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78 Cards in this Set
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Holy Ghost People |
Worship Snakes - Literal Reading of bible - Book of Marc |
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Glossolalia |
Speaking in tongues |
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Biological vs Social Adulthood |
Physical vs Rite of Passage |
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Ritual |
A secular of sacred, formal, solemn act, observance, or procedure in accordance with prescribed rules or customs |
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Rite of Passahe |
Rituals associated with such critical changes in personal status as brith, puberty, marriage, and death |
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Female Circumcision |
Control Women - Done by other women |
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Hysterectomy |
Uterus removed |
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Manifest functions |
Intended or Recognized |
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Latent Functions |
Uninteded or Unrecognized |
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Unilineal Societies |
Father or mother line |
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Patrilineal |
Male Ancestors(Papa) |
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Matrilineal |
Female Ancestors(Mama) |
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Polygyny |
One man to more women |
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Sepik river Scarification |
Rite of passage - evolved from crocodile |
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Tribe |
Nominally independent villages, occupy area of land and share common language 2,000-20,000 |
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Clan |
A unilineal decent group based on fictive ancestors |
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Totem |
An animal, a plant, or an object considered related to a kin group and viewed as sacred. |
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Sodalities |
Links cultures that are not directly related |
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Tribal club |
Less harsh males initiation |
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Tribal Secret Society |
Secret initiation, sacred rituals, introduction to manhood |
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Communmitas |
People are equal |
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Age Grade |
All members who are of certain age and sex |
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Age Set |
Same sex and age that move through age grade together |
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Ideological Rituals |
Hearts and minds rituals |
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Rites of passage |
Rituals associated with such critical changes in personal status as birth, puberty, marriage, and death. |
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Taboos |
A scared prohibition put upon certain people, things, or acts that makes them untouchable, unmentionable, and so on. |
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Rites of Rebellion |
Ritualized battles |
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Suspension |
Requires pain and blood, not something easy to do |
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"Primitivism" |
Unsophisticated |
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Ancestor Spirits |
Old Spirits that stayed |
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Soul |
The immortal or spiritual part of a person believed to separate from the physical body at death.
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Magic |
A ritual practice believed to compel the supernatural to act in a desired way |
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Contiguity |
Direct contact with something |
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Similarity |
Being similar |
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Post Hoc Fallacy |
Relating two unrelated occurrences |
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Priest |
Full-time religious specialist |
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Sorcery |
Bad magiv |
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Ethnographic analogy |
interpretation of beliefs based on historic events |
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Axis Mundi |
Center of everything |
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Witch |
Innate power to farm |
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Witchcraft |
Explanation of misfortune |
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Navajo Witchcraft |
Spells, Objects, Wereanimals |
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Corpse Poison |
Ground up bones of dead, Gall bladder cure |
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Gall Medicine |
Cure to corpse poison
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Skinwalkers |
Turn into animals they desire |
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Salem witch trails |
People accused of witchcraft fro just about anything |
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Azande witchcraft |
Rituals connected to protection and candeling of witchcraft |
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Chicken Oracle |
Used to everyday ailments or events by checks death or living |
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Trail by ordeal |
Assessing guilt or innocence through supernatural |
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Benge Poison |
Poison Oravle used by Azande |
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Puritans |
People of new world who take church very seriously |
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1692 |
Salem witchcraft trail |
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Convulsive Ergotism |
Molf from Rye bread was responsible for some peoples behaviors
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Wicca |
Emphasises the use of good magic and not doing harm |
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Gerald Gardner |
Good witch had to do with healing, Can mend or shape the flow of energy in the universe, Father of Wicca |
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Neopaganism |
Polytheist, animistic or pantheist |
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Polytheism |
Multiple gods |
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The One/All |
Wiccan God |
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Great mother Goddess |
Eaths Fertility |
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The God (Wicca) |
Goddess or Horned God |
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Coven |
Not initiated Wiccan |
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Days of power / Sabbats |
Connected to Soulist |
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Yule |
God is born - 12/12-22 |
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Ostara |
Symbol of fertility - Spring Equinox - 3/21-22 |
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Beltane |
Rituals of fertility - May 1st |
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Samhain |
God dies - Rites of intensification |
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The Threefold Law |
All good will come back threefold, all bad will come back threefold |
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Soliltaries |
Tirbal Club, Tribal Secret Societies, Idelology |
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Diverse Styles of Wicca |
Neopaganism |
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Energy |
Natural energy in the universe |
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Principle of vibration |
Universe vibrates |
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Mentalist |
Mind is universe |
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Correspondence |
As below, above, as above, below |
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Vibration |
Everything is in motion |
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Polarity |
Everything exists in paired opposites |
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Rythm |
Eb and Flow (Tides) |
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Cause & Effect |
Rituals people do to make sure things go right |
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Gender |
Everything has masculine & Feminine |