ANTH 001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bilateral Descent, Dowry, Liminality
7 Aug 2018
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What"s italicized and in red is what will most likely be on the midterm. Nomads : a group of people who have no fixed home and travel from place to place in search of food. Foragers : people who search for provisions of any kind. Pastoralist : someone who raises livestock to provide food. When someone lives in one spot and has a set home. Horticulture : the art of practice of garden cultivation and management. Endogamous : the custom of marrying only within the limits of a local community, clan, or tribe. Exogamous : where people marry only outside a social group. Virilocal : the social system in which a married couple resides with or near the husband"s parents. Levirate : when a widow (female) has to marry the brother of her husband to remain part of the family after her husband dies and he becomes the father of her children.
