Eng 102 Chapter 2 Summary
Ant. 102 Study Guide
Anthropology: the systematic and comparative study of humankind in all its cultural and biological diversity—past, present, and future. In short, anthropology is the study of all things human.
Enculturation: The process of learning ones culture from those around us.
Acculturation: learning from another culture (through the process of diffusion).
Animism: A religious system based on the belief that every living thing possesses a spirit, or soul, that animates it. In this context, “living” things include not only animals and plants, but also such entities as the wind, the waters, the earth, the sky, etc.
Animatism: A religious system from the South Pacific based on the belief in an impersonal force called …show more content…
Kinship: people related both by descent and marriage, while usage in biology includes descent and mating.
Lapita: a term applied to an ancient Pacific Ocean archaeological culture, which is believed by many archaeologists to be the common ancestor of several cultures in Polynesia, Micronesia, and some coastal areas of Melanesia.
Levirate marriage: a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obligated to marry his brother's widow, and the widow is obligated to marry her deceased husband's brother.
The Machiguenga: an indigenous people of the Amazon Basin jungle regions of southeastern Peru, east of Machu Picchu and close to the borders of Bolivia and Brazil. The people are short, but stoutly built, with broad facial features, and very rarely overweight. Their culture is based around the hunter-gatherer concept, and they cultivate swidden agricultural plots. The main crop grown is cassava, and their main protein is a small rodent called paca. During the dry season, they also use fishing to supplement their dietary protein.
Manioc: Cassava also called yucca.
Material Culture: often used by archaeologists as a non-specific way to refer to the artifacts or other concrete things left by past
Anthropology: the systematic and comparative study of humankind in all its cultural and biological diversity—past, present, and future. In short, anthropology is the study of all things human.
Enculturation: The process of learning ones culture from those around us.
Acculturation: learning from another culture (through the process of diffusion).
Animism: A religious system based on the belief that every living thing possesses a spirit, or soul, that animates it. In this context, “living” things include not only animals and plants, but also such entities as the wind, the waters, the earth, the sky, etc.
Animatism: A religious system from the South Pacific based on the belief in an impersonal force called …show more content…
Kinship: people related both by descent and marriage, while usage in biology includes descent and mating.
Lapita: a term applied to an ancient Pacific Ocean archaeological culture, which is believed by many archaeologists to be the common ancestor of several cultures in Polynesia, Micronesia, and some coastal areas of Melanesia.
Levirate marriage: a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obligated to marry his brother's widow, and the widow is obligated to marry her deceased husband's brother.
The Machiguenga: an indigenous people of the Amazon Basin jungle regions of southeastern Peru, east of Machu Picchu and close to the borders of Bolivia and Brazil. The people are short, but stoutly built, with broad facial features, and very rarely overweight. Their culture is based around the hunter-gatherer concept, and they cultivate swidden agricultural plots. The main crop grown is cassava, and their main protein is a small rodent called paca. During the dry season, they also use fishing to supplement their dietary protein.
Manioc: Cassava also called yucca.
Material Culture: often used by archaeologists as a non-specific way to refer to the artifacts or other concrete things left by past