ANT204 terms

The study of what it means to be human - behaviour and cross-culture perspectives

Lenses through which we perceive reality (active and practiced)

Cognitive orientation of an individuals point of view

Individual beliefs and activities make sense in the context of their own culture

Judging another culture based on your own

The increased flow of people, money, goods, and ideas over international borders

Form of colonial knowledge production that makes the 'East' an ideal other for and to the 'West'

The person or group of people you perceive as being culturally different

The quality or condition of being modern

Policy or practice of full acquisition of political control of another country and its economy

The undoing of colonization

Social and cultural construction of membership to one or more groups or categories

Social construction of being male or female (social differentiation - form of personhood)

'biological' differentiation of being male or female

A persons sexual orientation or preference - created and performed

Structure + systems + speech acts (essential for construction of the world)

Learned process to recognize cognition, abstraction, and respresentation

The structure of a language determines a native speakers perception and categorization of experience

Simplified form of a language, used for communication between people who don't share the same language

A mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage

National language not inevitable - using words/speech to combat oppression

Not simply to communicate but to act or consume an action and perform an identity

Sequence of gestures/words.objects performed for worship or a rite of passage

Threshold - quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle of rituals when ppl are in limbo

Ceremony or even tmarking an important stage in someones life, especially birth, puberty, marriage, death

Culturally acquired practices of the body - embodied dispositions that organize the ways in which individuals perceive the world/react to it

The increased distance/separation between economic and moral concerns

Something that stands for something else

Not a static structure but a living, morphing thing that relies on constant cultivation

Description of culture and customs of people through photos

Subtle, systematic harm to ppl that no one person will ever be held responsible for

Process of enacting/embodying theory

Studying ppl and institutions with power and influence

The experiences of ppl interacting with the market

The act of depriving someone of land, property, or other possessions

Movement with intent to settle

Structure on or in which something is firmly placed

Engaging critical theory and link to empirical evidence to the field of anthropology

Dominance/leadership - by one group over another in most cases