Anth 101
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persiafreshteh on May 3, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 emic | approach of studying a culture's behavior from the perspective of an insider |
| etic | approach of studying a culture's behavior from the perspective of an outsider |
| hierarchy | a group or system in which positions of power are ranked, usually from lowest to highest |
| heterarchy | government by a foreign ruler |
| othering | practice of judging all who are different as less than fully human. |
| hegemony | domination over others |
| neoliberalism | A strategy for economic development that calls for free markets, balanced budgets, privatization, free trade, and minimal government intervention in the economy. |
| ethnography | the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies |
| cultural imperialism | the dominance of one culture over another |
| essentialism | a view of ethnicity that holds that ethnic groups are distinguished by essential, historically rooted, and emotionally experienced cultural differences |
| plasticity | there is a wide variety of gender roles across cultures and within cultures |
| matrilineal | relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother |
| patrilineal | relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the father |
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