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Anthropology
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05/13/2007

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politics
Definition
any functional relationship that involves power
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power
Definition
the ability to influence the behavior of another in a wat desired
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force
Definition
the execution of power
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authority
Definition
an individual or group of individuals who's decisions are usually followed by a majority of the group
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leader
Definition
individual who makes a decision and leads in the execution of the decision
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legislative
Definition
to make the rules
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judicial
Definition
determine the law in a specific case. Often times the law will not follow the rules
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legalism
Definition
complete reliance on the rules
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formal authority or leader
Definition
one whose rights and duties are defined by law. (vests in the office, not in the individual).
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informal authorit yor leader (depends on personailty)
Definition
power in the individual
memberton-puoinoti (mic-mac) first christian on the mainland
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Headman (hunting/gathering)(informal)
Definition
an informal band or village leader who has variable levels of authority. Often leads by persuasion and example
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Big Man (horticultuarl and pastoral) (informal)
Definition
an informal leader who creates his own position in an entrepenural enterprise
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chief (formal)
Definition
formal leaders in non-western societies
(cheyenne) originally from our region. 44 chiefs with a term of office of ten years, all because of a vision a young girl had.
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tribe
Definition
large number of bands united through central government (atleast some of the time) cheyenne is the only tribe of the plains (safety, because there was a lot of fighting on the plains and they were small in #)
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pacify
Definition
stop the warfare
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autocracy
Definition
one person has the power
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gerontocracy
Definition
elders have the power
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plutocracy
Definition
wealthy have the power
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theocracy
Definition
religous leaders
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aristocracy
Definition
"best" people have the power
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democracy
Definition
people have the power
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monarchy
Definition
one person governs
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oligarchy
Definition
a small group of people govern
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anarchy
Definition
nobody governs
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despot
Definition
tyranical leader who cares only about compliance
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totalitarian dictator
(stalin, pol pot, castro, mussolini)
Definition
tyranical ruler who wants to control your mind. wants the followers to psycologically internalize his values. Often uses brainwashing.
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state
(in the history of WARS between state and non-state societies, non-states have never won)
Definition
political unit with a definite territory organized under a single government which is not subject to external contorl, having a hierarchal structure and a governmental monopoly on the use of force to impliment policy
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Internal Conflict Theory (Marx)
Definition
thought that the state was started when classes first appeared
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External Conflict Theory (Spencer)
Definition
societies beat on eachother so much that they had to develop this organization to survive.
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Carniero's Theory
Definition
states arrive in a circumscribed society
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Marvin Harris' Theory
Definition
you need to have government institutions strong enough to control the population
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Wittfogel's Hydraulic Theory
Definition
irrigation canal's for farmers forced
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Kent Flanmery's System Theory
Definition
a combinantion of all theories
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Jural Law
Definition
deals with those behaviors that people think are so important that exceptions should not be allowed to take place. jural principles as they related to the behavior of people. In micmac society homicide is not illegal.
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Moral Law
Definition
concerned with questions of the highest moral behavior
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Res Judica (tibet)
Definition
at some point in the legal process there will be a decision made
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Res Judica (tibet)
Definition
at some point in the legal process there will be a decision made
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Legal Decision
Definition
Statement by a legal authortiy by which a dispute is solved or a party or parties is advized before legally relevant behavior takes place (declaraory decisions) or by which approval i s given to a previous solution of a dispute made by the participant before they brought the dispute to the attention of an authority
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Self-redress
Definition
take matter sinto your own hands
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declaratory decision
Definition
ask the judge before you do something to make sure it is legal
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Law
Definition
Principles extracted from decision
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Authority
Definition
an individual or group of individuals who possess the power through the use of force of the majority of the members of their social groups to conform their legal decision
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Intention of Universal Application
Definition
the legal authority making the decisions intends that the decision be applied in similar and identical situations
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Obligatio
Definition
that part of the decision that refers to that case that states the rights of one party and the duties of another
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Sanction
Definition
either a negative device that which draws rewards that otherwise if the law had not been violated would not have granted or a positive sanction
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Comparative Law
Definition
to study law by comparing the laws of one society to another
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Principle of Territoriality
Definition
law applied equally to everyone within a specific territory regardless of status
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Civilized Society
Definition
societies with exact practical sciences and full time artists (ius quiritium: roman law)
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Legalism
Definition
an extreme emphasis upon abstract rules which are regarded as to be objective revelation of a legislative will, and as the exclusive manifestation as a source of law. The individual rules themselves are seen as the exclusive and concrete answers to particular disputes.
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Wejiksaputut
Definition
the one to beat
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ritual
Definition
a conventionalized, formal, and symbolic act which serves to change status. (wedding, funeral)
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ceremony
Definition
a conventionalized formal and symbolic act which maintains and reaffirms status
(homecoming, pledge)
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Calendrical Ceremony
Definition
having to do with the calendar
(hort and ag) HOPI
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Animism
Definition
a belief in spirits
spirits have shape, limited size
localized and local in influence
everything is a live in a sense
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God
Definition
generally an individual who is anthropomorphic (human form) or zoomorphic (animal shape) or amorphic (no shape) of superhuman powers to whom prayers are directed and who is far superior to the spirit
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Animatism
Definition
a belief in amorphic super natural power (medicine)
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Mana (polynesian)
Definition
similar to an electrical charge. amorphic, and can be transfered. can be deadly (universal)
mana is inherited bilinealy. children have more mana than parents. mana of two diff people can transfer (royal incest)
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Religion
Definition
system of beliefs in non-phenominal, non-ampirical verifiable power vested in a supernatural being or a philisophical creed or theory; an emotional attatchment to a creed
based entirely on faith and is emotional
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God
Definition
no control over, the superior of power
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priest
Definition
the practitioner of religion, intermediate between us and God
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Magic
Definition
very practical, deals with concrete, specific gaols. belief in casual effect
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Shaman's
Definition
intermediates between us and the spirits
sorcerors, witches, witch doctors
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Religion
Definition
involves faith and non-questioning
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Science
Definition
involves questioning
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Philosophy
Definition
not necessarily empirical
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Sycretism
Definition
ancient beliefs intertwined with Christianity
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