Globalization
"intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa."
Globalization (according to Manfred Steger)
A (flawed) attempt to classify humans on the basis of physical appearance.
Race
Demand for this delicacy has led to dramatic declines in Blue Fin tuna populations
Sushi
One hypothesis for why we tend to find lighter skin (lower amounts of melanin) in Northern latitudes has to do with the need to produce this vitamin.
Vitamin D
The type of violence that is often impersonal, experienced as a result of (e.g.) policy
Structural
The flow of people across borders
"Ethnoscape"
Bonus! According to who(m?)
Bonus Bonus! Name another "scape"
Term that describes how physical differences (e.g. in skin pigmentation) vary gradually across geographic space.
Cline (clinal variation)
Blue Fin tuna sit at the top of this
The trophic system
From the Blue Hills of Virginia, this group of people were referred to as "Mongrel Virginians," because of their inability to accurately classified, to pass for white, and were described by the leader of the American Eugenics movements as having "a combination of the worst racial traits, a badly put together people."
"The WIN Tribe"
The name of the policy enacted to deter migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border in the 1990s
"Prevention Through Deterrence"
Bonus - under which president was PTD enacted?
(Should also be able to discuss the key aspects of PTD)
the adaptation of global ideas into locally palatable forms
glocalization!
Bonus! Can you give an example?
The tendency of people of mixed racial heritage to be assigned to the racial category that is less privileged/more marginalized
Hypodescent!
Bonus - what "rule" is this related to?
Bonus bonus - which elected official did we discuss in relation to hypodescent? (hint: his mom was an anthropologist!)
One of the fastest growing markets for sushi is found in this country
China
Any two individuals within any so-called "race" may be as __________ from each other as they are from any individual in another so-called "race."
Different!
(85% of all the variation among human beings is between any two individuals within a local population)
Describes the violence inflicted onto people at the U.S.-Mexico Border after death
Necroviolence
"embodied dispositions that arise from one’s enculturation in a specific social setting."
Habitus!
Bonus - According to who(m?)
This act was instrumental in both, building up the middle class, and within about a decade of being introduced, redefining the boundaries surrounding whiteness.
Serviceman's Readjustment Act of of 1944 (aka: Montogomery GI Bill)
Bonus! Which group was not included in this redefinition?
At the time of this documentary (2011) a single Blue Fin tuna was auctioned from Tsukiji Market in Tokyo for this record-breaking amount
$400,000
Bonus! Anyone know what the record is now?
In urban environments of the 1930s, American basketball was dominated by players from this ethnic category
Jewish people
Method used by De Leon to gain insight into use of space by migrants in the Sonoran Desert
Archaeology of the Contemporary
When countries accept loans from these organizations, they often come with strings attached, (e.g. privatization of infrastructure, spending less on education and healthcare).
the IMF and the World Bank
Bonus - What's IMF stand for?!
Bonus bonus - In what country did an entire city have their water supply crumble under these strings?
The segment of Japanese society that are socially marginalized
Burakumin
Bonus: from what kinds of occupation are Burakumin people descended?
Because they're big, fast, and expensive, one person interviewed described Blue Fin Tuna as the ______ of the ocean.
Porsche
Biological anthropologist at Howard University who examined Jesse Owens and argued "There is not one, single, physical feature, including skin color, which all our Negro champions have in common which would identify them as Negro."
Montague Cobb
Term clinical psychologists use to describe the pain and suffering experienced as result of having a loved one disappear
Ambiguous Loss