Word Scramble: Cultural Anthropology 3

Based on material about gender, sexuality, production, and exchange

Chapters 5-6 of Introducing Cultural Anthropology: A Christian Perspective by Brian M. Howell and Jenell Paris

Challenge: Even if you do not have the textbook or are not taking the class, can you unscramble the words using the clues below?

_____________________________ Biological maleness or femaleness
_____________________________ What it means to be male or female in a particular culture
_____________________________ A loose outer garment covering a woman's entire body and face, typically with a mesh screen over the eyes
_____________________________ A celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday, especially in Mexico and other Latin American communities, marking her transition toward adulthood
_____________________________ A subsistence strategy based on gathering plants that grow wild in the environment and hunting available animals
_____________________________ Acts intended to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group
_____________________________ A form of redistribution and exchange traditionally practiced by Pacific Northwest Native American groups
_____________________________ A system of exchange in which a centralized authority collects goods and services from a group of people and redistributes them
_____________________________ Growing food exclusively, or at least primarily, for consumption by one's own family or group
_____________________________ A form of horticulture that involves clearing and burning a section of forest for cultivation, then moving to another area after a period of use (also known as slash-and-burn agriculture).

-- Howard Culbertson, hculbert@snu.edu

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