Anthropology: Chapter 16

Front 1

Spirituality

Back 1

Concern with the sacred, as distinguished from material matters. In contrast to religion, spirituality is often individual rather than collective and does not require a distinctive format or traditional organization.

Front 2

Cargo cults

Back 2

Spiritual movements in Melanesia in reaction to disruptive contact with Western capitalism promising resurrection of deceased relative, destruction or enslavement of white foreigners, and the magical arrival of utopian riches.

Front 3

Art

Back 3

The creative use of the human imagination to interpret, express, and enjoy life.

Front 4

Cultural loss

Back 4

The abandonment of an existing practice or trait.

Front 5

Rebellion

Back 5

Organized armed resistance to an established government or authority in power.

Front 6

Replacement reproduction

Back 6

When birth rates and death rates are in equilibrium; people produce only enough offspring to replace themselves when they die.

Front 7

Structural violence

Back 7

Violence exerted by situations, institutions, and social, political, and economic structures.

Front 8

Multiculturalism

Back 8

Public policy for managing cultural diversity in a multi-ethnic society, officially stressing mutual respect and tolerance for cultural differences within a country's borders.

Front 9

Structural power

Back 9

Power that organizes and orchestrates the systemic interaction within and among societies, directing economic and political forces on the one hand and ideological forces that shape public ideas, values, and beliefs on the other.

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Hard power

Back 10

Coercive power that is backed up by economic and military force.

Front 11

Soft power

Back 11

Pressing others through attraction and persuasion to change their ideas, beliefs, values, and behaviors.