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UCLA Anthro 3- Yan
Adaptation - ANS A series of beneficial adjustments to a particular
R
environment
H
politically involved.E
advocacy anthropology - ANS Research that is community based and
affineal kin -
IG
ANS People related through marriage.
agriculture -
GH
and/ or irrigation.
ANS Intensive crop cultivation, employing plows, fertilizers,
IN
bilateral descent - ANS Descent traced equally through father and mother's
Y
ancestors; associating each individual with blood relatives on both sides of the
L
family.
F
bride service -
the bride's family.
ANS A designated period of time when the groom works for
Bridewealth - ANS The money or valuable goods paid by the groom or his
family to the bride's family upon marriage; also called bride-price.
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carrying capacity - ANS The number of people that the available resources
can support at a given level of food-getting techniques
R
clan - ANS An extended unilineal kin-group, often consisting of several
E
lineages, whose members claim common descent from a remote ancestor,
H
usually legendary or mythological
G
Colonialism - ANS System by which a dominant society politically claims
I
and controls a foreign territory primarily for purposes of settling and economic
H
exploitation.
G
conjugal family - ANS A family established through marriage.
IN
consanguineal family - ANS A family of blood relatives, consisting of
Y
related women, their brothers, and the women's offspring.
FL
consanguineal kin -
to as blood relatives.
ANS Biologically related relatives, commonly referred
convergent evolution - ANS In cultural evolution, the development of similar
cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions by different peoples with
different ancestral cultures.
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Core Values - ANS A value especially promoted by a particular culture
cross cousins - ANS The child of a mother's brother or a father's sister.
cultural adaptation -
ER ANS A complex of ideas, technologies, and activities
H
that enables people to survive and even thrive in their environment
G
cultural evolution - ANS Cultural change over time—not to be confused with
I
progress.
GH
cultural relativism - ANS The idea that one must suspend judgment of other
people's practices in order to understand them in their own cultural terms.
Culture -
IN
ANS A society's shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, and
Y
perceptions, which are used to make sense of experience and generate behavior
L
and are reflected in that behavior.
F
culture area - ANS
follow similar patterns of life.
A geographic region in which a number of societies
culture shock - ANS In fieldwork, the anthropologist's personal
disorientation and anxiety, which may result in depression.
UCLA Anthro 3- Yan
Adaptation - ANS A series of beneficial adjustments to a particular
R
environment
H
politically involved.E
advocacy anthropology - ANS Research that is community based and
affineal kin -
IG
ANS People related through marriage.
agriculture -
GH
and/ or irrigation.
ANS Intensive crop cultivation, employing plows, fertilizers,
IN
bilateral descent - ANS Descent traced equally through father and mother's
Y
ancestors; associating each individual with blood relatives on both sides of the
L
family.
F
bride service -
the bride's family.
ANS A designated period of time when the groom works for
Bridewealth - ANS The money or valuable goods paid by the groom or his
family to the bride's family upon marriage; also called bride-price.
, 2
carrying capacity - ANS The number of people that the available resources
can support at a given level of food-getting techniques
R
clan - ANS An extended unilineal kin-group, often consisting of several
E
lineages, whose members claim common descent from a remote ancestor,
H
usually legendary or mythological
G
Colonialism - ANS System by which a dominant society politically claims
I
and controls a foreign territory primarily for purposes of settling and economic
H
exploitation.
G
conjugal family - ANS A family established through marriage.
IN
consanguineal family - ANS A family of blood relatives, consisting of
Y
related women, their brothers, and the women's offspring.
FL
consanguineal kin -
to as blood relatives.
ANS Biologically related relatives, commonly referred
convergent evolution - ANS In cultural evolution, the development of similar
cultural adaptations to similar environmental conditions by different peoples with
different ancestral cultures.
, 3
Core Values - ANS A value especially promoted by a particular culture
cross cousins - ANS The child of a mother's brother or a father's sister.
cultural adaptation -
ER ANS A complex of ideas, technologies, and activities
H
that enables people to survive and even thrive in their environment
G
cultural evolution - ANS Cultural change over time—not to be confused with
I
progress.
GH
cultural relativism - ANS The idea that one must suspend judgment of other
people's practices in order to understand them in their own cultural terms.
Culture -
IN
ANS A society's shared and socially transmitted ideas, values, and
Y
perceptions, which are used to make sense of experience and generate behavior
L
and are reflected in that behavior.
F
culture area - ANS
follow similar patterns of life.
A geographic region in which a number of societies
culture shock - ANS In fieldwork, the anthropologist's personal
disorientation and anxiety, which may result in depression.
