Ch. 15-18

Question 1

Band

Answer 1

Small normadic group that is politically autonomous.

Question 2

What is Bride price?

Answer 2

A large amount of goods or money given to the brides kin.

Question 3

What is Avunculocal residence?

Answer 3

Married couples settle with or near the husbands mothers brother.

Question 4

What is Adjudication?

Answer 4

A process in which a third party acts as a judge to make decisions both parties must accept.

Question 5

What is a clan?

Answer 5

A set of people who believe they are decedents of a common ancestor.

Question 6

What is chiefdom?

Answer 6

A political unit with a chief integrating in more than one community.

Question 7

What is a chief?

Answer 7

A leader who excursuses authority on behalf of a multi community political unit.

Question 8

What does state mean?

Answer 8

A culture that had formed a political organization with central bureaucracy.

Question 9

What is feuding?

Answer 9

A violent conflict.

Question 10

What is meditation?

Answer 10

Dispute settlement through negotiation aided by a third party.

Question 11

What is a ritual?

Answer 11

The visible control of abstract thoughts. Control the unpredictable.

Question 12

What is a negotiation?

Answer 12

Compromise by the parties to dispute and arrive at an agreement.

Question 13

What is a priest?

Answer 13

A minister who performs rites and and administer sacraments.

Question 14

What is which craft?

Answer 14

The practice of magic.

Question 15

What is sorcery?

Answer 15

Using power obtained from evil spirits.

Question 16

What is mediums?

Answer 16

Part time religious practitioners who are asked to heal and divine while in trance.

Question 17

What is bilateral kinship?

Answer 17

A system in which decent is reckoned though both the mothers and fathers lines.

Question 18

What are parallel cousins?

Answer 18

The offspring of a parents sibling. A first cousin.

Question 19

What are rules of descent?

Answer 19

Rules that connect individuals common ancestry.

Question 20

What is gender differences?

Answer 20

Differences between male and female that reflect society.

Question 21

What is matrilocal residence?

Answer 21

Married couples that live close to or with the wife’s parents.

Question 22

What is Matrillineal descent?

Answer 22

The rule of decent that affiliates individuals with Lin if both sexes related only through women.

Question 23

What is Monotheistism?

Answer 23

The belief of oneness of god.

Question 24

What is taboo?

Answer 24

Acts that are banned on grounds of morality or taste.

Question 25

What are ancestor spirits?

Answer 25

Supernatural beings who are the ghost of dead relatives.

Question 26

What is the definition of magic?

Answer 26

The power of apparently influence the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces.

Question 27

What is religion?

Answer 27

The belief in and worship of a super human controlling power.

Question 28

What are confined laws?

Answer 28

The process of collecting and restating the law of a jurisdiction.

Question 29

What is a ghost?

Answer 29

An apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or become to the living.

Question 30

What is warfare?

Answer 30

Organized, armed and conflicted groups which is motivated by common purpose.

Question 31

What is polyandry?

Answer 31

The marriage of one woman to more than one man.

Question 32

What is polygny?

Answer 32

One man married to multiple woman.

Question 33

What is an oath?

Answer 33

The act of calling upon a deity to bear witness to the truth of what one says.

Question 34

What is ini lineal decent?

Answer 34

Affiliation with a group of kin through decent of only sex.

Question 35

What is kindred?

Answer 35

A ciliate rail set of close relatives.

Question 36

What is gendered stratification?

Answer 36

Unequal access by the different genders to prestige, authority, power, rights, and economic resources.

Question 37

What are gender roles?

Answer 37

Roles that are culturally assigned to genders.

Question 38

What is a Patrilineal decent?

Answer 38

The file of descent that affiliates individuals with kin of both sexes related to them through men only.

Question 39

What is Patrilocal residence?

Answer 39

A couple that live with or close to the husbands family.

Question 40

What is incest taboo?

Answer 40

Prohibition of marriage between mother and son, father and daughter and brother and sister.

Question 41

What's folklore?

Answer 41

Stories that are told orally.

Question 42

What is a shaman?

Answer 42

A doctor, that uses magic.

Question 43

What is lineage?

Answer 43

A set of descenders from a common ancestor through links.

Question 44

What is exogamy?

Answer 44

A rule specifying marriage to a person from outside ones lineage.

Question 45

What is endogamy?

Answer 45

A rule that one must marry some one in their family.

Question 46

What are gods?

Answer 46

Supernatural beings of no human origins who are Oren anthropomorphic.

Question 47

What is polytheistic?

Answer 47

Recognizing many gods, non of whom is believed to be duper-ordinate.

Question 48

What is a headman?

Answer 48

A person who holds a powerless but symbolically unifying position in a community.

Question 49

What is Marriage?

Answer 49

A socially approved sexual and economical union.

Question 50

What is neolocal residence?

Answer 50

Married couple that live apart and with their parents of the spouses.

Question 51

What is an ordeal?

Answer 51

A way to find out if your innocent or guilty using pain.

Question 52

What are cross cousins?

Answer 52

Children if siblings if the opposite sex.

Question 53

What is monogamy?

Answer 53

Marriage between one and and one woman.

Question 54

What is Mana?

Answer 54

A supernatural force that inhibits people and is believed to confer success and or strength.