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20 Cards in this Set
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Climate Change |
-Precise local effects undetermined -energy needs -Arctic landscapes and ecosystems changing rapidly and perceptibly -Coastal communities have increased flooding and sever storms |
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Ecological Anthropology |
the study of cultural adaptions to environments - |
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Ethnoecology |
Society;s set of environmental practices and perceptions -indigenous ethnoecologies increasingly challenged by migration, media, and commerce |
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Deforestation |
-Forest loss can lead to increased greenhouse gas production and loss of global diversity -Modern strategies more likely to consider needs of people living in and near forest -government policies may require to change past practices |
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Risk assessment |
-Risk perception may be more developed in groups that less endangered objectively -Mass media hone risk perception -Once people perceive risks, they need incentives to take action |
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Interethnic conflict |
-Changes that arise from contacts between industrial and nonindustrial societies --Acculturation: changes in the cultural patterns of either or both groups --Westernization: the influence of Western expansion on indigenous peoples Destruction, domination, resistance, survival, adaption, and modification of native cultures |
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Cultural Imperialism |
-Spread or advance of one culture at the expense of others-Modern technology erasing cultural differences?-modern technology providing opportunity for local cultures to express themselves-When forces from world centers enter new societies, the societies become indigenized: modified to fit the local culture |
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Indigenization |
Modified to fit the local culture |
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Global consumption |
-Global culture driven by flows of people, technology, finance, data, ideology. -Business, technology, and media have increased people's craving for commodities and images throughout the world. -Mass Media presents a rich, ever-changing store of possible lives |
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Diaspora |
The offspring of a given area who have spread to many lands |
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Post Modern |
Period of blurring and breakdown of established categories, distinctions, and boundaries |
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Indigenous People |
-United Nations Working Group on Indigenous People (WGIP) formed in 1982. --Social movements adopted the terms indigenous people as a self-identifying, political label --Based on past oppression --Legitimizing the search for social, cultural and political rights |
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Essentialism |
The process of viewing identity as real, established, frozen Identity is fluid and multiple -Potentially multiple -Flexible in times and places |
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Applied Anthropology |
Use of anthropological perspectives, theory, techniques to identify, solve contemporary Social problems, involving human behavior and social cultural forces, contexts |
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Development Anthropology |
Focuses on social issues in, and the cultural dimension of, economic development -Increased equity, distribution of wealth |
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Anthropology and Education |
-Research that extends from classrooms into homes and neighborhoods -Children as cultural creatures: enculturation and attitudes belong to context that includes family and peers -Sociolinguists and cultural anthropologists work side by side |
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Urban Anthropology |
Cross-Cultural, ethnographic study of global urbanization and life in cities --Proportion of world's population in cities has increased --UN: 1/6 earth's population live in urban slums |
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Medical Anthropology |
Comparative, biocultural study of disease, health problems, and health care systems -Examines which diseases and health conditions affect a population, and why -How illness is socially construction, diagnosed, managed and treated in various societies |
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Health Care Systems |
Beliefs. customs, and specialists concerned with preventing and curing illness -Personalistic disease theories: illness caused by sorcerers, witches, ghosts, and ancestral spirits -Emotionalistic disease theories: assume that emotional experience causeillness |
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Careers in Anthropology |
Anthropology's breadth provides knowledge and world outlook useful in many kinds of work -Knowledge about the traditions and beliefs of many social groups within a modern nation is important in planning and carrying out programs that affect those groups |
