Band Societies

Question 1

World View

Answer 1

Encompassing picture of reality.

Question 1

Myth

Answer 1

explanatory narrative the rationalizes religious beliefs and ceremonies.

Question 2

Religous rituals

Answer 2

the means through which a person relates to the supernatural.

Question 3

Shamans

Answer 3

Part-time religious specialists with special powers to contact and mani

Question 4

Immitative magic

Answer 4

based on the principle of immitaition

Question 5

Contagious magic

Answer 5

things or persons once in contact, can remain in contact after death.

Question 6

Cultural Evolution

Answer 6

The belief that all cultures pass through progressive levels of evolutionary stages.

Question 7

Band

Answer 7

a small group of people tied together by close kinship relations.

Question 8

Hunter-gatherer society

Answer 8

Highly mobile small grouped scavagers and foragers who relied on hunting, fishing, and gathering foods.

Question 9

Extreme and Marginal Enviornments

Answer 9

Those that are not suitable for intensive agriculture or a dense increase of population.

Question 10

What arctic hunter and gatherers were discussed in class?

Answer 10

Inuit

Eskimo

Question 11

How many people usually make up a band society?

Answer 11

20-100 people

Question 12

Explain the idea of carrying capacity limiting the population growth of band societies.

Answer 12

This idea suggests that band societies have small unchanging populations because the “land” can only support so many people until resources are depleated.

Question 13

Fissioning

Answer 13

the fragmenting of a band society into smaller subgroups.

Question 14

Infanticide

Answer 14

The killing or abandoning of newborns.

Question 15

What are some technologies as discussed in class?

Answer 15

Kayaks
Bone tipped weapons
Shelters made from available raw materialss

Question 16

Reciprocity

Answer 16

the exchange of goods and services within a society. Based on kinship and trust. The main economic system within band societies.

Question 17

What are the three reciprocal systems discussed in class.

Answer 17

Generalized -?
Balanced - trading or bartering
Negative - wanting Something for nothing

Question 18

What are the three characteristics of the Egalitarian political system as discussed in class.

Answer 18

No political power
no military
Lead by persuasion and personal influence
-this method serves as authority without power.

Question 19

head man

Answer 19

Important informal leaders of bands

Question 20

how is conflict resolved in bands?

Answer 20

informally, no trial, judges

Question 21

Nuclear family

Answer 21

Typical mother father and children.

Question 22

patrilocal exchange

Answer 22

two bands exchange women through marriage.

Question 23

Cosmic religion

Answer 23

Religion is intimately associated with nature.

Question 24

Animism

Answer 24

Spirits reside in organic and inorganic things.

Question 25

What are four charateristics of modern hunters and gatherers?

Answer 25

Live in nation states
Depend on outside assistance
have a significant contact with others
influence from politics