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EXAM 2 Flashcards

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Kinship/Relatedness

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Social force that organizes people into groups, based on AFFINITY, DESCENT, and SHARING

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Affinity (kinship)

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relationship that is created or exists between 2 or more people as a result of someone’s marriage

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Descent (kinship)

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Bilateral - traced through both parents
Uni-lineal - traced through 1 parent
Patrilineal - traced through father (44% of world’s societies), residence post-marriage is patri-local
Matrilineal - traced through mother (15% of world’s societies), residence post-marriage is matri-local

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Sharing (kinship)

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Blood relations
Link between parents (primary) marriage (secondary)
Wari - group in Brazil

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Wari (sharing kinship)

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view descent bilaterally, must marry out of village but within tribe
Their concept/notion of blood includes breast milk, semen, vaginal secretions, and sweat
Transferred via mouth/nose, sexual intercourse, or skin

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Sex

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biological way of determining male or female

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Gender

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Social construct to identify male, female, etc.

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Autonomous Personhood

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person(s) on their own

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Collective Personhood

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entities with legal personhood, shared substances (wari society)

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Lineage

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Your past ancestors/your descendants

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Clan

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group of close-knit and interrelated families

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Life Stages

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Childhood, Puberty, Adolescence, Adulthood

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Childhood

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Period of time from new-born - Puberty

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Puberty

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Universal element of human life cycle, sexual maturation in men and women

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Adolesence

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NOT biological, culturally defined period of maturation which ends upon reaching adulthood (this varies depending on the culture)

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Rites of Passage

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Domestication of sexuality, redefinition of social status

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Arnold Von Gennep

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Discerned that rights of passage across the world break into 3 parts, Separation, Status transformation, reincorporation

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Separation (Rites of Passage)

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removal from familiar context (1st year @ college)

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Status Transformation (Rites of Passage)

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High school student –> College student

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Reincorporation (Rites of Passage)

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life in & after college

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Black Water Fever

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Rite of passage in Mali,
biological change via water, not biological via puberty
parasite in water enters via ankle and travel to male urinary tract, turning urine red-ish color
believed to be equivelant of 1st menstruation for girls

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Circumcision (Black Water Fever)

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Incision (small slice)
circumcision (penis torn away)
Skin tearing (penal shaft skin ripped off)
Some incision (cutting from urethra to scrotum)

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Dejrma People (Africa)

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Women’s right of passage
fattening houses represent wealth
Buruao Body painting
Inspection of candidates to determine readiness for right of passage

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Etic

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from external perspective

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Emic

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from internal perspective

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Marriage

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culturally sanctioned union of 2 or more people that establishes certain rights & obligations between people, their children, and their in-laws. The obligations are, but not limited to, sex, labor, property, child rearing, exchange, and staus

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Endogamy

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marrying within local community, clan, or tribe

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Exogamy

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marrying outside of local community, clan, or tribe

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Incest Taboo

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created to limit physical & mental disorders in offspring

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Sororate

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Marriage type where husband engages in sexual activities with sister(s) of wife, usually after wife’s death or if wife is infertile

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Levirate

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Marriage type where a man may be obligated to marry his brother’s widow

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Monogamy

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being married to one person

33
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Polygamy

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having more than 1 wife or husband at the same time

34
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Polyandry

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1 woman has more than 1 husband

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Polygyny

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1 man has more than 1 wife

36
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Obstetric Fistula

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compression of soft tissues between baby’s head & woman’s pelvis, causes cut off of blood flow to bladder or rectum, results in tissue dying, leaving a hole, or fistula

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Maternal Mortality Rates

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have been on the rise in the US since late 1980s Pregnancy is riskier because first-time mothers are older and have chronic health problems like high blood pressure, obesity, and/or diabetes.

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Mole People

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80% men/women in tunnels,

various forms of social structure

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Homelessness (Mole People)

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characterized by absence of affiliative bonds to people,
Mole People go against this idea, by living together in complex communities and functioning as a group and as individuals

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