Question | Answer |
Gitanos | Madrid, Spain |
Aborigines | Australia |
Turks | Turkey |
Trobriands | Kiriwina Islands, off eastern coast of New Guinea |
Maasai | Loita Hills, Kenya |
Turkanoans | Vaupes region of Columbia, central NW Amazon |
Marina | Madagascar |
Aztec | Ancient Mexico |
Qiqitkamiut Eskimos | Arctic Canada? |
Somalia | NE horn of Africa |
Kono | Sierra Leone |
Sambia | Eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea |
Anatolia | Turkey |
Zafimaniry | Madagascar |
Basques | Spain, though perhaps France |
Pocobaya | New Zealand |
Metonym | denotes one things that's intimately associated with another; ex. Gitanos "honra" part of actual social institution |
Patrilineal | tracing descent through male line; ex. Maasai culture |
Matrilineal | tracing descent through female line; ex. "baloma" female ancestry with Trobriands |
Matriarchy | gynocentric form of society governed by women; ex. Mosuo of SE China |
Compradazgo | link between parents and godparents; ex. catholic society |
Exogamy | marriage to someone outside of tribe due to law or customs; ex. Maasai culture |
Teknonymy | practice of referring to parents by names of their children; ex. Zafimaniry of Madagascar |
Polygyny | practice of having more than one wife simultaneously; ex. Maasai culture |
Moran | the life stage of the Maasai men post circumcision indicating move to adulthood and ability of ownership |
Kaulos | hollowish tubular structure |
Consanguinity | the process through which the blood of the father is transferred, by semen, to become the blood of the son during conception |
One-sex body | there is only one kind of body, with multiple cultural (and therefore sexual) constructs upon it |
Mocedad | Gitanos age between childhood and adulthood to find sexual and social identity |
Honra | yellow fluid encased in 'uva' released during first sexual penetration; also non-pysical description of purity, decency, control |
Ohha | Basque group of shepherds with ownership rights and can make "mountain cheese" |
Partibility | a person can detach from/to themselves others/their own body parts |
Yurupari | initiation of death and rebirth, imitating menstruation and childbirth in Tukanoans |