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| Methods for describing, classifying, and analyzing body languages (ursala) |
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| Basic sounds that make up a language (clicking) |
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| Smallest combination of sounds that have meaning… they have acquired the status of being symbols (natural starting point for teaching languages) |
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| How the sounds are structured into meaningful, larger units |
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| Rules by which sentences and phrases are put together |
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| Voice qualities (pitch, tempo, resonance) |
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| Things you talk through. You talk through a yell, a laugh, or a yawn |
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| Think of italics and boldface in form. You intentionally do this. They are brief and usually one word, a few words at most) |
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| Like a language but it is not really a word (ex: umm, shhh, uh-huh). They are used to divide up language |
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| Also called high language. It is usually written more formal than spoken |
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| The ability to go back and forth between high and low language (standard and nonstandard language) |
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| Identifiable sub-variety in a language associated with different geographies and different social groups |
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| Type of professional or trade language that is associated with people who have particular activities in common |
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| A very formal trades language and words |
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| A more informal trade language |
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| A non language that functions as a language (sort of a mixture of 2 languages) |
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| A pidgin that has developed into a full blown language. It has developed a vocabulary and a rich grammar |
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| The Language becomes internationalized. (English, German, French) |
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| Create a language from scratch and get people to use it…. They have all failed because it is easier to use one that is already developed. Ex: Esperanto |
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| Culture is shaped by innate mental structures and processes a priori |
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| Language controls – enhances or limits – perceptions of reality (names we use for things control how we see them, if we don’t have names we don’t see them |
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| Usually an animal. Sometimes a plant or object. People believe that this object is related to/connected to their clan |
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| Belief of spirits in nature. Personal. They think and feel. Deal w/ them like a child |
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| Dealing with an impersonal force. This force is dangerous, but can also be helpful. Common word for this is Mana |
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| They counsel, teach, administrate and lead. Not necessarily higher than the people. You do not access God through them. They can be non professionals. |
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| Intermediaries between people and Gods. You approach god through them. They are totally committed, they are a full time specialist. They make sacrifices. Always associated with sacrificial religions |
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| Require payment for services – look at list |
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| The manipulation of supernatural forces, to intervene and alter the force of nature or human events |
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| Magic done with a bad intent |
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| The use of images to produce magic (ex: voodoo dolls) |
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| Magic done on things that have come in contact with people |
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| Using magic to tell the future |
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| The highest oracle. Gives poison in equal doses to two chickens. In the way you ask the questions, one chicken lives and one must die |
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| Stick 2 sticks or a forked stick into a termite mound. You want one to be eaten and the other to be left alone |
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| People given power as a people and promised that they will conquer people |
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| Movements associated with a messiah figure of some type. Supposed to be God in human flesh that bring along a golden age…a millennium |
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| Summarized by the Biblical phrase “come out from among them and be ye holy” |
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| Any situation where you combine 2 or more religions and from it make something new. You are essentially synthesizing religion |
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| Blending of Roman Catholicism with African religion |
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| The good Loa, they are safer |
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| The malevolent loa – they are the most powerful, cruel and cunning |
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| Vital energy that animates your flesh, when you die this is drained into the soil |
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| Star of destiny – it guides your future |
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| Cosmic life force that permeates your body. This is the big angel |
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| Personality (the personal part of your soul) |
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| Freudian Id.(desires of the Id are selfish and if left unguided are evil) |
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| A spiritual zombie. What the tri-bon-angi and the duppy become if taken by the sorcerer |
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| A dead body brought back from the grave and used as a mindless slave |
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| The office the voodoo priest/priestess holds (rattle of office) |
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| A place where a lot of the voodoo things are kept for ceremonies |
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| A little bag filled with charms that will protect you |
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| People related to by blood |
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| Restrictions that say you have to marry outside of this group |
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| Says that you have to marry inside of this group |
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| Have endogamous restrictions that are not official but are real |
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| Can be married to more than one person at the same time |
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| A man is married to more than one woman at the same time |
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| A woman is married to more than one man at the same time |
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| More than one husband is married to more than one wife at the same time |
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| Used to describe groups that have high divorce rates, since they don’t take their wives at one time, and then they don’t support them or their children |
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| A man marries a woman and her sister to try to tone down the jealousy |
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| A woman marries one of her husbands brothers after her husbands death |
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| A man marries the sister of his dead wife |
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| The children of the same sex siblings of your parent |
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| Patrilateral parallel cousin marriage |
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| Marry your father’s brothers child |
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| Matrilateral parallel cousin marriage |
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| Marry your mother’s sisters child |
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| The opposite sex children |
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| Matrilateral cross cousin marriage |
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| Marry your Mother’s brothers child |
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| Patrilateral cross cousin marriage |
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| Marry your Fathers sisters child |
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| Transfer money from the groom’s family to the brides family during marriage. A payment for the bride |
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| Money that goes to the bride, not her family |
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| A man works for his father-in-law to pay for the bride |
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| A woman has an inheritance that she brings with her into the marriage |
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| Out of wedlock (single mom and kids) |
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| Just a man, his wife, and their kids |
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| Extended Joint (Horizontal) |
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| A family that lives in a household with his brothers |
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| Extended Stern (Vertical) |
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| Live with your parents and have kids |
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| Called this if it is extended both horizontally and vertically |
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| With whom do you live when you get married |
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| Live with the groom’s family after marriage |
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| Live with the bride’s family after you get married |
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| Live wherever you want after you get married |
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| You choose either the bride’s family or the groom’s family. You have to live with one or the other, but you have a choice about which one |
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| After marriage you live with the husband’s mother’s brother |
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