Anthro Module 6 - 10

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Vasomotor sensations

Back 1

Hot and cold perspiration/hot flashes

Hint 1

Menopause

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Natural themes

Back 2

Events that just happens

Hint 2

Agism

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Social themes

Back 3

Social characteristics, such as domestic, economic and attitudinal.

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Pastoralism

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Food production

Herds of domesticated animals

Nomadic or semi-nomadic

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Agriculture

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Food production

Cultivate fields permanently

Irrigation, terracing, fertilizers, & draft animals (plow)

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Primary production

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Gathering, hunting, fishing, herding & agriculture. Compare with secondary production

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Secondary production

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Preparing & processing foods for eating or storing. Compare with primary

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Gender division of labour

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The way societies allocate different work or activities for males or females

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Foragers (hunter gatherers)

Back 9

People who collect food available in nature (fruits, vegetables, nuts, animals, fish) rather than producing

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Horticulture (extensive agriculture)

Back 10

Growing domesticated crops in gardens with simple hand tools

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Dowry

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Marriage exchange in which the wife’s kin group provides gifts to the husband’s kin group

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Bridewealth

Back 12

Gift from husband and his kin group to the wife and her kin group before or after marriage

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Domestic-public dichotomy

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Dichotomy contrasting the women’s role in the home and the men’s role in public life, with devaluation of women’s work or social worth

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Gender stratification

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System of unequal access of men & women to a society’s resources, privileges, opportunities & differential control over resources & privileges according to sex.

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Female genital cutting

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Term referring to excision or removal of part or all of the external female genetalia

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Female infanticide

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Direct or indirect killing of an infant due to being female

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Gestational surrogacy

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The surrogate gestates the couples embryo ( in-vitro fertilization)

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Indirect infanticide

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Prolonged process, food deprivation, failure to tend to illness, brings about death to infant

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Maternity

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Quality or state of being a mother

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Medicalization

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The labelling of a particular problem or issue as medical in need of medical treatment when the particular problem or issue may be social, economic, or political

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Traditional surrogacy

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The surrogate contributes to the creation of a child ( in vivo fertilization)

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Honour killing

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A woman is killed for her actual or perceived immoral behavior, which is considered to have brought dishonour to her family

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Hypergamy

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The marriage of low status women to high status men

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Patriarch

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The senior man who has absolute authority over everyone in the household

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Patriarchy

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A political system ruled by men in which women have inferior social and political status

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State

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A complex Socio political system involving a large stratified population; a state system which holds and defends a territory

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Colonialism

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The establishment of a colony in one territory by a political power from another territory, and the subsequent maintenance, expansion, and exploitation of that colony

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Colonization

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A process by which a central system of power dominates the surrounding land and its people and resources

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Culture contact

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The diffusion of ideas from one Society to another, and an important source of change in sex/gender ideologies and identities

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Decolonization

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The act of getting rid of colonization, or freeing a nation from being dependent on a colonial power

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Development

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Planned cultural change, usually directed from the outside

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Globalization

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The process of integrating nations and peoples-politically, economically, and culturally-into a larger global community

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Missionization

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The imposition of Christian culture

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Modernization

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And ethnocentric western notion of culture change that is driven by forces of global political economy, which makes other cultures more like the west

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Adolescence

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ForN. Americans, this age category is most often associated with puberty ( and therefore hormones and irrational behaviour), but the universality of this age category has been challenged

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Age segragation

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Separating out groups of people based on age

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Age differentiation

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The breaking down of age and ageing into discernable categories

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Childhood

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An age category considered to have emerged with industrialized capitalism, and often involves Socialization for adult roles by playing with toys

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Life stage transition

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The transition from one age group or category to another over the course of a lifetime

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Menopause

Back 40

The gradual cessation of menstruation

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Middle age

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And age category related to mid life, and for females, associated with menopause

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Old age

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An age category typically based on degenerative changes to the physical body

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Puberty

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The period of sexual maturation, involving the appearance of secondary sex characteristics (example: breast development, appearance of a facial and or body hair)

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Universal

Back 44

Something that is found in most if not all cultures