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anthro ch 14
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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