Exam 1

Question 1

Economic Systems

Answer 1

The way a culture produces goods and distributes them for consumption

Question 2

Monogamy

Answer 2

Union between two individuals

Question 3

Polygamy

Answer 3

Union between three or more individuals

Question 4

Polygyny

Answer 4

One man, multiple women

Question 5

Polyandry

Answer 5

One women, multiple men

Question 6

Incest taboo

Answer 6

The practice of socially prescribing marriage or reproduction with close kin members

Question 7

Exogamy

Answer 7

The practice of marriage outside of a specific cultural group or social group

Question 8

Endogamy

Answer 8

The practice of marriage within a specific cultural or social group

Question 9

Cross-cousin marriage

Answer 9

Cousins who are not related to you by descent in matrilineal

Question 10

Parallel-cousin marriage

Answer 10

The practice of marrying endogemous cousins

Question 11

Bridewealth

Answer 11

Goods are transferred from the groom’s family to bride’s family in compensation for losing the productive and reproductive services

Question 12

Bride service

Answer 12

Service rendered by the groom to the bride’s family exchange for bride, or as part of the bride price

Question 13

Dowry

Answer 13

The transfer of parental property to a daughter at her marriage rather than at the parents death

Question 14

Patrilocality Residence

Answer 14

More common than matrilocality

Question 15

Matrilocality Residence

Answer 15

Tends to be more common in societies where women have greater power or make greater contributions to production

Question 16

Neolocality Residebce

Answer 16

Common in industrialized nation-states

Question 17

Sororate marriage

Answer 17

Women must marry the widower of her deceased sister

Question 18

Levirate marriage

Answer 18

Man must marry the widow of his deceased brother.

Question 19

Stocks

Answer 19

Scottish clans, Gilbert Islands

Question 20

Kindreds

Answer 20

Ego- centered, all kin on both sides

Question 21

Lineages

Answer 21

The groups of persons related to one another through a common ancestor

Question 22

Subsistence Patterns

Answer 22

The sources and methods a society uses to obtain its food and other necessities

Question 23

Matrilineal Descent

Answer 23

descent is traced through the mothers line only

Question 24

Patrilineal Descent

Answer 24

Descent is traced through the father line only

Question 25

3 types foraging

Answer 25

Pedestrian
Equestrian
Aquatic

Question 26

Carrying Capacity

Answer 26

The maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment.

Question 27

Egalitarian Society

Answer 27

no other power structures than those based on gender and age.

Question 28

3 types of reciprocity

Answer 28

Generalized
Balanced
Negative

Question 29

Anthropology

Answer 29

the study of humanity.

Question 30

Holism

Answer 30

a perspective on humanity that “assumes that mind, body, individuals, society, and the environment interpenetrate, and even define one another.”

Question 31

Culture

Answer 31

includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.

Question 32

5 features of culture

Answer 32

Learned
Shared
Patterned
 Adaptive
Symbolic

Question 33

Emic

Answer 33

Insiders view

Question 34

Etic

Answer 34

outsider view

Question 35

Subjectivity

Answer 35

personal opinions or feelings rather than on external facts or evidence.

Question 36

Objectivity

Answer 36

describe something without being influenced by personal emotions or prejudices.

Question 37

Reflexivity

Answer 37

Intentional self-reference where observation and interpretation

Question 38

Cultural relativism

Answer 38

the principle that people’s beliefs and actions should be interpreted and understood in the context of their own culture.