In Conjunction with Cultural Anthropology - Touro Institute

4. animism
14. Law of Similarity
5. taboo
15. Law of Contagion
6. supernatural
16. divination
7. anthropomorphism
17. disease object
8. sacred
18. spirit possession
9. ritual
19. shaman
10. secularization
20. syncretism
21. revitalization movement
a. the innate ability to influence supernatural forces, usually to operate in ways that are
harmful to others, without the necessity of using rituals
b. belief in supernatural power, symbolic expression of feelings, and rituals performed in
order to influence the nonhuman realm
c. the principle that things that have been in contact remain supernaturally in contact or
d
that contact between things can be used to transfer mana from one to the other
the learned use of rituals to magically control the supernatural realm to achieve human
goals
e. a rule forbidding contact with sacred things, those containing mana
f. the borrowing of beliefs, practices, or organizational traits by one religion from
another
g. the process by which nonreligious beliefs expand within an ideology at the expense of
religious thought
h. a belief in supernatural beings such as the soul, ghosts, spirits, and gods and goddesses
i. behaviors, often performed in repetitive and stereotyped ways, that express people's
anxieties by acting them out and that may be performed with the desire to influence
supernatural beings or supernatural power to achieve greater control over the natural
world.
j. the use of ritual to obtain answers to questions from supernatural sources
k. a trance in which individuals feel as if their behavior is under the control of one or
more spirits that have entered their bodies
l. part-time religious practitioner who is believed to have access to supernatural power
that may be used for the benefit of specific clients, as in healing or divining
m. supernatural power or force
n. the use of rituals that, when performed correctly, are believed to compel--as opposed
to simply making requests of--the supernatural to bring about desired results
o. the belief in supernatural power or mana
p. that which transcends the natural, observable world
q. the quality of inspiring feelings of respect, awe, and reverence that is possessed by
things set apart and forbidden
r. an object such as a barbed stick or stone that is magically cast into the body of a
victim to cause illness
s. using human qualities to explain the nonhuman realm; interpreting or acting toward
the nonhuman realm as if it were human, especially as if it were able to respond to
symbolic communication
t. the principle that things that are similar to one another are spiritually identical and can