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Anthropology Final Study Guide
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 3
12/05/2012
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What is the social concept of race?
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It is biological; races aren't different
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What is an ethnic group and how is it better used to describe "racial" groups?
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Ethnic groups contain language, foods, ideas; racial groups are more discriminating and less identifiable
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What are the different types of statuses?
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What is assimilation and what are the different types of assimilation?
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What are the different types of subsistence strategies employed by humans?
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What are the different types of subsistence strategies employed by humans?
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What are means and modes of production?
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What are the different types of reciprocity found in societies?
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What are some benefits and disadvantages of the Neolithic?
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What are the different types of political system? How do they differ?
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What is status? How is it obtained?
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What is hegemony?
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What is the difference between gender and sex?
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What are some of types of gender roles?
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How do gender roles differ between foraging, horticultural, agricultural, and industrial societies?
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What is kinship?
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How is kinship socially constructed?
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What are the different type of descent groups?
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What is ego?
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Why is marriage difficult to define?
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What are some of the different types of incest taboos?
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Why does the incest taboo exist?
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What is the difference between endogamy and exogamy?
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What is status shifting?
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What is phenotype fluidity in race?
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What is alienation in industrial societies?
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What are four specialized functions found in state?
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Why is political organization terminology controversial?
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What are the trends in social and political evolution?
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Why do we study kinship?
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How are different families identified?
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What are the different ways descent can be calculated?
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What is the Indian caste system? How does this play into marriage and families?
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What can marriage establish?
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What is royal endogamy?
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What happens in divorce?
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What are rituals and what purpose do they serve?
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What are the different kinds of religion?
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What are antimodernist movements and fundamentalism?
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Where do secular rituals fit in?
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Why is anthropology useful in many different fields?
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Define ethnic group
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Define ethnicity
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Define status
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Define ascribed status
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Define achieved status
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Define class
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Define caste
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Define race
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Define racism
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Define descent
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Define hypodescent
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Define nation
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Define state
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Define nation-state
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Define Nationalities
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Define assimilation
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Define plural societies
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Define multiculturalism
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Define prejudice
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Define stereotypes
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Define discrimination
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Define genocide
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Define ethnocide
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Define refugee
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Define cultural colonialism
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Define adaptive strategy
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Define band
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Define foraging
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Define horticulture
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Define agriculture
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Define tribe
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Define chiefdom
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Define states
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Define pastoralists
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Define pastoral nomadism
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Define transhumance
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Define economy
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Define mode of production
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Define means of production
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Define market principle
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Define redistribution
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Define reciprocity
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Define generalized reciprocity
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Define balanced reciprocity
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Define negative reciprocity
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Define potlatch
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Define law
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Define Big man
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Define pantribal sodality
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Define age grade
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Define age set
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Define superordinate
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Define subordinate
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Define social control
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Define hegemony
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Define gender roles
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Define gender stereotypes
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Define gender stratification
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Define domestic-public dichotomy
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Define matrilineal descent
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Define patrililineal descent
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Define patrilocality
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Define matrilocality
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Define patriarchy
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Define feminization of poverty
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Define cosanguinal
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Define affinal
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Define family of orientation
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Define family of procreation
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Define neolocality
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Define unilineal descent
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Define lineage
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Define clan
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Define ambilineal descent
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Define kinship calculation
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Define ego
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Define bilateral kinship calculation
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Define lineal kinship terminology
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Define lineal relatives
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Define collateral relative
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Define bifurcate merging kinship terminology
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Define generational kinship terminology
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Define bifurcate collateral kinship terminology
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Define exogamy
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Define incest
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Define parallel cousins
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Define cross cousins
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Define endogamy
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Define homogamy
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Define bridewealth
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Define progeny price
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Define dowry
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Define plural marriage
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Define polyandry
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Define polygyny
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Define sororate
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Define levirate
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