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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
10/26/2010

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Affect
Definition
To have an influence on
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Affinity
Definition
Connection through marriage
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Age set
Definition
A group of young men born withing a specific time span such as five years, so then a new age set is made every 5 years (for example)
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Agency
Definition
Refers to individuals' abilities to reflect systematically on taken for granted cultural practices, to imagine alternatives, and to take independent action to pursue goals of thier own choosing.
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Agnatic
Definition
patrilineal; traced through father's side
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Achieved status
Definition
Not a status you are born into (such as caste) but something you gain, work for (chief/ boss of company)
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Archeology
Definition
the study of the human past through material remains, including buildings, artifacts, writing.
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Ascribed Statuses
Definition
the social status a person is assigned at birth or assumes involuntarily later in life. It is a position that is neither earned nor chosen but assigned.[1] These rigid social designators remain fixed throughout an individual's life and are inseparable from the positive or negative stereotypes that are linked with one's ascribed statuses.
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Balanced reciprocity
Definition
exchange is exactly equal
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Band
Definition
a small group of related people, who are primarily organized through family bonds. Foraging typifies the subsistence technology. A respected and older person may be looked to for leadership, but the person has no formalized authority.
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Ruth Benedict
Definition
1923 - First woman professor of anthropology
Child rearing molds personalities to a basic type Each culture develops a limited number of themes “cultural configurations” – that dominate the thought & behavior of its members
Each culture selectively chooses among an infinite number of traits
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Berdache
Definition
Native American tradition, name of a male who shows female characteristics and therefore is of the third gender. Androgynous, highly spiritual, highly intellectual, make important contributions to society
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Bifurcation
Definition
a basis of kin classification that distinguishes the mother's side of the family from the father's side.
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Bilateral descent
Definition
Same as Cognatic descent. Related to both mother and father's side of the family to the same degree.
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Bilocal residence
Definition
Patterns in which marries partners live with or near either the wife's family or the husband's family. (rare form)
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Blended family
Definition
Previously divorced people marry bringing with them children form previous marriage
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Franz Boas
Definition
Father of US anthropology. Not race, not evolution but different histories explain variety of human cultures
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Bourgeoisie
Definition
Capitalist class which owned the means of production
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Branches of anthropology
Definition
Cultural anthropology
Linguistic anthroplogy
Medical anthropology
Biological anthropology
Archaeology
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Bridewealth/ Brideprice
Definition
Symbolically important goods given from grooms family to bride's, mostly common within patrilineal society
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Bureaucracy
Definition
set of formal statuses with a role that serves to ensure smooth functioning of complex organizations (usually referring to government)
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Caste
Definition
ranking of members in a society by occupational status and degree of purity or pollution as determined by their birth
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Chiefdom
Definition
political organization is typically inherited through kinship lines. A ranked society in which a few leaders make decisions for the group.
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Clan
Definition
noncorporate descent group in which genealogical links to a common ancestor are assumed but are not actually known
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Class
Definition
term used to describe ranked subgroups in a stratified society whose members are differentiated from one another primarily in economic terms, based on income level or even kind of property owned (which usually implies a high income...)
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Clientage/patron-client relationships
Definition
cross-hierarchy connections that allow individuals belonging to differently ranked groups to create a more personalized relationship. Ex: Latin america institution of Compadrazago where lowere ranked married couple (clients) asks higher ranking person (patron) to serve as their child's godparent, will help when needed
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Cognition
Definition
the mental processes by means of which individual human beings make sense of and incoroporate information about the world
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Collaterality
Definition
The distinction between mother and aunt and father and uncle. disctinction made between kin who are believed to be in a direct line and those who are linked to ego through a lineal relative.
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Conjugal family
Definition
family based on marriage
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Consanguineal kin
Definition
people who are linked to one another by birth as blood relations. may also include individuals whose membership in the group were not in the group through birth but through adoption
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Creole
Definition
When the pigdin becomes an actual language (pigdin-a reduced language with a simplified grammar and vocab that develops when speakers of different languages need to communicate with one another
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Cross Cousin
Definition
Ego's mother's brother child and father's sister child (opp sex of parent, parallel cousins born to mother's sister, vice versa)
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Culture
Definition
The learned patterns of behavior and thought that help a group adapt to it's surroundings
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Cultural hybridization
Definition
the mixing and reconfiguring of elements from different cultural traditions
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Culture and Personality
Definition
Anthropologists looked at whether culture had some sort of influence on the type of personalities that were found within the society
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Cultural relativism
Definition
Looking at rituals and cultural practices in the context of the culture
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Charles Darwing
Definition
1859 – Origin of Species
Natural Selection
Biological Evolution
“Descent of Man”


Dissatisfaction in scientific
community with Biblical
version of creation
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Deep structure
Definition
a theoretical construct that seeks to unify several related structures.
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Descent group
Definition
Made up of blood relations
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Diachronic
Definition
there was a shift in the earl 20th century when scholars went from diachronic study of language, concerned with change over time, to synchronice, concerned with patterns present in a particual lang at a particular point in time
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Dialect
Definition
One usage refers to a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers.[1] The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class
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Ecological anthropology
Definition
deals with human-environmental (culture-nature) relationships over time and space
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Egalitatian Societies
Definition
all members enjoy roughly the same degree of wealth power and prestige
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Emic
Definition
categories created by the native speaker-informant
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Enculturation
Definition
social processes through which children come to adopt the ways of thinking feeling and behaving considred appropriate for adults in their culture
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Endogamy
Definition
rules requiring selecting of a marriage partner from within a particular group
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Enlightenment
Definition
All people capable of progress
Locke - Mind an ‘empty cabinet’
World is knowable through senses
(non-religious and anti-clerical)
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Ethnography
Definition
- description of a culture, usually based on the method of participant observation
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Ethnology
Definition
comparative analysis of cultural patterns to explain differences and similarities among societies.
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Ethnoscience
Definition
Sciences des interactions entre l'homme et son environnement.
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Ethnic group
Definition
people of the same race or nationality who share the same culture
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Ethnocentrism
Definition
judging other cultures by the standards of your own, believeing yours as superior
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Ethnocide
Definition
destruction of a culture of a people (rather than themselves)
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Etic
Definition
language categories created by outsiders (versus emic, by insiders)
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Exogamy
Definition
out-marriage. marrying outside of extended family, lineage, clan etc. vs endogamy (within)
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Extended Family
Definition
when families include third generation (grandparent parents children)
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