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Anthropology
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11/17/2010

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Afrikaner
Definition
Language and name given to people of south africa
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Acculturation
Definition
Culture change that come about throught first hand contact with annother group culture
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genocide
Definition
mass killing of a particular group of beings; "identity" is at issue
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ethnocide
Definition
the killing of a culture
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morals
Definition
standards of human behavior, how human beings should treat one annother
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ethics
Definition
a situation where were looking and trying to understand the other, and even to look at ourself and perfect our position
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ibo
Definition
people from the book
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cash crop
Definition
a crop that is made and sold to produce $
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underdevelopment
Definition
a decrease in a standard of living because of a rescent development
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kuru
Definition
disease that the Fore people get, having to do with endo canibalism
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endocanibalism
Definition
eating bodyparts of a diceased person, religious ritual
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Biomedicine
Definition
Physical problem in body treated by medicine
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nestle corporation
Definition
nestle made breast milk and gave it away for free, and it ended up causing a lot of problems after it started costing money.
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social suffering
Definition
human suffering caused by inequalities that are structured into society, usually rationalized as "the way things are"
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Fore
Definition
indians, considered backwards because of cannibalism. also had disease they called "kuru"
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Fair trade
Definition
Makes sure producer gets a reasonable price for their product.
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Gross National Product
Definition
a quality of life indicator
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Kaya elders
Definition

group of men who have the ability to be intermedaries between ancestors AND the supreme being

 

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fourth/ third world
Definition
highly impovershed countries, shitty ass places to live
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living wage
Definition
a wage sufficinet for a worker and family to subsist comfortabley
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Applied anthropology
Definition
applied anthropology refers to the application of method and theory in anthropology to the analysis and solution of practical problems
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development
Definition
increase or improvement of standard of living of a certain group of people
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structural poverty
Definition
deprivation which is reinforced by administrative, economic and social barriers preventing access to new life skills and employement opportunities
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Clearcutting
Definition
most or all trees in a harvest area are cut down
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colonialism
Definition
a policy by which a nation maintains or extends its control over foreign dependencies
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Mosquito indians
Definition
indians from nicaragua
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Subsistance crop
Definition
 a crop grown by a farmer principally to feed his or her family, with little or nothing left over to sell
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sustainability
Definition
a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not permenatley damaged or depleted
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gerontocracy
Definition
a poitical system governed by older men
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patriarchy
Definition
family title traced through male line, male is the family head (danielle is a dumb bitch)
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green revolution
Definition
the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management to increase agricultural productivity
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cultural critic
Definition
critic of a given culture, usually as a whole and typically on a radical basis. there is significant overla with social and cultural theory
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punitive expedition
Definition
military journey undertaken to punish a state or any group of persons. usually undertaken in response to perceved disobedient or morally wrong behaviour, but may also be a covered revenge
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facilitator
Definition
someone who makes progress easier
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political elite
Definition
"to elect" in sociology as in general usage, the elite is a relatively small dominant group within a large society, having a privileged status perceived as being envied by others of a lower line of order
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punitive expedition
Definition
act of miliatry retaliation of a colonizer. where the british military came in things fall apart and killed the people in that villiage and killed the messenger
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Kikuyu
Definition
people who rely on coffee production and how the issue there is how linked they are to global marketing processes that enable them to get the price for their coffee
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socialist
Definition
one who advocates or practices socialism(theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution)
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status quo
Definition
the way things currently are; normal conditions
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globalization
Definition
the system of interaction among the contries of the world in order to develop the global economy
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select cutting
Definition
practice of removing mature timber or the lessening of older trees to improve the timber stand
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equitable distribution
Definition
division of property; judicial division of property rights and obligations between spouses during divorce. may be done by agreement, property settlement, or judicial decree
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wealth distribution
Definition
a comparison of the wealth of various members or groups in a society. differs from the distribution of income in that it looks at the distribution of ownership of the assets in a society rather than the current income of members of that society
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Normalizatoin
Definition
It means becoming a contributing member of society.
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per capita income
Definition
the total national income devided by the number of people in the nation
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westernization
Definition
the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of western civilization
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social darwinism
Definition
pejorative term used in criticism of ideologies or ideas concerning their exploitation of concepts in biology and social sciences to artificialy create political change that reduces the fertility of certain individuals, races, and subcultures
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self reflexivity
Definition
self referene occurs in natural or formal languages when a sentence or formula refers to itself. the reference may be expressed either directly; through some intermediate sentence or formula; or by means of some encoding
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global interdependence
Definition
worldwide nations relying on eachother. means that no nation is truly independent from the rest of the world, we are dependent on everyone else
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customary law
Definition
a land tenure arrangement where there is communal ownership of land
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cultural survival
Definition
a non profit group in usa which is dedicated to defending the human rights of indigenous peoples. their stated mandate is to promote the rights voices and visions of indigenous people
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australian aborigines
Definition
class of people who are a class of people who are identified by australian law as being members of a race indigenous to the australian continent
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Naturalization
Definition
the quality of being brought into conformity with nature
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hamburger connection
Definition
the direct relationship  between the advance of cattle ranching and deforestation. brazil.
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multinational corporation MNC
Definition
a corporation or an enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country.
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self-reflexivity
Definition
refering to ones self
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technologlical superiority
Definition
makes people think that the US is better than other countries
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neo-colonialism
Definition
control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures
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green politics
Definition
political ideology that aims for the creation of an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, social liberalism and grassroots democracy.
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