Anthro Definitions Flashcards
Westermark’s marriage
Marriage is a religiously accepted union of man and woman living together with mutually agreed sexual rights
Murdock’s marriage
It is a universal institution consisting of individuals establishing a family by living together with economic cooperation
Seligman’s marriage
Marriage is a union between man and woman, wherein the children born to the woman are accepted to be the legal children of the couple
Madam and Majundar’s marriage
Marriage consists of social and economic relations arising out of sexual relations between man and woman, which is accepted by religion or civil law
Stephen’s marriage in “The Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective”
Marriage is a legally accepted sexual union. It is more or less permanent relationship between the couple with mutually accepted economic rights and responsibilities between the couple and between the couple and their future children.
Malinowski’s marriage
A legal marriage gives a woman a socially accepted husband and to her children a socially accepted father
R C Brown’s marriage
A social arrangement by which a child is given a legitimate position in a society
Kathaleen Gough’s marriage
Marriage is a union of a woman with one or more other individuals establishing reciprocal rights and responsibilities between them and their to be children giving all the rights to children as a member of that society
Firth Economic Anthro (EA)
EA deals primarily with the economic aspects of social relatives
Nash EA
EA analyzes economic life as a sub-system of society
Beals and Hoijer EA
EA studies the production of goods and services and their distribution and consumption as these, are institutionalized or formalized in socio-cultural sub-systems
Plattener EA
EA studies economic behaviour as thoroughly embedded in socio-cultural aspects
Tylor’s Religion
Belief in spiritual beings
Durkheim’s religion
Unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things
Malinowski’s religion
Religion is a mode of action as well as a system of belief and a social phenomenon, as well as personal and collective experience
Evans Pritchard Religion
Religion is the way in which a society maintains its solidarity and ensures its continuity
Wallace religion
A set of rituals rationalizes by myth, which mobilizes transformations of state in man and nature
Paul Bohannan’s Political Anthro (PA)
It studies the spatial, structural, organizational, and functional aspects of the political system of the primitive and peasant populations and to sone extent the urban populations in relation to culture and society.
Fried PA
A study that deals with political organization comprising those portions of social organization that specifically relate to the individuals or groups that manage the affairs of public policy or seek to control the appointment or activities of those individuals or groups
Swartz, Turner, and Tuden’s PA
A study of the processes involved in determining and implementing public goals and in the differential achievements and use of power by the members of the group concerned with the goals
