What is paleoanthropology?
Acculturation
Globalization
Sexual selection
Adaptation
Phenotype
Longitudinal research
Writing
Stratigraphy
Why is it important to understand that human racial categories are based upon perceptions of phenotypic features and not on genotypes?
Because race is socially constructed, not biologically determined
What is ethnocentrism?
Catastrophism
seeking to explain why specific biological variations occur.
Neolithic
smaller
Mesopotamia
A. afarensis
metallurgy
Diglossia
Kinesics
Morphology
Bureaucracy
Teosinte
Mesopotamia
Phonemes
Egalitarian
Australopithecus
Syntax
Band
Authority
Nomadism
genocide
What is the term for identification with, and feeling part of, a cultural group, and exclusion from other cultural groups?
Ethnicity
What is the term for ethnic groups that once had, or wish to have or regain, autonomous political status?
Nationalities
Postmodernity
What is the term for policies and practices that harm a group and its members?
Discrimination
What term does Barth use to refer to a society that combines ethnic contrasts, ecological specialization, and economic interdependence of groups?
Plural society
What term refers to the destruction of an ethnic group's culture?
Ethnocide
What term refers to the view that cultural diversity in a country is something good and desirable?
Multiculturalism
Climate change
Band
When a dominant group compels a minority group to adopt the dominant culture, this is known as
What rule automatically places the children of a union between members of different groups in the minority group?
Postmodernity
Cultural imperialism
pastoralism
Prestige
People may occupy many different social statuses during their lives, or even during the course of a day. What term refers to a person's ability to emphasize different identities in different social contexts?
Situational negotiation of identity
Atmosphere
patriarchy
Animism
inheritance of land and prestige through female lines.
is higher in matrilineal societies than it is in patrilineal societies.
More than half of American households with incomes below the poverty line
What have recent cross-cultural studies of gender roles demonstrated?
The relative status of women is variable, depending on factors such as subsistence strategy, the importance of warfare, and the prevalence of a domestic-public dichotomy.
What is polygyny?
A situation in which a man has more than one wife at the same time
What is the domestic-public dichotomy?
Strong differentiation between the home and the outside world
What is the name of the postmarital residence pattern in which a married couple is expected to live in the husband's community?
What term is used to refer to a nonhuman apical ancestor of a clan?
Totem
What term refers to a unilineal descent group whose members claim, but cannot demonstrate, common descent from an apical ancestor?
Magic
What term refers to the practice of marrying a person outside of the group to which one belongs?
Exogamy
Gender roles
Which of the following statements about Etoro conceptions of heterosexual intercourse is not true?
It was permitted to take place only in a couple's residence.
Which of the following statements about divorce is not true?
Which of the following statements about polyandry is true?
It is a cultural adaptation to mobility associated with male travel for trade, commerce, and warfare.
Which of the following statements about the incest taboo is true?
The incest taboo does not eliminate incest.
What are the two basic social units typically found in foraging societies?
What is the name of the family in which a child is raised?
The incest taboo is a cultural universal, but
What term refers to a gift made by the husband and his kin to the bride and her kin?
Bridewealth
Which of the following is not culturally constructed?
Sex
inheritance of land and prestige through female lines.
The fact that chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates engage in masturbation and same-sex sexual activity suggests that
flexibility in sexual expression is part of humans' primate heritage.
Contagious magic