Anthropology

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Important definitions.
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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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