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79 Cards in this Set
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Political economy
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A _______________ can be described as a society where their political relationships are intertwined with economic relations. |
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All Band and Village Societies |
____________ and _____________ are the kinds of societies where leaders have authority and no power. |
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Dictatorships (Nazi Germany) |
_________________ is the kind of societies where leaders have power and no authority. |
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Magical Religon |
_____________________ is the mechanisms of thought control in ancient states. |
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Media and state sponsored education systems |
_______________ and _______________ are the mechanisms of thought control in modern states. |
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feel powerless |
State societies produce monumental architecture to make individual ________________. |
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Political Power |
The ability to force others to behave in a certain way is called _____________. |
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Authority |
____________ is the recognition by others of a leader's right or obligation to influence them (follow them) |
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State level socieites |
Centralized government that defined territories, bureaucracy, standing armies, organized priesthood is called ________________. |
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Central America, Mesopotamia, India, China, and Egypt. |
State level societies first developed in ___________, ____________, ___________, ___________, and ___________. |
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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 ________________. |
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Electronic Opiates |
TV, radio, internet, movies, organized sports used to distract and amuse citizenry are called _______________. |
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"Bread and Circuses" |
_______________ was when Roman empires gave free bread to get people to go to gladiator matches and keep them off the streets |
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Polygyny |
______________ is when a man has two or more wife's |
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Wodabi of Nigeria |
An example of polygyny is the _________________. |
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Polyandry |
_____________ is when one women has two or more relations with men. |
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Nimba of Nepal - Tibetan People |
An example of polyandry is the _______________. |
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Monogamy |
_______________ is when there is one man and one women together. |
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Serial monogamy |
The practice of engaging in a succession of monogamous relationships is called ______________. |
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Kinship Terminology Systems |
_________________________ state every society has a formal way of labeling relatives. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Matrilineal Descendants |
___________________ requires ego to follow the ascending and descending links through only females. Can be related to males. |
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Partilocality |
When the couple residues with the husbands father, this is called ________________. |
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Matrilocality |
When the couple residues with the wife's mother, this is called _______________. |
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Individualistic Pattern |
________________________ is the most basic form of religion. |
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Individualistic Patterns
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In _______________________, each person enters into a relationship with animistic being when in need of control or protection |
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Individualistic and Shamanistic Patterns
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__________________ and _____________ occur in egalitarian band and village societies. |
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Individualistic Patterns |
Examples of _____________________ include Inuit hunters and the Crow Vision Quest. |
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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. |
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Shamanistic Patterns
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Examples of ____________________ include areas of Siberia, !Kung, J'varo, and Tapirape. |
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Individualistic Patterns |
_____________ have no role specialists |
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Shamanistic Patterns |
_____________ have part time specialists |
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Communal Patterns |
In __________________, groups of nonspecialists perform rites for community, deemed vital to well-being of individuals and society. |
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Communal Patterns |
____________ occur in lineage-based societies. |
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Communal Patterns |
Ancestor cults, rites of solidarity; rites of passage of Ndemba are examples of ________________. |
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Eccelesiastical Patterns |
In ___________________, full-time professional clergy who work as intermediaries between society and supernatural in hierarchical organizations under control of centralized church. |
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Eccelesiastical Patterns |
________________ occur in state societies. |
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Eccelesiastical Patterns |
Inca and Aztecs as well as Egyptians, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam are all examples of ___________________. |
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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. |
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Religion |
_________________ is considered to be a cultural universal. |
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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 _____________. |
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Nativistic, revivalistic, millenarian, or messianic |
____________, _____________, ____________, and ___________ are considered to be revitalization movements. |
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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. |
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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 ________________. |
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Reward and Punish |
All societies that have classes and social economic inequalities like United States and Egypt have gods that _________ and ________. |
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Witchcraft |
_______________ does not exists, but belief in it does. |
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social control |
Witchcraft function was to have ____________ over people and prevent them from being bad. |
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When witches were tortured, it lead to them naming accomplices to escape pain. |
Why did witchcraft accusations lead to exponential cases of accusations? |
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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. |
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Shamans |
_______________ are men and women who can contact the spirit world and can control supernatural forces. |
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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. |
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Flying, sex with the devil, having Sabbaths, and hurting people with malice |
__________, __________, _________, and __________ were the crimes European witches were accused of. |
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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. |
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Imitative Magic |
_________________ is based on the belief that similar actions on an object will cause similar results on another and an example is voodoo. |
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Guns for slaves policy |
The _______________ gave 400,000 guns to Africa each year which caused instability and increased warfare. |
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20 to 25 million |
______________ people were living in America by the 1700s. |
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European diseases |
_________________ caused the depopulation of the Americas. |
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90 million |
The population of the Americas one the eve of Columbus's arrival was _________ people. |
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600 million |
The total population of the world in 1600 AD was ______________ people. |
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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.
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Genocide |
____________ is the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group. |
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Ethnocide |
_____________ is the deliberate and systematic destruction of the culture of an ethnic group |
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Rum triangle |
The trade system that involved slaves, sugar, and rum was called the ______________. |
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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 _______________. |
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Enculturation |
______________ is the process where an individual acquires his/her culture while growing up |
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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. |
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Adapatation |
_________________ is the adjustment to the environment |
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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 _____________. |
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Ethnography |
______________ entails the systematic description of particular people/cultures through fieldwork. |
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Physical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Archaeology, and Cultural Anthropology. |
________________, _________________, _______________, and _______________ are the four sub-disciplines of anthropology. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Colonialism |
________________ destroyed the cultural patterns of production and exchange by which traditional societies in "underdeveloped" countries previously had met the needs of people. |
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"Underdevelopment" |
______________________ instead of being an adjective became a verb meaning the process by which the minority of the world has transformed. |
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"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. |
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Fuel their own lives |
Changing from subsistence farming to cash cropping takes away the colonized states to ____________. |
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95% |
The India population of the new world decreased by ___________ because of germs they were never before exposed to or built up immunites to. |
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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. |