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achieved status
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a social position that a person chooses or accomplishes on his or her own
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ascribed status
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a social position that a person is born into, that never changes, and remains until one dies
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bamsa
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a term used in Bengali culture to refer to the family line, specifically, the line of male descendants, including in-marrying wives and unmarried daughters
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buro
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a term used in the Bengali culture that refers to a person as senior, increased, or old. Used most often to refer to a senior or elderly man or woman or sometimes to overly ripe produce
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centrality
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a term in Bengali culture that refers to the middle of the household that support and make decisions for those around them; the ones there hold the most power and authority over those in the periphery
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dividual
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a Bengali term that means composite or divisible by nature or not encased in skin. It refers to people's ability to share substances
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gender
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An institution that functions to provide expectations of roles and behaviors according to a person's sex in a specific culture (cultural: men, women; other: feminine, masculine)
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ghar jamai
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house son-in-law, a man who comes to live in his father-in-law's house
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Giving Mouse's Earth
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A Bengali rite of passage between a mother and daughter right before the daughter leaves after her wedding ceremony to live in her husband's house. The offering of the dirt is seen as either an insignificant gift from the daughter to the mother that represents a continued debt
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Jati
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The Hindu term for birth group, commonly translated as caste
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Karma
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the Hindu theory that fate comes in the form of the fruits of previous actions, performed in a past life or in this one
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Life Chances
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The opportunities that people have to fulfill their potential in society
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Maya
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attachment, affection, compassion, and bodily-emotional ties; an illusion; the nature of the everyday, lived world experience
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Personhood
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Theory by Radcliffe-Brown that explains the combination of the individuals expected responsibilities and obligations throughout his or her life
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Pinda
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the rice ball used in offerings made to spirits of recently deceased persons and to ancestors; also referred to as the body and/or body particle
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Pitr
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Father, ancestor
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Pret
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Departed one; a disembodied human spirit during the transitional phase following death and before transformation into a pitr, or ancestor
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Reciprocity
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the mutual give and take among people of equal status
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Samsar/Samsara
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the Hindu term for the family, family cycle, household life, and the entire world of living beings; the endless cycle of rebirths and redeaths that are the nature of all existence this side of release
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Varna
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ascribed status meaning either color or kind; four main subdivisions in Hindu culture that are further divided into castes
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