Religion 1
The belief of worship of a superhuman controlling power
Religion
Culture acts as an _____________ buffer
Environmental
Caused by forces that cannot be explained by science
Supernatural
The study of how languages changed through time
Historical Linguistics
A religious or solemn ceremony consisting of series of actions performed according to a prescribed order
Ritual
Sorcery
Black Magic
Rapid diffusion under influence from another society that may be voluntary or involuntary
Acculturation
The belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe
Animism
Prohibition against certain types of food
Food taboos (food laws)
A descent group is a social group whose members talk about common ancestry
Kinship
One of the earliest and most complete written legal codes proclaimed by the Babylonian king
Code of Hammurabi
The social status a person is assigned at birth or assumed involuntarily later in life
Ascribed Statues
A recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology
Archetype
Sounds and words displaced in time and space
Language
An ordained minister of the Catholic, Orthodox, or Anglican Church
Priest
Belief that there is only one God
Monotheism
A system of family lineage in which the relatives on the mother's and father's side are equally important for emotional ties or for transfer of property and wealth.
Bilateral Descent
The practice of and belief in magical skills
Witchcraft
The spread of an idea from one culture to another
Diffusion
19th century dramatic increase in food production
Industrialization
The practice of prayer and gestures that are believed by some to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing
Faith Healers
The kinship relation between an individual and the individual progenitors
Line of Descent
A person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and evil spirits
Shaman
Refers to distinctions in products that cannot be easily evaluated in terms of quality
Horizontal Differentiation
Close associations between language and culture
Sapir-whorf hypothesis