ANTH 1150 Study Guide - Final Guide: Monogamy, Ascribed Status, Unilineality
2 Apr 2017
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Two wives thought one was poisoning the other. All guilty because all the chicks died when fed poison. Headed by a senior women, assisted by her brother. Men often fighting away from household therefore one woman married to many men. Marriage between boy and girl - 10-12 yr old. Temporary - 4 days - associated with feasting. Paid for by boys family, unlikely to encounter the boy ever again. Man acknowledges paternity, does nothing to help raise the child. Defining religion and its functions, mythology, rituals, magic, specialists, altered states of consciousness, Eb tylor (primitive culture cultural evolutionist: religion is a belief in spirits : animism. Societies where there is cultural equality among members: polytheism. Personified spirits gods with jobs (supreme deity) Not always a distinction between natural and supernatural. Rituals patterned activities identifiable steps (visible) especially against everyday life. Call attention to themselves (participants and observes know they are doing it)
