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What is Anthropology
Is the study of the human species
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What is culture
The unifying concept in Anthropology
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What is reciprocity
Giving and having back in return
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What is the language spoken by most people in Mali?
Bambara
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What is exogamy?
You have to marry outside of your lineage or clan.
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What is Ethnography
Living with the group your studying
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What is ethnocentrism
The belief that your way of doing things is the only proper way
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What is emic
Descriptions of beliefs and behaviors from the member perspective. The "insider point of view"
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What is one of the villages where Dettwyler did her fieldwork?
Magnambougou
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What is iodine?
A deficiency of this can result in a goiter
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What is Culture
A set of learned and shared symbolic behaviors passed from generation to generation that are usually patterned and integrated, preferably adaptive and always subject to change through manipulation or reinterpretation
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What is superstructure
Society shared sense of identity and worldview
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What is Negative reciprocity
Someone gets something without giving anything back in return
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What are the thighs?
The sexist part of a woman's body
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What is a mosquito?
You can get malaria if one of these bites you.
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What is Adaptive Culture
Members have the resources they need to live well, are free from violence and threats of violence
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What is culture relativism
Cultural practices must be understood within the context in which they occur
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What is economics
Production+ distribution+ consumption
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What is a calabash?
A gourd used to store or serve food in
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What is a toubab?
This is what Malians call white people.
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What are the five fields of Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology, Archaeology, Physical Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, and Applied Anthropology
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What is infrastructure
Economic foundation of a society, including its subsistence practices, and the tools and other material equipment to make a living
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What is horticulture
People that intentionally do farming; an example is slash and burn
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Who was Dettwyler's Malian assistant?
Moussa Diarra
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What is ego?
This is the center of a kinship chart, center of all ancestors and descendents
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