A
_____anthropologists study mass communication (broadcast radio and television) and digital media (Internet, streaming and mobile telephony) with a particular interest in the ways in which media are designed or adapted for use by specific communities or cultural groups.
Media
_____refers to the values and beliefs of communities, states, and/or societies that make the imagining of a particular type of network possible.
Cultural Infrastructure
Rather than use a universal definition of what counts as media to the anthropologist, Boyer’s term_____________________________ focuses on the way images, speech, people, and things become socially significant or meaningful as they are communicated.
anthropology of mediation
___________consist of people in a society who claim a distinct identity for themselves based on shared cultural characteristics and ancestry.
Ethnic groups
______is a term used to describe a set of technologies that connect multiple people at one time to shared content.
A) Media
B) Mass Communication
C) Internet
A) Media
The resurgence of media anthropology in the 1980s and 1990s was heralded by experiments, research, and debates in visual anthropology and ethnographic film surrounding____________________ media, media produced by and for indigenous communities often outside of the mainstream commercial market.
indigenous
_______anthropology, a distinct sub-specialty within the discipline of anthropology, investigates human health and health care systems in comparative perspective, considering a wide range of bio-cultural dynamics that affect the well-being of human populations.
Medical
________________________________ differs from assimilation, arguing that ethnic and cultural diversity is a positive quality that enriches a society and encouraging respect for cultural differences.
Multiculturalism
The _______________________ approach to health strikes many people, particularly residents of the United States, as the best or at least the most “fact-based” approach to medicine.
biomedical
______healing is an approach to healing that seeks to treat medical ailments by achieving a balance between the forces or elements of the body.
A) Natural
B) Hospital
C) Humoral
D) Communal
C) Humoral
The______________________________________is the sharp drop in mortality rates, particularly among children, that occurs in society as a result of improved sanitation and access to healthcare.
epidemiological transition
Sociologists and anthropologists use the term_____________________________ to describe limited or occasional displays of ethnic pride and identity that are primarily expressive—for public display—rather than instrumental as a major component of their daily social lives.
symbolic ethnicity
_____diseases are those that have origins in animals and are transmitted to humans.
Zoonotic
_____are an odd collection of practices that range from tattooing and scarification to exchange marriages, forced marriages and marriages wherein a woman who is widowed becomes the wife of her deceased husband’s brother.
“Harmful traditional practices”
_________________________________is the attempt to impose unequal and unfair relationships between members of different societies.
Cultural imperialism
____________________________is a term used to describe laws passed by state and local governments in the United States during the early twentieth century to enforce racial segregation of public and private places.
Jim Crow
_______________________________are cultural rules against the preparation and/or consumption of certain foods.
Food taboos
Physical anthropologists use the term ____________ to refer to differences in the traits that occur in populations across a geographical area.
cline
Cultural anthropologists also refer to the one-drop rule as_______________________________ , a term coined by anthropologist Marvin Harris in the 1960s to refer to a socially constructed racial classification system in which a person of mixed racial heritage is automatically categorized as a member of the less (or least) privileged group.
Reified
According to______________________________, males and females are born fundamentally different reproductively and in other major capacities and preferences and are “naturally” (biologically) sexually attracted to each other.
biological determinism