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Anthro Midterm

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A system of tracking family lineage from mother to child.
matrilineal descent
Marriages that are sexually and romantically exclusive may also be called this
monogamy
"Consanguine" is a less common term synonymous with this form of relatedness where genetic material is directly shared.
blood relation
People who make a point of marrying partners from the same religion, culture, or ethnicity would be said to practice this
endogamy
In Tibet, some families practice this form of marriage to retain land and resources
fraternal polyandry
This concept contains the principles that all cultural practices can be understood within their own cultural contexts and all are equal in value
cultural relativism
When the Australian colonizers traveled to Papua New Guinea to look for gold, as shown in First Contact, they imposed their cultural norms, values, and practices on the New Guineans, otherwise known as this practice
cultural imperialism
In Paul Rabinow's Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco, he acknowledges his own presence and feelings as an anthropologist doing fieldwork, which goes against this position advocated by his professors
becoming a non-person
Fuambai Ahmadu suggests anthropologists look to the "native's point of view" when discussing female genital modification in Sierra Leone, otherwise known as this
emic
This anthropological concept was experienced by Bohannan as she tried to explain Shakespeare's Hamlet to the Tiv in West Africa
ethnocentrism
Reading between the lines" and "nonverbal communication" are examples of these.
metamessages
This term points to the message and/or meaning, such as smoke to mean fire
index
This theory states that language does not reflect reality, but is a shaping force that intimately connects language, thought, perception, and realty
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Black twitter is a visual remix of digital activism "performatively disrupting dominant racial logics" that signifies this.
Emphatic Blackness
The Apache often use silence for these 6 situations
meeting strangers, courting, children coming home, getting cussed out, being with people who are sad, and being with someone for whom they sing
common form of gender organization, almost universal throughout the world.
Male Dominance / Patriarchy
Franz Boas's student was the first anthropologist to focus on the social-cultural construction of these. Also, these are not "natural" or universal, but socially-culturally constructed
Gender (Sex) Roles
`This is a legally recognized third gender in South Asia with ancient cultural historical roots
Hijra
This law stated that no society that allowed people of the same sex to marry has or could survive, that American values were grounded in Judeo-Christian principles that precluded tolerance of same-sex love and gender difference.
1986 U.S. Defense of Marriage Act
This system is based on a transaction of equal value, i.e. money.
market exchange
Jared Diamond makes the argument that this was the worst mistake in the history of the human race based on archaeological evidence
agricultural revolution
These are the three parts of the economic organization of a society.
production, distribution, and consumption
Societies that share resources by pooling them between all members would be practicing this form of reciprocity
general
This trading system involves the gifting of necklaces across the Trobriand Islands, where each necklace gains symbolic value as it is traded
kula exchange
Ethnocentrism
Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group over others
interpretive anthropology
gathering data that is partly empirical as such as what we observe, hear, see, smell, or touch
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