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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
10/20/2007

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monogamy

Definition

1 spouse

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polygamy

Definition

more than one spouse

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polygyny
Definition
more than one wife
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polyandry
Definition
more than one husband
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berdache

Definition
french term
means a 3rd gender
a male with a female role
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ambilateral
Definition
related to both your father's and your mother's side of the family
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matrilineal
Definition
related to people on mother's side
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matrilocal

Definition
live with women's side of family after marriage
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matriarchy
Definition
women have the most power in a society
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patrilineal
Definition

related to people on father's side

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patrilocal
Definition
live with the man's side of the family after marriage
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patriarchy
Definition
men have most of the power in the society
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the second shift
Definition
what women do after work
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endogamous
Definition
marrying inside the group
i.e. marrying within one's tribe
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exogamous
Definition
marrying outside groups
i.e. clans
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agnatic
Definition
related by blood through fathers side of faily
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cognatic
Definition
related my marriage to both sides of family
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lineage
Definition
line of descent i.e. ancestors
aka subclan or part of a clan
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clans
Definition
groups within a tribe
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corporate group
Definition
relation to tribes; immortal group
-if people die, still people persist so it lives on
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segmentary lineage
Definition
lineage divided into segments
i.e. me against my brothers, me and my brothers against my cousins, me and my cousins against the world
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fictive kin
Definition
not blood relations; may be good friends or slaves
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sapir-whorf hypothesis

Definition

language constructs our perception of reality

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wittgenstein
Definition

limits of language define the limits of one's reality

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raymond williams
Definition
if you define a language, you define a people
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emic
Definition
emotional; personal perspective
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etic
Definition

not emotional; general perspective

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band
Definition
social organization that has a head man -!kung
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tribe
Definition
kawelka, a group of clans
no police, lawyers, courts
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chiefdom
Definition
-social group that practices redistribution
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affluence vs. abundance
Definition
abundence we have yet we are still not affluent (satisfied)
!kund more affluent yet less abundent
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headman

Definition
-!kung; even less formal than a bigman; may not be even known as a headman by others; negotiates with outsiders
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Bigman
Definition
-tribe; recognized by others; still informal; persuasive power not forceful power -doesn't last forever
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Chief
Definition
leader of chiefdoms; more established; formal; passes on in generations
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Generalized reciprocity
Definition
don't keep track of gifts
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balanced reciprocity
Definition
keeping track of give and take; balancing it
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redistribution
Definition
pay tax to chief, who then buys grain and animals which is distributed among his family, the poor, or for storage
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pastoralism
Definition
exert least amount of calories to earn a living
the care, tending and use of animals such as camels, goats, cattle, yaks, llamas and sheep
-also requires moving around a lot
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horticulture
Definition
deals with gardening
fruits, berries, nuts, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs, and turf
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biolphilia
Definition
having an affinity in nature
describe natural people
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nomadic

Definition

move from one place to another, rather than settling down.

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transhumance
Definition
transfer of livestock from one grazing grounds to another
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syncretism
Definition

blending of a language, religion, or a culture

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plantations and slave labor
Definition
capitalism kawelka
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world systems theory
Definition
theory where the world market relies on periphery, semi periphery, and core economies
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periphery
Definition
provide labor and raw materials
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semi periphery
Definition
exporters of minerals and agricultural goods; major in manufacturing
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core
Definition
produce communidities
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genocide
Definition
destruction of the people of a religion, culture, ext.
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ethnocide
Definition
destruction to a culture of a people, not the people themselves
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passive infanticide
Definition
not intervening, allowing their kid to die, shanty town in brazil
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mortal selective neglect
Definition

not doing anything to prevent death although they could really emphasized
women choosing which kid will live and which will die

Term
In entropy and Cricket which team always wins?
Definition
the home team
Term
list of food items for the !kung and Kawelka
Definition
!Kung -mongongo nuts, giraffes, ext.
Kawelka -yams, pigs, fish, esperagous, cassowarys, sweet potatoes, sugar cane, greens, oil, marsupials
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Yoruba

Definition

western africa

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Etoro
Definition
ritualized homosexuality
papua new guinea
men and women living in seperate houses
women suck life out of men
rules about sex with women
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Etoro
Definition
New Guinea
ritualized homosexuality
men and women live in seperate homes
women suck life out of men
gender differentiaion
rules on sex with women
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Ganiga
Definition
black harvest
new guinea
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Ganiga
Definition
Black Harvest
Papua New Guinea
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Nuer

Definition

Sudan Egypt

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Dani
Definition
Papua New Guinea
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Yanomamo
Definition

between venezuela and brazil

Term

kawelka

Definition
papua new guinea
Term
bari
Definition
-how many fathers are best for a child
-venezuela
Term
Inuit
Definition
Alaska, Canada, greenland
Term
!Kung
Definition
Ju/'hoans-what !kung call themselves
bushman -name given to hunter-gatherers by Dutch settlers in southern
             africa 1650s
san, sonquas, outsider terms
basarwa -name given by people without cattle
!kung -name of three major language groups
Botswana trade to get grain
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Marshall Sahlins
Definition
-labeled them "hunters and gatherers"
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Richard Lee
Definition
!kung as Hunters/gatherers were isolated so became hunters and gatherers over time
-suitable to both humans and environment in wester kalahari
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Edwin Wilmsen

Definition
!kung became hunters/ gatherers after collapse of merchantilism
-remained so because they were oppresed
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Nanook
Definition
Documents one year in the life of Nanook, an Eskimo (Inuit) and his family. Describes the trading, hunting, fishing and migrations of a group barely touched by industrial technology
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N'ai
Definition
Remarks about her experiecne of how whitme men forced her and her people, about 800 to live in a small area with not enough food or space
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Sidney Mintz
Definition
anthropologist
-wrote sweetness and power about sugar and how global trade effected the national economy
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Ongka
Definition
means as or axe
-kawelka
-hosts a moka
3 houses; one is a men's house
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Joe Leahy
Definition
black harvest -didn't work out
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the Hunters
Definition
Africa
the kalahari desert
-women gather roots, berries
-men hunt
-some come back empty handed
Term

Mongongo nut

Definition
so abundant it rots
Term
Kathy Galvin
Definition
data was not seeing whole picture
taken during rainy season
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gender differentiaion
Definition
not only men and women
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Changes among !kung
Definition
militarization of san
beer production
men go to mines in south africa
schools, market for crafts/weapons, missions
cash, tobacco, cattle, kalahari people's fund
New Dobe !kung harder to hunt and gather overgrazing
welfare society
reservations
abandon nomadism
disease
longer life spans however
more power and destruction
Term
!bushman and debeers the ecologist
Definition
-diamonds
-debeers keeping monopoly; artificial scarcity
-ethnic cleansing; genocide and ethnocide
Term
evolution of human political organizations; tribes and tribal societys
Definition
-increased size of governed pop
-increased power of leader to force others
-increased inequality
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tribes as compared to bands have:
Definition
-increased wealth
-larger population
-better technology
-more complex social organizations
-decrease equity
-much more gender differentiated than
!kung
Term
Leblanc prehistory of warfare
Definition
war amounts staying the same, deaths are decreasing
Term
pigs needed?
Definition
for everythign except survival
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lineages
Definition
do many things together
-don't own property together; families do
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