Terms and Definitions Flashcards
Define Fugitive Anthropology
Aims to resist patriarchal structure of anthropology. It is doing research in a different way, accounting for the experience of people who do not fit under the male cishet demographic.
Define Sex and Gender
Sex: Biological and anatomical traits used to label a person as male or female.
Gender: Behavioral and psychological traits designated as masculine or feminine
Define Cultural Relativism
Cultural relativism is an anthropological concept that suggests that cultural practices and beliefs should be understood within the context of the culture in which they occur, rather than being judged according to the standards of another culture. This approach recognizes that different cultures have their own unique values, beliefs, and practices, which are often shaped by historical, social, economic, and political factors. Cultural relativism emphasizes the importance of cultural diversity and seeks to promote greater tolerance and understanding between cultures. However, critics argue that cultural relativism can be used to justify harmful practices and that there are certain universal ethical principles that should be upheld regardless of cultural differences.
Define Cultural Violence
Cultural Violence represents the existence of prevailing or prominent social norms that make direct and structural violence seem “natural” or “right” or at least acceptable. For example, the belief that Africans are primitive and intellectually inferior to Caucasians gave sanction to the African slave trade.
Define Culturalization
When a non-cultural problem is seen as a cultural problem such as in gender violence which draws from structural violence and patriarchal structure.
Define Structural Violence
Structural violence refers to the systematic and indirect ways in which social structures and institutions create and perpetuate inequalities and harm against certain individuals or groups. Unlike direct violence, which is typically visible and intentional, structural violence is often hidden and normalized, making it difficult to recognize and address. Examples of structural violence include poverty, discrimination, unequal access to resources and opportunities, and social exclusion.
Define Medicalization
A cultural phenomenon that is treated as a disease or sickness such as the case with intersex individuals or queer individuals.
Define Worldmaking
Being comfortable with one’s identity and finding a safe space in which they can express the truest form of their identity that might not usually be accepted in the wider society.
Define Hegemonic Masculinity
An analytical instrument to identify those attitudes and practices among men that perpetuate gender inequality, involving both men’s domination over women and the power of some men over other (often minority groups of) men
Define Compulsory Heterosexuality
Compulsory heterosexuality often shortened to comphet, is the theory that heterosexuality is assumed and enforced upon people by a patriarchal and heteronormative society.
Define Stratified Reproduction
The process in which some people’s reproductive abilities and rights are treated differently from others’ reproductive abilities and rights, usually with one group receiving more access and acceptance for reproductive rights.
Define Regime of Silence
The regime of silence is a concept in anthropology that refers to the suppression of certain ideas, values, or behaviors within a society or culture through a variety of mechanisms such as censorship, intimidation, or coercion. The regime of silence operates by creating an environment where certain topics or perspectives are not allowed to be discussed or expressed openly. This can be particularly effective in maintaining power dynamics and preserving the status quo. The concept of the regime of silence emphasizes the importance of examining not only what is being said or done, but also what is not being said or done in a given society or culture.
Define Harm Reduction
Reducing harm in situations in which harm is possible. This includes things like free clean needles.
Define Embodied Research
When researching a group, it is the act of using the body as way to learn something. For example, research with carceral structures. When immersing herself in carceral structures, she got a nightmare about escaping the prison. The body itself becomes the grounding for learning. It is a rejection of objectivist research.
Define Reproductive Justice
The right to have bodily autonomy, referring to women’s rights including the right to have or not to have children.
Define Basue Techniques
A method of carving out safe space in the margins of society.
Define Bogus Refugee
Forced to prove queerness through a very limited scope. To get asylum, these individuals need to prove their belonging to the queer social identity group
Define Offshoring
Sending incarcerated individuals abroad for containment, often to small island nations or similar.
Define Civil Disobedience
Protest without violence. Refusing to obey certain rules.
Define Cultural Anomaly
A cultural anomaly refers to a behavior, belief, or practice that deviates from the norm or typical patterns of behavior within a given culture.
Define Colonial Feminism
The act of appropriating women’s voices for colonial objectives. It is often seen as the white man saving the brown woman from brown men.
