ANT 102 FINAL EXAM STUDY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
VERIFIED
What does "descent" mean in Tetum social organization? CORRECT ANSWERS It
means "inheritance of rights over".
Descent CORRECT ANSWERS This includes:
-houses
-land
-Many other things
What is patrilineal descent? CORRECT ANSWERS Property in a simple family is
transmitted always from father to son. This transmission involves patrilocal residence.
patrilocal residence CORRECT ANSWERS this is when a son who is just married
continues to live near his father and his new bride has to leave her own father's house
to live with her new bridegroom.
ideal CORRECT ANSWERS reality is a different matter as the different types of
marriage arrangement shows. SEE NEXT SLIDE
lineages CORRECT ANSWERS groups of simple families form larger groups called
"lineages", these in their turn form larger groups called "clans".///which is a grouping of
nuclear of simple families (father, mother, unmarried children).
clans CORRECT ANSWERS groups of simple families form larger groups called
"lineages", these in their turn form larger groups called "clans".
"Fruit of the woman, fruit of the man" CORRECT ANSWERS this expression applied to
that kinship group anthropologists call the "lineage" which is a grouping of nuclear of
simple families (father, mother, unmarried children).
another important kinship group, "clan" CORRECT ANSWERS is a group of several
lineages
These villages have two clans CORRECT ANSWERS Mamulak village and Many Hat
village
Four types of marriage arrangements CORRECT ANSWERS 1. Hafoli, 2. Habani, 3.
Fetosa-umane, 4. Hafen
, Hafoli CORRECT ANSWERS bridewealth, also known as "bride price" is given.
patrilocal residence most common
Habani CORRECT ANSWERS no bridewealth paid, groom lives with father in law, not a
favorite mode of marriage
fetosa-umane CORRECT ANSWERS don't bother with this! neither do the tetum!
hafen CORRECT ANSWERS elopement
example of foragers, fishers and hunters CORRECT ANSWERS alternative names:
"eskimo" = "eaters of raw meat" (name given to Inuit by other tribes;
"inuit" = the name the Inuit call themselves
(an ethnonym)
eskimo CORRECT ANSWERS eaters of raw meat, name given to Inuit by other tribes
Inuit CORRECT ANSWERS the name the Inuit call themselves (an ethnonym)
Asen Balikci's ethnography (i.e., The Netsilik Eskimo) CORRECT ANSWERS which
emphasizes a cultural materialist approach to the study of Netsilik culture is both
synchronic (how they live in the "ethnographic present") and also diachronic (how their
lives have undergone changes).
His book also fits in with Franz Boas' notion of cultural particularism, since it does not
attempt to generalize to other cultures.
Remember: Boas made a fieldwork study of the Eskimos of Central Canada many
years before Balikci, so we have excellent ethnographic from Boas about what their
culture was like dating back to the 1880s.
Cultural materialist CORRECT ANSWERS
cultural particularism CORRECT ANSWERS
the eskimo live in the arctic region CORRECT ANSWERS siberia, alaska, canada,
greenland
more info on the eskimo CORRECT ANSWERS There is a significant variation among
the different sub-groups of Eskimo in terms of their subsistence.
Some base their subsistence on the seal, others on caribou, others on trading, etc.
kinship CORRECT ANSWERS adapted to environment and subsistence; nuclear or
simple family (father, mother, unmarried children)
notes CORRECT ANSWERS Note the part played by the wife of a successful seal
hunter (in the film): she butchers the seal, distributes its meat, make the ice offering to
the dead seal so that it will return and allow itself to be captured.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
VERIFIED
What does "descent" mean in Tetum social organization? CORRECT ANSWERS It
means "inheritance of rights over".
Descent CORRECT ANSWERS This includes:
-houses
-land
-Many other things
What is patrilineal descent? CORRECT ANSWERS Property in a simple family is
transmitted always from father to son. This transmission involves patrilocal residence.
patrilocal residence CORRECT ANSWERS this is when a son who is just married
continues to live near his father and his new bride has to leave her own father's house
to live with her new bridegroom.
ideal CORRECT ANSWERS reality is a different matter as the different types of
marriage arrangement shows. SEE NEXT SLIDE
lineages CORRECT ANSWERS groups of simple families form larger groups called
"lineages", these in their turn form larger groups called "clans".///which is a grouping of
nuclear of simple families (father, mother, unmarried children).
clans CORRECT ANSWERS groups of simple families form larger groups called
"lineages", these in their turn form larger groups called "clans".
"Fruit of the woman, fruit of the man" CORRECT ANSWERS this expression applied to
that kinship group anthropologists call the "lineage" which is a grouping of nuclear of
simple families (father, mother, unmarried children).
another important kinship group, "clan" CORRECT ANSWERS is a group of several
lineages
These villages have two clans CORRECT ANSWERS Mamulak village and Many Hat
village
Four types of marriage arrangements CORRECT ANSWERS 1. Hafoli, 2. Habani, 3.
Fetosa-umane, 4. Hafen
, Hafoli CORRECT ANSWERS bridewealth, also known as "bride price" is given.
patrilocal residence most common
Habani CORRECT ANSWERS no bridewealth paid, groom lives with father in law, not a
favorite mode of marriage
fetosa-umane CORRECT ANSWERS don't bother with this! neither do the tetum!
hafen CORRECT ANSWERS elopement
example of foragers, fishers and hunters CORRECT ANSWERS alternative names:
"eskimo" = "eaters of raw meat" (name given to Inuit by other tribes;
"inuit" = the name the Inuit call themselves
(an ethnonym)
eskimo CORRECT ANSWERS eaters of raw meat, name given to Inuit by other tribes
Inuit CORRECT ANSWERS the name the Inuit call themselves (an ethnonym)
Asen Balikci's ethnography (i.e., The Netsilik Eskimo) CORRECT ANSWERS which
emphasizes a cultural materialist approach to the study of Netsilik culture is both
synchronic (how they live in the "ethnographic present") and also diachronic (how their
lives have undergone changes).
His book also fits in with Franz Boas' notion of cultural particularism, since it does not
attempt to generalize to other cultures.
Remember: Boas made a fieldwork study of the Eskimos of Central Canada many
years before Balikci, so we have excellent ethnographic from Boas about what their
culture was like dating back to the 1880s.
Cultural materialist CORRECT ANSWERS
cultural particularism CORRECT ANSWERS
the eskimo live in the arctic region CORRECT ANSWERS siberia, alaska, canada,
greenland
more info on the eskimo CORRECT ANSWERS There is a significant variation among
the different sub-groups of Eskimo in terms of their subsistence.
Some base their subsistence on the seal, others on caribou, others on trading, etc.
kinship CORRECT ANSWERS adapted to environment and subsistence; nuclear or
simple family (father, mother, unmarried children)
notes CORRECT ANSWERS Note the part played by the wife of a successful seal
hunter (in the film): she butchers the seal, distributes its meat, make the ice offering to
the dead seal so that it will return and allow itself to be captured.
