Anthropology 201!!!!!!

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Akan
Tribe of West Africa with multi tiered, segmentary kinship structure. Origins are attributed to mythical female ancestors. Sexual relations or marriage between members of the same clan is prohibited as incestuous.
Antonio Gramsci
Hegemony
Azande
E.E. Evans - Pritchard described social life among the Azande. The azande lived in a stateless society and held a complex set of beliefs about witchcraft oracles, and magic. They disucssed witchcraft openly and were angry if they wer bewitched.
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Balanced reciprocity
When you give somebody something and expect it back fairly soon. a blow job.
Big man
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Bilateral kindgred
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Biopower
Foucault - census need of state to control population
forms of power exercised over persons specifically insofar as they are thought of as living beings; a politics concerned with subjects as members of a population in which issues of individual sexual and reproductive conduct interconnect with issues of national policy and power.
Bridewealth
The transfer of certain symbolically important goods from the family of the groom to the family of the bride on the occasion of their marriage. It represents compensation to the wife's lineage for her loss of labor and childbearing capabilities.
Capitalism
An economic system dominated by the supply-demand price mechanism called the market; an entire way of life that grew in response to and in service of that market.
Capitalist mode of production
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Communitas
An unstructured or minimally structured community of equal individuals found frequently in rites of passage
Consumption patterns
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