Anthrcul 101 exam 3 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

ANTHRCUL 101 Exam 2 Questions & Answers 2023-24 ethnicity - ANSWER-derived from language, history, cultural traditions. Can be chosen unlike race convergent evolution - ANSWER-process of adapting to the same environmental forces in similar ways EX. Birds + bats homologies - ANSWER-similarities in species jointly inherited from a common ancestor analogies - ANSWER-similarities between species due to adapting in similar ways sexual dimorphism - ANSWER-pronounced and anatomical and...

ANTHRCUL 101 Exam 3 Questions & Answers 2023-24 Bands - ANSWER-Small (Fewer than 100 people) Often Foraging based (recall correlates of foraging) Kinship based Relatively egalitarian No formal law or figure-head Tribes - ANSWER-Horticulturalists Non-intensive food production Village membership based on descent groups Informal enforcement Village head leads by example and persuasion Big Man - ANSWER-The Tribal "Big man" in Melanesian Islands. A regional level regula...

Anthrcul 101 Exam 3 Questions & Answers 2023-24 Broad Spectrum Revolution - Mesolithic period - ANSWER-15000 (Middle East) - 12000 years ago (Europe); human tool manufacture is more sophisticated, allowing for a "broad spectrum" or wider range of plant/animal life to be hunted, gathered, or fished for subsistence (expanded diet from just a few food sources); set the stage for food production (pottery was also being made) Neolithic Revolution - ANSWER-12000 years ago; a switch fro...

Anthrcul 101 Exam 3 Questions & Answers 2023-24 Language vs. Dialect - ANSWER-Languages are written and spoken, dialects are just spoken Dialect is a form of language particular to a region or group Call Systems vs. Language - ANSWER-Communication systems of nonhuman primates Calls are produced in response to environment stimuli Calls cannot be combined phoneme - ANSWER-smallest sound contrast that distinguishes meaning Minimal Pair - ANSWER-words that resemble each other in all...

ANTHRCUL 101 Exam 3 Questions & Answers 2023-24 Public space - ANSWER-space is governed by certain kinds of rules, limitations, connected to masculinity, political power Private space - ANSWER-controlled socially, connected to femininity surveillance - ANSWER-mechanical time, morality, state has aura because it can hold information from you homes - ANSWER-familial, stable, private, domestic spots - ANSWER-entrepreneurial, fluid, public, commercial industrial time - ANSWER-Hom...

Anthrcul 101 Exam 2 Questions & Answers 2023-24 AAA race project (3 parts) - ANSWER-Race is a recent human invention; Race is about culture, not biological variation; Race and racism are embedded in institutions and everyday life (justifies "natural" hierachy) Creationism - ANSWER-belief that God created the world and all life as described in the Bible and that life forms do not change Great Chain of Being - ANSWER-idea that species are positioned in a hierarchy of complexity or...