Chapter 3

Question 1

Complementary opposition

Answer 1

A structural principle in which pairs of opposites, such as males and females, form a logical larger whole.

Question 2

Clan

Answer 2

A named group claiming descent from a common but often remote ancestor and sharing a joint estate.

Question 3

Tótem

Answer 3

Specific Australian animals, plants, natural phenomenon, or other objects that originate in the Dreaming and are the spiritual progenitors of aboriginal descent groups. Elsewhere, it refers to any cultural association between specific natural objects and human social groups.

Question 4

Animism

Answer 4

A belief in spirits that occupy plants, animals, and people. Spirits are supernatural and normally invisible but may transform into different forms. Animism is considered by cultural evolutionist to be the simplest and earliest form of religion.

Question 5

Exogamy

Answer 5

Marriage outside a culturally defined group

Question 6

Cosmogony

Answer 6

An ideological system that seeks to explain the origin of everything: people, nature and the universe

Question 7

Cosmology

Answer 7

An ideological system that explains the order and meaning of the universe and peoples places within it.

Question 8

Tribe

Answer 8

A politically autonomous decentralized, economically self sufficient territorially based society that can reproduce a distinct culture and language and form an in marrying (endogenous) population

Question 9

Band

Answer 9

A group of twenty five to fifty people who camp and forage together

Question 10

Patrilocal band

Answer 10

A theoretical form of band of organization based on exogamy and patrilocal residence

Question 11

Patrilocality

Answer 11

A cultural preference for a newly married couple to live near the husbands parents or patrilineal relatives.

Question 12

Endogamy

Answer 12

Marriage within a specified group