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Anthropology test 3
kinship, religion, marriage, government
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
12/12/2011

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substinence
Definition
the minimum necessary to support life
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market economies
Definition
a system based on the division of labor in which the prices of goods and services are set in a free system by supply and demand.

characterized by the use of money and it creates a social gap between bosses and workers.
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traditional economy
Definition
a system based on the exchange of labor, and characterized by social obligation and kinship and moral obligations
may also use money
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lineal system
Definition
direct descendants and ancestors
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bifurcate merging
Definition
different terms for mother's and father's sides and merges the terms for the siblings of the same sex in each parent.
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generational system
Definition
same terms for parents and their siblings regardless of whether mother or father's
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marriage
Definition
a symbolically marked agreement between families
-america thinks its an agreement between two individuals.
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what does marriage mean?
Definition
-transforms status of participants
-stipulates sexual access between partners
-perpetuates rights/obligations to children
-creates kin relationship between kin of partners
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worldwide, is marriage always between a male and a female?
Definition
no. for example:
Nuer examples, if parents only had daughters, they would choose one daughter to take the role of a male and take on a wife.
ghost marriage: brother takes role of deceased husband
gay and lesbian couples
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biological degeneration
Definition
there might be deformities from mating with kin (incest)
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exogamy
Definition
marrying outside clan, lineage, etc.
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endogamy
Definition
marrying inside clan, lineage, etc
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homogamy
Definition
marrying within the same social class
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monogamy
Definition
two partners
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polygamy
Definition
multiple spouses
-serial monogamy
-polygyny - 1 man, multiple women
polyandry- 1 woman, multiple men
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religion
Definition
brief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers and forces.
Term
3 phases of initiation
Definition
separation
liminality- living in a time out of time (college)
incorporation
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magic
Definition
supernatural techniques intended to accomplish specific aims
-antisocial, morally dubious
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imitative magic
Definition
voodoo
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contagious magic
Definition
plants, whatever you do to a thing that a person touched will happen to them. such as nails or hair as well.
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witchcraft
Definition
magic for selfish gain (the negative magic)
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sorcery
Definition
magical objects (charms, potions, medicines) for selfish gain
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witchdoctor (unwitcher)
Definition
uses powers to undo spells
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power
Definition
ability to exercise one's will over others
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authority
Definition
socially approved use of power based on status
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sociopolitical organization
Definition
regulation or management of relations among groups and their representatives
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band
Definition
-usually kin-based
-no formalized leaders
-egalitarian (achieved status)
-usually mobile, low populations density
-roughly correlated foraging
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tribe
Definition
-roughly correlated with horticulture or pastoral economy
-little social stratification
-leadership: achieved status
-semi-sedentary, higher population density
-sometimes have pantribal sodalities
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chiefdom
Definition
-chief: inherited title, royal clans (ascribed)
-political regulation
-tribute- a tax or gifting
-roughly correlated with intensive horticulture, agriculture, pastoralism
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states
Definition
-complex social stratification
-reduced importance of kinship
-administrative control
-social stratification (differential access)
--economic status: wealth
--political status: power
--social status: prestige
-taxation
-institutionalized law and governments
roughly correlated with agriculture and industrialism.
Term
how power is maintained: theocracy
Definition
supernatural authority
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how power is maintained: wealth
Definition
clothing
residence
items
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how power is maintained:
Definition
elite propaganda through control of symbols
monumental labor projects
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