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= Your conculture Ethnographical Questionnaire


= Your conculture Ethnographical Questionnaire =
[[Category: Conlangs]]
 
'''[[Dr. Zahar’s Ethnographical Questionnaire]]''' was compiled by David Zahir to help in the description of [[conculture]]s, and can be found in the files section of the [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conculture/ Conculture group at Yahoo].
 
__TOC__
 
== Questions of Place ==
 
=== Describe the geography of where your society calls home. ===
 
 
 
=== Describe the climate your society deals with. How severe are their seasons? ===
 
 
 
=== What kinds of natural disasters has this society gotten used to? ===
 
 
 
=== What are the most commonly-grown foods? ===
 
 
 
=== What are the most commonly-eaten meats? ===
 
 
 
=== What foods are considered exotic or expensive? ===
 
 
 
=== What forms of alcohol are common? Rare? ===
 
 
 
=== Is there usually enough food and water for the population? ===
 
 
 
=== What is this place's most abundant resource? ===
 
 
 
=== What is its most valuable resource? ===
 
 
 
=== What resource is it most lacking? ===
 
 
 
=== How do people travel from one place to another? ===
 
 
 
=== Are the borders secure? In what way? ===
 
 
 
=== How many people live here? ===
 
 
 
=== Where in this place to they congregate? ===
 
 
 
=== What part of this place do they avoid? Why? ===
 
 
 
=== What are the most common domesticated animals here? And what are they domesticated for? ===
 
 
 
=== What are the most common wild animals? ===
 
 
 
=== Which animals are likely to be pets? Which ones won't be? ===
 
 
 
 
== Questions of Time ==
 
=== How far back does this society's written history go? ===
 
 
 
=== How far back do its people believe it goes? ===
 
 
 
=== What is the worst disaster they believe they've faced? ===
 
 
 
=== What was the best thing that every happened to them? ===
 
 
 
=== What in their past makes them feel ashamed? ===
 
 
 
=== What in their past makes them proud? ===
 
 
 
=== What are they afraid of happening again? ===
 
 
 
=== What are they hoping will happen? Do they think it likely? ===
 
 
 
=== What do they assume the future will hold? ===
 
 
 
=== How has this society changed? Do its current members realize this? ===
 
 
 
=== What are the most popular stories about the past? ===
 
 
 
=== Who in the past is the greatest hero? The worst villain? ===
 
 
 
=== Do people think the present better or worse than the past? ===
 
 
 
=== Do people believe the future will be better or worse than the present or past? ===
 
 
 
 
== Questions of Sex and Family ==
 
=== How many spouses may a man or woman have? ===
 
 
 
=== Who decides on a marriage? ===
 
 
 
=== Can a marriage end in divorce? How? ===
 
 
 
=== Who usually takes custody of children if a marriage ends for some reason? ===
 
 
 
=== How is adultery defined? What (if any) is the punishment? Who decides? ===
 
 
 
=== How are families named?(g) What happens to orphans? ===
 
 
 
=== How are boy and girl children treated differently? ===
 
 
 
=== Are premarital relations allowed? ===
 
 
 
=== How does your society define incest? Rape? How do people react to these? ===
 
 
 
=== What, if anything, is considered a good marriage gift? ===
 
 
 
=== What secret vice is believed to be widely practiced? ===
 
 
 
=== What secret vice actually is practiced? ===
 
 
 
=== What sexual habits are widely believed common among foriegners? ===
 
 
 
=== How do people react to homosexuality? ===
 
 
 
=== How do the genders dress? ===
 
 
 
=== Is prostitution legal? How are prostitutes viewed? Is this accurate? ===
 
 
 
=== What professions or activities are considered masculine? ===
 
 
 
=== What professions or activities are viewed as feminine? ===
 
 
 
=== What inanimate or sexless things are considered male or female? ===
 
 
 
=== What is the biggest sexual taboo? ===
 
 
 
=== Does this society connect the ideas of marriage with love? ===
 
 
 
=== What does this society mean by the word "virgin" and how important it it? ===
 
 
 
 
== Questions of Manners ==
 
=== Who speaks first at a formal gathering? ===
 
 
 
=== What kinds of gifts are considered in extremely bad taste? ===
 
 
 
=== How do younger adults address their elders? ===
 
 
 
=== What colors are associated with power? With virtue? With death? ===
 
 
 
=== If two men get into a fight, how is this supposed to be resolved? ===
 
 
 
=== If two women get into a fight, how should that be resolved? ===
 
 
 
=== When is it rude to laugh at something funny? ===
 
 
 
=== What kinds of questions cannot be asked in public? In private? At all? ===
 
 
 
=== How do people demonstrate grief? ===
 
 
 
=== What does this society do with their corpses? ===
 
 
 
=== What kinds of jewelry do people where? And when? ===
 
 
 
=== Who inheirits property? Titles? Position? ===
 
 
 
=== What happens to those suffering from extreme mental illness? ===
 
 
 
=== What are the most popular games? How important are they? ===
 
 
 
=== What parts of the body are routinely covered? ===
 
 
 
=== How private are bodily functions like bathing or defecating? ===
 
 
 
=== How do people react to physical deformity? ===
 
 
 
=== When and how does someone go from child to adult? ===
 
 
 
 
== Questions of Faith ==
 
=== Is there a formal clergy? How are they organized? ===
 
 
 
=== What do people believe happens to them after death? How, if at all, can they influence this? ===
 
 
 
=== What happens to those who disagree with the majority on questions of religion? ===
 
 
 
=== Are there any particular places considered special or holy? What are they like? ===
 
 
 
=== What are the most popular rituals or festivals? ===
 
 
 
=== What do people want from the god or gods? How do they try and get it? ===
 
 
 
=== How do their religious practices differ from their neighbours? ===
 
 
 
=== What is the most commonly broken religious rule?(i) What is the least-violated religious rule? ===
 
 
 
=== What factions exist within the dominant religious institutions? How do they compete? ===
 
 
 
=== Are there monastic groups? What do they do and how are they organized? How do you join one? ===
 
 
 
=== How are those who follow different faiths treated? ===
 
 
 
=== What relationship do religious and political leaders have? ===
 
 
 
=== What superstitions are common? What kinds of supernatural ===
 
 
 
events/beings do people fear?
 
== Questions of Government ==
 
=== Who decides whether someone has broken a law? How? ===
 
 
 
=== What kinds of punishments are meted out? By whom? Why? ===
 
 
 
=== How are new laws created or old ones changed? ===
 
 
 
=== Is there some form of clemency or pardon? What is involved? ===
 
 
 
=== Who has the right to give orders, and why? ===
 
 
 
=== What titles do various officials have? ===
 
 
 
=== How are the rules different for officials as opposed to the common person? ===
 
 
 
=== How do government officials dress? ===
 
 
 
=== Is the law written down? Who interprets it? ===
 
 
 
=== Once accused, what recourse does someone have? ===
 
 
 
=== Is torture allowed? What kinds? ===
 
 
 
=== How are people executed? ===
 
 
 
=== Who cannot rise to positions of leadership? ===
 
 
 
=== Is bribery allowed? Under what circumstances? ===
 
 
 
=== What makes someone a bad ruler in this society? What can be done about it? ===
 
 
 
=== What are the most common or dangerous forms of criminal? ===
 
 
 
 
== Questions of War ==
 
=== Who declares war? ===
 
 
 
=== Who has the power to declare conditions of peace? ===
 
 
 
=== What happens to prisoners taken in battle? ===
 
 
 
=== What form of warfare does this society use? ===
 
 
 
=== Who are the Elite warriors? What distinguishes them? ===
 
 
 
=== How does someone get command of troops? ===
 
 
 
=== Where do the loyalties of military units lie? ===
 
 
 
=== Are there professional soldiers? Do they make up the bulk of the military? ===
 
 
 
=== Has this society ever attacked another? Do they want to? What would make them do so? ===
 
 
 
=== Who are their enemies? Who's winning? ===
 
 
 
=== What do soldiers do when there's no war? ===
 
 
 
 
== Questions of Education ==
 
=== Does this society have its own language? Its own writing? ===
 
 
 
=== How common is literacy? How is literacy viewed? ===
 
 
 
=== What form and value are books? ===
 
 
 
=== Who teaches others? How do they teach? ===
 
 
 
=== Who decides who learns to read or write?(f) Who teaches professions, like carpenter or scribe? ===
 
 
 
=== Are foreigners ever brought in to teach new skills? Who does that? ===
 
 
 
=== How do this society's doctors try to treat wounds and sickness? ===
 
 
 
=== Which medical assumtions of this society are wrong? ===
 
 
 
 
== Questions of Art ==
 
=== What are the favorite artforms? ===
 
 
 
=== What are the least-favorite? ===
 
 
 
=== How respected are artists? ===
 
 
 
=== Do artists require official or unofficial protection? ===
 
 
 
=== What kinds of trouble are artists in particular likely to find themselves in? ===
 
 
 
=== How might a very successful artist live? ===
 
 
 
=== What forms of theatre does your society have? ===
 
 
 
=== How naturalistic or stylized is your society's art? ===
 
 
 
=== What shapes are most common in your society's arts, like embroidery or architecture? ===
 
 
 
=== Which artforms get the most and least respect? ===
 
 
 
=== What form does censorship take? ===
 
 
 
=== Who may not be an artist? ===
 
 
 
=== What qualities equal "beauty" in this society? ===
 
 
 
=== What makes a man or woman especially beautiful? ===
 
 
 
=== How do people react to tattoos? Piercings? Facial hair? Make-up? ===
 
 
 
 
== Questions of sex and marriage ==
 
=== Is sex confined to marriage? ===
 
 
 
=== Or, is it supposed to be?  What constitutes aberrant behavior? ===
 
 
 
=== Is there anything about this culture or religion in that culture that specifically addresses sexual conduct? ===
 
 
 
=== Are there laws about it?  What about prostitution? ===
 
 
 
=== How old should someone be in your culture to be having sex? ===
 
 
 
=== What is considered too great a difference in age for a couple? ===
 
 
 
=== Do relationships allow multiple partners? ===
 
 
 
=== Should sex be a one-to-one experience? Or are groups allowed? ===
 
 
 
=== And, of course, what about homosexuality?  Is  it frowned on? Encouraged? ===
 
 
 
 
== Questions of death and burial ==
 
=== What is their understanding of death and dying? ===
 
 
 
=== Do they cremate their dead? Or, how are dead bodies disposed of? ===
 
 
 
=== Is the family  responsible for the body? ===
 
 
 
=== What part do the priests play? ===
 
 
 
=== Are there cemeteries at all? ===
 
 
 
=== Or, does everyone have a crypt in back  with all the relatives in it? ===
 
 
 
=== Do people visit the dead?  If so, how often and why? ===
 
 
 
 
== Questions of suicide ==
 
=== What do people in this culture think about suicide? ===
 
 
 
=== Is it the greatest sin one can commit?  Or is it a sin at all? ===
 
 
 
=== Is it the great and last comfort of a tormented soul? ===
 
 
 
=== Is it worse than murder? ===
 
 
 
 
== Questions of Law, Justice and Police ==
 
=== Is there a civilian police force, or is law enforcement the province of the military? ===
 
 
 
=== Is the police force a nationalised one, or are there multiple regional forces? ===
 
 
 
=== How "military" are they?  Are they usually/ever armed? ===
 
 
 
=== What is the extent of their authority?  Can they shoot you? Can they use magic? Can they torture or otherwise force a confession? Can they use telepathy? ===
 
 
 
=== Are there individuals or groups who are above the law? ===
 
 
 
=== Is there a secret police? ===
 
 
 
=== What is the role of police informants, if any? ===

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gin Hob
Pronounced: /gin hob/
Timeline and Universe: Mororor
Species: Human
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Creator: Keenir
Created: March-April 2008


. = Your conculture Ethnographical Questionnaire

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