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anthropology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| neolocality | couple establishes new residence |
| unilineal descent | matrilineal or patrilineal descent |
| ambilineal | flexible descent rule,neither patrilineal nor matrilineal |
| bilateral kinship calculation | kin ties calculated equally through men and women |
| pater | one's socially recognized father;not necessarily the genitor |
| exogamy | marriage outside a given group |
| endogamy | marriage of people from the same group |
| mater | one's socially recognized mother |
| dowry | substantial gifts to husband's family from wife's group |
| polygyny | man has more than one wife at the same time |
| polyandry | woman has more than one husband at the same time |
| sororate | widower marries sister of his deceased wife |
| levirate | widow marries brother of her deceased husband |
| animism | belief in souls or doubles |
| mana | impersonal sacred force |
| polytheism | belief that multiple deities control aspects nature |
| monotheism | worship of a simgle supreme being |
| syncretisms | cultural,especially religious, mixes, emerging from acculturation |
| antimodernism | rejecting the modern for a presumed earlier, purer, better way |
| semiperiphery | position in the world system intermediate between core and periphery |