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Non-Verbal Communication

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Sending and Receiving wordless information

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Affinity

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Has no blood relationship, kinship by marriage or adoption

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Immoral

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Not conforming to accepting standards of morality

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Cultural Relativism

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Understanding person’s belief and activities by other people

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Cultural Divergence

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Dividing of culture into 2 different directions

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Cultural Pluralism

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When smaller groups stick to their cultural identities in a large group, and the large groups accepts their behaviour?

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Holism

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An analysis of society as a whole which refuse to break society into component parts

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Subjectivity

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Felt interior of a person that include their position in a field of relational power

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Bio cultural Anthropology

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Explorations between biology and culture

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Enculturation

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Process of learning your own culture

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Power

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Influencing the actions of others

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Matrilineal

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Descent through female line

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Patrilineal

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Tracing of inheritance, power through the male line

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Economic Anthropology

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Explains human economic behaviour in it’s widest historic geographic and cultural scope

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Physical Anthropology

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Study of biological origins and physical variations among human population

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Heteroglossia

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Diversity of voice, styles of discourse of points of view in a lit work and especially a novel ?????

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Perception

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Facets of self. How sensory information is organized

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Cognition

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Facts of self. Relations between the mind at work and the world in how it works

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Social Trauma

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Speaks to events on a person or social group and undermines trust

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Failure to cope (ST)

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Feeling of “cant do it anymore”

Ex. Father loses daughter and can’t handle it, tries to commit suicide

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Transcendence (ST)

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Existence or experience beyond the normal physical level

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Collective Anger

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Relatedness

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Fundamental aspects of human coniditon

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Social Relatidness

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Socially recognized ties that connect people in different ways

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Kinship
Social relationship that's derived from universal human experiences of mating, birth, and nuturance
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Descent
Method of classifying individuals in terms of their various kinship connections
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Bilaterality
Relatives on fathers side that are equally important for emotional ties or for transfer of property of wealth
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Ego
The individual from the network of kinship/family descents etc that's reckoned and traced
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Lineage
Descent group where all of the links are known
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Clans
Non-corporated descent group in which genealogical links to a common ancestor and assumed and not actually known
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Monogamy
Having one spouse
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Polygyny
Having multiple wives
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Patrilocality
Residence after marriage in association with the husband's fathers relatives
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Exogamy
Rules for of marriage OUTSIDE a particular group
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Endogamy
Rules of marriage for INSIDE a particular group
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Displacement
Feature of human language that allows people to talk about events in the past and future
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Diversity
Different types of people in a group or organization
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Semanticity
Quality that a linguistic system has of being able to convey meanings
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Prevarication
Telling lies, in a sneaky way
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Socialization
People especially children are made to take on the ideas and behaviours of life in a particular society
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Heteronomitivity
Cultural bias in favour of opposite sex relationships of a sexual nature, and against homo relationships
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Prototype
First model of something.. that's then developed into more models
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Schema
Representation of a plan or theory in the form of an outline model
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Structural Violence
Harming people by preventing them from meeting basic needs (institutions)
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Syllogistic Reasoning
Where logical conclusion is drawn from 2 propositions or premises
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Taxonomy
Branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms
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Achieved Status
Ralph Linton. Denoting a social position that is earned or chosen
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Age Sets
Social group with people of the same age that have common identity
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Ascribed Status
Social statues someones assigned at birth or involuntarily later in life
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Bilateral Descent
Relatives on both mother and fathers side are important in emotional ties or for transfer of property or wealth
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Bridewealth
Accompanied by provision of a dowry- a payment, presented by brides family to the grooms family
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Conjugal Family
Family relationships is focused inward, ties to kin voluntary based on emotional bonds rather than strict duties and obligations
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Ecotones
Region of transition between 2 biological communities
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Dowry
Transferred of parental property at marriage of a daughter (cows)
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Extended Family
Aunts, uncles, cousins all nearby or in the same household
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Family of Choice
Choosing your own "Kin"
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Joint Family
2 or more generations of kindred related through either a parent line or to common social economic and religous regulations
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Nuclear Family
Pair of adults and their children
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Secret Society
Organization where members sworn to secrecy about it's activities
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Segmentary Opposition
Society characterized by the organization of society into 2 segments
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Sodalitives
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Unilineal Descent
Descent through paternal or maternal line only
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Affluence
Being wealthy
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Distribution
System of allocating resources in society
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Ecology
Branch of bio that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings
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Econiche
Statues of organisms within its environment and community
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Economy
Wealth and resources of a country or region especially in terms of the production and consumption of gods and services
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Extensive Agriculture
Production system using small inputs of labour, fertilizers, and capital relative to the land/area being farmed
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Food Collectors
Foragers or hunters (gathereres)
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Food Producers
Domesticated edible plants and control their food sources often modifying the environment
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Ideology
System of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy
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Insitution
Organization or society founded for a religious, educational, social, or similar purpose
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Intensive Agriculture
Characterized by low fallow ration and higher use of inputs
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Labour
Hard physical work
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Market Exchange
Used in capitalist societies and is most recently developed mode of exchange
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Means of Productions
Facilities and resources for producing gooods
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Mechanized Industrial Argichulture
Process of using arg machinery to mechanise the work of agriculture
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Mode of Production
Varied ways that human beings collectively produce the means of subsistence in order to survive and enhance social being
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Neo-Classical economic theory
E. Roy. Set of solutions to economics focusing on the determination of goods, outputs, income distribution, in markets through supply and demand
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Production
Making good available
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Reciprocity
Mutual interchange of favours or privileges, especially the exchange of rights or of trade between groups
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Redistribution
Mechanisms whereby a politically or economically powerful group or indiv collects good and services from the members of society and relocates them among members
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Scarcity
State of being scarce or in short supply
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Foraging
Act of fishing, hunting, collecting food
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Horticulture
Non- Industrial system of plant cultivation plots lie fallow for varrying lenghts of time
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Pasturalism
Recieving most of their food from heards of domesticated animals
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Agriculture
Growing of food in the same location for an extended period of time
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Industrialism
Society in which most of the population isn't directly involved in the food production process
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Cultural Discretment
Act or process of exhibiting keen insight and good judgement
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Morality
principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior

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