development

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-Fuel Energy Utilization
-Per Capital Income

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Gender Stratification

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Describes an unequal distribution of awards between men and women

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Kinship

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The complex system of culturally defined social relationships, based on marriage/birth

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Redistribution

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Goods and services go to the center, and the center distributes

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Market Exchange

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Where goods and services are bought and sold on a price market with price being determined by the law of supply and demand

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Family

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a kin group that consists of at least 1 married couple, sharing the same residence with their children and performing sexual reproductive economic and socialization production

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Matrilineal Descent

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Trace descent from women

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Patrilineal Descent

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Trace descent through men

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Polygyny

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Man has more than one wife

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Double Descent

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Trace descent through both, but for different purposes

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Polyandry

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woman has more than one husband

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Patriclan

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Claim descent through men

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Matriclan

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Claim descent through women

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Wealth

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To have money but not spend it

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Exogamy

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rules to marry out of group

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Incest

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-sexual contact with a relative
-can not have sex within group

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Gender Roles

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The tasks and activities a culture assigns to the sexes

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Sustainable Development

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Taking care of the resources of the land for future generations

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Gender Stereotypes

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Strongly held idea about the characteristics of males and females

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Sexual Dimorphism

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Differences in male and female biology besides the contrasts in breasts and genitals.

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Nuclear Family

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Sex, Education, Reproduction, Economic
-less than 1/4th of U.S. households account for
-was considered universal

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Kindreds

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ego centered, rather than ancestor center