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Political economy

A _______________ can be described as a society where their political relationships are intertwined with economic relations.

All Band and Village Societies

____________ and _____________ are the kinds of societies where leaders have authority and no power.

Dictatorships (Nazi Germany)

_________________ is the kind of societies where leaders have power and no authority.

Magical Religon

_____________________ is the mechanisms of thought control in ancient states.

Media and state sponsored education systems

_______________ and _______________ are the mechanisms of thought control in modern states.

feel powerless

State societies produce monumental architecture to make individual ________________.

Political Power

The ability to force others to behave in a certain way is called _____________.

Authority

____________ is the recognition by others of a leader's right or obligation to influence them (follow them)

State level socieites

Centralized government that defined territories, bureaucracy, standing armies, organized priesthood is called ________________.

Central America, Mesopotamia, India, China, and Egypt.

State level societies first developed in ___________, ____________, ___________, ___________, and ___________.

Circumscribed Environments

Area of high productivity surrounded by area of low productivity and also is a concentration of a population in a restricted habitat is called ________________.

Electronic Opiates

TV, radio, internet, movies, organized sports used to distract and amuse citizenry are called _______________.

"Bread and Circuses"

_______________ was when Roman empires gave free bread to get people to go to gladiator matches and keep them off the streets

Polygyny

______________ is when a man has two or more wife's

Wodabi of Nigeria

An example of polygyny is the _________________.

Polyandry

_____________ is when one women has two or more relations with men.

Nimba of Nepal - Tibetan People

An example of polyandry is the _______________.

Monogamy

_______________ is when there is one man and one women together.

Serial monogamy

The practice of engaging in a succession of monogamous relationships is called ______________.

Kinship Terminology Systems

_________________________ state every society has a formal way of labeling relatives.

Eskimo Terminology

___________________ is when the nuclear of family is distinguished from other categories and they move in order to get what they need to survive. Examples include the United States and in Eskimo cultures.

Patrilineal Descendants

____________________ requires ego to follow the ascending and descending genealogy links through males only. This does not mean descent-related individuals are only males; in each generation, ego has relatives of both genders.

Matrilineal Descendants

___________________ requires ego to follow the ascending and descending links through only females. Can be related to males.

Partilocality

When the couple residues with the husbands father, this is called ________________.

Matrilocality

When the couple residues with the wife's mother, this is called _______________.

Individualistic Pattern

________________________ is the most basic form of religion.

Individualistic Patterns

In _______________________, each person enters into a relationship with animistic being when in need of control or protection

Individualistic and Shamanistic Patterns

__________________ and _____________ occur in egalitarian band and village societies.

Individualistic Patterns

Examples of _____________________ include Inuit hunters and the Crow Vision Quest.

Shamanistic Patterns, Shamans

In ___________________, ___________ work in direct communication with the supernatural as diviners, curers, spiritual mediums, and magicians; they also serve people in need in exchange for gifts, prestige, or power.

Shamanistic Patterns

Examples of ____________________ include areas of Siberia, !Kung, J'varo, and Tapirape.

Individualistic Patterns

_____________ have no role specialists

Shamanistic Patterns

_____________ have part time specialists

Communal Patterns

In __________________, groups of nonspecialists perform rites for community, deemed vital to well-being of individuals and society.

Communal Patterns

____________ occur in lineage-based societies.

Communal Patterns

Ancestor cults, rites of solidarity; rites of passage of Ndemba are examples of ________________.

Eccelesiastical Patterns

In ___________________, full-time professional clergy who work as intermediaries between society and supernatural in hierarchical organizations under control of centralized church.

Eccelesiastical Patterns

________________ occur in state societies.

Eccelesiastical Patterns

Inca and Aztecs as well as Egyptians, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam are all examples of ___________________.

Religion

_____________ can be describes as beliefs and actions that are based on the assumption that the world is under control of supernatural forces that humans must please.

Religion

_________________ is considered to be a cultural universal.

Religion and Political Economy

Societies where they have classes and social economic inequalities have gods that punish them if they are bad and reward if they are have ___________ and _____________.

Nativistic, revivalistic, millenarian, or messianic

____________, _____________, ____________, and ___________ are considered to be revitalization movements.

Ghost Dance

______________ was a Native American belief that placed dancers in contact with the spirit world and would reunite them with dead ancestors and overpower the whites. The US military crushed it with extreme violence and brutality. This is also a revitalization movement.

Revitilization

When new religion comes into place and they occur during times of change in which religious leader emerge to bring forth positive energy is called ________________.

Reward and Punish

All societies that have classes and social economic inequalities like United States and Egypt have gods that _________ and ________.

Witchcraft

_______________ does not exists, but belief in it does.

social control

Witchcraft function was to have ____________ over people and prevent them from being bad.

When witches were tortured, it lead to them naming accomplices to escape pain.

Why did witchcraft accusations lead to exponential cases of accusations?

Wicca

______________ argues that witchcraft is a goddess religion, and beliefs nature is a goddess. This is also a new religion that was invented in the 20th century.

Shamans

_______________ are men and women who can contact the spirit world and can control supernatural forces.

Datura

_______________ was the hallucinogen used in European witchcraft that helped generate ideas that witches flew, that they had Sabbaths, and has sex with the devil.

Flying, sex with the devil, having Sabbaths, and hurting people with malice

__________, __________, _________, and __________ were the crimes European witches were accused of.

Contagious Magic

____________ is when two things come into contact and then influence each other after contact is made. Results in a permanent relationship between the two.

Imitative Magic

_________________ is based on the belief that similar actions on an object will cause similar results on another and an example is voodoo.

Guns for slaves policy

The _______________ gave 400,000 guns to Africa each year which caused instability and increased warfare.

20 to 25 million

______________ people were living in America by the 1700s.

European diseases

_________________ caused the depopulation of the Americas.

90 million

The population of the Americas one the eve of Columbus's arrival was _________ people.

600 million

The total population of the world in 1600 AD was ______________ people.

discovery, colonialism, and religion

There are no "pristine" cultures in the world for at least 500 years because of the age of ___________, _____________, and __________ expansion caused these illness to spread.

Genocide

____________ is the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group.

Ethnocide

_____________ is the deliberate and systematic destruction of the culture of an ethnic group

Rum triangle

The trade system that involved slaves, sugar, and rum was called the ______________.

Ethnocentrism

Belief that ones own patterns of behavior are always natural good, beautiful, or important and that strangers, to the extent that they live differently, live by savage, inhuman, disgusting or irrational standards is called _______________.

Enculturation

______________ is the process where an individual acquires his/her culture while growing up

Cultural relativism

_____________ stipulates that behavior in a particular culture should not be judged by the standards of another. Yet it is evident that not all human customs or institutions contribute to the societies overall health and well-being, nor should they be regarded as morally or ethically worthy of respect.

Adapatation

_________________ is the adjustment to the environment

Ethnology

The systematic comparison of cultures around the globe in order to answer particular questions and produce useful questions and generalizations about humankind and human behavior is called _____________.

Ethnography

______________ entails the systematic description of particular people/cultures through fieldwork.

Physical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Archaeology, and Cultural Anthropology.

________________, _________________, _______________, and _______________ are the four sub-disciplines of anthropology.

Cultural Universals

________________ are what societies have in common all over the world and they demonstrate our biological affinities to one another or a similarity of characteristics suggesting a relationship between humans.

Biological Determinism

______________ is a fancy word for racism and it is wrong since people can learn any culture, and cultures can change faster than biological changes.

Colonialism

________________ destroyed the cultural patterns of production and exchange by which traditional societies in "underdeveloped" countries previously had met the needs of people.

"Underdevelopment"

______________________ instead of being an adjective became a verb meaning the process by which the minority of the world has transformed.

"Cash Crop"

____________ were implemented into colonized countries in order to get natural resources that were demanded in their parent countries. Force was used in order to implement these.

Fuel their own lives

Changing from subsistence farming to cash cropping takes away the colonized states to ____________.

95%

The India population of the new world decreased by ___________ because of germs they were never before exposed to or built up immunites to.

spread of diseases, technological advances, dense population

The Spaniards were victories over the Indians because of _____________ and the ___________________________ that were available because of their _____________ that was only available through cattle.