Chapter 20 - Religion
Anthropology 1006 with Erickson at University of Connecticut
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Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
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Religion
A belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces
Communitas
An intense feeling of social solidarity
Animism
The belief in souls or doubles
Mana
An impersonal sacred force, so named in Melanesia and Polynesia
Taboo
Sacred and forbidden; prohibition backed by supernatural sanctions
Magic
Using supernatural techniques to accomplish specific aims
Ritual
A formal, repetitive, stereotyped behavior; based on a liturgical order
Rites of passage
Rites marking transitions between places or stages of life
Liminality
The in-between phase of a passage rite
Leveling mechanism
A custom that brings standouts back in line with community norms
Shaman
A part-time magico-religious practitioner
Communal religions
Based on community rituals (harvest ceremonies, passage rites)
Polytheism
The belief that multiple deities control aspects of nature
Olympian religions
State religions with professional priesthoods
Monotheism
The worship of a single supreme being
Revitalization movements
Movements aimed at altering or revitalizing a society
Cargo cults
Postcolonial, acculturative religious movements in Melanesia
Syncretisms
Cultural, especially religious, mixes, emerging from acculturation
Antimodernism
Rejecting the modern for a presumed earlier, purer, better way of life
Fundamentalism
Advocating strict fidelity to a religion's presumed founding principles
About this deck
By: Noelle Grudzinski
Textbook: Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
Created: 2010-05-03
Size: 20 flashcards
Views: 20
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Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi VillageCreated: 2010-05-03
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