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Religion
Globalization
Human Rights/Refugees
Medical Anthropology
Psychological Anthropology
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What is Communitas?
Feeling of social solidarity and togetherness
100
Define Globalization
Accelerated interdependence of nation in a world system economically and through mass media. Globalization is an intensification of processes that promote change in a world where nations and people are increasingly interconnected.
100
Define Internally Displace Persons
People who are uprooted from their home but within their own nation.
100
Medical anthropology is interested in 3 ways sickness is shaped by culture.
experience, understanding, treatment
100
What is instatic?
Deep meditative/contemplative oneness
200
Belief in spirits within aspects of nature
Animism
200
When one culture introduces something to another what are 3 ways they could respond to it.
Acceptance, Rejection, or Adaptation
200
What international organization provides legal protections to refugees.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
200
What's the difference between disease and illness?
Disease is more scientifically assessed. Illness is a culturally-subjective understanding.
200
Into an external frenzy
Ecstatic
300
In between phase of a rite of passage
Liminality
300
Define diaspora
Offspring of an area who have spread to many lands
300
What is a refugee?
"...owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to, or owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country."
300
How can anthropologists help diffuse the spread of Ebola?
Provide culturally understanding of how diseases are spread. Provide culturally understanding of how Liberian understand this sickness and the importance of funerary practices.
300
Some one with high absorption on the Tellegen Absorption Scale indicates what?
More empathic More artistic/creative Heightened attention
400
What is the role of magic in religion.
Magic serves as a way for human to control the cosmos. There is black magic that does harm to others. And white magic that does good for me.
400
Provide an example of adaptation, rejection, or acceptance.
Adaptation/localization- Barbie in Iran Rejection- Bittermelon dishes Acceptance- technology (cell phones, computers)
400
What are the 3 options for refugees in camps.
Repatriation, Resettlement, Host Country Absorption
400
What is the purpose of "mindfulness?"
- cultivates attention - evokes compassion - reduces stress - secular meditation
400
Ways in which Mind and Culture interact?
Language acquisition Mediates relationship between mind and body Sense of Self among Others (independent v interdependent) How culture trains the mind How culture interprets mental events (normal v abnormal, sickness v disease)
500
What are Cargo Cult and their importance in understanding globalization and religions.
Religious practices seem effective because good things seem to come after them. It is a case of mistaken cause-effect relationship. Cargo planes carry supplies for international markets.
500
How does globalization compress time and space?
Capitalism and technology bring us closer together thereby shrinking distance and ability to contact one another easily.
500
What tensions exist between the disciplines of Human Rights and Anthropology?
- cultural relativism - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
500
What's the relationship between medical anthropology and religion.
Many cultures use spiritual practices to understand sickness. Understanding cultural relationships to faith aids in successful treatment.
500
How does Americanization of Mental Illness argue that mental illness is culturally constructed?
Read the article! Unit 7. Good example include how schizophrenia and anorexia are experienced.