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What is anthropology? |
Study of humanity. |
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What do anthropologists mean by the term "holism"? |
Anthropologists study human societies as systematic sums of their parts as integrated wholes. |
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What is culture? |
Human beliefs and behaviors of a society that are learned, transmitted from one generation to the next,and shared by a group of people. |
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What is worldview? |
The way in which a society perceives and interprets it's reality. |
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What is a myth? |
A sacred story that provides the basis for religious beliefs and practices. |
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What is cultural relativism and how is it different than ethnocentrism? |
Cultural relativism is analyzing cultures other than one's own w/out judging them in terms of one's own culture. It's different than ethnocentrism because it's analyzing culture thru one's own culture. |
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What functions does religion serve? |
Durkheim proposed: it provides social cohesiveness to help maintain social solidarity through shared rituals and beliefs, social control to enforce, religious-based morals and norms to help maintain conformity and control in society. |
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What is a symbol? |
Shared understandings about the meaning of words or items. |
Importance of cultural context |
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What is a ritual? |
A patterned, recurring sequence of behaviours. |
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What is an altered state of consciousness? |
Any mental state that differs from a normal mental state. |
Not normal walking state.recognizable by individual or others. Vary in intensity. Common occurrence. |
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Why is "ASC" important in religious rituals? Loop |
These emotions range from fear and anxiety to a generalized feeling of well being to a profound entity such as a spirit or a god. These experiences ans emotions make up an important element. |
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How is a shaman different than a priest? |
Shamans are called(often dream or trance) initiation-enter into and control ASC. Respected, feared, and suspicious. |
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