A cultural group where resources are shared equitably to ensure success with a relative absence of hierarchy and violence; characteristic of groups that rely on foraging as a subsistence strategy
What is an egalitarian society
100
Local systems of health and healing that are rooted in culturally specific norms and values
What is ethnomedicine
100
Form of exchange in which accumulated wealth is collected from the members of the group and reallocated in a different pattern
What is redistribution
100
The subfield of anthropology that studies cultures of the present and past, primarily through the study of artifacts
What is archaeology
100
The way genes are expressed in physical form (e.g. how tall we get) resulting from the interaction of genotype & environmental factors such as nutrition.
What is phenotype
200
The social classes that Marx defined as (1) those who owned the means of production and (2) those who were forced to sell their labor to capitalists in return for wages
What are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat
200
The individual patient's experience of sickness
What is illness
200
The term used to suggest that poor countries remain poor as a result of their position in an unbalanced global economic system
What is underdevelopment
200
The branch of anthropology that examines how humans have adapted to their environments, in part through study of primates
What is physical anthropology
200
When cultural institutions, policies, and systems such as school and justice systems enforce discrimination based on imagined differences among groups
What is institutional racism
300
The reputation, influence, and deference bestowed on certain people (e.g. doctors, lawyers, politicians) because of their membership in certain groups
What is prestige
300
A globally dominant medical system that seeks to apply the principles of biology and the natural sciences to the practice of diagnosing and treating diseases
What is biomedicine
300
Economic system that involves the domestication and herding of animals as a primary means of food production.
What is pastoralism.
300
Process physical anthropologists learn about in part by studying the fossil remains of human ancestors
What is human evolution
300
Rule that assigns children of mixed race parentage to the subordinate group
What is hypodescent
400
The movement of one's class position, upward or downward, in stratified societies
What is social mobility
400
The set of significant improvements in human health that were made over the course of the twentieth century but have not been distributed equitably across the world's population
What is the health transition
400
Increasingly flexible strategies that corporations use to increase profits in the global era, including having factories in periphery countries, where workers can be paid very low wages
What is flexible accumulation
400
Branch of anthropology that investigates contemporary human cultural systems, largely through fieldwork and ethnography
What is cultural anthropology
400
The belief that whites are biologically different from and superior to people of other races
What is white supremacy
500
Bourdieu's term to describe the self-perceptions and beliefs we develop as part of our social identity and that shape our conception of the world and where we fit into it
What is habitus
500
The change in population patterns that has occurred in many core countries, where birth rates have fallen below the numbers required to maintain a steady population, and a growing proportion of the population is elderly
What is demographic shift
500
Movement of people, goods, wealth, food, diseases, and ideas that emerged in the 1500s between Africa, Europe, and the Americas and that radically transformed economic, political, and social life.
What is The Triangle Trade
500
Branch of anthropology that studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice
What is linguistic anthropology?
500
The idea that government policies should favor native-born citizens over immigrants (legal or otherwise).