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Define band.
a small group of related families who occupy the same territory and interact with each other
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Define beliefs.
shared ideas about what is true
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Define chiefdom.
a centralized society in which power is concentrated in a single chief who heads a ranked hierarchy of people
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Define cultural generalizations.
descriptions of commonly shared values, beliefs, and behaviors in a society
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Define cultural relativity.
suspending judgment of other societies' customs, customs, practices, and institutions
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Define culture.
all of the ways of life common to a society
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Define ethnocentrism.
judging other cultures solely in relation to one's own culture
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Define family.
traditionally defined as a residential kin group
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Define folkways.
trivial norms that guide actions
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Define functionalism.
a perspective in anthropology that explores how cultural institutions and practices serve individual or societal needs
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Define gender.
the cultural characteristics linked to male and female that define people as masculine and feminine
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Define idealism.
a perspective in anthropology that focuses on the importance of ideas in determining culture
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Define intensification.
the process wherein a population exploits the environment and applies knowledge and labor intensely in response to population growth
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Define kinship group.
people related to one another by blood
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Define marriage.
a socially approved sexual and economic union between a man and a woman, intended to be lasting, and implying social roles between the spouses and their children
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Define materialist perspective.
a perspective in anthropology that focuses on how people make their living in their specific environmental setting or culture
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Define monogamy.
marriage union of one husband and one wife
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Define multiculturalism.
acknowledging, protecting, and promoting multiple cultures and subcultures
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Define nation.
a society that sees itself as one people with a common culture, history, institutions, ideology, language, and territory
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Define norms.
shared rules and expectations about behavior
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Define patriarchal family.
the male is the dominant authority
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Define patrilineal.
kinship is determined through the male line
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Define political system.
the organization and distribution of power in society
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Define public/private split.
the theory that men dominate in the public sphere and women focus on the private or domestic sphere
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Define religion.
a set of beliefs and practices pertaining to supernatural powers and the origins and meaning of life
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Define sex.
the biological characteristics distinguishing male from female
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Define socialization process.
process by which culture is communicated to successive generations
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Define state.
a permanent, centralized organization with a defined territory and recognized authority to make and enforce rules
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Define subcultures.
variations in ways of life within a society
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Define symbols.
anything that communicates meaning, including language, art, and music
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Define tribe.
a group of separate bands or villages sharing a common language and culture who come together for greater security
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Define values.
shared ideas about what is good and desirable
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