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| "A people who have no permanent home, but move about according to the seasons" (dictionary definition). |
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| People who go around and find food by gathering it from the wild. They'll eat fruit from trees and bushes, and also hunt game. |
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| People who get their food by raising and domesticating livestock. Typical example would be a shepherd who tends goats or cows and eats them gradually. |
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| A word often used to describe the modern lifestyle where exercise is typically infrequent, and people receive food through stores rather than gathering the food themselves. |
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| Tending of plants to garnish food. The gebusi use horticulture when they do their Slash & Burn crop cycle. |
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| Kinship refers to, essentially, the family tree of people. In anthropology, kinship is often an excellent way to analyze, and derive the reason for, relationships that would otherwise be impossible to decipher. Knauft's analysis of the Gebusi's kinship ties led him to discover the relationship between sister exchanges and sorcery accusations. |
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| Endogamy is defined as a "marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law." An endogamous society would only marry within itself (Gebusi only marries Gebusi, or family member only marries siblings or cousins). |
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| "Pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only outside the limits of a clan or tribe" (dictionary definition). An exogamous society would only marry outside of itself (Gebusi only marries outsiders, or family member only marries people outside of the family). |
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| Synonymous with Patrilocal, means that a married couple resides with or near the husband's side of the family. |
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| A married couple resides with or near the wife's side of the family. |
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| Levirate marriage is a type of marriage in which a woman is required to marry her deceased husband's brother. |
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| Sororate marriage is a type of marriage in which a husband engages in marriage or sexual relations with the sister of his wife, usually after the death of his wife, or once his wife has proven infertile. |
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| When one gives another a gift, a return gift is expected. |
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| Different than currency or money. When one gives a gift a social obligation is placed upon the reciever, and that reciever now becomes debted to the giver. |
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| Different from a gift. When one exchanges money for something, it is not akin to reciprocity, it is a trade transaction, or an exchange. If you buy a pizza from a pizza shop, they do not have a social obligation to you. |
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| An exchange is a trade transaction, it is unlike the kind of the ebbs and flows of gift giving in that no debt is incurred. If you buy a pizza from a pizza shop, they do not have a social obligation to you. |
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| The middle ground, or threshold, typically used to describe the in-between period in an rite-of-passage (your no longer a boy, but your not quite yet a man). The liminal state is a blurry confusing place that is best to frequent rarely. |
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| Synonymous with brideprice. An amount of money, property, or wealth payed by the groom and given to the bride to compensate for the bride's family's loss of a woman. |
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| Synonymous with bridewealth. An amount of money, propery, or wealth payed by the groom and given to the bride to compensate for the bride's family's loss of a woman. |
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| Money, property, or wealth brought into a marriage by the wife, often given to the husband's family. |
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| Having more than one wife at a time. |
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| Having more than one husband at a time. |
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| When lineage is traced from the husband's/father's side of the family. |
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| When lineage is traced from the wife's/mother's side of the family. |
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| When lineage is traced from both the husband's/father's side of the family, along with the wife's/mother's side. |
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| "A cargo cult is a religious phenomenon whereby some primitive tribes" try to emulate modern culture in an attempt to get the cargo that is flown in on planes (which they believe to be magical). Some New Guinie natives even went so far as to create a full size wooden plane and runway (the plane did not fly) in an attempt to get cargo. |
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| "A ritual is a set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value. It may be prescribed by a religion or by the traditions of a community. The term usually excludes actions which are arbitrarily chosen by the performers, or dictated purely by logic, chance, necessity, etc." (dictionary definition) |
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| Sexuality means different things in different places. In American culture if a man has sex with a man, then they are gay. In New Guinea, if a man has sex with a man, it does not necessarily mean that they are gay in the American sense, meaning that they also have sex with women and will eventually marry a woman. |
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| Sexuality means different things in different places. In American culture if a man has sex with a man, then they are gay. In New Guinea, if a man has sex with a man, it does not necessarily mean that they are gay in the American sense, meaning that they also have sex with women and will eventually marry a woman. |
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| A tribe in New Guinea whome Bruce Knauft studies at length. |
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| "Going out and getting your hands dirty." Studying a culture through participand-observation and living with another culture. |
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| Work conducted during an ethnography. |
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| See Ethnography and Fieldwork. |
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| The methods of anthropoly sets it apart from other social sciences. Where other sciences conduct studies or impersonal surveys, an anthropologist will become one with the people and gain their trust and truly gain an understanding of the culture. |
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| Religion's job is toexplain the unexplainable, and place blame in other places. For example, sickness didn't kill that guy, sorcery did! So let's go kill us a sorceror! |
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| The integration of a culture into the globa economy and world. |
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| The joining together of old and new ways. |
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| Claude Levi-Strauss's interpretation of culture. Everything that is around and the events that occur get merged into this bricolage or structure that defines culture. |
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| When you look at another culture, you are always looking from the vantage point of within your own culture. In other words, your observations are always slightly skewed by your own culture and beliefs. |
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| Judging other cultures by our own standards. In other words, holding our culture to be the "right way" to do things. |
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| Ethical concerns are many. |
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| "Culture, or civilization… is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of cociety" (Edward Tylor, 1871). |
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| Invite all your enemeies and friends and you give away all of your wealth, and then everyone else is politcally and socially weaker than you. |
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| Male, Merm, Herm, Ferm, Female. Sex is not as black and white as male or female. |
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| How do we associate or interpellate gender. Just a term, not necessarily related to gender. |
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| Men who fall under the role of female in a society. Partners of them do not consider themselves gay. |
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| That movie with the three men who travel into wherever and shoot stuff. |
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| The author of the Gebusi. |
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| The home of the Gebusi and where Bruce Knauft conducted his field research. |
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| The village that Bruce Knauft visited in Papua New Guinea. |
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| Gebusi ideals and values, their culture, summed up in a single word. The word's parts, kog-way-yay break down into the words for "togetherness," "friendship," and "similarity." |
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| The Gebusi believe that anyone who dies has been afflicted by sorcery, thus whenever someone dies, a sorcery accusition/trial is initiated and they go witch-hunting. |
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| Wife beater who ended up getting reported to the nomad police by his wife and getting sent to jail. Then when he came back and his wife had been getting with another man, he committed suicide by drinking fish poison. Everyone was pretty pissed at his wife. |
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| A friend of Bruce's and he was one of their carriers when they had first arrived. When he returned for his second ethnography he found out that Yuway had joined the Seventh Day Adventist Church, and through him he discovers that much of the Gebusi religious practices has been dissolved. |
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| Sayu's mother who died of a sudden sickenss while foraging for sago grubs. |
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| His true parents died when he was young and he made a trek, at age seventten, to a modern town where he worked as a domestic helper and "houseboy." One time he and Bruce are walking back from a traditional cermony in an old forest village and Sayu doesn't want to be seen in his traditional dancing uniform, instead, he puts on pants and becomes a hybrid. |
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| She participates in a sister-exchange but after consumating the marriage she backs out and refuses to be apart of her new husband's househole. Bruce offers to try to get her out of it and wonderfs if that was a good idea. |
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| A young initiate who often had oral sex with Hawi, another initiate, and they were good friends. Bruce was confused by this as typically initiates are discouraged from getting sexual release prior to initiation--lest they deplete the male essence contained in semen that they were accumulating. |
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| The young bachelor who came to Bruce asking for adameni. He was Bruce's subject for figuring out that instead of the typical Gebusi sister exchanges, the modern system made bachelors like Wayabay try to attract girls. |
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| The rite of passage. A village often only has one of these per its lifetime and it brings the initiates into manhood. It is a massively large festival, the largest that the Gebusi ever participate in. |
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| Founded anthropolgy in the United States. Brought the idea of Kultur into the united states (in other words, defined culture in a way other than the stupid way). |
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| Defined culture as a Bricolage, or structure. |
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| Concentrated on functionalism or functional anthropology: society serves to serve human biological needs. |
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| Concentrated on structual anthropology: society serves its own needs. |
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| French person who thought about who makes the rules about who is insane or same, or what is appropriate or not. |
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