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| Sources and methods a society uses to obtain its food and other necessities |
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| specific set of social relations that organizes labor |
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| major resources involved in production |
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| examines how production, distribution, and consumption are organized in different societies; studies what motivates people from different cultures to produce, distribute, exchange, and consume resources (These studies are based on the profit motive) |
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| How people are motivated to make use of scarce resources such as time, labor, money, or capital |
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| governs exchange between social equals; major exchange mode in band and tribal societies. |
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| the belief in a double or a soul that is active when a person sleeps or is in a trance; believed by Tylor and other early anthropologists to be the earliest form of religion |
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| an impersonal sacred force existing in the universe that can be controlled by humans under specific conditions |
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| sacred and forbidden; prohibition backed by supernatural sanctions; Functions as an explanation for differential success |
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| animals, plants, or geographic features that have a sacred symbolic meaning to a group |
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| formal, repetitive, stereotyped behavior; based on liturgical order |
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| world view filtered through the supernatural understanding |
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| custom that brings standouts back in line with community norms |
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| postcolonial, acculturative religious movements; combine indigenous beliefs and Christian doctrine |
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| cultural, especially religious, mixes that emerge from acculturation |
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| movements aimed at altering or revitalizing a society |
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| offspring of an area who have spread to many lands |
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| time of questioning established cannons or beliefs, identities, and standards |
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| idea that groups should be more like western societies |
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| individuals who are tied to more than one place; deals with globalization, for example in the housing article there are individuals integrating to US society but are still connected to another place |
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| a world in which nations and cultures are increasingly economically and politically interdependent; isolated communities are coming more difficult to find; Transportation and communication networks have made the world a smaller place |
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| Profit oriented global economy based on production for sale |
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| socioeconomic transformation through industrialization |
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| the period after WWI when European empires lost their political control over much of the globe |
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| change that occurs when groups come into continuous contact |
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| the spread of a dominant culture at the expense of others |
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| how ideas or technologies are fit into a culture that didn't develop it; indigenous ways of viewing non indigenous technology |
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| Belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces. |
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| using supernatural techniques to accomplish specific aims |
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