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50 Cards in this Set
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Monogamy
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one man and one woman are joined for life in a conjugal bond
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serial monogomy
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individuals have only one spouse at a time, but divorce and remarry
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polygamy
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individuals of either sex may have more than one spouse
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polygyny
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man to more than one woman
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polyandry
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woman to more than one man
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group marriage
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several males are simultaneously married to several females
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bride wealth
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compensation given to the bride's family by the groom and his family
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levirate
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widow marrying the brother of dead husband
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sororate
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widower marrying sister of dead wife
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virilocality
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couples live with husband's relatives
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uxorilocality
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couples live with wife's family
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bilocality
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choose which side to live with
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neolocality
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couples form independent residence
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avuncolocality
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couples reside with groom's mother's brother
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grammar
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entire formal set of rules that generates the meaningful use of language
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syntax
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rules by which phrases and sentences form
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semantics
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meaning signified in words
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phonetics
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study of speech sounds
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phonemes
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smallest class of sounds that affect meaning
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morphemes
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smallest classes of sounds that carry meaning
isolating languages agglutinating languages polysynthetic languages |
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kinesics
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analysis of body language
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emblems
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gestures with culture specific meaning
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proxemics
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use of touch and definitions of personal speech
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divergence
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separation of different languages across time and space
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linguistic particularism
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claims that language governs and or constrains human cognitions
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linguistic relativity
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claims that culture governs and constrains language and its development
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ethnosemantics
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study of culture through peoples use of language to categorize and classify people, objects, activities, and experiences
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creoles
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languages that combine sounds, grammatical forms, and vocabularies from several different linguistic sources
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pidgins
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rudimentary languages that have a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary
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lingua francas
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languages used in particular areas by speakers of many different languages in order communicate with each other
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dialects
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mutually intelligible varieties of language
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males
competitive independent seek approval |
females
cooperative group-oriented seek acknowledgement |
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hijra of india
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considered male and female
asexual lifestyle |
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berdache
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man or woman who has assumed opposite gender
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suttee
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hindu widow's suicide custom in india
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bands
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small kin based groups
status based on prestige sharing of goods |
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tribes
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small groups of villages, lacking formal govt
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chiefdoms
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larger than tribes, with simple political structures
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states
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largest political system,
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religion
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belief in supernatural power, symbolic expression of feelings, and rituals designed to influence the non human realm
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deities
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beings thought to control the universe
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pantheon
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entire set of deities
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anthromorphism
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assigning human qualities to non-human entities to create belief in their powers
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animism
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belief that nature is animated by many beigns
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animatism
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belief that items may contain supernatural power
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nativism
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opposition to and revulsion from the foreign born
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logocentrism
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focus and centrality on the written and spoken word in religious life
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material culture
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inclusion of symbols and iconography
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sacrementalism
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use of material objects through which contact with the supernatural world can be achieved
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omnomastics
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study of how humans name things
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