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Anthro Unit 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Affinity | Relationships (kinship) created by Marriage |
| Animatism | An impersonal form of identifying powers that define, articulate, and engage the “supernatural”. Ex: Kung, who describe a substance or force called n/um that can be used to influence desired outcomes, such as healing an illness |
| Animism | A personal form of identifying powers that define, articulate, and engage the “supernatural”. Ex: The Spiritists’ Dr.Fritz, the snake handlers’ Holy Spirit, or the Malaysians’ angry spirits |
| Bilateral | Kin systems that reckon both sides of the family as being similarly related through both male and female links (like American family, “cousins” are “cousins” on both sides) |
| Bride Service | A man must hunt for his wife’s family (Kung and Kiowa) |
| Bridewealth | A practice in which the husband’s kin gives gifts to the wife’s kin at marriage. |
| Consanguinity | Members of one's kinship who are related by blood line (birth). |
| Critical Medical Anthropology | Apply biological, linguistic, and cultural anthropology to address health problems) |
| Descent | The assignment of relatedness traced through common ancestry |
| Endogamy | Prohibition on marriage within a certain group |
| Exogamy | Prohibition on marriage outside a certain group |
| Functions of Religion | These functions often include articulating the standards of right and wrong, addressing the unexplainable, easing the psychological stress brought by misfortune, displacing decision making, or promoting community cohesion and solidarity. |
| Incest Taboo | Prohibition on marriage which regulates sex and/or marriage between people considered kin |
| Kinship | “family” has consisted of large networks of relatives, or kin-networks, called Kinship |
| Magic | Invoking or manipulating the supernatural to bear on a desired outcome |
| Marriage | |
| Matrilineal | A form of unlineal decent only through mother’s family |
| Matrilocal | After marriage, the couple must live with their bride’s family for a time |
| Patrilocal | After marriage, the couple must live with the groom’s family |
| Monotheism | Belief in a single God |
| Mythology | The larger “truths” of a particular belief tradition |
| Patrilineal | A form of unilineal decent only through father’s family |
| Polyandry | One woman married to more than one man |
| Polygamy | A marriage of one person to two or more spouses |
| Polytheism | Belief in multiple spirits, beings, or gods |
| Religion | A belief in and engagement with the supernatural |
| Ritual | Patterned group practice meant to engage the supernatural (church service, healing ceremony, group prayer) |
| Syncretism | A combination of Christian beliefs with a belief in the efficacy of spirits to affect the material world (a combo of religious beleifs) |
| Tradition of Disbelief | A tradition that is firmly situated in ways the social sciences have traditionally taken up the study of religion |
| Unlineal | Groups that trace decent much more formally through either males or females exclusively |
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sabrina.legarrea
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