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| asking for something humbly/earnestly, as in prayer; supernatural forces to manipulate the naural world. |
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existing in the same period
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| validating and perpetuating its own structure by generating values/feelings that hold society together. |
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| involve everyday existence; carrying out mundance activities of life without attention to sociocultural system |
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| Special, nonordinary experiences; rituals and celebrations. |
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| use of magic serves to alleviate the anxiety that people experience in uncontrollable situations |
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| deals with the past, time of origin, associated with scared societies and super powers |
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| have a basis of historical facts |
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| deal with indeterminate time; "once upon a time..." |
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| the predominant influence of one group or idea over others |
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| being mysterious, inferior; emerged out of the colonial encounter |
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| a way of identifying oneself; primordial sentiment |
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| new forms of national identification created by people using history in attempt to create a nation-state |
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| a sovereign political state with single national culture |
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| any politically autonomous entity |
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| nation and state are coterminous |
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| share common cultural norms, values, identities... |
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| process in which a population/society alters its culture to better succeed in its total environment |
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| population spread from its original homeland to other countries which continues to maintain contact with that homeland |
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| family members who migreate from their home to another country and keeps in touch |
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| population movement within a nation-state |
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| population migrates far from homeland to many parts of the world |
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| Boundary Maintenence Mechanism |
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| the ways people separate themselves from dominant societies |
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| the uprising of religious cults |
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| particular type of revitalism that represents a synthesis of old and new religion |
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| contact and colonialism can produce a process by which a people assert a new ethnic identity and take on a new name |
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| a series of social construction s that are not based on simply biological differences |
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| age categories formally named and recognized and crosscut the entire society |
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| women who must work to ensure the survival of their families |
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| men superior to women; used to divide working class organization |
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| environment or surroundings |
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| an inexperienced person; a beginner |
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| to claim, take, or assume without right |
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| calculated to incite ill will |
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| breaking down constructed ideas into their constituent parts which allows us to see the constructed character opposed to the "natural" or our cultural beliefs |
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| a common feature of systems of shared social inequality |
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| ethnic stratification; referring to statuse' defined by shared ancestry |
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| referring to shared status' identified by features as income, education, and occupation. |
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| a group of people who share common ancestry, and feel that they are bound by common ties |
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| frequently contested model for systems of birth-ascribed rank; common rank |
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| common ancestry, interdependent, hierarchially ranked |
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| method for acheiving birth-ascribed membership in a ranked category |
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| Occupational Distinctiveness |
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| stigmatizing feelings associated with status of racial/minority in academia. |
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| splitting of two oppoing ideas |
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| an acquired status; respectly distinct from race and caste. |
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| a model applied to socially/culturally diverse societies |
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| ritual purity; hierarchial social separation |
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| symbolic association between social group and a natural phenomenon |
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| set of ideas about a particular topic |
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| the shared subjective state that develops when a group of people experiences and interprets the world in common ways |
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| a method of discourse analysis in linguistics, which draws on the anthropological field of ethnography. Unlike ethnography proper, though, it takes both language and culture to be constitutive as well as constructive |
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| possession of controlling influence |
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| the power or right to give orders or make decisions |
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| social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power; social relations involving intrigue to gain authority or power |
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| control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures |
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