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GlobalPerspectives
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An exchange of wealth and/or services from the groom's family to the bride's family. The story of Jacob laboring for Rachel (and Leah) is an example of this practice. Bridewealth practices are still very common in this world. | Bridewealth |
| An anthropological method of comparing cultural studies in order to determine what is common to all human cultures and what is unique. | Comparative Method |
| The learned and shared patterns of behavior in kinship, economics, politics, religion, subsistence, and language that characterize a group, and the material products of those behaviors. Also, the norms, values, and cosmology of the group. | Culture |
| A theoretical approach in anthropology that looks at how the material cultural of a group connects to their environment and to their methods of food production. Marvin Harris is the founder of this approach. | Cultural Materialism |
| Beliefs about how the world came to be and why things are the way they are. Such a set of beliefs gives a context for understanding the world, understanding a person's place in it, and for understanding why things happen. Usuallyapartof religiousbeliefsys | Cosmology |
| Suspending moral and ethical judgments for the purpose of studying another culture group. | Cultural Relativism |
| A transfer of wealth from the bride's family to the bride. Dowry's are for the provision and security of the bride. They are frequently a kind of insurance policy in the event of divorce or death of the husband | Dowry |
| The system of exchange in a group. This is not limited to money. Gift giving, trading, and sharing, are also part of the economic system. Also, all the beliefs associated with the economic behaviors constitute the economic system to anthropologists. | Economics |
| the idea that one's own cultural beliefs and behaviors are superior to those of other cultural beliefs and behaviors. | Ethnocentrism |
| A theoretical approach in anthropology for understanding culture. Cultures are different because of having different histories of ideas, experiences, and interactions with other groups. Franz Boas is the originator of this theoretical approach. | Historical Particularism |
| The idea and view that culture is an integrated system of beliefs, behaviors, values, and norms. All aspects of culture connect to all other aspects of culture. | Holistic Perspective |
| A system of family relations where descent is traced through both parents, and which consists of a person's siblings, and their children, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, and great grandparents. A kindred is only the same for siblings. | Kindred |
| The system of family relations in a group, which includes systems of inheritance, systems of tracing descent, marriage practices, bridewealth or dowry practices, systems of kinship classification, & all the beliefs associated with those systems/practices. | Kinship |
| A unique human ability. The ability to manipulate acoustic and visual symbols in a sophisticated way in order to communicate meaning. Language has two components: verbal and non-verbal. | Language |
| A theoretical approach in anthropology that tries to explain culture with the ideas and theories of Karl Marx. This approach focuses on economics, social differences due to economic differences, and on the conflict between groups of economic difference. | Marxist Anthropology |
| The marriage practice involving only one man and one woman. | Monogamy |
| The ordinary and accepted way of doing things in a culture. | Norms |
| The children of your mother's sisters and father's brothers. | Parallel Cousin |
| Living, working, and being involved in another culture for the purposes of learning that culture. | Participant Observation |
| The distribution of power and influence in a group. This involves systems of status, prestige, hierarchical organization, and associated beliefs. | Politics |
| The marriage practice involving one woman and two or more men. | Polyandry |
| The marriage practice involving one man and two or more women. | Polygyny |
| A theory that explains culture by looking at the way in which people construct meaning and act that meaning out within social structures. Pierre Bourdieu is the founder of this theoretical School. | Practice Theory |
| The system of beliefs, behaviors, and material products in a group that is concerned with the supernatural and with the reasons of existence. A culture's religion will also generate a cosmology and a value system. | Religion |
| A theoretical approach that explains culture by analyzing the systematic way in which the human mind organized knowledge and create systems. Claude Levi-Strauss is the founder of this approach in anthropology. | Structuralism |
| The technology, practices, and associated beliefs about how one goes about getting food, water, shelter, and meeting other needs. In the most fundamental sense, subsistence patterns are about food production, but in complex societies, like the U.S., ppl.. | Subsistence patterns |
| A theoretical approach that views culture as a system of symbols that people manipulate to produce meaning. Clifford Geertz is the founder. | Symbolic Interpretivism |
| A set of beliefs about what is good and evil; about what is right and wrong; and about what is beautiful and ugly. | Value System |
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