Anthro - Unit 2 Eam

Learned Culture

Culture is not coded in your genes - The process through which people learn the culture of the people who he/she was with.

Shared Culture

You cannot have culture with just one person - many groups cane experience it, smallest being friends - can lead to ethnic groups

Symbolic Culture

A specific symbol means something to you - might not mean the same to others - to fully understand you need to be in the culture.

Integrated Culture

The cultures and subculture that you are in affect a lot of what you do. What you believe religiously can affect who you marry, what you eat, etc.

Dynamic Culture

Culture changes and reacts to outside forces and inside changes.

Polygyny

Many wife’s (Sometimes sisters)

Polyandry

One woman to many men (nearly always brothers)

Monogamy

One person to another person - Society we get to choose but family has input as well

Matrilocal

Lives with mother’s family

Patrilocal

Lives with father’s family

Ambilocal

Couple chooses who they will live it

Neolocal

Lives in a new residence with neither family

Affinal Kin

Related to you by marriage - brother-in-law, sister-in-law, step children

Sanguinal

Share a genetic relationship - brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers

Descent Group

a kin-ordered social group with a membership in the direct line of descent from a real (historical) or fictional common ancestor

Bilateral Kin

Descent down both lines - Eskimo system - what we do - neolocal residence

Unilateral

Descent down one line - Ex Mother or fathers

Clans

Extended unilineal descent groups that claim common descent - share residences but meet at specific times - common at the tribe political level

Totemism

Clan claims to be related to some particular plant or animal, or objects - Ex. Raven, Wolf, etc.

Moieties

A society is split into two groups based on descent - two groups of clans - have to marry someone from a moiety you are not in.

Monotheism

Majority of major religions - you have one God - Christianity, Judaism

Polytheism

multiple Gods - Ancient Roman and Greek gods

Animism

Belief nature is animated by distinct personalized spirit beings separable from bodies

Taboo

A rule or law that if violated will result in a penalty inflicted by magic, spiritual force, or religion

Witchcraft

explanation of events based on the fact that certain individuals possess power to cause harm, pain, or death.

Healers/Shaman

a part-time specialist who can enter a trance to contact spirits and utilize unknown power. usually, to help or heal others - found often in animistic societies

Applied Anthropology

Practical use of anthropological theories, methods, and knowledge to analyze and solve real-world problems across communities.