ANT 111 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Linguistic Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, Ethnology
20 Apr 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Informant/respondents/consultant/interlocutor/partner- a person whom anthropologists gather data from: key informants- well informed people. Indian wars until late 19th century in americas: epidemics, smallpox, tb, influenza, natives couldn"t resist because they were so sick in the americas, colonizing 19th century. Ice less available: hunting harder, must adapt, horticulture, enough to support a local group, no surplus, swidden (slash and burn) Northwest coast native americans: drive to produce more than needed, leveling mechanism- practice, value, or form of social organization that evens the wealth within a society. Income disparities upper classes: race and racial stratification in the united states, presumed ancestry, anglo-hispanic, multiracialism, black and white, african americans have a higher mortality rate, racism, affects job and educational opportunities, literacy vs. illiteracy. Spring 2017: heterosexual and homosexual marriage, endogamy- rule that person must marry within a particular group, cross-cousin marriage- marriage to child of uncle or aunt (mothers brother,
