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Chapter 24 Vocabulary
Anthropology's Role in a Globalizing World
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
12/05/2013

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Anthropogenic
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caused by humans and their activities
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Greenhouse effect
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warning caused by trapped atmospheric gases
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Climate Change
Definition
global warning, plus changing sea levels, precipitation, storms, and ecosystem effects
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Ecological Anthropology
Definition
study of cultural adaptations to environments
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Ethnoecology
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a culture's set of environmental practices and perceptions
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Westernization
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the acculturative influence of Western expansion on local cultures worldwide
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Cultural Imperialism
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spread of one (dominant) culture at the expense of others
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Indigenized
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modified to fit the local culture
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Diaspora
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offspring of an area who have spread to many lands
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Postmodernity
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time of questioning of established canons, identities, and standards
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Postmodern
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marked by the breakdown of established canons, categories, distinctions, and boundaries
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Postmodernism
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movement after modernism in architecture; now much wider
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Essentialism
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viewing identities that have developed historically as innate and unchanging
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