Economic
The process of exchange through which various pieces of a product occur in different parts of the world.
What is 'Commodity Chain'?
A system of symbols and meanings.
What is the (anthropological) definition of culture?
Taking someone's life in order to preserve the collective from 'honor degradation'.
What is honor killing?
The alleged ecological epoch that explains the human impact on the environment.
What is the 'anthropocene'?
The measurement of DNA in an individual to be compared with frequencies of the variants in reference samples.
What is genetic ancestry testing?
What are inequality traps?
A syncretic religion that developed in the interplay between African, European, and indigenous Caribbean religions.
What is (Haitian) Vodou?
A collection of strategies for achieving or demonstrating cultural status.
What are 'The Politics of Cultural Struggle'?
The mislead of being environmentally sustainable for profit incentive.
What is 'Green Washing'?
Through clinical trials which use samples and inductive reasoning.
How is (bio)medical knowledge produced?
The movement for the of return to free market capitalism that claimed to be for the working man, despite its core being in capital.
What is the 'Neoliberal Wave'?
The process and product of anthropological inquiry.
What is ethnography?
Circumstances in jurisprudence that allow for crimes to be seen as more "acceptable" within society.
What are mitigators?
An estimated 3.8 billion tons of this are currently on earth.
What is plastic?
Diffuse, enduring solidarity entailing relationships of rights and obligations.
How does David Schneider define kinship?
The total amount of money coming into and leaving a country, often incentivizing loans from the World Bank.
What is 'Balance of Payment'?
The anthropologist who observed that homogeneously available commodities have culturally heterogenous interpretations.
Who is (Ian) Condry?
The Kantian principle that one should maximize only the maxims that one would will all others to do.
What is 'Categorical Imperative'?
The people who survived the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Who are the 'Hibakusha'?
The drug owned and sold by the Sackler family that resulted in widespread addiction and death.
What is Oxycontin?
This newly decolonized country's payment for lost "lost property" to their former colonizers.
What is 'Haitian Independence Debt'?
The process of decoding the culturally formed meanings by exposed cultural audience.
What is '(re)framing'?
What is justice?
The presence of human DNA material found in even the most remote corners of the Earth.
What is 'human genetic bycatch'?
By providing information that can strategically justify the claiming of cultural identities.
How does genetic information impact the politics of cultural struggle?