| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Worldview | a person's or societies beliefs about the universe and about humankind |
| Subsistence | means of staying alive; enough to live, no more products made for sale |
| Refugees | people who have chosen or been forced to flee a country to escape persecution or war |
| Ritual | strongly patterned action; the strict repitition of the pattern of action which communicates importance |
| Reciprocity | exchange; giving back in return for a gift or assistance |
| Racism | discrimination against an ethnic group assumed to have a biological background |
| Race | an ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis |
| Patrilineal | descending from the father's line |
| Participant Observer | one who observes behavior by joining with the persons being observed in order to fully observe actual behavior |
| Matrilineal | descending from the mother's line |
| Linguistics | study of languages |
| Lineage | persons descended from one ancestor |
| Imperialism | the rapid spread or advance of one culture at the expense of others, or its imposition on other cultures, which it modifies, replaces, or destroys; due to economic or political influence |
| Ethnography | recording observations of people in communities |
| Ethnocide | destruction by a dominant group of the culture of an ethnic group |
| Ethnocentrism | the tendancy to view one's own culture as best and to judge the behavior and beliefs of culturally different people by one's own standards |
| Ecological Niche | a way of surviving in a particular enviornment; in a locality there will be more than one ecological niche |
| Eclectic | using whatever seems useful rather than sticking rigidly to one school of thought or method |
| Culture Relativity | studying another culture from its point of view without imposing our own view |
| Cultural Ecology | focuses on a human society's interactions with their enviornment |
| Culture Area | a geographic region and the human societies within it; societies sharing a geographic region are often similar due to the same resources and climate and have been affected by the same historical events |
| Culture | behavior that is learned through being a member of a social group or community; includes beliefs, values, language, everyday behavior(public and private), rituals, and recreation |
| Cross Cultural Comparison | basic method in anthropological analysis, comparing human behavior in one society with that in another to determine what varies by societies in response to different enviornments or historical events |
| Creative Opposition | process in which people change their behavior as they consciously and actively avoid or spurn an external image or practice |
| Colonialism | the policital, social, and economic and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foriegn power for an extended period of time |
| Clan | a group of persons who believe themselves related and who control territory or property as a group |
| Animism | belief in souls or doubles; attempts to explain dreams and trances led to the belief that two entities inhabit the body, one active during the day, the other at night. These are vital to one another and when the double leaves, the other one dies |
| Acculturation | changing toward another cultural pattern |
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