Midterm ANT study guide

Question 1

shaman

Answer 1

a religious specialist who has personal relationship with spirit and acknowledge due to having met three requirmnets

Question 2

culture

Answer 2

shared idea and charactersitics of given social group and the patterns of behaviour that result from the

Question 3

epidemic

Answer 3

incidence of disease beyond what is normal and expected for given region

Question 4

ethnographics

Answer 4

research method central to knowing world from standpoint of its social relations

Question 5

empowerment

Answer 5

take advantage of own’s own disadvantages to get voice and relief themselves of social and gendered obligations

Question 6

biomedicine

Answer 6

healing systems which developed on basis of medical scientific research

Question 7

rite of passage

Answer 7

consist of three phases: one get seperated after childhood and move to liminality phase where they find themselves and then intergate that new self into adulthood

Question 8

healing system

Answer 8

from cross cultural perspective, it falls into 2 categories: personalistic system where explaining the sickness is due to supernatural forces and the second is naturalistic system which explain sickness due to natural forces

Question 9

etiological theory

Answer 9

where the cause behind illness is either personalistic or naturalistic

Question 10

ethnomedicine

Answer 10

beliefs and practices related to healing derived from healing beliefs and practices of different cultures but all systems are interrelated as they share three parts: haveing theory of eitology, method of diagnosis, and then perscriptions based on those diagnosis

Question 11

illness vs disease

Answer 11

illness= person’s point of view abd experience due to body’s condition
disease= physical sickness of body

Question 12

metaphor

Answer 12

highlights part which are alike and hide ones that are different

Question 13

illness narrative

Answer 13

story where illness and its effect on patient’s life are told as autobiographical or biographical account

Question 14

experience near approach

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known as experimental approaches often explore links between sickness and problems in social wprld and that stories told by people regarding their illness provide insight into how they cope with disease

Question 15

sick role

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rights= sick person is exempt from normal social roles and expectations but also have obligations as they must try to get well by seeking help from physician

Question 15

explanatory model

Answer 15

personal explanation of eitology, treatment, and outcome of sickness by which person gives meaning to their condition

Question 16

stigma

Answer 16

another cultural theme in ethnographic descriptions where people who ate different are subjected to negative judgement and discrimination

Question 17

strategic suffering

Answer 17

phenomena in which individuals being empowered through their sick role to improve their lives socially

Question 18

interperative medicla ethnography

Answer 18

focus on meaning, narratives and experiences

Question 19

critical medical anthropology

Answer 19

theoretical perspective in medical anthropology which sresses importance of political and economic structures, especially one on health

Question 20

cultural ecology

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study of human adaptation to social and physical environment, as humans adaptation refer to both biological and cultural processes that enable population to surivive and reproduce within given or changing environments

Question 21

critical interperative

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theoretical perspective on medical anthropology which blends critical attention to political and economical structures that affect human health with cultural interpertation of meaning human assign to conditions of health and sickness

Question 22

embodiment

Answer 22

ways that experiences are enlivened, materialized, and situated in world through body

Question 23

moral community

Answer 23

organization managed based in shared values, norms, and beliefs, where identification and loyalty are fostered through mechanism such as leadership, socialization, and ideology

Question 24

gossip

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news that don’t appeart across news channel, interest small group

Question 25

rumor

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story that circulate through unofficial means, truth value not confirmed quickly

Question 26

conspiracy theory

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story that explaisn something in terms of secret plot by small group of people working together toward malevant ends

Question 27

mindful body

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as domain of future anthropological inquiry and mapped three analytical concepts that could be used to study it

Question 28

agency

Answer 28

ability of individual to act freely and make their own decisions

Question 29

morbidity

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number of individuals suffering from specific disease in given area and or period of time

Question 30

mortality

Answer 30

number of people’s death from specific disease in given area and or over period of time

Question 31

incidence

Answer 31

rate of frequency of disease in population over specified period of time

Question 32

prevalence

Answer 32

total number of people diagnosed with disease at or over designated time, divided by total population at risk opf having disease at same time or midway through period of time

Question 33

case fatality ratio

Answer 33

proportion of people contracting disease who die of it

Question 34

political economy

Answer 34

concerned with how politicla and economic domains interact and shape individual and population’s health outcome

Question 35

power relations

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power in ability to make people think ot act in certain ways, through range of techniques from physical force to persuasian

Question 36

human time vs physical time

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physical time is chronological while huamn time is storied and is one thing because of another

Question 37

structural violence

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harmful effect on indiviual or groups of unequal economic and political arrangements

Question 38

symbolic violence

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implicit inequalities such as racism, sexism, and classim

Question 39

gray areas

Answer 39

where there is somplicity in system of oppression

Question 40

neoliberilism

Answer 40

goal of state is to serve needs of market

Question 41

syndemic

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interacting health problems characteristic of a segment of human society

Question 42

witnessing

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acknowledging population and individual they serve as human beings with experience, action of attentively listening to what the person who came is saying

Question 43

medical gaze

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seeing condition as case rather than human being

Question 44

therapeutic employment

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interaction between occuational therapist and after acccident aptient where therapist interact with patient shape and help patient find new self

Question 45

soteriological

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salivation of soul

Question 46

looping effects

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in case of supermax prisons, it is how prisoners get psycopath labeled which shape them and get shaped by label, by being given this label, the person enter into loop with no exist

Question 47

panopticon

Answer 47

prisons where guard is at center and can see all prisoners at all times to have them get used to being supervised and have them internalize that feeling to become internalized as well