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Exam 2 study guide
stuff for uic anthro 101
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
03/15/2009

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Term
Achieved Status
Definition
The status earned during your lifetime
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Ascribed Status
Definition
The status given to you during birth
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Balanced Reciprocity
Definition
The even exchange of goods and services in the non market transaction of reciprocity
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Band
Definition
groups of fifteen to sixty people who are related through nuclear family that reside and travel together.
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Bilineal
Definition
tracing ancestory through both patrilineal and matrilineal
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Bride Service
Definition
When a husband has to work for his father-in-law after for a period of time after marrying his daughter
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Chiefdom
Definition
Political organization based on a membership in clans whose leaders are arranged in a hierarchy of power
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Clans
Definition
a kin group of members who claim descent from mythical beings
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Consanguinity
Definition
relationship through a common bloodline
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Corporate lineage
Definition
a large social structure based on kinship and collective control of income producing property
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Egalitarian
Definition
a social relationship in which there are few status or authority differences between individuals
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Exogamy
Definition
cultural preference or requirement to marry someone outside their kin group
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fallow
Definition
Plowed but left unseeded during a growing season
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Fraternal polyandry
Definition
a group of brothers marrry one female
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Generalized reciprocity
Definition
a charitable gift of goods that one does not expect a return directly linked to it
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Headman
Definition
The least powerful type of political leader. A leader of a band
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Miscegenation
Definition
interratial marriage
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Negative reciprocity
Definition
a deal in which one party is cheated
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