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What’s applied anthropology?

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Research with practical application and impact whether from cultural, biocultural, medical, or archaeological perspectives.

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Where is applied anthropology applied?

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academic research & non-academic work

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List the categories of applied academic research & non-academic work.

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Education Medicine Business Government Social services Development

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What’s development anthropology?

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The relationship between a culture and development

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What’s development?

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Programs that help reduce poverty and otherwise improve people’s lives

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What’s a development project?

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A set of activities designed to put development policies into action

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What’s a traditional cultural anthropologist?

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Supports the project and helps make it work

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What’s a critical cultural anthropologist?

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Takes a critical thinking role, often in partnership

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Why do applied anthropologist work with and for the local people?

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To secure human rights Prevent human rights abuse To improve their lives

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How has anthropology advanced?

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From the armchair to verandah to participant observation to collaborative research and advocacy on behalf of the people with whom they work Finding ways to achieved their aspirations

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Is kinship concrete or not?

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It is

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Does kinship terminology translate exactly as it originally was?

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No

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What’s Patriliny?

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Descent through males alone

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What are two different names for Patriliny?

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Patrilineality and agnatic descent

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What’s patriarchy?

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Overarching male dominance

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List the kinship chart symbols?

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Circle- female Triangle- male Equal sign- marriage Square- sex not related to story (Patriliny) Dash-sexual intercourse Slash-deceased Shaded in circle or triangle- “ego” of diagram

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What are the characteristics of the Patrilineal kin of ego?

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Last names are important Have a recognize founder First name as a sir name

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List the old Patrilineal categories.

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Patrilineage- “family” Tribe Sect Religion Ethnicity/ nation

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What’s a sect?

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A specific small form of religion from father

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Where is Patriliny found?

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The Middle east, parts of Europe, and Greece

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What are the 3 ways of being kin?

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Descent Sharing- food, space Marriage

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What’s descent?

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Kinship through birth into a particular group

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What are the 2 major types of descent?

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Unilineal Bilineal

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What are the categories of migration based on reason for moving?

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Labor migrants Displaced persons Institutional migrants

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What's an institutional migrant?
A student who does not live in institutional, university, or college city
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What are the categories of displaced persons of involuntary migrants?
Refugees Internally displaced persons Development-induced displacement
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What's a refugee?
Victims of persecution, natural disasters, & etc.
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What's an internally displaced person?
A person is placed inside the same country
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What's a development-inducted displacement?
A victim of projects such as dams, mines, shopping center, and urban growth
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What's an example of development inducted displacement?
Georges Dam in China
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What are 3 facts about refugees?
It's a large and growing category of displaced persons 1 in 500 ppl are refugees Women and children make the majority
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What are 4 facts about Internally displaced persons?
Fastest-growing category Over 50 million ppl Africa and Iraq has the most Major cause is political violence and development projects
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What's the exclusion?
Having a lifeboat mentality
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What's the lifeboat mentality?
There's a lifeboat that holds 6 people, 7 people try to get in, if 7 people get in it they will all die, what would you do? Volunteer to give a life or influence the group to risk their lives
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Who has experienced the lifeboat mentality?
Germany using working-class racism
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The right to return home
A refugee's entitlement to return and live in his/her homeland
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Palestinians in 1948
Refused rights in Lebanon
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Hurricane Katrina
Racial lines of displacement Many blacks have a little change of returning home and rebuilding lives
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Inclusions
Palermo
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What's political anthropology?
The cross-cultural study of power and related concepts such as influence and authority
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What's geopolitics?
Bringing geography into politics
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List what political anthropologist study?
.Who has power and who does not .Degrees of power .Bases of power .Abuses of power. .Political organization and government .Political leadership roles .Relationships between political and religious power .Change in political organization and power relationships through globalization and media
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Is politics everywhere?
Much evidence of leadership, dominance, power roles, as learned behavior.
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What are the 3 aspects of political leadership?
.Power .Authority .Influence
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Power
The ability to bring results, through the possession or use of forceful means
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Authority
The right to take certain forms of action
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Influence
The ability to achieve a desired and by exerting social or moral pressure on someone or some groups
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What are the 3 theoretical perspectives of anthropology?
Darwinian, cultural materialist, & historical view
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What's cultural materialist?
Protein scarcity and population dynamics are the underlying cause of warfare
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What's the historic view?
Intensified western presence during the preceding 100 years caused the high levels of violence
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Example of all 3 perspectives?
The Yanomami
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Who are the Yanomami?
Horticultural people of the Amazonian rainforest
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Who studied the Yanomami first?
Napolean Chagon; 1960s
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What's the Yanomami cultural system?
Raid to capture women Fierce males are favored Female infanticide Shortage of females
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What's an example of Darwinian?
Prefer to birth a son
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What are the varieties of conflict:
Warfare Ethnic conflict
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What's war?
An organized group action directed against another group and involving mainly symbolic conflict to those in which mass death is the goal
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What changes happen in political and legal systems?
.Emerging nations and transnational nations .Democratization .The UN and international peacekeeping
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What's a nation?
A group of people who share a language, culture, territorials base, political organization, and history
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What's democratization?
The process of transformation from an authorization regimes to a democratic regime
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What are some Afghani form of resistance?
Women individualizing their attire by personalizing shoes and embroidery
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What does the author learn about the way people dress?
Women wear shalwar kamees to cover up
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What precautions do NGOs and the UN take to ensure the safety of their workers?
Everyone sits in the front seat and everyone must use walkie talkies wo report their whereabouts and safety at all times
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What are some of the restrictions placed on women and expats in Afghanistan?
Can't leave homes without a male escort and must sit in the backseat of cars
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How do restrictions impact women and expats quality of life?
Women can't work and are denied health care access. Expats can't work with Afghani women and can't enter homes
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Explain the title "When Bamboo Bloom"?
It implies that there is hope and is an expression life "when pigs fly" but with bamboo
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What are UXOs?
Unexploded Ordinance
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What are CHWs?
Community Health worker
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What are LEPs?
Local enterprise partnership
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Why is applied anthropology suited for disaster-response and development work?
It's good to know how cultures function and interact if/when disaster happens. Helpful to ensure psychological health in disaster/ warzones
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What do applied anthropologist do?
They can be hired by a government or NGO to study important issues and help deal with world problems
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Compare Omidian and Barley's experiences?
Restriction Administrative/ government issues culture shock travel problems Gender issues financial issues
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How and why did the author choose Afghanistan?
She worked with refugees in the US and was prevented to go at fist but then had an opportunity to work with an organization. Her ex-husband lived there at some point

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