ANTH 200 CSU Exam #1 Questions With Complete Answers.

poverty - the state of being extremely poor (for example, marginalized populations in Uganda) anthropology - the study of people (both past and present) what is culture? - behaviors, ideas & beliefs, symbols & meanings, everyone has it, etc. what is a society? - group of humans living together with patterned interactions the difference between culture and society - we HAVE culture and we LIVE in a society subculture - subdivision within a culture that shares features with larger society but it differs (example: political parties, movements, religion) international cultures - extend beyond confines of a nation (example: world cup, culinary practices) enculturation - the process by which human infants learn their culture worldview - lens through which an individual views everything around them, which is influenced by dominant culture and individual experience applied anthropology - The use of anthropological knowledge and methods to solve practical problems, often for a groups that work with human social conditions Margaret Mead - American anthropologist, spread anthropology into modern culture, reported on the sexual ideas of Polynesian Cultures, wrote "Coming of Age in Samoa""the other" - the person/group who i am not (how do people respond to someone or something that is different) cultural relativism - cultural traits are best understood when viewed within the context in which they are a part (context: history, environmental, etc.) intercultural sensitivity (Bennett 1993) - along the ethnocentric stages (goes from denial to integration or biculturalism) cultural humility - a lifelong process of openness to others/the others and requires understanding of oneself, one's own culture and one's own worldview cultural constructs - cultures shape, define, and create constructs that are unique to a given culture and can be explains by history and larger context culture and illness - culture-bound syndrome can result from conditions in a particular culture/set of cultures (example: bulimia nervosa in N. America and W. Europe or Arctic hysteria in Greenland) culture and emotion - variation in what words people have and their meaning, as well as when we express emotion Eskimo classification system - separate terms for nuclear family that aren't used outside the nuclear family (mother, father, brother, sister in the US) Hawaiian classification system - Ba (mother and aunts), Na (father and uncles), Ka (brother and male cousins) agency - the ability to see cultural practices for what they are, imagine the alternative, and take action structure - shapes, defines, and directs how we experience the world. it is made up of institutions, religions, and government (example: education systems)agency and structure... - contrast each other individualistic cultures - individual needs and wants are prioritized above those of the community collectivist cultures - needs of the community as a whole placed above those of the individual honduras - have a limited tax base with a small budget, make money through remittances, economy influenced by World Bank & IMF which was reduced in 2005 and 2007 inequality - lack of equality, which is highest in Latin America, 1 in 5 rural live in extreme poverty and 60.9% live in poverty us influence - historic patterns of influence because the US fruit companies are dependent on Honduran lands and had CIA activity during the cold wars that influenced the election outcomes via embassy activities land - land reforms reversed and the wealthy Hondurans seized about 70% of peasant lands peasants - small landholding producers coup - there was a power grab in Honduras (2009) led by Micheletti that overthrew Zelaya. Hernandez ended up winning through cheating the system Mel Zelaya - President of Honduras before the coup and made concessions to social movements (minimum wager, land reform, scheduled referendum to redraft constitution)