User:Manicjedi/Index of human universals


 * abstraction in speech and thought
 * actions under self-control distinguished from those not under control
 * aesthetics
 * affection expressed and felt
 * age grades
 * age statuses
 * age terms
 * ambivalence
 * anthropomorphization
 * anticipation
 * antonyms
 * attachment
 * baby talk
 * belief in supernatural/religion
 * beliefs about death
 * beliefs about disease
 * beliefs about fortune and misfortune
 * beliefs, false
 * binary cognitive distinctions
 * biological mother and social mother normally the same person
 * black (color term)
 * body adornment
 * childbirth customs
 * childcare
 * childhood fear of loud noises
 * childhood fear of strangers
 * childhood fears
 * choice making (choosing alternatives)
 * classification
 * classification, kin
 * classification of age
 * classification of behavioral propensities
 * classification of body parts
 * classification of colors
 * classification of fauna
 * classification of flora
 * classification of inner states
 * classification of sex
 * classification of space
 * classification of tools
 * classification of weather conditions
 * coalitions
 * collective identities
 * conflict
 * conflict, consultation to deal with
 * conflict, means of dealing with
 * conflict, mediation of
 * conjectural reasoning - A conjecture is when a person makes a statement or proposition that seems likely to be true. A conclusion is like a judgment or decision reached by reasoning. A justification is like the action made by someone of showing something to be right or reasonable.
 * containers
 * continua (ordering as cognitive pattern)
 * cooking
 * cooperation
 * cooperative labor
 * copulation normally conducted in privacy
 * corporate (perpetual) statuses
 * coyness display
 * critical learning periods
 * crying
 * cultural variability
 * culture
 * culture/nature distinction
 * customary greetings
 * daily routines
 * dance
 * death rituals
 * decision making
 * decision making, collective
 * differential valuation
 * directions, giving of
 * discrepancies between speech, thought, and action
 * dispersed groups
 * distinguishing right and wrong
 * diurnality
 * divination
 * division of labor
 * division of labor by age
 * division of labor by sex
 * dominance/submission
 * dream interpretation
 * dreams
 * economic inequalities
 * economic inequalities, consciousness of
 * emotions
 * empathy
 * entification (treating patterns and relations as things)
 * environment, adjustments to
 * envy
 * envy, symbolic means of coping with
 * ethnocentrism
 * etiquette
 * explanation
 * face (word for)
 * facial communication
 * facial expression of anger
 * facial expression of contempt
 * facial expression of disgust
 * facial expression of fear
 * facial expression of happiness
 * facial expression of sadness
 * facial expression of surprise
 * facial expressions, making/modifying of
 * fairness (equality), concept of
 * family (or household)
 * father and mother, separate kin terms for
 * fear of death
 * fears
 * fears, ability to overcome
 * feasting
 * females do more direct childcare
 * figurative speech
 * fire
 * folklore
 * food preferences
 * food sharing
 * future, attempts to predict
 * generosity admired
 * gestures
 * gift giving
 * good and bad distinguished
 * gossip
 * government
 * grammar
 * group living
 * groups that are not based on family
 * habituation
 * hairstyles
 * hand (word for)
 * healing the sick (or attempting to)
 * hope
 * hospitality
 * husband older than wife on average
 * hygienic care
 * identity, collective
 * imagery
 * incest between mother and son unthinkable or tabooed
 * incest, prevention or avoidance
 * in-group, biases in favor of
 * in-group distinguished from out-group(s)
 * inheritance rules
 * institutions (organized co-activities)
 * insulting
 * intention
 * intention
 * interest in bioforms (living things or thing that resemble them)
 * interpolation (insertion of something of a different nature into something else)
 * interpreting behavior
 * intertwining (e.g., weaving)
 * jokes
 * judging others
 * kin, close distinguished from distant
 * kin groups
 * kinship statuses
 * kin terms translatable by basic relations of procreation
 * language
 * language employed to manipulate others
 * language employed to misinform or mislead
 * language is translatable
 * language not a simple reflection of reality
 * language, prestige from proficient use of
 * law (rights and obligations)
 * law (rules of membership)
 * leaders
 * lever
 * likes and dislikes
 * linguistic redundancy
 * logical notion of “and”
 * logical notion of “equivalent”
 * logical notion of “general/particular”
 * logical notion of “not”
 * logical notion of “opposite”
 * logical notion of “part/whole”
 * logical notion of “same”
 * logical notions
 * magic
 * magic to increase life
 * magic to sustain life
 * magic to win love
 * making comparisons
 * male and female adult and child seen as having different natures
 * males dominate public/political realm
 * males engage in more coalitional violence
 * males more aggressive
 * males more prone to lethal violence
 * males more prone to theft
 * males, on average, travel greater distances over lifetime
 * manipulate social relations
 * marking at phonemic, syntactic, and lexical levels
 * marriage
 * materialism
 * meal times
 * meaning, most unis of are non-universal
 * measuring
 * medicine
 * melody
 * memory
 * mentalese
 * mental maps
 * metaphor
 * metonym (word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated)
 * mood or consciousness altering techniques and/or substances
 * moral sentiments
 * moral sentiments, limited effective range of
 * morphemes (units of a language that cannot be further divided)
 * mother normally has consort during child-rearing years
 * mourning
 * murder proscribed
 * music
 * musical redundancy
 * musical repetition
 * musical variation
 * music, children’s
 * music, related in part to dance
 * music, related in part to religious activity
 * music seen as art (a creation)
 * music, vocal
 * music, vocal, includes speech forms
 * myths
 * narrative
 * nomenclature (perhaps the same as classification)
 * nonbodily decorative art
 * normal distinguished from abnormal states
 * nouns
 * numerals (counting)
 * Oedipus complex
 * oligarchy (de facto)
 * one (numeral)
 * onomatopoeia
 * overstimating objectivity of thought
 * pain
 * past/present/future
 * personal names
 * person, concept of
 * phonemes
 * phonemes defined by sets of minimally contrasting features
 * phonemes, merging of
 * phonemes, range from 10 to 70 in number
 * phonemic change, inevitability of
 * phonemic change, rules of
 * phonemic system
 * planning
 * planning for future
 * play
 * play to perfect skills
 * poetic lines characterized by repetition and variation
 * poetic lines demarcated by pauses
 * poetic line, uniform length range
 * poetry/rhetoric
 * polysemy (one words has several related meanings)
 * possessive, intimate
 * possessive, loose
 * practice to improve skills
 * precedence, concept of (that’s how the leopard got its spots)
 * preference for own children and close kin (nepotism)
 * prestige inequalities
 * pretend play
 * pride
 * private inner life
 * promise
 * pronouns
 * pronouns, minimum three persons
 * pronouns, minimum two numbers
 * proper names
 * property
 * proverbs, sayings
 * proverbs, sayings (in mutually contradictory forms)
 * psychological defense mechanisms
 * rape
 * rape proscribed
 * reciprocal exchanges (or labor, goods, or services)
 * reciprocity, negative (revenge, retaliation)
 * reciprocity, positive
 * recognition of individual by face
 * redress of wrongs
 * resistance to abuse of power, to domination
 * rhythm
 * right-handedness as population norm
 * risk taking
 * rites of passage
 * rituals
 * role and personality seen in dynamic interrelationship (i.e., departures from role can be explained in terms of individual personality)
 * sanctions
 * sanctions for crimes against the collectivity
 * sanctions include removal from the social unit (exile)
 * self as neither wholly passive nor wholly autonomous
 * self as subject and object
 * self-control
 * self distinguished from others
 * self-image, awareness of (concern for what others think)
 * self-image, manipulation of
 * self-image, wanted to be positive
 * self is responsible
 * semantic category of affecting things and people
 * semantic category of dimension
 * semantic category of giving
 * semantic category of location
 * semantic category of motion
 * semantic category of of other physical properties
 * semantic category of speed
 * semantic components
 * semantic components, generation
 * semantic components, sex
 * semantics
 * sememes (smallest unit of meaning), commonly used ones are short, infrequently used ones are longer
 * senses unified
 * sex differences in spatial cognition and behavior
 * sex (gender) terminology is fundamentally binary
 * sex statuses
 * sexual attraction
 * sexual attractiveness
 * sexuality as focus of interest
 * sexual jealousy
 * sexual modesty
 * sexual regulation
 * sexual regulation includes incest prevention
 * shame
 * shelter
 * sickness and death seen as related
 * snakes, wariness around
 * socialization
 * socialization expected from senior kin\
 * socialization includes toilet training
 * social structure
 * spear
 * special speech for special occasions
 * statues, ascribed and achieved
 * statuses and roles
 * statuses distinguished from individuals
 * statuses on other than sex, age, or kinship
 * stinginess, disapproval of
 * stop/nonstop contrasts (in speech sounds)
 * succession
 * sucking wounds
 * sweets preferred
 * symbolic speech
 * symbolism
 * synesthetic metaphors
 * synonyms
 * tabooed foods
 * tabooed utterances
 * taboos
 * taxonomy
 * territoriality
 * thumb sucking
 * tickling
 * time
 * time, cyclicity of
 * tool dependency
 * tool making
 * tools
 * tools for cutting
 * tools for pounding
 * tools patterned culturally
 * tools, permanent
 * tools to make tools
 * toys, playing
 * trade
 * triangular awareness (assessing relationships among the self and two other people)
 * true and false distinguished
 * turn-taking
 * two (numeral)
 * tying material (i.e., something like string)
 * units of time
 * verbs
 * violence, some forms of proscribed
 * visiting
 * vocal/nonvocal contrasts in phonemes
 * vowel contrasts
 * weaning
 * weapons
 * weather control (attempts to)
 * white (color term)
 * world view