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ANTH TEST 3
ANTH TEST 3
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 4
11/15/2009

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khoisan
Definition
healing rituals,
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bantu
Definition
family and lineage, god removed from individual, cult and hierarchy, punishment meted out by ancestors, nothing happens by accident and there are lots of witchcraft and sorcery
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nilotic
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divinity less substantiative, less anthropmorphic, god takes direct interest in human morality and action. group responsibility v. individual greed. less focus on witchcraft and sorcery.
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west africa
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strong emphasis on personal fate. sometimes these forces lead to an unavoidable impact on immoral human events. lots of continuities with the mediterranean (animal sacrifice, blood, anointing, long lingering diseases caused by being drained at night)
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david livingstone
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scottish exporer and missionary
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tsav
Definition
witchcraft substance which grows on one's heart in Tiv culture
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consubstantiation
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you are your brothers keeper. you are one united in spirit. if he dies or does something wrong, you assume his responsibilities. so if you go and take meat from someone, you're taking a vital resource which belongs to their descent line...so its taking from their anscestors (its taking their potential life)
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repugnancy rule
Definition
observe local customs as may be compatible with the principle laws of england. you cant be deprived of a law or custom that is not repugnant to natural justice, equity, and good conscience.
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dual economy
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the situation concerned with devloping the economy for local whites by creating a series of financial advantages in colonial law. two types of ppl and two types of landholdings
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hut tax
Definition
genderate a workforce by creating the need for cash. seen by europeans as a supplemental income for otherwise underutilized male labor
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target workers
Definition
workers with definie sum in view so worker can go home
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one family, two households
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sending money home while living in another place of work
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partially paid workers
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full work but not full pay. wages are not enough to support life and they're living below anyone's poverty line.
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colonial paternalism
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european belief that they are wiser and better than africans so always acting in their best interest. the africans are ignorant children.
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colour bar.
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segregaton. limits on scenes and script that people can use when dealing with each other. language doesnt=communicaiton but a marker/weapen.
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mu-hoi
Definition
landless person or tenant farmer
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a-hoi
Definition
landless people
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what are the two polar types of colonization?
Definition
1. extractive- concerned with developing local exports. 2. settler colonies- indigenious population seen as superfluous. b. concerned with devloping a viable economy for local whites
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name the 5 premises of a colonial society:
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1. there are DIFFERENT KINDS OF PEOPLE 2.one group i sNATURALLY SUPERIOR to the others
3. therefor inequalities are the inevitable result of natural differences
4. the presence of expatriates is because of their honorable and altruistic motives.
5. the actions of said expatriates are beneficial to the natives
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describe the mau mau
Definition
insurgency by kenyan peasants against colonial rule, mostly in Kikuyu.
- wanted to win back land/personal freedoms
-uprising failed militarilty but quicked independence and motivated others to fight
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jomo kenyatta
Definition
first prime minster and president of kenya. member of kikuyu central association and president of kenya africa union. may of organized mau mau. became president in 1964 with independence.
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South of Uganda
Definition
BuGanda. bantu-speaking. agricultural. HD, many centralized political systems
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north of uganda
Definition
BuNyoro. nilo-saharan. pastoral economy. tribal, uncentralized societies.
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an example/case of witchcraft
Definition
kipsigis- if you go to get those cattle back it will be the last trip you ever make. then he drops dead.
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