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Flashcards by Ray van den Berg, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Ray van den Berg
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Age sets | Corporate groups of people of about the same age who share specific rights, obligations, duties, and privileges in their community. |
| Band | The least complex and, most likely, the oldest form of a political system. |
| Culture | A shared way of life that includes the material products and nonmaterial products (values, beliefs, and norms) that are transmitted within a particular society from generation to generation. |
| Cross cousin marriage | The offspring of one’s father’s sister or one’s mother’s brother. |
| Cultural relativism | The view that cultural traditions must be understood within the context of a particular society’s responses to problems, cultural practices, and values. |
| Ethnocentrism | The practice of judging another society by the values and standards of one’s own. |
| Sororate | The marriage rule requiring a widower to marry one of his deceased wife’s sisters. |
| Endogamy | Marriage between people of the same social group or category |
| Exogamy | Marriage between people of different social groups or categories. |
| Egalitarian | A type of social structure that emphasizes equality among different statuses. |
| Ethnography | A description of a society written by an anthropologist who conducted field research in that society. |
| Geronticide | The killing of old people. |
| Levirate | The rule that a widow is expected to marry one ofter deceased husband’s brothers |
| Matrilocal redisdence | A rule of postmarital residence under which a man resides with his wife’s parents. |
| Patrilocal residence | A postmarital residence rule under which a newly married couple must reside with the husband’s father. |
| Polyandry | Marriage between one wife and two or more husbands. |
| Rites of passage | Rituals associated with the life cycle and the movement of people between different age-status levels. |
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