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| relatives by marriage whether by lineals( son’s wife) or collateral (sister’s husband) |
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- principle of descent that does not automatically exclude the children of either sons or daughters. |
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| belief in souls or doubles |
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| an object or event that evokes an aesthetic reaction |
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| the arts include the visual arts, literature, music, and theatre |
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a system in which kinship ties are calculated equally through both sexes: mother and father, sister and brother, daughter and son, and so on. |
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| .)- a rule-governed dialect of amercan English with roots in southern English. Bev is spoken by African American youth and by many adults in their casual, intimate speech—sometimes called ebonics |
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| gifts accepted by the wife from the husband and family |
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| postcolonial, acculturative religious movements, common in Melanesia, |
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| a genealogical relative who is not in ego’s direct line |
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| Intense community spirit, a feeling of great social solidarity, equality |
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| children of a brother or a sister |
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| cultural transmission of language |
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| a basic feature of language transmission through learning |
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| the offspring of an area who have spread to many lands |
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| the existence of formal and informal dialects of a single language, such as german |
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| scientifically identified health threat caused by a bacterium, virus, fungus, parasite, or other pathogen |
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| a basic feature of language the ability to speak of things and events that are not present. |
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a marital exchange in which the wifes group provides substantial gifts to the husbands family
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| latin for the point from which one views an egocentric genealogy |
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rule or practice of marriage between people of the same social group |
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| - the study of lexical (vocabulary) contrasts and classifications in various languages |
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Rule requiring people to marry outside their own group |
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| the arts people express themselves creatively in dance, music, song, painting |
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nuclear family in which one is born and grows up. |
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| nuclear family established when one marries and has children |
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| a set of words and distinctions that are particularly important to certain groups |
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| refers to the art, music and lore of ordinary people, |
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| the tasks and activities that a culture assigns to each sex |
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- biological father of a child |
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| a condition of poor health felt by an individual |
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| forbidden sexual relations with a close relative |
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| the study of communication through body movements, stances gestures and facial expresions |
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| the system by which people in a particular society reckon kin relationships |
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| - human beings primary means of communication can be spoken or written |
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| a custom or social action that operates to reduce differences in wealth and thus to bring standouts in a line with community norms |
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| the critically important marginal or in between phase of a rite of passage |
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| any of ego’s ancestors or descendants (parents,grandparents, children, grandchildren) on the direct line of descent that leads to and from ego |
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| use of supernatural techniques to accomplish specific aims |
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| sacred impersonal force in Melanesian and Polynesian religions |
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| a political system ruled by women |
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unilineal descent of rule in which people join the mother’s group automatically at birth and stay members throughout life. |
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| customary residence with the wife’s relatives after marriage, so that children grow up in their mother’s community. |
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| unites biological and cultural anthropologists in the study of disease, health problems, health care systems, and theories about illness in different cultures and ethnic groups |
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| worship of an eternal omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent supreme being |
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postmarital residence pattern in which a couple establishes a new place of residence rather than living with or near either set of parents |
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| children of two brothers or two sisters |
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| - socially recognized father of a child |
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political system ruled by men in which women have inferior social and political status, including basic human rights |
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| unlineal descent of rule in which people join the father’s group automatically at birth and stay members throughout life |
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| customary residence with the husband’s relatives after marriage, so that children grow up in their father’s community |
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| variety of plural marriage in which a woman has more than one husband |
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| variety of plural marriage in which a man has more than one wife |
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| variety of plural marriage in which a man has more than one wife |
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| belief in several deities who control aspects of nature |
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a basic feature of language; the ability to use the rules of one’s language to create new expressions comprehensible to others |
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| belief and ritual concerned with supernatural being, powers, and forces |
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| movements that occur in times of change in which religious leaders emerge and undertake to alter or revitalize a society |
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culturally defined activities associated with the transition from one place or stage of life to another. |
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| the marriage of two people of the same sex |
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Theory that different languages produce different ways of thinking
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| cultural mixes, including religious blends, that emerge from acculturation |
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| set apart as sacred and off-limits to ordinary people; prohibition backed by supernatural sanctions |
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| matrilineal or patrilineal descent |
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