Anth 101 Flashcards
Ethnic identity
socially grown collective identity and assumes a common history and traditions
racial identity
identification with a particular racial group
national identity
a sense of belonging to a nation and belief in political aspirations
achieved status
a social status achieved through skill and effort
ascribed status
a social position a person is born into
4 qualities of a nation-state
imagined, sovereignty, limited, community
ethnic violence
violence between two or more ethnic groups
racial violence
racially motivated violence against a certain group
two main explanations for ethnic violence
- primordialist: the basic tendency for people to associate with their own kind
- circumstantialist: the idea that conflict is due to the information that is given to people, conflict is not inevitable
religion
briefs, values, and actions acquired by a group
shaman
a healer, acts for human clients
priests
occupies religious duties and ranks at all times
clergy
formal leader with established religions
religious syncretism
blending of two or more religious belief systems
revitalization movements
deliberate, organized and conscious effort by members of a society to construct a more satisfying culture
secularism
the separation of religion from civic affairs and the state
3 stages of passage
- seperation
- liminality
- re-incorperation
seperation
changing from something you ounce were into something new
liminality
limbo stage between transition, when you are not what you were before, but not what you will be either
re-incorperation
finally stage, grants a new status
temporary liminality
between last day of school and graduation
permanent liminality
loosing a job and looking for a new one, “permanent” because there is no end date
