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ANTH1100
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
10/09/2013

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culture
Definition
socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought
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ethnography
Definition
descriptive study conducted by anthrpologists based on empirical data gathered from human societies/cultures with scientific description of specific human cultures
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Kula
Definition
trading system between men in Guinea which had an important social impact
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savage ethnography
Definition
trying to describe a culture before changes occur and consequently make a certain culture disappear
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rapport
Definition
it is necessary for the anthropogist to get inside the culture of study so that informants will diverge the cultural information necessary for the anthropologist to understand the cultural totality
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complicity
Definition
being an accomplice, partnership and state of being complex
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multi sided ethnography
Definition
following political issues across a number of sites versus holistic representation of cultural totality
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reflexivity
Definition
is the recognition of anthropology's complicity with structures of inequality (colonialism) and an awareness of the effect that the anthropologist has on her/his research
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medical anthropology
Definition
study of social processes and cultural representation of health, illness and the nursing/care practices associate with these
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ethnomedicine
Definition
subfield of medical anthropology, a study of traditional medicines and culturally influenced healing modalities, also cultural perceptions of those
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medical pluralism
Definition
employment of more than one medical system or the use of both conventional biomedical treatment along with complementary or alternative medicine for health and illness
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biomedicine
Definition
application of the principles of the natural sciences, especially biology and physiology to clinical medicine
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