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be able to explain how these food strategies are affected by globalization
✓ -:- foraging societies are extinct and agricultural systems have grown larger and
provide most of the food for most of the people in the world today (pg. 120)
Know formalist theory and substantivist theory
✓ -:- it holds that economic behavior and motivations vary but culture and logic used
is culturally universal= formalist theory
Melville Herskovite (1895-1963
✓ -:- he argued that all people exhibit economic behaviors concepts such as supply,
demand, price and money.
Marshall Sahlins
✓ -:- argues the original affluent society were hunters and gatherers
What economic systems are in the Bible?
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✓ -:- All are in the Bible
Autonio Gramsci (1891-1937) and counter hegemony
✓ -:- ideology or movement that challenges a reigning hegemony.
What is the "weapons of the weak"?
✓ -:- includes practices such as intentionally working more slowly as usual, breaking
equipment, bags with rice, supposedly powerless people exert power enhance their
own survival and exerts pressure on dominant people.
What are the 4 anthropological model systems of political organization?
✓ -:- (band, tribe, chiefdom/kingdom, and state) Be able to define and explain each
political organization.
Elman Service (1915-1996)
✓ -:- highlighted the correlation of economic strategy and political forms.
What is kinship studies?
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✓ -:- Kinship studies analyze the structure, process, and meaning of family
relationships.
Define kinship and its importance
✓ -:- Kinship is the ways in which people selectively interpret the common human
experiences of reproduction and nurturance. Its importance is it is the basis of band
and tribal societies.
Define descent/descent systems see Fig. 8.1
✓ -:- two types:
unilineal: 3 types patrilineal (Bible), matrilineal, duel through both sides.
cogmatic: 2 types bilateral: through both sides, Ambilineal: individual choses a lineage
upon reaching adulthood.
George Murdock (pg 158-159)
✓ -:- out of 175 unilineal cultures, only 18 cultures were duel decent.
Anthropologist who in 1949 documented unilineal cultures and found that out of 175
unilineal cultures, only eighteen (10 percent) were organized in dual descent.
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