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3rd Exam
3rd Exam
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
12/02/2013

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Animal Husbandry
Definition
Pastoralism, the breeding, care, and use of herd animals.
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Nomadic pastoralism
Definition
Moving herds from different pastures
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Specialized pastoralism
Definition
The adaptive strategy of primary reliance on animal husbandry
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Sedentary pastoralism
Definition
Animal husbandry that does not involve mobility
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Horizontal migration
Definition
Regular movement over a large area in search of pastures, horizontal
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Transhumance
Definition
Seasonal movement of livstock between upland and lowland pastures
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Segmentary lineage
Definition
Model for understandung tribal organizatio for nomadic cattle-herding
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Cattle Complex
Definition
A socioeconomic system in which cattle represent socail, not economic, wealth
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Economic stratification
Definition
The creation of increasingly fixed classes of rich and poor
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Intensification
Definition
The elaboration of the use of domesticated crops and animals to produce more food, usable products, and energy for transport and other purposes
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Fallow time
Definition
The time that must allowed between crops for soil to rest and regenerate
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Peasents
Definition
Poor farmers that lack control over their land
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Corvee
Definition
Unpaid labor in liue of taxes, usally in road construction and maitenance
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Sharecropping
Definition
Working land owned by others in exchange for a share of the yield
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Domestic cycle
Definition
How a household is formed and organized and how they develope.
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Patrilocal residence
Definition
Daughters move away to husbands family and live with his parents
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Extended family household
Definition
More then one married couples and two generations of children
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Stem family
Definition
This mouther/father/youngest son unit
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Structural Adjustment
Definition
A somewhat obscure way to describe the extension of the free market and privization of th eproductive infrastructure
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Age sets/Age grade
Definition
Used to organize labor and structure politics
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Mechanization
Definition
The replacement of humans and animal labor with mechanical devices
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Green Revolution
Definition
After WWII new ways to grow crops began to be explored for faster growing and more yielding crops
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Genetically Modified crops
Definition
(GM) Modified to fit the needs of a growing population, faster growing and more food.
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Blue Revolution
Definition
Aquaculture, fish farming
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Demographic Transition
Definition
The changes that are occurring in human populations around the world, rapid increase of populatio
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Administrative system or Commune
Definition
Land owned and managed by the state
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Specialization
Definition
The increasingly limited range of productive activities in which a single individual is likely to engage
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Differentiation
Definition
Organization in separate units for various activities and purposes.
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Centralization
Definition
The concentration of political and economic decisions in the hands of a few individuals or institutions.
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Stratification
Definition
The division of a society into groups that have varying degrees of access to resources and power.
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Nucleation
Definition
The tendency of populations to cluster in settlements of increasing size and density
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Industrialism
Definition
The technological and social transformation
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Dependency Theory
Definition
A competing interpretation of underdevlopment and poverty
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Cyberculture
Definition
computer culture
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