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Have you seen a Mpafako?

Conrad Kottak's international edition of Anthropology: the exploration of human diversity is my bible this week. Here's part of the glossary. The 13th item on the list is mentioned on the author's account of his study on the economy and social life of the Betsileo people in Madagascar. 1. adapids early (Eocene) primate family ancestral to lemurs and lorises 2. advocacy view the belief that precisely because anthropologists are experts on human problems and social change, and because they study, understand, and respect cultural views, they should make policy affecting people 3. affinals relatives by marriage, whether of lineals (e.g., son's wife) or collaterals (e.g., sister's husband) 4. agnates members of the same patrilineal descent group 5. ahimsa Hindu doctrine that prohibits harming life, and thus cattle slaughter 6. allele a biochemical difference involving a particular gene 7. Allen's rule Rule stating that the relative parts of protruding body p