GLAP Culture Vocab

Thedistribution of power and influence in a group

Analyzing the systematic way the human mind organizes knowledge/creates systems.  

The system of exchange in a group

Focusing on economics/social differences due to economic differences + conflict between groups

Themarriage practice involving only one man and one woman

A set of beliefs about what is good and evil, right and wrong, and what is beautiful and ugly

Theordinary and accepted way of doing things in a culture

Human ability w/ acoustic and visual symbols in asophisticated way as to communicate meaning

Theidea that one’s own cultural beliefs and behaviors are superior to those ofothers.

Technology, practices and associated beliefs about how one goes about gettingfood/water/shelter

Suspendingmoral and ethical judgments for the purposes of studying another culture group

System of beliefs, behaviors, and material products in a group concerned with the supernatural.

Theor. approach viewing culture as a system of symbols that peoplemanipulate to produce meaning

Comparing cultural studies to determine whatis common to all human cultures and what is unique.

Thesystem of family relations in a group

Idea and view thatculture is an integrated system of beliefs, behaviors, values, and norms. 

How the material culture  connects to their environment and to their methodsof food production

Culture by looking at the way in which people constructmeaning and act that meaning out.

Asystem of family relations where descent is traced through both parents, 

Atransfer of wealth from the bride’s family to the bride

Beliefsabout how the world came to be and why things are the way they are.

Thechildren of your mother’s sisters and bather’s brothers

Thelearned and shared patterns of behavior. 

Atheoretical approach in anthropology for understanding culture

An exchange of wealth and/or services from the groom’sfamily to the bride’s family.