taboo

(uit Polynesische talen) Gedragsregel (veelal een verbod) waarvoor geldt dat overtreding automatisch en op bovennatuurlijke wijze gestraft wordt.

 

Set apart as sacred and off-limits to ordinary people; prohibition backed by supernatural sanctions.

 

Something that is both sacred and forbidden.

 

Sacred; forbidden, especially by supernatural sanctions (from Polynesian tapu).

tales

Stories told for pleasure.

Tardenoisean culture

Kebudayaan Jaman Mesolitikum, hasil adaptasi dengan tanah pasir dan hutan semak-semak die sebelah selatan daerah kebudayaan Azilian dan Maglemosian.

taro

A class of tropical plants of the lily family (especially genera Colocasia, Alocasia) with heartshaped "elephant ear" leaves, widely cultivated for their starchy corms (tubers).

technology

The means used by species to make material culture objects called artifacts.

Obyek buatan manusia dan alat-alat yang digunakan untuk membuatnya.

teknonymy

Verwantschapsterm bestaande uit een naam (meestal van een kind) plus een verwantschapsterm die de relatie van de bedoelde persoon met het genoemde individu aanduidt (Esthers vader).

temperament

The personality dispositions of individuals in a population, which differ considerably, apparently reflecting genetic predispositions as well as differential experience.

term of address

Verwantschapsterm die gebruikt wordt bij het aanspreken van een verwant ("pappa").

Kinship term used when speaking to a relative.

term of reference

Verwantschapsterm die gebruikt wordt om een verwant aan te duiden in zijn/haar kwaliteit van verwant ("mijn vader").

Kinship term used when speaking about a relative.

terraforming

From science fiction, the use of technology to make other worlds as much like earth (terra) as possible; applied by analogy to results of political and economic domination on earth.

territoriality

In animals, use of and defensive reactions toward a particular area.

territory

The part of a home range exclusively occupied by members of a primate social group and defended against encroachment.

text

Something that is creatively "read", interpreted, and assigned meaning by each person who receives it; includes any media-borne image, such as Carnival.

theoretical linguistics

Suatu pendekatan dalam linguistik deskriptif dengan membuat suatu kerangka dan sistem untuk membuat deskripsi dari apa saja yang terjadi dalam proses pemberian nama dan penyusunan kalimat, yang berlaku untuk semua bahasa.

theory

A system of interrelated concepts and propositions.

Sistem  dari hipotesis-hipotesis yang sudah teruji yang menjelaskan fenomena-fenomena secara sistematis.

Third World

The less-developed countries (LDCs); used in combination with "Fourth World", "Third World" refers to the better-off LDCs (e.g. Brazil, India) compared with poorer LDCs (Bangladesh, Madagascar).

tonality

Dalam musik, sistem skala dan modifikasi-modifikasinya.

tone language

A language in which variations in tone are used to distinguish words of different meanings that otherwise would sound alike.

tool

A form used to make or maintain something else.

totem

An animal or plant apical ancestor of a clan.

 

An animal, plant, or other object that gives a clan its collective designation.

 

Lambang yang mengandung arti religius, biasanya berupa binatang, tetapi kadang-kadang tumbuh-tumbuhan, unsur-unsur alam, atau benda, yang oleh klen dipakai sebagai saran identifikasi.

totemism

(uit het Chippewa, Canada/Verenigde Staten) Een opvatting die een speciale relatie tussen een dier (soms een plant) en een groep (vaak een afstammingsgroep) veronderstelt.

Aymbolic association between a social group (e.g., a lineage or clan) and a kind of bird, plant, or natural phenomenon. In "classic" forms, a member of the social group has some special religious relationship (e.g.. a food taboo) twoards members of the natural species.

Kepercayaan bahwa manusia adalah keturunan dari binatang, tumbuh-tumbuhan, atau benda alam.

trade

The transfer of commodities by purchase, barter, or other modes of transaction.

tradition

Dalam masyarakat yang sedang mengadakan modernisasi, kebiasaan kultural kunuo, yang dapat merintangi kekuatan diferensiasi dan integrasi baru.

traditional transmission

The characteristic of language that it must be learned.

trait

An act, object, or thought identified with a specific culture.

transculturation

Culture change resulting from the influences that societies in contact have upon each other.

transformational

See: generative linguistics

1.A school linguistic theory, pioneered by Noam Chomsky, that seeks to describe formally in logicaomathematical terms the linguistic knowledge on which native speakers of a language draw in speaking and understanding speech. See also: grammar. 2.A class of linguistic rule that relates two syntactic strings at successive stages in the derivation of a sentence.

transformational linguistics

See: generative linguistics

transformational-generative grammar

Approach associated with Noam Chomsky;  views language as set of abstract rules with deep and surface structures.

Teori linguistik teoretis dari Noam Chomsky, yang berusaha menemukan perangkat peraturan-peraturan lengkap yang dapat melahirkan atau dapat digunakan untuk membuat segala macam kalimat yang dapat dibentuk dalam bahasa.

transhumance

Seizoenmigratie, in het bijzonder van veehoudende volken, van het ene deel van hun grondgebied naar het andere, in verband met klimatologische omstandigheden en de jaarcyclus.

One of two variants of pastoralism; part of the population moves seasonally with the herds while the other part remains in home villages.

A form of pastoral economy that involves permanent villages but the seasonal movement of livestock to different pastures.

Seasonal movement of nomadic peoples according to the availability of pasturage.

Di antara suku-suku bangsa pastoral, penggembalaan biri-biri dan kambing di padang rumput di dataran rendah pada musim dingin, dan pindah ke padang-padang yang tinggi di atas plato pada musim panas.

transition

The way in which adjacent sounds are joined together.

Dalam upacara peralihan, isolasi seseorang sesudah ia mengalami separasi dan sebelum inkorporasi.

transitional

Gerakan kebangkitan yang berusaha menpercepat proses akulturasi dengan maksud untuk lebih banyak ikut menikmati keuntungan yang dianggap ada pada kebudayaan yang dominan.

transsexual

An individual of a defined biological sex who assumes the roles, staturses, and cultural identity aharacteristic of the opposite sex (after Read 1980).

transvestite

An individual who attempts to look like a member of the opposite sex.

tree-ring dating

A technique of absolute dating of wood remains by making use of the growth rings of trees; dendrochronology.

tribal

Pertaining to small-scale food-producing societies without centralized political organization; more generally, stateless technologically "primitive" societies.

tribal communal mode of production

Term provisionally suggested for subsistence-oriented systems of production in tribal societies in which labor, distribution, and consumption take place primarily within structures of kinship and community and in which surplus labor is directed to communal ends and kinship obligation.

tribe

Groep mensen met eigen taal en specifieke cultuur.

Form of sociopolitical organization usually based on horticulture or pastoralism. Socioeconomic stratification and centralized rule are absent in tribes, and there is no means of enforcing political decisions.

A group of loosley integrated bands whose members share a common mythological background or common ancestor.

An aggregate of people linked together by social ties, common language, and the recognition of a common cultural heritage.

A small-scale society characterized by a distinctive language and culture with a political identity but not central, hierarchical institutions. Whether "tribes" existed except in relation to state societies has been much debated.

Een min of meer afzonderlijke, cultureel zelfstandige groep.

Kelompok gerombolan yang berbicara dalam bahasa yang sama, memiliki kebudayaan yang sama, dan tinggal di daerah tertentu.

troop

Basic unit of social organization among nonhuman primates; composed of multiple adult males and females and their offspring.

Among primates, a relatively structured and enduring social group.

tropics

Geographic belt extending about 23 degrees north and south of the equator, between the Tropic of Cancer (north) and the Tropic of Capricorn (south).

type

An abstraction representing a group.

typological classification

The sorting and comparison of languages  on the basis of structural criteria alone.

typology

A system of classification of cultures into types.

Een systeem van ideaaltypen die worden gebruikt om een verschijnsel te beschrijven.

typology, economic

Economic typology

typology, sociopolitical

Sociopolitical typology -

Ubaid

Early Mesopotamian period (4750 - 3500 B.C.) marked by waterworks for irrigation and flood control and the emergence of temple centers.

ultimogeniture

The right of inheritance by the youngest child.

A rare pattern of inheritance in which the appropriate family heir is the youngest son or youngest sibling.

unaltered fossil

Sisa-sisa tumbuh-tumbuhan dan binatang yang hdiup pada jaman dahulu yang tidak mengalami sesuatu perubahan yang penting.

uncertainty avoidance

De mate waarin de leden van een cultuur zich bedreigd voelen door onzekere of onbekende situaties. Een van de dimensies van nationale culturen (van zwak tot sterk).

uncertainty avoidance index

(OVI) Een maat voor de onzekerheidsvermijding in de cultuur van een land, ontleend aan het IBM-onderzoek.

underclass

The abjectly poor.

underdifferentiation

Planning fallacy of viewing less-developed countries as an undifferentiated group; ignoring cultural diversity and adopting a uniform approach (often ethnocentric) for very different types of project beneficiaries.

unilateral descent

See: unilineal descent

unilineal descent

Wijze van afstamming waarin hetzij relaties via mannen, hetzij relaties via vrouwen de doorslag geven bij het toewijzen van individuen aan groepen.    

 

Matrilineal or patrilineal descent

 

Descent traced along one line, either female or male.

 

Descent reckoned through  one line, either the maternal  or the paternal.

 

Patrilineal (agnatic) matrilineal (uterine) descent.

 

Verwantschapssysteem waarbij de afstamming via één van beide ouders wordt gerekend.

 

Keturunan yang keanggotaannya ditetapkan melulu berdasarkan garis ibu atau garis ayah saja.

 

See: patrilineal descent, matrilineal descent

unilinear evolution

The view that all cultures have evolved in the same order through a set sequence of stages.

unilocal

Either virilocal or uxorilocal postmarital residence; requires that a married couple reside with the relatives of either the husband (vir) or the wife (uxor), depending on the society.

universal

Something that exists in every culture.

Of humans, characteristic of the species in all times and places, rather than a (variable) product of particular culturally patterned experience.

universal grammar

According to Chomsky, a genetically transmitted blueprint for language, that is, a basic linguistic plan in the human brain.

universalism

The approach to human behavior based on an acceptance of value categories applicable to all cultures.

Een manier van denken die overheerst in individualistische samenlevingen, waarbij de normen voor de manier waarop iemand moet worden behandeld, voor iedereen hetzelfde zijn.

unvoiced

In language, a sound produced without vibration of the vocal cords. (In whispering, all sounds are unvoiced: "t" is unvoiced, "d" is voiced.)

Upper Paleolithic

Refers to the cultures of the final and most technologically advanced period of the "Old Stone Age",  from 35,000 to 40,000 years ago onward, marked by specialized and highly sophisticated pressure-flaking of flakes, blades, and other stone tools and complex industries of bone and other materials.

uraza

See: oraza

urban

Pertaining to cities or life in cities.

urban anthropology

The anthropological study of cities.

Studi antropologi tentang perkampungan kota, perkampungan kumuh, dan kantong-kantong etnis, untuk memahami kemiskinan, kelas dan variasi-variasi subkultural, masalah-masalaha minoritas, dan bagaimana pendatang baru di kota menyesuaikan diri dengan kehidupan kota.

urbanism

The characteristic way of life of city dwellers.

urbanization

The movement of rural or small-town populations into cities; the growth of cities.

Uruk

Mesopotamian (Near East) period of early urbanization marked by the emergence of cities and temples (3500 - 3200 B.C.).

USAID

The United States Agency for International  Development

USDA

The United States Department of Agriculture.

usufruct

The right to the use of land.

uterine

(van uterus, baarmoeder) Alternatief voor matrilinineair (uterine kin = matrilineal kin).

See: matrilineal, q.v.

uxorilocality

(L.Adam) Vorm van huwelijksvestiging waarbij een man zich vestigt bij zijn vrouw.

Customary residence with the wife's relatives after marriage.

Residence of a married couple with the wife's kin (formerly called "matrilocal").

Maatschappij waar de man bij het huwelijk zijn intrek neemt bij de vrouw.