Details Title: Anthro Terms Description: Final Exam Review Total Flash Cards: 32 Created: 05/04/2008 13:47:31		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Anthropology Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Disease of Development Definition A health problem caused or increased by economic development activities that affect the environment and people's relationship with it. Term Ethnomedicine Definition study of cross cultural health systems Term Culture Bound Syndromes Definition A health problem with a set of symptoms associated with a particular culture;  social factors such as stress, fear or shock are often the underlying causes, biophysical symptoms may be involved and the syndromes can be fatal Term Medical Pluralism Definition The existence of more than one health system in a culture, or a gov't policy to promote the integration of local healing systems into biomedical practice Term Communitas Definition theory that religion serves as a feeling of community or heightened sense of togetherness and unity Term Mana Definition an example of a religous belief based on supernatural forces Term NAGPRA Definition Native Americna Graves Protection Repatriation Act of 1993 Term Ethnomusicology Definition Cross-cultural study of music Term World Bank Definition part of the theories of development; broad reaching orgnz't but little success b/c of top down; it dedicated to promoting the concept economic growth worldwide; main strategy is to promote international investment through loan Term Push-Pull Theory Definition Urban settings pull people in with job opportunities, rural settings push people out Term Diffusion Definition Spread of culture through contact Term Cultural Broker Definition Mediates inhabitants of place you're studying with gov't officials or businesses to convey their point of view to people that can matter Term Syncretism Definition Blending of two or more belief systems Term Medicalization Definition Labeling a particular issue or problem as medical and requiring medical treatment when, in fact, that issue or problem is economic or political Term Structural Violence Definition Part of critical medical anthropology inequality among nations causes structural diseases such as poverty, suffering Term Disease Definition A biological health problem that is objective and universal, formally named, identifiable symptoms relatable Term Illness Definition Culturally specific perceptions and experiences of a health problem, lived experience, explanatory models Term Rapid Research Methods Definition Researchers try to get the same sort of qualitative info quicker (culture contact change) Term Participant Research Definition A method in development anthropology that involves the local people in gathering data relevant to local development projects Term culture boundary maintenance Definition Force to stay the same and maintain cultural identity Term Health Definition A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the abscence of disease or infirmity Term Demography Definition Study of population dynamics Term Psychological Anthropology Definition The study of anthropology in terms of who people psychologically experience the world Term Religion Definition Beliefs and actions related to supernatural beings and forces Term Magic Definition Attempt to compel supernatural forces and beings to act in certain ways Term Invention Definition Behaviors or ideas that emerge within a society large or small scale; conceptual innovation may or may not have a positive social effect Term Personality Definition An individual's patterned and characteristic way of behaving, thinking, and feeling Term Play Definition Unnecessary activity outside of ordinary life with limited time frames, rules, and some element of chance or tension Term Leisure Definition Unnecessary activity outside ordinary life wtihout rules, chance, tension or time frames Term Development Definition Directed change to achieve improved human welfare Term Puberty Definition A time in human life cycle that occurs universally and involves a set of biological markers and sexual maturation Term Adolescence Definition A culturally defined period of maturation usually from the time of puberty until adulthood, varies cross-culturally