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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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| study of cross cultural health systems |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| theory that religion serves as a feeling of community or heightened sense of togetherness and unity |
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| an example of a religous belief based on supernatural forces |
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| Native Americna Graves Protection Repatriation Act of 1993 |
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| Cross-cultural study of music |
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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 |
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| Urban settings pull people in with job opportunities, rural settings push people out |
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| Spread of culture through contact |
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| Mediates inhabitants of place you're studying with gov't officials or businesses to convey their point of view to people that can matter |
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| Blending of two or more belief systems |
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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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Part of critical medical anthropology inequality among nations causes structural diseases such as poverty, suffering |
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| A biological health problem that is objective and universal, formally named, identifiable symptoms relatable |
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| Culturally specific perceptions and experiences of a health problem, lived experience, explanatory models |
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| Researchers try to get the same sort of qualitative info quicker (culture contact change) |
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| A method in development anthropology that involves the local people in gathering data relevant to local development projects |
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| culture boundary maintenance |
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| Force to stay the same and maintain cultural identity |
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| A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the abscence of disease or infirmity |
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| Study of population dynamics |
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| Psychological Anthropology |
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| The study of anthropology in terms of who people psychologically experience the world |
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| Beliefs and actions related to supernatural beings and forces |
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| Attempt to compel supernatural forces and beings to act in certain ways |
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| Behaviors or ideas that emerge within a society large or small scale; conceptual innovation may or may not have a positive social effect |
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| An individual's patterned and characteristic way of behaving, thinking, and feeling |
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| Unnecessary activity outside of ordinary life with limited time frames, rules, and some element of chance or tension |
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| Unnecessary activity outside ordinary life wtihout rules, chance, tension or time frames |
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| Directed change to achieve improved human welfare |
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| A time in human life cycle that occurs universally and involves a set of biological markers and sexual maturation |
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| A culturally defined period of maturation usually from the time of puberty until adulthood, varies cross-culturally |
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