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Ch. 15-18 Flashcards

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Band

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Small normadic group that is politically autonomous.

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What is Bride price?

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A large amount of goods or money given to the brides kin.

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What is Avunculocal residence?

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Married couples settle with or near the husbands mothers brother.

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What is Adjudication?

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A process in which a third party acts as a judge to make decisions both parties must accept.

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What is a clan?

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A set of people who believe they are decedents of a common ancestor.

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What is chiefdom?

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A political unit with a chief integrating in more than one community.

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What is a chief?

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A leader who excursuses authority on behalf of a multi community political unit.

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8
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What does state mean?

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A culture that had formed a political organization with central bureaucracy.

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9
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What is feuding?

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A violent conflict.

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10
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What is meditation?

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Dispute settlement through negotiation aided by a third party.

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What is a ritual?

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The visible control of abstract thoughts. Control the unpredictable.

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What is a negotiation?

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Compromise by the parties to dispute and arrive at an agreement.

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13
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What is a priest?

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A minister who performs rites and and administer sacraments.

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14
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What is which craft?

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The practice of magic.

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15
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What is sorcery?

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Using power obtained from evil spirits.

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16
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What is mediums?

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Part time religious practitioners who are asked to heal and divine while in trance.

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17
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What is bilateral kinship?

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A system in which decent is reckoned though both the mothers and fathers lines.

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18
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What are parallel cousins?

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The offspring of a parents sibling. A first cousin.

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19
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What are rules of descent?

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Rules that connect individuals common ancestry.

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What is gender differences?

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Differences between male and female that reflect society.

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21
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What is matrilocal residence?

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Married couples that live close to or with the wife’s parents.

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22
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What is Matrillineal descent?

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The rule of decent that affiliates individuals with Lin if both sexes related only through women.

23
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What is Monotheistism?

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The belief of oneness of god.

24
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What is taboo?

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Acts that are banned on grounds of morality or taste.

25
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What are ancestor spirits?

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Supernatural beings who are the ghost of dead relatives.

26
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What is the definition of magic?

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The power of apparently influence the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces.

27
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What is religion?

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The belief in and worship of a super human controlling power.

28
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What are confined laws?

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The process of collecting and restating the law of a jurisdiction.

29
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What is a ghost?

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An apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or become to the living.

30
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What is warfare?

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Organized, armed and conflicted groups which is motivated by common purpose.

31
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What is polyandry?

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The marriage of one woman to more than one man.

32
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What is polygny?

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One man married to multiple woman.

33
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What is an oath?

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The act of calling upon a deity to bear witness to the truth of what one says.

34
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What is ini lineal decent?

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Affiliation with a group of kin through decent of only sex.

35
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What is kindred?

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A ciliate rail set of close relatives.

36
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What is gendered stratification?

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Unequal access by the different genders to prestige, authority, power, rights, and economic resources.

37
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What are gender roles?

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Roles that are culturally assigned to genders.

38
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What is a Patrilineal decent?

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The file of descent that affiliates individuals with kin of both sexes related to them through men only.

39
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What is Patrilocal residence?

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A couple that live with or close to the husbands family.

40
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What is incest taboo?

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Prohibition of marriage between mother and son, father and daughter and brother and sister.

41
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What’s folklore?

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Stories that are told orally.

42
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What is a shaman?

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A doctor, that uses magic.

43
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What is lineage?

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A set of descenders from a common ancestor through links.

44
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What is exogamy?

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A rule specifying marriage to a person from outside ones lineage.

45
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What is endogamy?

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A rule that one must marry some one in their family.

46
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What are gods?

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Supernatural beings of no human origins who are Oren anthropomorphic.

47
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What is polytheistic?

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Recognizing many gods, non of whom is believed to be duper-ordinate.

48
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What is a headman?

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A person who holds a powerless but symbolically unifying position in a community.

49
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What is Marriage?

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A socially approved sexual and economical union.

50
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What is neolocal residence?

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Married couple that live apart and with their parents of the spouses.

51
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What is an ordeal?

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A way to find out if your innocent or guilty using pain.

52
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What are cross cousins?

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Children if siblings if the opposite sex.

53
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What is monogamy?

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Marriage between one and and one woman.

54
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What is Mana?

A

A supernatural force that inhibits people and is believed to confer success and or strength.

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