Cultural anthropology 102 final
unilineal kinship - correct answer ✔✔only one parent's side is taken into account when determining who
is a person's kin. Produces a tightly- knit kin network stemming from one parent's descent. Common in pastoralist or agricultural societies, where working together to manage herds and fields are important. Paternal kinship examples, Almost all pastoralist peoples, including the Nuer, Maasai, Bakhtiari, and Bedouin (but NOT the Saami)
agricultural peoples like the Balinese
Tribes of Israel, ancient Greeks, Romans
Matrilineal Kinship examples Asante or Ashanti of Ghana
Ovambo of northern Namibia
Navajo of the American Southwest
Trobriand Islanders
bilateral kinship - correct answer ✔✔kinship system in which individuals trace their kinship relationships equally through both parents
Enables individuals to draw on an extensive network of connections
Common in foraging and capitalist societies where individual choice and mobility are important.
Cosmopolitanism - correct answer ✔✔Being a citizen of the world and having an identity hat is more broadly defined than in a provincial or national context, used most often in relation to theories of globalization
Being open to interaction to people of different backgrounds. examples Cosmopolitanism (Appiah) in northern Namibia (Haugh)
Honor among Bedouin - correct answer ✔✔Blood Considered Central Concept of Identity- basis of hierarchal social divisions, women are always dependent on men- men do not cry, maintain physical stoicism.
unilineal kinship - correct answer ✔✔only one parent's side is taken into account when determining who
is a person's kin. Produces a tightly- knit kin network stemming from one parent's descent. Common in pastoralist or agricultural societies, where working together to manage herds and fields are important. Paternal kinship examples, Almost all pastoralist peoples, including the Nuer, Maasai, Bakhtiari, and Bedouin (but NOT the Saami)
agricultural peoples like the Balinese
Tribes of Israel, ancient Greeks, Romans
Matrilineal Kinship examples Asante or Ashanti of Ghana
Ovambo of northern Namibia
Navajo of the American Southwest
Trobriand Islanders
bilateral kinship - correct answer ✔✔kinship system in which individuals trace their kinship relationships equally through both parents
Enables individuals to draw on an extensive network of connections
Common in foraging and capitalist societies where individual choice and mobility are important.
Cosmopolitanism - correct answer ✔✔Being a citizen of the world and having an identity hat is more broadly defined than in a provincial or national context, used most often in relation to theories of globalization
Being open to interaction to people of different backgrounds. examples Cosmopolitanism (Appiah) in northern Namibia (Haugh)
Honor among Bedouin - correct answer ✔✔Blood Considered Central Concept of Identity- basis of hierarchal social divisions, women are always dependent on men- men do not cry, maintain physical stoicism.
