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Kanas Anthropolgy FC
UNCG
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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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