Chapter 4 Flashcards
(11 cards)
What is worldview?
An encompassing picture of reality based on shared cultural assumptions about how the world works.
Blank is the use of a symbol - generally an animal or a plant, as a physical representation for a group, generally a clan.
Totemism.
Blank is a dramatic rendering of meanings shared by a specific body of people in a way that makes them seem correct and proper.
A ritual.
What is symbolic actions?
The activities - including ritual, myth, art, dance, and music, that dramatically depict the meanings shared by a specific body of people.
One major characteristic of language is its economy; the same words we used to describe one thing can be used to describe another - how does this occur?
Through metaphors. *Figures of speech in which linguistic expressions are taken from one area of experience and applied to another.
Blank is a term to identify metaphors that dominate the meanings that people in a specific culture attribute to their experience.
Key metaphors. *War for English speakers in North America for example.
What is a key scenario?
Dominant stories or myths that portray the values and beliefs of a specific society.
Blank is a term suggested by Anthony F. C. Wallace for attempts by a people to construct a more satisfying culture.
Revitalization movements. *Indigenous peoples in North America due to colonization for example.
What is syncretization?
A term given to the combination of old beliefs or religions and new ones that are often introduced during colonization. *The combination of two or more worldviews.
Blank is the belief system whereby spiritual practitioners enter into an alerted state of consciousness to seek guidance from spiritual forces.
Shamanism.
A blank is a term commonly used to refer to the formation of slave societies in the Caribbean in which elements of African and European cultures were merged, blended,or combined into something uniquely Caribbean.
Creole.
