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ANTH - Exam 3 Review (Applied Anthropolgy) Flashcards

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What is the use of anthropology to solve practical problems?

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Applied Anthropology -

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What problems occur with a top-down approach?

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  • Apache Housing
  • Solar Water Pumps in India -
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What utilizes a “ground-up” or grass roots perspective/approach?

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Applied Anthropology -

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Describe the Solar Water Pumps in India:

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The pumps helped save time because they spent less time pumping water but the children didn’t have jobs now. This led to a lot children getting in trouble. The women would destroy them because it ruined their social time. This widened the gap between the rich and the poor. -

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What are the Two Fundamental Categories of Applied Anthropology?

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-Development Anthropology
-Advocacy -

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What is part of the broad, multi-disciplinary field of International Development, which tries to improve human welfare, particularly in underdeveloped and developing countries?

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Development Anthropology -

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What emphasizes sustainability as a goal and requirement?

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Development Anthropology -

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What is the study of culture’s impact on health and health-seeking behavior > Very strong applied orientation?

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Medical Anthropology -

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What is one major area of medical anthropology?

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health care and nutrition -

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What are examples of medical anthropology?

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-Filariasis in India
-Behrehorst Foundation -

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What is a foundation that is meant to help women and children with many different things in Guatemala?

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Behrehorst foundation -

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What are some examples of Grassroots Economic Development:

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-Malnutrition is their first priority.
-They provide fresh water.
-He worked to really hard to find funding.
-set up schools and programs
-focused on rodent-proofing corn cribs

  • Pirambu and the Quatro Varas Project
  • Vicos Project- Allen Holmberg -
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Describe the Quatro Varas Project:

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-focused on women
-they give business loans
-allowed women to sell their textiles to richer parts of Brazil, Germany, and other countries through this brand
-undercutting was not allowed -

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Describe the Pirambu Development Programs:

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-Built 1/2 dozen bakeries which employ people.
-Set up schools to train women how to sew.
-Own a nut plantation which employs 7,000 men.
-Sell children’s postcards in stores; keeps children from going into crime.
-Everything was sold at the same price. -

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Describe the Vicos project:

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-Allen Homberg: revolutionized agriculture in Peru.
-Did away with the share cropping system.
-Holmberg rents Hacienda and payed wages to everyone who worked.
-Taught Native people their culture and rights as citizens. -It was profitable because people wanted to work.
-productivity increased and increased until they bought the hacienda themselves -

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What was the name of the man in charge of the Vicos project?

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Allen holmberg -

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What became a catalyst for wage reform in Peru?

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The Vicos Project -

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What are the areas of applied anthropology?

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-Ethnography
-Education
-Business
-Advocacy
-Program evaluation -

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What is an example of Applied anthropology in U.S. sub-groups:

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  • Aids and IV Drug Use
  • most IV Drug users use unclean needles
  • free needle exchange programs in certain states -
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What are some examples of Applied Ethnography?

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  • Darrell Posey and Amazon Indian Groups
  • Agrosilvaculture -
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What is utilizing whatever products are around to grow plants?

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Agrosilvaculture -

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What is an example of a Program Evaluation in Anthropology?

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  • Pretty suspicious of the US govt.
  • govt. gave a grant to provide completely free tuition but program failed
  • Justice designed a new curriculum, emphasizes team work, self-paced
  • It fit their life style better -
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What are some examples of Anthropology in Education?

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-Ortiz de Montellano’s mesoamerican inclusive curriculum
- Cathie Jordan and project KEEP -

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Describe project KEEP:

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  • formed to help teach Hawaiian children
  • In classroom, kids have no responsibility, teacher assigns work, everything, etc
  • minimize verbal instruction
  • assign a specific tasks
  • withdraw from direct attention
  • At home, kids are given all the responsibilities.
  • Hawaiian kids love working! -
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What does Project KEEP stand for?

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Kemejaya Elementary Education Program -

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Who created Project KEEP?

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Cathie Jordan -

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Who created the Mesoamerican inclusive curriculum?

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Ortiz de Montellano -

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What did Ortiz de Montellano’s mesoamerican inclusive curriculum do?

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improved performance in areas with Native American minorities -

29
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Who created the Navajo Paramedic Program?

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James Justice -

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What are some examples of applied anthropology in advocacy?

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  • Airton Barreto and the Pirambu Center for Human Rights
  • Darrell Posey and defense of native peoples in Amazon
  • Expert Witnesses: Omer Stewart and John Hostetler -
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Did the Supreme Court find in favor of the Amish people?

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Yes, so they are not required to attend public high school -

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Who was the anthropologist expert witness that fought for Amish teenagers being compelled to attend public high school?

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John Hostetler -

33
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What is peyote?

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a hallucinogenic drug that Native Americans use in church for religious ceremonies and rituals -

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Who was an Anthropologist expert witness for Native American religious freedom (use of peyote in the church)?

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Omer Stewart -

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Did the supreme court find in favor of the Native American church or not?

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in favor of the Native American church, so they were able to use the drug -

36
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What are some anthropologist expert witnesses?

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-Omer Stewart
-John Hostetler -

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Who spent time in jail in defense of native people in the Amazon?

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Darrell Posey -

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Who is the lawyer for the Pirambu Center for Human Rights?

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Airton Barreto -

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What are some examples of how Anthropologists work in Business?

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-Cultural Broker
-Ethnography in the work place -

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What is a cultural broker?

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-they help US companies understand cultures and help with scheduling that fits with those cultures
-move to former Communist block countries to teach them how to do capitalism -

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How does ethnography of the workplace work?

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-Program Evaluation: ethnography of the workplace, attitudes.
-EX- Hector Qirko would go around and teach ethnography in the workplace to the TVA, draws up reports about all the data gathered to improve the company
-TennCare -

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