Untitled Flashcards Set

!Kung

“Impersonal” spiritual forces

AAA (American Anthropological Assoc.)

Acculturation

Achieved status

Agriculture

Ancestor Spirits

Animism

Anthropometry

Anthropomorphic spirits

Archeology

Armchair anthropology

Ascribed Status

Bands

Behavior—ideal, believed, or actual?

Big Man

Biological/Physical Anthropology

Broca’s area

Bronislaw Malinowski

Call system (animal)

Candomblé

Capitalism

Cargo cults

Charles Darwin

Chiefdom

Color categories (linguistic)

Contagious magic

Critical Period hypothesis

Cultural Anthropology

Cultural Relativism

Culture

Dialect

Displacement (linguistic)

Division of Labor

Doctrine

E.B. Tylor

Edward Burnett (E.B.) Tylor

Egalitarian, Egalitarianism

Emic

Ethnocentrism/Ethnocentric

Ethnographic method

Ethnography—(2 meanings)

Etic

Eugenics

Fetish object

Field notes

Fieldwork

Foraging/Hunter-Gatherer

Four-field approach

Franz Boas

Gender

Genie

Ghosts

Gift giving

Globalization

Headman

Hegemony

Historical Particularism

Horticulture

Human Agency

Imitative magic

Industrial agriculture

Informants

Informed consent

Intensive agriculture

Ishi

Kinesics

Kogwayay

Kula exchange

Language extinction

Language revitalization

Leveling mechanism

Linguistic Anthropology

Linguistic Determinism

Linguistic Relativity

Liminal phase

Mana

Market Exchange

Monocropping

Monotheism

N!ai

Nacirema

Natural selection

Neolithic Revolution

Nomadic

Norms

Ogowili

Participant observation

Pastoralism

Politics

Polytheism

Potlatch

Power (informal vs. formal)

Prestige dialect

Prestige language

Priest

Primary language acquisition

Productivity (linguistic)

Pseudonyms

Qualitative

Quantitative

Rapport

Reciprocity (balanced, generalized, negative)

Redistribution

Reflexivity

Religious conversion

Rite of Passage

Ritual

Salvage anthropology

Sanctions

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Scientific racism

Sedentary, semi-sedentary

Sex (biological)

Shaman

Social control (internal vs. external)

Social Darwinism

Social stratification

Sociolinguistics

Sorcery

State

Subsistence strategy

Supply & Demand

Swidden/slash-and-burn/shifting cultivation

Symbols

Syncretism

Taboo

Transhumance

Tribe

Trickster spirit

Trobriand Islands

Unilineal descent

Universal Grammar

Values

Wernicke’s area

Witchcraft

Worldview