Anthropology ch 6-10 – Flashcards
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The concept of tabula ___ was developed in the 20th century.
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Tabula Rasa Theory
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The ___ includes definitions and explanations of objects, spatial orientation, and temporal orientation, as well as culturally define values, ideals, and standards that provide an individual with a normative orientation.
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Self-Awareness
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Navajo babies begin to learn the importance of community at the ____.
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First Laugh Ceremony
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Margaret Mead's groundbreaking work in culture and personality published in 1928 was a deliberate test of a Western psychological hypothesis. What was this hypothesis?______
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Biological changes of adolescence were always fraught with social, psychological, and motional stress.
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"Two-spirit" is a male, passive homosexual in Native North American societies formerly known as ____.
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berdache
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The term "core values" refers to _____.
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Those values especially promoted by a particular culture.
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The core value to which European-Americans subscribe is, according to Francis Hsu, ______.
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Individualism
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One of the "founding mothers' of anthropology is ______.
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Margaret Mead
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In North American society self-awareness does not occur until about ____ years of age.
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What is the fear reaction of being bewitched found among Algonquian hunters? ______
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Windigo
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The Comanche and the Cheyenne were quite different culturally until they moved out onto the Great Plains and made use of the horse to hunt the buffalo and raid settled peoples. They then became more similar in cultural adaptations, a process called ______.
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Cultural evolution
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Those features of a culture that play a part in the society's way of making its living are called its _______.
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Culture core
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The oldest and most universal mode of subsistence is _______.
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Food foraging
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Food foraging societies are egalitarian because ______.
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Because foragers are usually highly mobile and lack animal or mechanical transporation.
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In the Americas, the crop complex adapted to drier upland areas was _______.
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Beans squash, potato, maize
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In Southeast Asia, the crop complex adapted to tropical wetlands _____.
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Rice, yams, taro and tubers
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______ are food produces who specialize in animal husbandry, and who consider their way of life to be ideal and central to defining their identities.
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pastoralism
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In what country do we find the Mekranoti? ______.
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Brazil
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An important characteristic of the food-foraging society is its _______.
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technology
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When a man works hard in his garden in the Trobriand Islands to produce yams, he does this to satisfy ______?
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His own household, sisters and married daughters
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In many nonindustrial societies, cooperative work is usually done with a
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festive and sociable air
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A typical Ju/'hoansi brand requires about ___ square miles of land.
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250
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The Afar people of Ethiopia specialize in _______.
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Mine salt and hacking blocks from plain's crust
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Reciprocity, redistribution, and market exchange are three modes of ____ goods.
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Materials
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A Navajo gives ten of his sheep that he knows are infected with disease to a Hopi in exchange for a jeep. This is an example of _____.
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negative reciprocity
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7) The U.S. system paying income taxes every April is an example of _______. The Kula ring is a form of ____ that reinforces trade relations among a group of seafaring Melanesians inhabiting a ring of islands off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea.
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Balanced reciprocity
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The display of wealth for social prestige is called ____ consumption.
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Conspicuous
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From an economist's point of view, "market exchanged is defined by _______.
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Supply and demand
