Chapter Three

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Durkeheim believed that the concept of god relies on

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the lives of early humanitity

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Define toteism

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the use of a symbol, generally an animal or a plant, as a physical representative for a group, generally a clan

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Define rituals

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a dramatic rendering or social portrayal of meanings shared by a specific body of people in a way that makes them seem correct and proper.

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Define symbolic actions

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the activities – including ritual, myth, art, dance, and music – that dramatically depict the meanings shared by a specific body of people.

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Define metaphors

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a figure of speech in which linguistic expressions are taken from one area of experience and applied to another

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Define domain of experience

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: an area of human experience (business, war, family) from which a person borrows the meaning to apply to something else

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When people try to make sense of their experience they draw on

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World views

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Define world views

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an encompassing picture of reality based on shared cultural assumptions about how the world works. This can reinforce peopes beliefs as well as their understandings.

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Define key metaphors

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A term to identify metaphors that dominate the meanings that people in a specific culture attribute to their experience

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What do the Kwakwaka'wakw believe happens when people die

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they become a salmon and when the salmon is ate, it frees the soul and the child is allowed to be reborn. Therefore people who hoard food are preventing the rebirth.

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Define key scenarios

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: Dominant stories or myths that portray the values and beliefs of a specific society

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Who suggests that

contemporary zombie stories have much to do with “the implosion of neoliberal capitalism at the end of the twentieth century.”

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Jean and John Comaroff

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Dene tha believe that true knoeldge is

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Personal Knowledge

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Dene tha believes animals are

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Superior than humans

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Dene tha did what with christanity

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Incorporated it in their society

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Define Revitalization movement and who said it

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by a people to construct a more satisfying culture.

Anthony F.C. Wallace

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Define Syncretization

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the term given to the combination of old beliefs or religions and new ones that are often introduced during colonization.

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Define sacred things

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Practices that are set aside (institutionalized)

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Define Profane things

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Behaviour that is separated from scared things

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Define religious beliefs

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Presents the sacred in relation to the profane

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Totem serves as a concrete representation of

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The group

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Modern magic is based on the assumption that

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Mind and thought can affect matter without the intervention of the thinker's actions

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Define Creole

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A term used to refer to the formation of slave societies in the caribbean in which elements of slave societies in the caribbean in which elements of African and European Cultures were merged

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Define cultural life course

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A collectively shared image that, throug metaphor, provides persons with images to guide their lives