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Exam 3 Flashcards

1
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a method of dispute settlement in self-help legal systems involving multiple but balanced killing between members of two or more kin groups

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Feud

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Form of society in which there is little inequality in access to culturally valued reward

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Egalitarian Society

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Society with a limited number of high-ranking, privileged social positions, groups are relative to one another.

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Ranked Society

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Society with marked and variably heritable differences in access to wealth, power, and prestige, inequality is based mainly on equal access to productive and valued resources.

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Stratified Society

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System of stratification in which membership in a stratum can be theoretically altered and intermarriage between strata is allowed.

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Class

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6
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Ideas and beliefs that legitimize and reinforce inequalities in stratified societies

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Ideologies

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Stories that recount those deeds of supernatural power and cultural hero’s in the past.

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Myths

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organized, stereotyped, symbolic behaviors intended to influence supernatural powers

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Rituals

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9
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beliefs in supernatural beings

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Animism

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10
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Religious organizations based on personal relationships between specific individuals and specific supernatural powers.

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Individual Cults/ Organizations

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Religious organizations in which certain individuals have relationships with supernatural powers that ordinary people lack.

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Shamanistic Cults/ Organizations

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Older members of the group who act as leaders and have no religious ties.

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Communal Cults/ Organizations

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Religious organizations in which the members of a group cooperate to perform rituals intended to benefit all.

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Ecclesiastical Cults/ Organizations

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Ancestral Cults/ Organizations

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15
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A part time religious specialists who uses his special relationship to supernatural powers for curing members of his group and harming members of other groups.

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Shaman

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Form of communal religious organization in which all members of a kin group have mystical relationships with one or more natural objects.

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Totemism

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Kind of religious specialists, usually full time, who officiates at large scale, organized rituals, that keep the population in proper relationship to deities or cosmic forces.

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Priests

18
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Idea that the emotional or affective satisfaction people gain from religion are primary in interpreting religion.

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Psychological Approach

19
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Emphasizes effects of religion on maintaining those institutions of society as a whole

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Sociological Approach

20
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Mechanisms by which behavior is constrained and directed into acceptable channels, thus maintaining conformity.

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Social Control

21
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Qualities that make objects, actions, or language more beautiful or pleasurable, according to culturally relative and variable standards.

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Aesthetics

22
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Arts meant to be heard, seen, or personally performed, including music, song, dance and theater.

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Performance Arts

23
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Artificial artistic enhancement or beautification of the human body by painting, tattooing, scarification, or other means.

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Body Arts

24
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Arts produced in a material or tangible form, including basketry, pottery, textiles, paintings, drawings, sculptures, carvings, and the like.

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Visual Arts

25
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an ethnic group with a feeling of homeland

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Nationalities

26
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lack the concept of a distinct and separate homeland

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Subnationalities

27
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geographic region over which a group collectively has exclusive rights.

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Homeland

28
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branch of anthropology

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Ethnographies

29
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iraq

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Artificial Countries

30
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anthropology put to use

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Applied Anthography

31
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the process that businesses use to develop on a more global scale

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Globalization

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Scarcity Explanation of Hunger

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Inequality Explanation of Hunger

34
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Small foraging group with flexible composition that migrates seasonally.

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Bands

35
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people native to a certain land before it was developed

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Indigenous People

36
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territory or state ruled by a chief

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Chiefdoms

37
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a nation or territory controlled by one government

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States

38
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Discuss differences between sorcery and witchcraft

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sorcery- manipulate supernatural power, witchcraft- possess supernatural power

39
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Discuss causes of revitalization movements

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40
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Attributes of ethnic groups

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situational nature of ethnic identity, attributes of ethnic groups

41
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Discuss various responses to ethnic conflict

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an organized attempt at making a more productive way of living, ethnic cleansing, genocide, relocation, assimilation, segregation, accommodation.

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