Anthropology Vocabulary 2

The best definition of the study of the interaction of specific human cultures with their environment is:

The term which best describes a member of a society in which animal husbandry is viewed as the ideal way of making a living and in which movement of all or part of the society is considered a normal and natural way of life is:

The term which best describes something which comprises the physical environment and the organisms living within it is:

The term which best describes in cultural evolution, the development of similar adaptations to similar environmental conditions by peoples of quite different cultural backgrounds:

The term which best describes the number of people who can be supported by the available resources at a given level of technology:

The term which best describes societies in which family groups are equal in status and have equal access to resources:

The term which best describes the features of a culture that play a part in the society's way of making a living:

The term which best describes a group's means for obtaining and allocating resources to care for the survival needs of its members:

The term which best describes a two-way adjustment of those changes made by an organism on its environment and those induced by the environment on the organism:

The term which best describes a geographic region in which a number of different societies follow similar patterns of life:

What term best describes areas where such crops as manioc are produced?

Which term best describes subsistence food production using simple hand tools?

Which term best describes a variety of full-time occupations first appearing in nonindustrial cities?

What term best describes areas where such crops as maize, beans and squash are produced?

What term best describes a practice which is also known as swidden farming?

What term best describes communities made possible from intensive agriculture?

What term best describes a practice which often employs irrigation, fertilizers and plows to produce a surplus?

What term best describes a practice which first became necessary in horticultural communities?

Which term best describes a system which requires production of a surplus and the existence of a centralized government:

What term best describes artifacts used in the production of goods?

Which term best describes the display of wealth to gain prestige?

Which term best describes the overall process by which goods are produced, distributed and consumed in a society?

Which term best describes the exchange of goods and services of about equal value?

Which term best describes an exchange in which the giving and the  receiving are specific as to the value of the goods and the time of their delivery?

Which term best describes one type of division of labor common in more complex societies?

Which term best describes an exchange in which neither the value of what was given is calculated nor the time of repayment specified?

Which term best describes the exchange of goods between two groups, each of which calculates relative value?

Which term best describes social obligations that function so that no individual accumulates more wealth than another in a society?

Which term best describes an exchange in which the giver tries to get the better of the exchange?

Which term best describes the cargo position with the largest number of 'openings' each year?

Which term best describes a system which discourages the accumulation of wealth?

Which term best describes slash-and-burn corn planting?

What social rule forbids sexual relationships between specified relatives?

Which term best defines marriage within a certain group or category?

Which term best defines the custom that a widow marries a brother of her dead husband?

Which term best defines marriage outside the group?

Which term best defines a custom which includes rights of sexual access and eligibility to bear children?

Which term best defines a marriage form in which the woman takes more than one husband at the same time?

Which term best defines a marriage form in which the man takes more than one wife at the same time?

Which term best defines people who are related by marriage?

Which term best defines an obligation undertaken by a husband to the bride's family?

What term best defines the common residence pattern in North America?

Which term best describes family formed on the basis of marital ties?

Which term best describes taking care of the young; an important function of the family?

Which term best describes a married couple living in a locality associated with the husband's father's relatives?

Which term best describes a family unit composed of husband, wife and dependent children?

Which term best describes a collection of nuclear families related by ties of blood?

Which term best describes a unilineal descent group composed of at least two clans that supposedly share a common ancestry?

Which term best describes each group that results from division of a society into two parts on the basis of descent?

Which term best describes descent than can be traced through either parent for purposes of group membership?

Which term best describes a group claiming relationship to a common ancestor for purposes of group membership, although relationship cannot actually be traced?

Which term best defines relationships by birth?

Which term best describes descent traced through each parent, each for separate purposes?

Which term best describes a corporate descent group whose members can trace their links to a common ancestor?

Which term best describes the belief that people are related to animals, plants, or natural objects because of their descent from common ancestral spirits?

Which term best describes descent through females?

Which term best describes a relationship defined by marriage?

Which term best describes descent traced through males?

Which term best describes something which often identifies the comparative importance of various relatives to an individual?

Which term best defines the individual at the center of a kindred?

Which term best describes a system in which an individual feels related equally to all near relatives of both parents?

Which term best describes a system in which cross cousins on the mother's side are merged with the mother's generation?

Which term best describes the most precise of kinship terminology systems?

Which symbol is used to identify a male in a kinship diagram?

Which term best describes a relatively limited group of people related to one living individual through both parents?

Which term describes brothers and sisters?

Which term best describes a system used in Anglo-American and Inuit societies?