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Chapters 11-16
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
12/10/2007

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Age set
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formally established group of people born during a certain timespan that move through age grades together
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age grade
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an organized category of people based on age, every individual passes through a series of such categories
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stratified societies
Definition
societies in which people are divided into social tiers, do not share equally in basic resources that support life, influence, prestige
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egalitarian society
Definition
society where everyone has about equal access to power and basic resources
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caste
Definition
closed social class, in which membership is determined by birth, fixed for life
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verbal evaluation
Definition
what people in a stratified society say about others in their society
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symbolic indicators
Definition
stratified society-activities and possessions indicitive of a social class
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band
Definition
relatively small, loosely organized kin ordered group, inhabiting a specific territory that may split into smaller family groups that are politically independent
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tribe
Definition
range of kin ordered groups that are politically integrated by some unifying factor and whose members share a common ancestry, identity, culture, language, territory, density 250 people per square mile, crop cultivation, and herding
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segementary lineage system
Definition
rare form of kin ordered orgianization in which a tribal group is split into several branches made up of clans or major lineages, each of which is further divided into minor and minimal lineages
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chiefdom
Definition
regional polity in which two or more local groups are organized under a single chief who is head of the people
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state
Definition
centralized political system that has the capacity and authority to make laws and maintain social order. first occured 5000 years ago.
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nation
Definition
a people who share a collective identity based on culture, language, territorial base, history
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cultural control
Definition
control through beliefs and values deeply internalized in the minds of individuals
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social control
Definition
external control through open coercion
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sanctions
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externalized social controls designed to encourage conformity to social norms
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law
Definition
formal negative sanctions
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negotiation
Definition
the use of direct argument in compromise by parties to a disbute to arrive voluntarily at a mutually satisfactory agreement
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mediation
Definition
settlement of dispute through a negotiation assisted by an unbiased third party
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adjudicition
Definition
mediation with an unbiased third party making the final decision
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legitimacy
Definition
the right of political leaders to govern, to hold, use, and allocate power based on the values a particular society holds
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pantheon
Definition
several gods and goddesses of a people
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animism
Definition
belief that nature is livened or energized by distinct personalized spirit,
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animitism
Definition
belief that nature is livened or energized by supernatural potency
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shaman
Definition
a person who enters an altered state of consciousness at will to contact and utilize an ordinarily hidden reality in order to acquire knowledge, power, or help others
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rites of passage
Definition
rituals that mark important stages in individuals life cycle such as birth marriage and death
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separation
Definition
in rites of passage the ritual removal of individual from society
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transition
Definition
in rites of passage, isolation of individual following separation and prior to incorporation
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incorporation
Definition
in rites of passage reincorporation of individual into society in his/her new status
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rites of intensification
Definition
rituals that take place during a crisis in the life of a group serving to bind individuals together
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imitative magic
Definition
magic based on the principle that like produces like (sympathetic magic)
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contagious magic
Definition
magic based on the principle that once in contact can influence each other after they are broken
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divination
Definition
magical procedure or spiritual ritual designed to find out about what is not knowable by ordinary means such as telling future by interpreting omens
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revitalizing movements
Definition
movements for radical cultural reform in response to widespread social disruption and collective feelings of despair
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cargo cults
Definition
spiritual movements in melanesia in reaction to disruptive contact with western capitalism promising resurrection of deceased relatives, destruction or enslavement of white foreigners,and magical arrival of riches
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primary innovation
Definition
creation, invention, or chance discovery or new idea, method, device
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secondary innovation
Definition
new and deliberate application or modification of an existing method idea or device
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diffusion
Definition
spread of certain ideas, customs, practices from one custom to another
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aculturation
Definition
massive cultural changes that people are forced to make as a consequence of intensive firsthand contact between their own group and another, often more powerful society
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syncretism
Definition
in culturation the blending of indigenous and foreign traits to form a new system
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multiculturalism
Definition
public policy for managing cultural diversity in a multi-ethnic society officially stressing mutual respect and tolerance for cultural differences and a country's border
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structural power
Definition
power that organizes and orchestrates the systematic interaction within and among societies directing economic and political forces on the one hand, and idealogical forces that shape public ideas, values, and beliefs on the other
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hard power
Definition
coercive power that is backed up by economic and military force
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soft power
Definition
pressing others through attraction and persuasion to change their ideas, beliefs, behaviors
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structural violence
Definition
physical and or psychological harm caused by exploitative and unjust social, political, economic systems
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replacement reproduction
Definition
birth rates and death rates in equilibrium and people produce only enough offspring to replace themselves when they die
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Qwetry,Dvorak
Definition
type of keyboard to promaote efficency and progress
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Guatemalan Cultural Pluralism
Definition
government used violence to maintain contol of the Ladino over the mayan.
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