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26 Cards in this Set
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Age Grade
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An organized category of people based on age; every individual passes through a series of such categories over his or lifetime
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Age Set
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A formally established group of people born during a certain time span who move through the series of age grade categories together
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Common interest association
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An association that results from an act of joining based on sharing particular activities, objectives, values, or beliefs, sometimes rooted in common ethnic religious or regional background
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statified society
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A society in which people are hierarchically divided and ranked into social strata, or layers, and do not share equally in the basic resources that support survival, influence and prestige
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Egalitarian Society
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A society in which everyone has about equal rank, access to, and power over the basic resources that support survival, influence and prestige
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Social Class
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A category of individuals in a stratified society who enjoy equal or nearly qual 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 membership is determined by birth and fixed for life
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Worldview
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The collective body of ideas that members of culture generally share concerning the ultimate shape and substance of their realtiy
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Religion
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An organized system of ideas about the spiritual sphere or the supernatural, along with associated ceremonial practices by which people try to interpret and/or influence aspects of the universe otherwise beyond their control
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Spirituality
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Concern with the sacred as distinguished from material matters. In contrast to religion, spirituality is often individual rather than collective and does not require a distinctive format or traditional organizational.
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Polytheism
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Belief in several gods and or goddesses as contrasted with monotheism-belief in one god or goddess
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Pantheon
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The several gods and goddess of a people
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Animism
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A belief that nature is animated (enlived or energized) by distinct personalized spirit beings separable from bodies
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Animatism
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A belief that nature is enlivened or energized by an impersonal spiritual power or supernatural potency
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Priest or Priestess
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A full time religious specialist formally recognized for his or her role in guiding the religious practices of others and for contacting and incluencing supernatural powers
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Shaman
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A person who enters an altered state of consciousnes at will- to contact and utilize an ordinarily hidden reality in order to acquire knowledge, power and to help others
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Taboo
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A prohibition, which, if not observed, leads to a penalty inflicted by magic, spiritual force, or religion
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Rite of Passage
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A ritual that marks an important stage in an individual's life cycle, such as birth, marriage, and death
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Seperation
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In a rite of passage, the ritual removal of the individual from society
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Transition
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In a rite of passage, isolation of the individual following separation and prior to incorporation into society
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Incorporation
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In a rite of passage, reincorporation of the individual into society in his or her new status
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Rite of Intensification
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A ritual that takes place during a crisis in the life of the group and serves to bind individuals together
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Imitative Magic
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Magic based onthe principle that like produces like; sometimes called sympathetic magic
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Contagious magic
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Magic based on the principle that things or persons once in contact can influence each other after the contact is broken
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Divination
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A magical procedure or spiritual ritual designed to find out what is not knowable by ordinary means, such as foretelling the future by interpreting omens
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Revitalization movement
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A movement for radical cultural reform in response to widespread social disruption and collective feelings of great stress and despair
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