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30 Cards in this Set
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applied anthropology
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using anthropology to solve contemporary problems
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underdifferentiation
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seeing less-developed countries as all the same; ignoring cultural diversity
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antropology and education
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study of students in their contexts of their family, peers and encultutation
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urban anthropology
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anthropological study of cities and urban life
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medical anthropology
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comparitive, biocultural study of disease, health problems, and health care systems
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disease
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scientifically identified health threat caused by a known pathogen
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illness
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condition of poor health percieved or felt by an individual
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curer
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one who diagnoses and treats ilness
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scientific medicine
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health care system based on scientific knowledge and procedures
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religion
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belief and ritual concerned with supernatural beings, powers and forces
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communitas
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intense feeling of social solidarity
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animism
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belief in souls or doubles
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mana
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impersonal sacred force, so named in melanesia and polynesia
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taboo
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sacred and forbidden
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magic
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using supernatural techniques to accomplish specfic aims
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ritual
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formal, repetive, sterotyped behavior; based on a liturgical order
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rites of passage
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rites marking transitions between places or stages of life
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liminality
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in-between phase of a passage rite
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leveling mechanism
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sutom that brings standouts back in line with community norms
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shaman
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part time magico-relgious practitioner
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communal religions
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based on community rituals such as harvest ceremonies, passages rites
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polytheism
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belief that multiple deities control aspects of nature
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olympian religions
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state religions with professional preiesthood
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monotheism
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worship of a single supreme being
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revitalization movements
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movements aimed at altering or revitalizing society
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cargo cults
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post colonial, acculturative religous movements in melanesia
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syncretisms
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culturalm especiallally religious, mixes, emerging from acculturation
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antimodernism
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rejecting the modern for a presumed earlierm purer better way
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fundamentalism
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advocating strict fidelity to a religions presumed founding principles
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arts
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include visual arts, literatue, music and performed arts
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