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Cultural Anthropology
Final Test Chapters 10-15
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 2
05/11/2012

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descent group
Definition
group based on belief in shared ancestry
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family of orientation
Definition
nuclear family in which one is born and grows up
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family of procreation
Definition
nuclear family established when one is married and has children
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neolocality
Definition
couple establishes new residence
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extended family household
Definition
household with three or more generations
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unilineal descent
Definition
matrilineal or patrilineal descent
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lineage
Definition
unilineal descent group based on demonstrated descent
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clan
Definition
unilineal descent group based on stipulated descent
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ambilineal
Definition
flexible descent rule, niether patrilineal nor patrilineal
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kiinship calculation
Definition
how people in a particular society reckon kin relations
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ego
Definition
position from which one views an egocentric geneaology
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bilateral kinship calculation
Definition
kin ties calculated equally through men and women
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functional explanation
Definition
one based on correlation or co occurrence of social variables
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lineal kinship terminology
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four parental kin terms: M,F,FB=MB and MZ=MZ
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lineal relative
Definition
ego's direct ancestors and descendants
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collateral relative
Definition
relative outside ego's direct line
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affinals
Definition
relatives by marriage
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bifurcate merging kinship terminology
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four parental kin terms, Mother=Aunt, Father=Uncle, MB and FZ each stand alone
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generational kinship terminology
Definition
Just two parental kin terms: M=MZ=FZ and F=FB=MB.
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bifurcate collateral kinship terminology
Definition
Six separate kinship terms, M, F. MB. FB. MZ. FZ.
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parallel cousins
Definition
children of two brothers or two sisters
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cross cousins
Definition
children of a brother and a sister
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genitor
Definition
a child's biological father
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pater
Definition
one's socially recognized father, not necessarily the genitor
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exogamy
Definition
marriage outside a given group
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incest
Definition
forbidden sexual relations with a close relative
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endogamy
Definition
marriage of people from the same group
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mater
Definition
one's socially recognized mother
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bridewealth
Definition
marital gift by husband's group to wife's group
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progeny price
Definition
marital gift by husband's group to wife's, legitimizes their children
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progeny price
Definition
marital gift by husband's group to wife's, legitimizes their children
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dowry
Definition
substantial gifts to husband's family from wife's group
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plural marriage
Definition
more than two spouses simultaneously, aka polygamy
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polygyny
Definition
more than one wife at the same time
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polyandry
Definition
more than one husband at the same time
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sororate
Definition
widower marries sister of his deceased wife
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levirate
Definition
widow marries brother of her deceased husband
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religion
Definition
belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces
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communities
Definition
intense feeling of social solidarity
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animism
Definition
belief in souls or doubles
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mana
Definition
impersonal sacred force, so named in Melanesia and Polynesia
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taboo
Definition
sacred and forbidden, prohibition backed by supernatural sanctions
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magic
Definition
using supernatural techniques to accomplish specific aims
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ritual
Definition
formal, repetitive, stereotyped behaviour, based on liturgical order
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rites of passage
Definition
rites marking transition between places or stages in life
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liminality
Definition
the in-between phase of a passage rite
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leveling mechanism
Definition
custom that brings standouts back in line with community norms
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shaman
Definition
part time magico-religious practitioner
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communal religions
Definition
based on community rituals
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polytheism
Definition
belief that multiple deities control aspects of nature
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Olympian religions
Definition
state religions with professional priesthoods
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monotheism
Definition
worship of a single supreme being
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revitalization movements
Definition
movements aimed at altering or revitalizing a society
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cargo cults
Definition
postcolonial acculturative religious movements in Melanesia
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syncretisms
Definition
cultural, especially religious mixes, emerging from acculturation
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antimodernism
Definition
rejecting the modern for a presumed earlier, purer, better way
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fundamentalism
Definition
advocating strict fidelity to a religion's presumed founding principles
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arts
Definition
include visual arts, literature, music and performing arts
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expressive culture
Definition
dance, music, painting, scultpture, pottery, cloth, stories, drama, comedy, etc...
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art
Definition
object, event, or other expressive form that evokes an aesthetic reaction
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aesthetics
Definition
appreciation of qualities perceived in art
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ethnomusicology
Definition
comparitive study of music as an aspect of culture and society
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folk
Definition
of the people (art, music, and lore of the ordinary people)
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catharsis
Definition
intense emotional release
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text
Definition
cultural product that is processed and assigned meaning by anyone exposed to it
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capitalist world economy
Definition
profit oriented global economy based on production for sale
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capital
Definition
wealth invested with the intent of producing profit
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world-system theory
Definition
idea that a discernable social system, based on power and wealth differentials, transcends individual countries
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core
Definition
dominant position in the world system, nations with advanced systems of production
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semiperiphary
Definition
position in the world system intermediate between core and periphery
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periphery
Definition
weakest structural and economic position in the world system
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industrial revolution
Definition
socioeconomic transformation through industrialization
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bourgeoisie
Definition
owners of the means of production
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proletariat
Definition
working class that must sell their labor to survive
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imperialism
Definition
policy aimed at seizing and ruling foreign territory and peoples
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colonialism
Definition
long term foreign control of a territory and its peope
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postcolonial
Definition
relations between european peoples and the areas they colonized and once ruled
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intervention philosophy
Definition
ideological justification for outsiders to guide and rule native peoples
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neoliberalism
Definition
governments shouldn't regulate private enterprise, free market forces should rule
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communism
Definition
property owned by the community, people working for the common good
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Communism
Definition
political movement aimed at replacing capitalism with soviet style communism
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indigenous peoples
Definition
original inhabitants of particular areas
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climate change
Definition
global warming plus changing sea levels, precipitation, storms, and ecosystem effects
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greenhouse effect
Definition
warming from trapped atmospheric gases
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ecological anthropology
Definition
study of cultural adaptations to environments
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ethnoecology
Definition
a culture's set of environmental practices and perceptions
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westernization
Definition
the acculturative influence of western expansion on local cultures worldwide
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cultural imperialism
Definition
spread of one dominant culture at the expense of others
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indigenized
Definition
modified to fit local culture
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diaspora
Definition
offspring of an area who have spread to many lands
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postmodernity
Definition
time of questioning of established canons, identities, and standards
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postmodern
Definition
breakdown of established canons, categories, and distinctions, and boundaries
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postmodernism
Definition
movement after modernism in architecture, now much wider
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essentialism
Definition
viewing identities that have developed historically as innate and unchanging
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