ANTH 2 Study Guide - Final Guide: Unilineality, Kinship Terminology, Bilateral Descent
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Holism: perspective that looks at all parts of the system and how they are integrated. Cultural relativism: the idea that cultures are best understood when viewed within the specific cultural context. Ethnocentrism: applying our own cultural categories, meanings and values to judge the behavior and beliefs of people from other cultures. Functionalism: culture functions to fulfill the biological and psychological needs of the society. Kinship system: a system for organizing relationships that is rooted in biology but. Kinship terminology: the words used to identify different categories of kin defined by culture. Ethnolinguistic theory: the terms reflect and affect the social relationships with kin. Gender of linking relative difference between cross cousins and parallel cousins. Lineal or collateral distinction vertical or horizontal descent. Consanguine or affine related by blood or by law. Bilateral descent: inherited by children of both sexes from both parents. Unilineal descent: inherited by children of both sexes from one parent.
