Anthro 100 culture
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GabrielLeGros on May 16, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cosmology | a group's understanding of its place in the universe |
| Egalitarian | No ascribed status, all share roughly the same degree of wealth, power, and prestige |
| Multiculturalism | The idea that government should protect cultural differences. Policies intended to correct historical mistreatment of minority groups. |
| Nationalism | Belief in inevitability or superiority of a particular nation. Perception of nation-state as natural or rightful master of its territory and population |
| Hegemony | Idea that a culturally diverse society can be dominated by one social class by manipulating social culture in beliefs, explanations, perceptions, and values |
| Nation | "imagined community" founded on shared ancestry, ethnicity, language, political identity |
| State | Complex political organization claiming he right to govern a territory and the people within it |
| Nation-State | A state identified with a particular nation e.g. "The Philippines" |
| Neoliberalism | Political and economic policy of free markets, deregulation and rolling back of government social services. Transfer of responsibility to community level, belief in the market as the best means of regulating and valuing life |
| Internal colonialism | When a nation-state seeks to control minority groups within the territory of said nation-state |
| folk | groups of people |
| lore | genres of expression |
| Myth, legend. folktale | what are the folklore genres? |
| Myth | sacred narrative, is told as true, set at the beginning of time yet pervading the present |
| Legend | historical narrative, usually told as true, set in historical time |
| folktale | make-believe, set in outside time |
| Exogamy | marrying outside defined social category |
| Extended/joint families | two or more nuclear families linked through parent-child or sibling ties. May include several generations |
| Nuclear family | a married couple and their children |
| intersectionality | overlapping systems of inequality, shaping each other and positioning people |
| Institutions | clusters of social statuses and groups that share a common focus--the overlap and interweave (educational, political, religious) |
| Reciprocity | reciprocal exchange through gift-giving |
| colonialism | the domination of people in a territory by another group |
| separation, threshold, reincorporation | what are the three parts to the tripartite system of the rite of passage? |
| lhamana | someone who does man's and women's work. EX: we'wha of zuni |
| commodity | object or service produced by labor and in the market |
| etic | outsider's point of view |
| commodity fetishism | when a commodity is given meanings beyond its face value |
| acculturation | the shifting of cultures in favor of one over another |
| blood relatives | consanguines |
| ethnography | long-term fieldwork, participant observation, seeking the insider point of view |
| social organization | patterned ways people interact, social relationships informed by norms and rules |
| society | a group or community connected linguistically, politically, and economically. |
| levirate | the obligation of a woman to marry her husband's brother if her husband should die |
| affines | relatives through marriage |
| edward taylor | wrote primitive culture |
| role | dynamic aspect of status. performing the rights ad duties associated with a status |
| status | position in a social structure |
| homogenety | no status, no rank |
| generalized reciprocity | giving without expectation of immediate or specific return |
| natal | family into which one is born |
| bilocal | post marital residence alternating between the kin of each spouse |
| story | learning by inquiry and investigation |
| storytelling | a way to make sense of event by arranging them/sorting them into sequence |
| endogamy | marrying within a defined social category |
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