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| complex system of culturally defined social relationships based on marriage |
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| a dispute that occurs outside the legal system without involving regular violence |
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| Psychologized individualism |
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| stressing the cultivation of emotions as the key to undercovering one’s identity |
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| the learned, acquired, and shared knowledge that people use to generate behavior and interpret experience. |
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| Spiritual leader who is believed to be able to contact the spirit-world. |
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| The production of a product in which certain stages of production occur in different countries. |
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| Name groups of extended families with common descent; Kin groups. |
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| the application of method and theory in anthropology to the analysis and solution of practical problems. |
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| he knowledge, experience and or connections one has had through the course of their life that enables them to succeed more so than someone from a less experienced background. |
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| the practice of determining the classification of a child of mixed-race ancestry by assigning the child the race of his or her more socially subordinate parent. |
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| The stuff of which magic is formed, thought to be a precursor to formalized religion. |
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| a set of acquired patterns of thought, behavior, and taste. |
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| Individuo and Socio-centric societies |
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| the practice of preventing women from being seen by men by both sexual segregation and requiring a woman to be covered by clothing. |
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| A strong social prohibition (or ban) relating to any area of human activity or social custom that is sacred and forbidden. |
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| Tribe in Northern Central Africa who use witchcraft as a means of explanation for unfortunate events. |
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| Tribe that lives in the Brazilian rainforest that is struggling with identity and independence. |
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| An individual's comprehension of him or herself as a discrete, separate entity. |
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| The cultural knowledge of the supernatural that people use to cope with the ultimate problems of human existence. |
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| a society having no socially structured unequal access to economic resources, but having socially structured unequal access to status positions and prestige. |
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A "deliberate, organized, conscious effort by members of a group to create a new culture.
Published by Anthony F. C. Wallace |
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| the exchange of cultural features that results when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct. |
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Rituals that mark a person’s transition from one social status, or stage, to another.
1. Separation
2. Liminal- in between categories (i.e. engagement)
3. Re-Integration |
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| Arlie Hochschild's book that showed that in dual-career households, after women began to enter the workforce, women still performed the majority of the child-rearing duties. |
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| A set of connected behaviors, rights and obligations as conceptualized by actors in a social situation. |
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| "Saving face” in Queenston, Kelley and Parkside |
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| Jill Dubisch’s argument about why the “Run for the Wall” is a ritual |
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The "Run for the Wall" is a:
Pilgrimage (ritually structure travel physically removing people from their every day lives)
Involves three steps of Rite of Passage (Seperation, Liminal, Reincorporation) |
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| The processes of localization and globalization |
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Arguments about magic and Americans in the U.S. in the essays by Horace Miner and George
Gmelch |
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| The relationship between habitus and cultural capital |
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Respect and the formal and informal economies in Philippe Bourgois’ essay on Puerto Rican
men in New York City |
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| Similarities and differences in caste and class societies |
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| Barth’s conceptualization of the role of the “boundary” in group identity |
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| Kusserow’s metaphors for the child’s self |
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| Witchcraft Among the Azande” |
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| Azande use witchcraft to explain every phenomena, it explains the relationship between men and unfortunate events |
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| The caste system in India |
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| Cohen’s elaboration of the role of symbols in communities |
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What the law reveals about American cultural values and beliefs as seen in Anne Sutherland’s
essay on gypsies in the U.S. |
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| Socio-centric values in Queenston, Kelley and Parkside |
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| Similarities and differences in religion, science and witchcraft as systems of knowledge |
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| All three can use definition: The cultural knowledge of the supernatural that people use to cope with the ultimate problems of human existence. |
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