Cultural Anthropology Ch 04

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agency

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used to refer to individuals' abilities to reflect systematically on taken-for-granted cultural practices, to imagine alternatives, and to take independent action to pursue goals of their own choosing.

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cultural configuration

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integrated patterns of a particular culture

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personality

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ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that are unique to a specific individual and that might explain that individual's consistency of behavior over time and across a variety of social settings

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culture-and-personality

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assessment fo teh degree to which distinct personality configurations were regularly associated with particular cultures

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enculturation

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the social processes through which children come to adopt the ways of thinking, feeding, and behaving considered appropriate for adults in their culture.

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ethnic psychoses

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mental and emotional behaviors ane experiences that are viewed as unusual and disturbing to members of particular ethnic groups

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self

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the idea that one is a distinct and unique object, separate from other things and individuals in his society

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cognition

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the mental processes by means of which individual human beings make sense of and incorporate information about the world

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ethnoscience

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the ways that people in different cultures categorized their experiences and classified objects an events in the wider world

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schemas

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a mental codification of experience that includes a particular organized way of perceiving cognitively and responding to a complex situation or set of stimuli

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prototypes

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typical instances of objects or events with which one is familiar with and knows most about

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cognitive capacities

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innate abilities to classify, compare, draw inferences, and so forth

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cognitive styles

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typical ways that individuals (or members of the same group) tackle a particular task

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global style

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focus on teh situation as a whole before paying attention to the detailed elements that made it up

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field dependent

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articulated style

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attention is paid to the detailed elements that make up the situation and then the relationship these elements might have to one another

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emotion

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categories of feeling or patterns of affect

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subjectivity

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interior experiences of persons that are shaped by their locations in a particular field of power relations

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trauma

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severe suffering caused by forces and agents beyond the control of the individual

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structural violence

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a resuilt of th way that political and economic forces structure risk different differently for different subgroups within a population, such that some groups are more vulnerable to infectious disease or domestic violence than are other groups