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| socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought |
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| descriptive study conducted by anthrpologists based on empirical data gathered from human societies/cultures with scientific description of specific human cultures |
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| trading system between men in Guinea which had an important social impact |
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| trying to describe a culture before changes occur and consequently make a certain culture disappear |
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| it is necessary for the anthropogist to get inside the culture of study so that informants will diverge the cultural information necessary for the anthropologist to understand the cultural totality |
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| being an accomplice, partnership and state of being complex |
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| following political issues across a number of sites versus holistic representation of cultural totality |
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| is the recognition of anthropology's complicity with structures of inequality (colonialism) and an awareness of the effect that the anthropologist has on her/his research |
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| study of social processes and cultural representation of health, illness and the nursing/care practices associate with these |
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| subfield of medical anthropology, a study of traditional medicines and culturally influenced healing modalities, also cultural perceptions of those |
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| employment of more than one medical system or the use of both conventional biomedical treatment along with complementary or alternative medicine for health and illness |
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| application of the principles of the natural sciences, especially biology and physiology to clinical medicine |
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