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Anthro. Vocab.
final exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| structural violence | ways in which structures of inequality, racism, sexism, and political violence systematically marginalize or harm people, preventing them from meeting basic need, reducing their life chances |
| Han | a systemized group of children to accomplish tasks. Usually mixed gender and ability. Each has separate tasks to do in Japanese schools. |
| Amae | idea to depend on another person; everyone (as a child) has a need to depend on one another (emphasis on child rearing years) |
| "good child" identity | Benign attributions of misbehavior. Explanations for a child's bad behavior to the class as a whole so they can learn how to behave the correct way, and So that the child thinks of themselves in positive terms. Ex: children and bombs away incident |
| Ronin | "masterless samurai;" a term used to identify students that are enrolled in "cram" schools, studying for entrance exams. |
| Skinship | intimacy/closeness between mother and child through physical contact. |
| the overproduction of disease | Nancy Hughes: emergence and expansion of disease through overpopulation, sanitary reasons, and diet. |
| affiliation | groups of church districts who share some ordnung and preachers |
| Ordnung | an unwritten social contract or rules of behavior set every so often that is presented to an Amish community by the church clergy. Different for each district. |
| "wet" learning | student centered learning; idea that students are emotionally involved in the topic and have a say where the conversation goes vs. teacher centered learning in later schooling. |
| corporate historical revisionism | an rewriting of history that meets the needs of corporations and serves the private interests, and involves money. Rewrites history in a way that you want to sell. Ex: Disney and Pocohontas. |
| De-territorialization of culture | Rosaldo: refers to the fact that traditionally we have associated culture w/ a geographical place. Now w/ the movement of people and the diaspora, culture and territory are getting detached. |
| Juku | after school classes devoted to any subject to help on exams |
| personalistic disease etiology | disease explained as the result of active, purposeful intervention of an agent who may be human, non-human, or supernatural; origin unknown. |
| lunch pail threat | Amish conflict, idea of factory labor: less influence at home, influenced by other people at work (English culture), constantly away from home. |
| Hansei | self-reflection in Japanese culture; acknowledge your own mistakes and pledge improvement. Never convinced of one's own superiority. |
| medical anthropology | the study of disease, health care systems and theories of illness across culture. |
| ethnomedicine | the study of beliefs and practices related to health and illness which are products of indigenous cultural systems and not explicitly derived from the framework of biomedicine. |
| diaspora | the dispersion of any people from their own original homeland |
| the "reverse course" | established by US military to rebuild Japans schools in the US image to influence Japan as an ally against USSR. |
| yobiko | Special private schools "exam schools" that children are sent to improve scores on entrance exams. Provide supplementary education to keep up with school. |
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