Anthropology 12 Word Scramble

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Term	Definition
Religion	Belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces.
Communitas	Intense feeling of social solidarity.
Polytheism	Worship of multiple deities, who control aspects of nature.
Monotheism	Worship of an eternal,omniscient,omnipotent,and omnipresent supreme being.
Mana	Impersonal sacred force,so named in Melanesia and Polynesia.
Animism	Belief in souls or doubles.
Taboo	Sacred and forbidden; prohibition backed by supernatural sanctions.
Magic	Use of supernatural techniques to accomplish specific ends.
Ritual	Formal,repetitive,stereotyped behavior;based on a liturgical order.
Rites of Passage	Rites marking transitions between places, or stages of life.
Liminality	The in-between phase of a passage rite.
Cosmology	A system, often religious, for imagining and understanding the universe.
Totem	An animal,plant,or geographic feature associated with a specific social group,to which that totem is sacred or symbolically important.
Leveling Mechanism	Custom that brings standouts back in line with community norms.
Shaman	A part-time magico-religious practitioner.
Revitalization Movements	Movements aimed at altering or revitalizing a society.
Syncretisms	Cultural, especially religious, mixes, emerging from acculturation.
Cargo Cults	Postcolonial, acculturative religious movements in Melanesia.
Antimodernism	Rejecting the modern for a presumed earlier, purer, better way.
Fundamentalism	Advocating strict fidelity to a religion's presumed founding principles.
Imitative Magic	Produce a desired effect by imitating. If magicians wish to harm someone, they may imitate that effect on an image of the victim. Sticking pins in voodoo dolls for example.
Contagious Magic	Whatever is done to an object is believed to affect to a person who once had contact with it. Sometimes practitioners of contagious magic use body products from prospective victims-their hair or nails for exmample. Eventually to reach the person.

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