Anth 101

Question 1

Ethnic identity

Answer 1

socially grown collective identity and assumes a common history and traditions

Question 2

racial identity

Answer 2

identification with a particular racial group

Question 3

national identity

Answer 3

a sense of belonging to a nation and belief in political aspirations

Question 4

achieved status

Answer 4

a social status achieved through skill and effort

Question 5

ascribed status

Answer 5

a social position a person is born into

Question 6

4 qualities of a nation-state

Answer 6

imagined, sovereignty, limited, community

Question 7

ethnic violence

Answer 7

violence between two or more ethnic groups

Question 8

racial violence

Answer 8

racially motivated violence against a certain group

Question 9

two main explanations for ethnic violence

Answer 9

1. primordialist: the basic tendency for people to associate with their own kind
2. circumstantialist: the idea that conflict is due to the information that is given to people, conflict is not inevitable

Question 10

religion

Answer 10

briefs, values, and actions acquired by a group

Question 11

shaman

Answer 11

a healer, acts for human clients

Question 12

priests

Answer 12

occupies religious duties and ranks at all times

Question 13

clergy

Answer 13

formal leader with established religions

Question 14

religious syncretism

Answer 14

blending of two or more religious belief systems

Question 15

revitalization movements

Answer 15

deliberate, organized and conscious effort by members of a society to construct a more satisfying culture

Question 16

secularism

Answer 16

the separation of religion from civic affairs and the state

Question 17

3 stages of passage

Answer 17

1. seperation
2. liminality
3. re-incorperation

Question 18

seperation

Answer 18

changing from something you ounce were into something new

Question 19

liminality

Answer 19

limbo stage between transition, when you are not what you were before, but not what you will be either

Question 20

re-incorperation

Answer 20

finally stage, grants a new status

Question 21

temporary liminality

Answer 21

between last day of school and graduation

Question 22

permanent liminality

Answer 22

loosing a job and looking for a new one, “permanent” because there is no end date