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The Anthropology of Religion, Magic,
and Witchcraft Test Bank for Essentials
of Cultural Anthr

Acculturation - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍The process
whereby a culture received traits from a dominant
society.

Achieved Status - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A status that
one has because of a factor other than automatic
membership due to gender, age, kinship affiliation,
and so forth.

Acrostic - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A word that is derived
from the first letter of a series of words.

Aerophone - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A musical instrument
in which air is blown across or into some type of
passageway, such as a pipe; includes whistles and
flutes.

Age Grade - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A series of
consecutive statuses defined by age.

,Age Set - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A social group that
contains members of one sex within a specific age
span.

Agnosticisim - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍The idea that the
existence of a god is unknowable, that it is as
impossible to prove the nonexistence of the
supernatural as it is to prove its existence.

Aleuromancy - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍Divination by use
of flour, as in fortune cookies.

Altered States of Consciousness -
🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍Any mental state that differs from
a normal mental state.

Analytic Definition - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A definition
that focuses on the way religion manifests itself or is
expressed in a culture.

Ancestor - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A deceased family
member who has a continued existence and the
potential to impact the lives of his or her living
descendents.

,Angel - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍In Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam, spirit beings who act as mediators
between God and human beings.

Animatism - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍The belief in an
impersonal supernatural power.

Animism - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A belief in spirit beings.

Anthropology - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍The study of
humanity.

Anthropomorphic - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍Nonhuman
entities that have human characteristics.

Antitherapy Ritual - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A ritual that is
performed to bring about illness, accident, or death.

Apantomancy - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍Divination by a
chance meeting with an animal.

Apocalypse - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍Ultimate devastation
or the end of the world.

, Arbitrary - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A feature of symbols, in
which the symbol is not related to the thing it
symbolizes.

Archaeology - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍The study of
prehistoric people from the analysis of their physical
and cultural remains.

Archetype - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A main character of
the collective unconscious.

Artificial Divination - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍Refers to
non-inspirational divination.

Ascribed Status - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A status that
one automatically has because of gender, age,
kinship affiliation, and so forth.

Assimilation - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍A condition
whereby a dominated culture has changed so much
because of outside influences that it ceases to have
its own distinct identity.

Astrology - 🖊🖊answer%🖍🖍The belief that all of
the stars and planets, as well as the sun and moon,
influence the destiny of people and that reading the
sky can be used as a divination technique.

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