ANT-2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Ethnocentrism
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Individuals believe that they are superior and that others are unworthy . Cluster of people beyond the domestic unit who are usually related on a basis other than kinship, although kinship relationships may exist between people in the group. People who interact with each other and know each other personally. People who identify with one another on some common ground but who may never meet or interact with one another personally. Prominent form of social group among foragers/pastoralists. Group of people close in age group who go through certain rituals at the same time. Refers to close social ties between at least two people in which the ties are informal, voluntary, and involve personal face-to-face interaction. Is friendship a cultural universal: insufficient cross-cultural research exist to answer, defining friendship cross-culturally is problematic, likely that something like friendship is a universal though.
