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anthro ch 14
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Question | Answer |
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Personalities | Distinctive ways of behaving and feeling |
Socialization | Describes the development through the influences of parents and other people of patterns of behavior |
Enculturation | Parents and others try to socialize children directly by rewarding certain behaviors and punishing others |
Primary institution | Source of early experience that shape who we are and who we become I.E Family |
Secondary institutions | Aspects of culture such as religion art and music that shape us. |
Personality integration of Culture | Refers to the possibility that an understanding of personality might help us explain connections between primary and secondary institutions. |
Projective test | Reveals personality characteristics. Subjects are given stimuli that are purposely ambiguous |
Religion | Any set of attitudes beliefs and practices pertaining to supernatural power |
Supernatural | Powers believed to be not human |
Animism | refers to the belief in souls |
Animatism | Abelief in impersonal supernatural forces I.e the power of a rabbits foot |
Mana | A supernatural impersonal force |
Taboo | Not to be touched their powers can cause harm |
Gods | Supernatural being |
Anthropomorphic | Conceived in the image of a person |
Ghosts | Supernatural beings that were once human |
Ancestor spirits | Ghosts of dead relatives |
Spirits | Unnamed supernatural beings of nonhuman origin which may be helpful, trouble makers or evil. |
Monotheistic | one god. supreme being responsible for it all |
Polytheistic | recognizes many important Gods |
Divination | seeks practical answers from the supernatural about anything troublesome |
Magic | when people believe their action cam compel the supernatural to act in some way |
sorcery | may include the use of materials, objects and medicines to invoke supernatural malevolence |
witchcraft | like sorcery through thought and emotion alone. |
Shaman | like a medicine man |
mediums | asked to heal and divine while in possession trances |
Priests | have high status who officiate at public events |
revitalization movements | efforts to save a culture by infusing it with new purpose and new life |