Anthro Final

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Consanguineal Kin

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Biologically related relatives, ommonly referred to as "blood relatives".

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Affinal Kin

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People related through marriage.

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Incest Taboo

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The prohibition of sexual relations between specified individuals, usually parent and child and sibling relations at a minimum.

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Serial Monogamy

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A marriage form in which a man or a woman marries of lives with a series of partners in sucession.

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Levirate

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A marriage practice where the widow marries the brother of the dead husband.

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Sororate

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A marriage practice where the widow marries his dead wife's sister.

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Group Marriage

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Marriage in which several men and women have sexual access to one another. Also called co-marriage.

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Fictive Marriage

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Marriage by proxy to the symbols of someone not physically present to establish the social status of a spouse and heirs.

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Parallel Cousin

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Child of a father's brother or mother's sister.

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Cross Cousin

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Child of a mother's brother of father's sister.

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Nuclear Family

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A married couple and their dependent children.

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Totemism

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The belief that people are related to particular animals, plants, or natural objects by virtue of descent from common ancestral spirits.

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Phratry

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A unilineal descent group composed of at least 2 clans that supposedly share a common anestry, whether or not they really do.

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Moiety

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Each group that results from a division of a society into two halves on the basis of descent.

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Stratified Society

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Societies in whih people are hierarhically divided and ranked into social strata, or layers, and do not share equally in basic resources that support survival, influene, and prestige.

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Social Class

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A catagory of individuals in a stratified society who enjoy equal, or nearly equal prestige according to the system of evaluation.

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Caste

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A closed social class in a stratified society in which member ship is determined by birth and fixed for life.

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Social Mobility

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Upward or downward change in one's social class position in a stratified society.

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Political Organization

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The way power is distributed and embedded in society; the means through which a society created and maintains social order and reduces social disorder.

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Nation

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A people who share a collective identity based on a common culture, language, territorial base, and history.

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Sanction

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An externalized social control designed to encourage conformity to social norms.

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World View

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The collective body of ideas that members of a culture generally share concerning the ultimate shape and substance of their reality.

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Diffusion

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The spread of certain ideas, customs, or practices from one culture to another.

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Acculteration

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Massive culture change that occurs in a socity when it experienes intensive firsthand contact with a more powerful society.

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Genocide

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The physical extermination of one people by another, either as deliberate act or as the accidental outome of activities carried out by one people with little reagrd for their impact on others.

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Ethnocide

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The violent eradication of an ethnic group's collective cultural identity as a distinctive people; occurs when a dominant society deliberatly sets out to destroy another society's cultural heritage.

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Modernization

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The process of political and socioeconomic change, whereby developing socities acquire some of the cultural characteristics of Western industrial societies.

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Multiculturalism

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Public policy for managing cultural diversity in a multi-ethnic society, officially stressing mutual respect and tolerance for cultural differences within a countries borders.

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Structural Power

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Power that organizes and orchestrates the systemic interaction within and among socities, directing economic and political forces on the one hand and idealogical forces that shape public ideas, values, and beliefs on the other.

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Hard Power

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Coercive power that is backed up by economic and military force.

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Soft Power

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Co-optive power that pressed others through attraction and persuasions to change their ideas, beliefs, values, and behaviors.

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Structural Violence

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Physical and or psychological harm (poverty, hunger, illness, repression, envirnomental destruction) caused by impersonal, exploitative, and unjust social, political, and economic systems.

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Replacement Reproduction

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The point at whih birthrates and deathrates are in equilibrium; people producing only enough offspring to replace themselves when they die.