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Conquest and Colonialism
Race and Ethnicity
Gender and Sexuality
Religion
Health and Illness
100
Two way flow of plants and animals between the old and new world.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
A highly complex and fluid intermediary category between Indian and White.
What is mestizo?
100
An ideology widespread in Mesoamerica and the Andes wherein both women and men held important roles in a wide spectrum of contexts and not uncommon for women to hold prominent political and administrative positions.
What is gender complementarity and parallelism?
100
Flexible religious systems that accommodate additional supernatural beings.
What is polytheistic religious systems?
100
A field of anthropology that studies social, cultural and biological dimensions of health and illness from a cross-cultural perspective.
What is medical anthropology?
200
A Spanish crown grant over indigenous labor, whereby "Indians" were entrusted and required to provide labor and tribute to an encomendero.
What is encomienda?
200
A social process by which an individual comes to move from one position on a racial hierarchy to another.
What is racial passing?
200
Portrayal of Latin American women as enculturated into being passive and subservient to men. Their identity positions them as being self-sacrificing mther and willing and able to accept the burdens intrinsic to motherhood and womanhood.
What is marianismo?
200
A blending or compartmentalization of supernatural deities drawn from the Catholic, indigenous and African pantheons.
What is religious syncretism?
200
Culturally-specific medical systems in non-Western societies.
What is ethnomedicine?
300
To consolidate its rule, the Spanish crown forcibly resettled indigenous peoples into villages, towns and urban settlements surrounded by cultivated fields through a policy called.
What is reducciones?
300
Where non-white peoples partially adopted and reproduced the racial hierarchies imposed upon them by the White dominant society that created divisions within ranks of people of color and led to the reproduction of a similar regulation of marriage among lower caste individuals.
What is hegemonic racism?
300
Ideals and practices that determine male identity and masculinity and structures male and female interactions.
What is machismo?
300
A movement that seeks a closer rapport or encounter between teachings of the Bible - especially social justice and equality - and the lived experience of people.
What is liberation theology?
300
Approach in which beliefs, values adn attitudes - and not inequality and differential power relations - are seen as the chief culprit for the spread of disease and lack of adequate treatment.
What is culturalist approach?
400
Mandatory labor quotas in the Andes that were assigned to repartimientos.
What is mitas?
400
A set of social theories relating to the relationships between Indian and White races, and the social redemption of the Indian race.
What is indigenismo?
400
A parallel dimension of gender ideology that posits women's roles and behaviors in the domestic domain and male behavior and roles belonging to "the street".
What is house/street divide?
400
A particularly important figure in Latin America and the Caribbean around which festivals and evidence of miracles are centered and which offers a gentler non-threatening figure as compared to God.
What is the Virgin Mary?
400
Concept originally coined by Liberation theologists that draws attention to the effects of broad and pervasive patterns of poverty, inequality and oppression that cut across cultural, ethnic, class, and gender boundaries.
What is structural violence?
500
The landed estate that emerged as a key social, cultural, and economic institution through vast parts of Latin America.
What is a hacienda?
500
An intellectual trend that gained strength from mid-century that promoted the process of mixing blood as a positive component of improving racial stock and modernizing the nation.
What is mestizaje?
500
Societies in which gender roles and their attendant ideas about sexuality appear as templates for many other domains of culture.
What is gender-inflicted societies?
500
A colorful, distinctive and ceremonially important manifestation of popular Catholicism in the beginning of November.
What is Todos Santos?
500
An illness characterized by the presence of one or more of the following symptoms: loss of appetite, listlessness, lack of interest in daily activities, apathy, nausea, diarrhea, irritability, weakness, and withdrawal from social life.
What is susto?