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Anthropology
Undergraduate 3
02/07/2011

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Status
Definition
The categories of different minds of people who interact.
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Roles
Definition
The rules for action associated with particular statuses.
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Social groups
Definition
Organized collections of individuals.
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Social stratification
Definition
Regularly experienced unequal access to resources.
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Egalitarian societies
Definition
Lack any formal social stratification. EG Hunter gatherers.
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Rank societies
Definition
Unequal access to prestige, but not resources. Chiefdomships apply
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Stratified societies
Definition
Likely to form social classes with inequality. Agrarian and industrialized.
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Infralegal
Definition
Settled within the law.
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Extralegal
Definition
Outside the law, escalates to violence.
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Law
Definition
Set of cultural knowledge used to settle disputes.
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Go-between
Definition
a mediator used to settle on an agreement.
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Policy
Definition
Guidelines for action. The public is affected by policy.
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Legitamacy
Definition
positive evaluation of public officials and public policy.
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Coercion
Definition
illegal support derived by threat.
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Religion
Definition
cultural knowledge of the supernatural.
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Supernatural
Definition
realm beyond normal experience.
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Mana
Definition
A free floating force found in things and places
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Magic
Definition
The strategies people use to control the supernatural.
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Sorcery
Definition
Use of magic to cause harm.
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Prayers
Definition
petitions to supernatural beings.
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Shamans
Definition
religious specialists who control the supernatural.
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Priests
Definition
Spiritual mediators to the supernatural.
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Cosmology
Definition
about how things are.
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Mythology
Definition
about how things came to be.
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