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Anthropology 155
Anthropology Culture and Linguistics
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
12/15/2009

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redistribution
Definition
products/money coming into a center and being sent out from the center to different people/places. Somone is in power and then they dispense of it. Flow of goods and services to a central authority; then returned in different form.
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Phone
Definition
Used to change meaning in a language
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phoneme
Definition
a sound that makes a difference for meaning in a language
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Allophone
Definition
Recognized as the same phoneme but are actually different sounds
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morpheme
Definition
the study of morphology- string together one or more allophones and you get a morpheme
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morphophonemics
Definition
study of phonetic environment
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Grammar
Definition
Structural rules for a language
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Syntax
Definition
study of ordering of morphemes a grammatically undersatndable utterance
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affine
Definition
relative (usually spouse) that marries into your family
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affinal relative
Definition
marries into your family
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consanguineality
Definition
blood relatives
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unilineality
Definition
has a matriline or a patriline; has a clan, moiety or phatry; affinal and consanguineal relatives are a part of this
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rite of intensification
Definition
Reaffirm a status in society such as confirmation in a catholic church
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matrilineal
Definition
when you are consanguineal relatives with your mother's side
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Patrilineal
Definition
when you are consanguineal relatives with your father's side of the family
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Bilaterality
Definition
equality related to all grandparents and equally related to all brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles.
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Ambilineality
Definition
you can choose which side you relate to. either choose matrilineality or patrilineality. You can always change sides if one doesn't work out.
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double descent
Definition
simeltaneously reckognizing a matrilineality and patrilineality; has sections
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social distance
Definition
defined by the propinquity
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propinquity
Definition
spacially defined relationships where someone sits compared to another is how closely related they are.
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market exchange
Definition
ultimately some form of money is used buying and selling through price mechanism; exchange of goods among many buyers and sellers directly by barter or indirectly by money and pricing
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reciprocity
Definition
direct exchange of goods and services
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Aspects of reciprocity
Definition

*obligation to give

*to extend social ties to other person or group

*obligation to receive

*refusal of gift is a rejection of an offered friendship

*failure to repay makes one a beggar

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generalized reciprocity
Definition
altruistic transactions where gifts are freely given among close kin without calculating value or repayment due
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balanced reciprocity
Definition
direct exchange, value of gift is calculated, time of repayment is specified. Ex. one trader gives partner a white armand and expects a red necklace of equal value in return
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unbalanced reciprocity
Definition
an exchange where one party tries to get the better of an exchange from the other party.
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exogamy
Definition
when you are limited to who you marry (can't marry relatives)
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endogamy
Definition
people in your group that you can marry
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agamy
Definition
people are identified but you may pick whoever
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monogamy
Definition
only married to one person
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polygamy
Definition
the practice of multiple marriages
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polygyny
Definition
a man has two wives at the same time
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polyandry
Definition
a woman has two or more husbands at the same time
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Group Marriage
Definition
More than one man and more than one woman form a family unit and are all considered to be married to all other members of the group marriage. All members of the marriage share parental responsibility for any children arising from the marriage
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Language Isolate
Definition
Language that cannot be catergorized into a language; does not derive from another language.
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Indo European
Definition
a phylum of several hundred related languages and dialects including most major languages of europe, Iran and India
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Lineage
Definition
has clans, moieties, phatries: descent group that can demonstrate their common descent from an apical ancestor
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clan
Definition
Descent of a certain group but can't necessarily show it
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moiety
Definition
a society is divded into exactly 2 halves
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Phatry
Definition
a descent group containing at least two clans which have a supposed ancestor
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kindred
Definition
set of relatives defined by using a bilateral rule
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ramage
Definition
the group pulled together from ambilineality where you can choose to be matrilineal or patrilineal
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Formalism
Definition
You can understand another cultures economic society through your own cultures values.
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substantivism
Definition
When you think that in order to understand another culture's economic society you must understand it on that cultures own terms, not your own.
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All purpose money
Definition
Money that can be used in exchange for anything.
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limited purpose money
Definition
money that can be used for only a certain thing like bride price or water
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Levirate
Definition
   When a wife marries a dead husbands brother
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sorrate
Definition
when a husband marries his dead wife's sister
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Patrilocality
Definition
when you live and congregate with your fathers side
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matrilocality
Definition
when you live somewhere based on your mother's side
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neolocality
Definition
when the married couple goes to a new place
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avunculocality
Definition
when you live with the mother's uncle
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uxorilocality
Definition
you go live with your wife's family
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virilocality
Definition
you go live with your husbands family
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duolocality
Definition
When women live in one area and the men live in one area (usually the middle).
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Bilocality
Definition
When you have two homes; one at one time in the year and one home at another time in the year
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Reification
Definition
when a culture repeats something to themselves so much that it becomes true. Like religion and folklore. 
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Animism
Definition
The beliefs in souls or "doubles"
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Animatism
Definition
A belief system in which the supernatural is conceived of as an impersonal power
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Magic
Definition
Through a set of procedures you could cause something to happen
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Religion
Definition
does not have a formula; you must seek pity from a supernatural
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Totemism
Definition
worshiping small totems
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rituals
Definition
do specific steps and expect a certain result
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Rituals of Transition
Definition
transformed to something; takes you from one thing to another
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purgatory limbo
Definition
not in heaven not what you were before but not what you will be
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Parallel Cousins
Definition
Your Mom's sister's children or your Dad's brother's children
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Cross Cousins
Definition
Your mom's brother's kids or your dad's sister's kids
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Potlatch
Definition
2 participants a group of givers and a group of receivers. You must potlatch back twice fo what you received if you can afford it. 
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Bride Price
Definition
Give gifts to the family
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Bride Service
Definition
You must work for so many years in order to marry the bride.
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Liminality
Definition
involves the learning of specialized skills that will equip the person for new status 
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Tylor
Definition
he defined religion as the belief in spirits. He came up with animism (the belief in souls) to explain why people made up souls in the first place. 
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Fraser
Definition
He defined magic as peoples attempt to compel supernatural forces and beings to act in certain ways. Differentiated between imitative magic and contagious magic
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