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| the study of cross cultural health systems |
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| a healing approach based on modern WEstern science that emphasizes technology for diagnosing and treating health problems related to the human body |
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| disease/illness dichotomy: a bioligical health problemt ath is objective and universal |
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| disease/illness dichotomy: culturally shaped perceptions and experiences of a health problem |
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| culture specific syndrome |
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| a collection of signs and symptoms that is restricted to a particular culture or a limited number of cultures |
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| the process through which the body aborbs social stress and manifests symptoms of suffering; also called embodiment. |
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| fright/shock disease, a culture specific syndrome found in Spain and Portua and among Latino people wherever they live. symptoms: Back pain, fatigue, weakness, weakness, and lack of appetite |
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| culturally specific causal explanations for health problems |
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| human healthproblems caused by such economic and political situations as war, famine, terrorism, forced migration, and poverty |
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| healing that emphasizes the social context as a key component and which is carried out within the public domain |
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| healing that emphasizes balance among natural elments within the body |
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| healing through the use of plants |
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| ecological/epidemiological approach |
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| an approach within medical anthropology that considers how aspects of teh natural environment and social environment interact to cause illness |
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| the intergenerational transfer of the negative effects of colonialism from parents to children. |
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| placebo effect/meaning effect |
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| a positive result from a healing method due to a symbolic or otherwise nonmaterial factor |
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| critical medical anthropology |
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| approach within medical anthropology involving teh analysis of how economic and political structures shape people's health status, their access to health care, and the prevailing medical systems that exist in relation to them |
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| labeling a particular issue or problem as medical and requiring medical treatment when, in fact, that issue or problem is economic or political |
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| a health problem caused or increased by economic development activities that affect the environment and people's relationship with it. |
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| the existence of more than one health system in a culture, or a government policy to promote the integration of local healing systems into biomedical practice |
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| applied medical anthropology |
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| the application of anthropological knowledge to furthering the goals of health care providers |
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| behavior and beliefs related to art, leisure, and play |
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| the application of imagination, skill, and style to matter, movement, and sound that goes beyond what is purely practical |
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| culturally specific definitions of what art is |
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| a form of enactment, related to other forms such as dance, music, parades, competitive games and sports, and verbal art, that seeks to entertain through acting, movement, and sound |
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| a new situation formed from elements drawn from multiple and diverse contexts |
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| an insitution that collects, preserves, interprets and displays objects on a regular basis |
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| returning art or other objects from museums to the people with whom they originated |
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| Japanese word meaning dicipline and self-sacrifice for the good of the group |
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| a form of competition that explicityly seeks to bring about a flow of blood, or even death, of human-human contestants, human-animal contestants or animal-animal contestants |
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| material cultural heritage |
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| sites, monuments, buildings, and moveable objects considered to have outstanding value to humanity. Also called cultural heritage. |
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| intangible cultural heritage |
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| UNESCO's view of culture as minifested in oral traditions, languages, performing arts, rituals and festive events, knowledge and practices about nature and teh universe an craftmaking. Also called living heritage. |
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| polulation movement within country boundaries |
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| population movements across counry boundaries |
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| a form of population movement in which a person regularly moves between two or more coutries and forms a new cultural identity transcending a single geopolitical unit. |
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| an agricultural laborer who is permitted entry to a country to work for a limited time |
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| transfer of moeny or goods by a migrant to his or her family in the country or origin |
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| a regular pattern of population movement between two or more places wither within or between countries |
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| someone who is forced to leave his or her home and community or country |
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| someone who is forced to leave his or her home, community, or country. |
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| internally displaced person |
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| someone who is forced to leave his or her home and community but who remains in the same country |
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| development-induced displacement(DID) |
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| forced migration due to evelopment projects, such a dam building |
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| someone who moved into a social institution (such as a school or prison), voluntarily or involuntarily |
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| breakdown of traditional values asociated with rapid social change |
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| international migrant who has moved since the 1960s |
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| population movement in which a first wave of migrants comes and then attracts relatives and friends to join them in the destination |
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| a view that seeks to limit enlarging a particular group beacause of perceived resrource constraints |
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| United Nations guaranteed right of a refugee to return to his or her home country to live. |
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| directed change to achieve improved human welfare |
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| the lack of tangible and intangible assets that contributing to life and the quality of life |
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| the spread of culture through contact |
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| a form of cultural change in whicha minority culture becomes more like the dominant culture |
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| a form of culture change in which a culture is thoroughly acculturated, or decultured, and is no longer distinguishable as having a separate identity |
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| a model of change based on belief in the inevitable advance of science and Western secularism and processes including industrial growth, consolidation of the state, bureaucratization, market economy, technological innovation, literacy, and options for social mobility |
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| a study conducted to gauge the potential social costs nd benfits of particular innovations before change is undertaken |
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| the intangible resources existing in social ties, trust and cooperation |
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| a set of activities designed to put development policies into action |
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| the steps of a development project from initial planning to completion: project identification, project design, project appraisal, project implementation, and project evaluation |
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| a characteristic of informed and effective project design in which planners take local culture into account; opposite of one size first all project design |
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| traditional development anthropology |
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| an approach to interntional development in which the anthropologist accepts the role of helping to make development work better by providing cultural information to planners |
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| critical development anthropology |
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| an approach to international development in which the anthropologist takes on a critical-thinking role and asks why and to whose benefit particular development policies and programs are pursued |
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| the design and implementation of development projects with men as beneficiaries and without regard to their impact on women's roles and status |
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| the imposition of development projects and policies without the free, prior, and or informed consent of the affected people |
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| local peoples definition of the direction they want to take in life, informed by their knowledge history and context |
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| a business that exploresfor, removes and processes, and sells minterals, oil and gas that are found on or eneath the earth's surface and are nonrenewable |
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