Fieldwork

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Agnatic

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Related through the male kinship line

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Age grade

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A social category of people who fall within a particular culturally distinguished age range; age range often undergoes life cycle rituals as a group

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Chiefdom

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A society more complex than a tribal society, characterized by social ranking, a redistributive economy, and a centralized political authority

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Cultural relativism

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The principle that all cultural systems are inherently equal in value and, therefore, that each cultural item must be understood on its own terms

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Levirate

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The practice by which a man is expected to marry the wife or wives of a deceased brother; commonly found in patrilineal descent systems

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Polygyny

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A common form of plural marriages in which one man is married to two or more women

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Socialization

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The development, through the influence of parents and others, of patterns of thought and behavior In children that conform to believes and values of a particular culture

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Cultural values

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Ideas, beliefs, values, and attitudes learned as a member of a social group

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Economy

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The production, distribution, and consumption of resources, labor, and wealth within a society

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Egalitarian society

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A society that emphasizes the social equality of members and makes achieved statuses accessible to all adults

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Hunter-gatherers

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People’s who subsist on the collection of naturally occurring plants and animals

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Reciprocal gift

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A mechanism of establishment or reinforcing social tied between equals involving a “present” which is repaid at a later date

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Authenticity

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The quality of being genuine

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Diviner

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A practitioner of divination. One who uses a traditional rituals or practices to foresee the future or to communicate with the supernatural

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Emic

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Describing or understanding a specific culture from the subjective point of view of someone living within that culture

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Etic

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Describing or understanding a specific culture from an outsider/external (sometimes neutral) point of view

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Waganga

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Diviners of healers who, according to giriama (Kenya) spiritual beliefs, can harness supernatural powers and win favors from ancestors. They are specialists who mediate between the visible and invisible worlds

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Stroll

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Particular area or territory where prostitution occurs

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Gatekeeper

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Influential person on the scene, whose approval must be granted before others will be willing to participate

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Participant observation

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Joining in on the activities of those one is researching as an additional way to gain knowledge, and see what people really do, watching them do their activities

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Culturally constructed

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A particular culture thinks of something as natural or normal, but it Is not shared cross-culturally; it is conventional with in that particular culture

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Cultural broker

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Person with detailed cultural knowledge about different cultural systems, who can translate each for the other to give the others perspective accurately

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Open ended interview

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Questions have no set answers, but can be answered in paragraphs or pages. Leaves it open to the informant to show what is important

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Cultural relativism

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Temporarily suspends judgement based upon ones own culture to the to understand another culture from its own internal system of logic

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Moral relativism

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Anything that in culture is moral and ok; should be embraced; go native

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Key informant

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Someone with in-depth cultural knowledge of a particular aspect of interest, who is willing to share that knowledge with the researcher at length

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Ethnographic fieldwork

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First hand experience researching among the group of interest, living among them, spending a great deal of time among them to learn about them and preferably learning their language. In depth research of a qualitative nature

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Ethnocentric

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Judging another culture based upon the standard of ones own culture and finding that another culture lacking and ones own culture superior

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Holism

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Evaluating something from within its own cultural conText, as it interrelated with all other parts of culture; examining from every angle