Anthropology: Exam 3

A society in which all persons of a given age-sex category have equal access to economic resources, power and prestige.

A society that does not have any unequal access to economic resources or power, but with social groups that have unequal access to status positions and prestige.

A society containing social groups that have unequal access to economic resources, power and prestige.

A ranked group, often associated with a certain occupation, in which membership is determined at birth and marriage is restricted to members of one's own caste.

Culturally defined: male, female, third gender (intersexed)

The food-getting activities; gathering, hunting, fishing, herding, and agriculture.

Activities that involve the preparation and processing of food either to make it edible or to store it.

A marked difference difference in size and appearance between males and females of a species.

A socially approved sexual and economic union, usually between a man and a woman, that is presumed, both by the couple and by others, to be more or less permanent, and the subsumes reciprocal rights and obligations between the two spouses and their future children.

A social and economic unit consisting minimally of a parent and a child.
· Two or more people related by blood, marriage or adoption

· Basic residential unit where economic production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing and shelter are organized and carried out.

A substatial gift of goods or money given to the bride's kin by the groom or his kin at or before the marriage.

Work performed by the groom for his bride's family for a variable length of time either before or after the marriage.

A substantial transfer of goods or money from the bride's family to the birde.

Prohibition of sexual intercourse or marriage between mother and son, father and daughter, and brother and sister.