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Kanas Anthropolgy FC

UNCG

TermDefinition
Cultural Ecology Interaction of culture and enviornment.
Subsistence How you get your food.
Horticulture Extensive farming (land)- Hu/Ga.
Agriculture Intensive Culture (labor)- working a lot longer and harder.
Pastoralism Herding Animals; some farm - This job goes to inferior people (slaves).
Bride price / Bride Wealth A gift of money or goods from the groom or his kin, to the brides kin.
Bride Service Requires the groom to work for the brides family, sometimes before the marriage begins, sometimes after.
Exchange of females 6% have the custom where by a sister/female relative of the groom is exchanged for the bride.
Gift Exchange The exchange of gifts of about equal value by the 2 kin groups about to be linked by marriage, occurs somewhat more often than exchange of females.
Dowry Usually a substance transfer of goods/money from the brides family to the bride, the groom, or the couple.
Indirect Dowry Goods are sometimes first given to the brides father, who passes most if not all of them to her.
Polygyny A man is married to more than one woman at the same time.
Polyandry Marriage of several men to one woman.
Polygamy One individual is married to more than on spouse simulataneously.
Polygandry Occurs when two or more males have an exclusive relationship with two or more females.
Monogamy Marriage between only one man and only one woman at a time.
Serial Monogamy When people marry several people, but one at a time - they marry, divorce, remarry, re-divorce ,and so on.
Exogamy Marriage partners often must be chosen from outside ones own kin group or community.
Endogamy Obliges a person to marry within some group.
Patrilocal Residence (67% of society) The son stays, and the daughter leaves, so that the married couple lives with or near the husbands parents.
Matrilocal Residence (15% of society) The daughter stays, and the son leaves, so that the married couple lives with or near the wife's parents.
Bilocal Residence (7% of society) Both son and daughter normally leave, but the son and his wife settle with or near his mothers brother.
Avunculocal Residence (4% of society) Both son and daughter normally leave, but the son and his wife settle with or near his mothers brother.
Nedocal Residence (5% of society) Both son and daughter leave; married couples live apart from the relatives of both spouses.
Patrilineal Descent Affiliates individuals with kin of both sexes related to the through women only.
Matrilineal Descent Affiliates individuals with kin of both sexes related to them through women only.
Ambilineal Descent Affiliates individuals with kin related to them through men/women. Some people in the society affiliate with a group of kin through their fathers, others affiliate through their mothers.
Neolocal Residence Related to the presence of a money or commercial economy.
Matrilocal Residence Women contribute more to the economy.
Patrilocal Residence Males contribute more to the economy.
Bilocal Residence Married couple goes to live with or near either the husbands or the wifes parents.
Avunculocal Residence (Rare) Married couples live with or near the husbands mothers, brother
Lineage Set of kin whose members trace descent from a common ancestor but the links back to the ancestor are not specified.
Totem Clans designated by an animal name.
Nuclear Family Married couple and their kids.
Sorcery May include the use of materials, objects, and medicines, to invoke supernatural malevolence.
Witch Craft May be said to accomplish the same ills by means of thought and emotion alone.
Shaman Usually a part time male specialist who has fairly high status in his community and is often involved in healing.
Sorcerers and Witches Both sexes tend to have very low social and economic status in their societies.
Mediums Tend to be females. Part-time practitioners are asked to heal and devine, while in possession trances. (thought to be possessed by spirits)
Priests Full-time male specialists who officiate at public events .
Rules of Decent Rules that connect individuals with particular sets of kin because of known or presumed common ancestry.
Unlineal decent Refers to the fact that a person is affiliated with a group of kin through decent links of one sex only- either males only or females.
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