Chapter 15 Flashcards
Globalization
Spread and connectedness of production, distribution, consumption, communication, and technologies, across the world
The globalization of risk
Concern about risks often more developed in groups that are less endangered objectively
Global climate change
Scientific measurements confirm global warming not due to increased solar radiation
Anthropogenic
Caused by humans and their activities
Climate change
Global warming, plus changing sea levels, precipitation, storms, and ecosystem effects
The greenhouse effect
Warming from trapped atmospheric gases
Ecological Anthropology
The study of cultural adaptations to environments
Ethnoecology
Societies set of environmental practices and perceptions
Global assaults on local autonomy
- -> A clash of cultures may occur when developments threatens indigenous peoples and their environments
- -> Spread of environments may expose different notions about the “rights” and values of plants and animals vs humans
Deforestation
Forest loss can increase greenhouse gas production and loss of global biodiversity
Interethnic contact
Since at least 1920, anthropologists investigated changes that arise from contacts between industrial and nonindustrial societies
Acculturation
Changes in cultural patterns of either or both groups
Westernization
Accumulative influence of western expansion on indigenous peoples and their cultures
Cultural Imperialism
Spread or advance of one culture at the expense of others
Indigenized
Modified to fit the local culture
Diaspora
The offspring of an area who have spread to many lands
Postmodernity
Describes our time and situation, with today’s world in flux
Postmodern
Period of a blurring and breakdown of established canons, categories, distinctions, and boundaries
Postmodernism
Style and movement in architecture that succeeded modernism beginning in the 1970s
Essentialism
Process of viewing identity as established, real, and frozen
