What is Swidden Horticulture?
Slash and Burn
What is Subsistence?
How people sustain themselves- get food.
The culture that we focus on for our magic unit
The Azande
What is are the 5 subsistence strategies?
(Bonus Points for listing them from least to most socially complex)
Foraging, Pastoralism, Horticulture, Agriculture, Industrialist
what is the difference between Horticulture and Agriculture?
SCALE! Horticulture is small scale and Agriculture is larger and more complex.
What is mangu and how does it function?
The black substance inside witches that conducts witchcraft, sometimes without the witches' knowledge
What does an "Egalitarian" society mean?
Everyone is equal - no social stratification
T or F : Foraging societies are known for having a formal legal system
False
Paper fortunetellers is an example of...
An Oracle
What is a Big Man? What is a Rubbish Man?
Among the Melanesian people a Big Man is a man who earns and fights for power by gift giving. A Rubbish Man is a man that is defeated.
The Tikopian people practice ________ in a _________ society.
(subsistence practice; then political system)
Agriculture; Chiefdom
How does Evans-Pritchard understand Azande witchcraft?
What are Elman Services 4 types of political systems?
Band, Tribe, Chiefdom, State
The Nuer people practice levirate, Ghost marriage, and Woman-woman marriage. Why?
The heard are attached to the Patrilineal line.
Why does social relations matter in rules of witchcraft?
it in inherited