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Terms
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- Illness:
- an emic condition of poor health felt by individual
- Anthropology and education:
- anthropological research in classrooms, homes, and neighborhoods, viewing students as total cultural creatures whose enculturation and attitudes toward education belong to a larger context that includes family, peers, and society.
- Medical anthro:
- unites bio and cultural anthropologists in the study of disease, healh problems, health care systems, and theories about illness in different cultures and ethnic groups
- Culture:
- traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs; distinctly human, transmitted through learning
- Holistic:
- interested in the whole of the human condition: past, present, and future, biology, society, language and culture
- Scientific medicine:
- as distinguished from Western medicine, a health care system based on scientific knowledge and procedures, encompassing such fields as pathology, microbiology, biochemistry, surgery, diagnostic technology and applications
- Curer:
- specialized role acquired through a culturally appropriate process of selection, training, certification and acquisition of a professional image, the curer is consulted by patients, who believe in his or her special powers and receives some form of special consideration, a cultural universal.
- Society:
- organized life in groups, typical of humans and other animals
- Cultural anthropologist:
- sociocultural) a student of social life and culture, a practitioner of culture anthropology, whether ethnology or ethnography
- Hominids:
- members of the zoological family (Hominidae) that includes fossil and living humans
- Ethnology:
- the theoretical, comparative study of society and culture, compares cultures in time and space
- Health care systems:
- beliefs, customs, and specialists concerned with ensuring health and preventing and curing illness, a cultural universal.
- Applied anthropology:
- the application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems
- Disease:
- an etic or scientifically identified health threat caused by a bacterium, virus, fungus, parasite or other pathogen
- Biological anthro:
- the branch of anthro that studies human bio diversity in time and space for instance, homonid evolution, genetics, human bio adaptation, primatology (also called physical anthro)
- Adaptation
- the process by which organisms cope with environmental stresses
- Linguistic anthro:
- the branch of anthro that studies linguistic variation in time and space, including interrelations between language and culture, includes historical linguistics and sociolinguistics
- Ethnography:
- field work in a particular culture