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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
12/03/2012

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Subsistence Patterns
Definition
Sources and methods a society uses to obtain its food and other necessities
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Modes of Production
Definition
specific set of social relations that organizes labor
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Means of Production
Definition
major resources involved in production
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Economic Anthropology
Definition
examines how production, distribution, and consumption are organized in different societies; studies what motivates people from different cultures to produce, distribute, exchange, and consume resources (These studies are based on the profit motive)
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Profit Motive
Definition
How people are motivated to make use of scarce resources such as time, labor, money, or capital
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Reciprocity
Definition
governs exchange between social equals; major exchange mode in band and tribal societies.
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Animism
Definition
the belief in a double or a soul that is active when a person sleeps or is in a trance; believed by Tylor and other early anthropologists to be the earliest form of religion
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Mana
Definition
an impersonal sacred force existing in the universe that can be controlled by humans under specific conditions
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Taboo
Definition
sacred and forbidden; prohibition backed by supernatural sanctions; Functions as an explanation for differential success
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Totem
Definition
animals, plants, or geographic features that have a sacred symbolic meaning to a group
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Ritual
Definition
formal, repetitive, stereotyped behavior; based on liturgical order
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Cosmology
Definition
world view filtered through the supernatural understanding
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Leveling Mechanism
Definition
custom that brings standouts back in line with community norms
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Cargo Cult
Definition
postcolonial, acculturative religious movements; combine indigenous beliefs and Christian doctrine
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Syncretism
Definition
cultural, especially religious, mixes that emerge from acculturation
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Revitalization Movement
Definition
movements aimed at altering or revitalizing a society
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Diaspora
Definition
offspring of an area who have spread to many lands
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Postmodern
Definition
time of questioning established cannons or beliefs, identities, and standards
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Westernization
Definition
idea that groups should be more like western societies
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Translocal
Definition
individuals who are tied to more than one place; deals with globalization, for example in the housing article there are individuals integrating to US society but are still connected to another place
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Modern World Systems
Definition
a world in which nations and cultures are increasingly economically and politically interdependent; isolated communities are coming more difficult to find; Transportation and communication networks have made the world a smaller place
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Capitalist World Economy
Definition
Profit oriented global economy based on production for sale
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Industrial Revolution
Definition
socioeconomic transformation through industrialization
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Post-Colonial
Definition
the period after WWI when European empires lost their political control over much of the globe
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Acculturation
Definition
change that occurs when groups come into continuous contact
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Cultural Imperialism
Definition
the spread of a dominant culture at the expense of others
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Indigenize
Definition
how ideas or technologies are fit into a culture that didn't develop it; indigenous ways of viewing non indigenous technology
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Religion
Definition
Belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces.
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Magic
Definition
using supernatural techniques to accomplish specific aims
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