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11 Cards in this Set
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Caste
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A ranked group within a hierarchically stratified society that is closed, prohibiting individuals to move from one caste to another.
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Endogamy
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Marriage within a social group
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Habitus
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learned bodily skills, habits, style, taste etc.
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Heteroglossia
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Every instance of language use- is embedded in a specific set of social cicrumstances
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Kinship
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social relationships that are prototypically derived from the universal human experiences of mating, birth, and nurturance.
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Myth
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stories whose truth seems self-evident because they do such a good job of integrating personal experiences with a wider set of assumptions about the way society, or the world in general, must operate
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Orthodoxy
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"correct doctrine," ; the prohibition of deviation from approved mythic texts
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Participant-Observation
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the method anthropologists use to gather information by living as closely as possible to the people whose culture they are studying while participating in their lives as much as possible
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Positivism
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The view that there is a reality "out there," that can be known through the senses and that there is a single, appropriate set of scientific methods for investigating that reality
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Reciprocity
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The exchange of goods and services of equal value.
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Reflexivity
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critically thinking about the way one thinks, reflecting on ones own experience
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