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Cultural AnthroMFH
Mirror for Humanity Chp.5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agriculture | Nonindustrial system of plant cultivation characterized by continuous and intensive use of land and labor |
| Balanced Reciprocity/Generalized Reciprocity | Principle that characterizes exchanges between closely related individuals. As social distance increases, reciprocity becomes balanced and finally negative. |
| Band | The basic unit of social organization among foragers. A band includes fewer than one hundred people; it often splits up seasonally. |
| Correlation | An association between two or more variables such that when one changes (varies), the other also changes. |
| Economy | A population's system of production, distribution, and consumption of resources. |
| Market Principle | Profit-oriented principle of exchange that dominates in states, particularly industrial states. Goods and services are bought and sold, and values are determined by supply and demand. |
| Horticulture | Nonindustrial system of plant cultivation in which plots lie fallow for varying lengths of time. |
| Means(or factors) of production | Land, labor, technology, and capital-major productive resources. |
| Mode of production | Way of organizing production--a set of social relations through from nature by means of tools,skills, and knowledge. |
| Nomadism, Pastoral | constant movement in pursuit of strategic resources. |
| Pastoral Nomadism | Movement throughout the year by the whole pastoral group (men, women, children) with their animals. |
| Pastoralists | People who use a food-producing strategy of adaptation based pm care of herds pf domestication animals. |
| Peasants | Small-scale agriculturist living in a state, with rent fund obligations. |
| Potlatch | Competitive feast among Indians on the North Pacific Coast of North America. |
| Reciprocity | One of the three principles of exchange. Governs exchange between social equals; major exchange mode in band and tribal societies. |
| Reciprocity Continuum | Regarding exchanges,a range running from generalized reciprocity through balanced reciprocity to negative reciprocity. |
| Redistribution | Major exchange mode of cheifdoms, many archaic states, and some states with managed economies. |
| Transhumance | One of two variants of pastoralism; part of the population moves seasonally with the herds while the other part remains in home villages. |
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