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Anth 3390: Magic, Ritual and the Occult
Chapter 3
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 3
02/17/2011

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Symbol
Definition
a shared understanding about the meaning of certain words, attributes, or objects; something that stands for something else
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Disdplacement
Definition
 the ability to use symbols to reger to thiungs and acitivities that are remote from the user
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Arbitrary
Definition
symbols that have no direct connection with the thing they refer to 
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Openness
Definition
a feature of symbols; the ability to create new symbols
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Totemism
Definition
religious system that assigns different plant and animal species to specific social groups and postulates a relationship between the group and the species formed during the period of creation
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Totem
Definition
a symbol or emblem that stands for a social unit
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Syncretism
Definition
the function of elements from two different cultures
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Four kind of Instruments
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-Idiophones

-Membranophones

-Cordophones

-Aerophones

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Idiophones
Definition
instruments that are struck, shaken, or rubbed
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Membranophones
Definition
instruments that incorporate a taut membrane or skin
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Cordophones
Definition
instruments with taut strings that can be plucked or strummed, hit or sawed
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Aerophones
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Instruments in which air is blown across or into some type of passageway, such as a pipe
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