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Chapter Vocabulary Lists

Chapter 1

Protectorate

COVID-19

The World Health Organization (WHO)

Anthropology

Silicon Valley

The American Anthropological Association (AAA)

Age of Enlightenment

Colonization

Cultural anthropology

Biological (physical) anthropology

Archaeology

Linguistic anthropology

The World Council of Anthropology Associations (WCAA

Biocultural anthropology

Menopause

Epigenetics

middens

Zooarchaeology

Bioarchaeology

Lucy

Linguistic Anthropology

Applied anthropology

Cultural Resource Management

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Chapter 2

Culture

Cultural Competence

Colonialism

Evolution

Cultural Relativism

Fieldwork

Multilinear Model

United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR)

Historical pluralism

Chapter 3

Fieldwork

Field

Ethnography

armchair ethnography

study up

Emic

Etic

Multi-sited ethnography

Research ethics

generalizable knowledge

Quantitative

Qualitative

Survey

Interview

IRB

Chapter 4

Surrogacy

Families

Kinship

Consanguineal

Affinal

Biocultural

Matrilineal

Patrilineal

Unilineal

Ropes

Ego

cross-cousins

generation

bilateral

monogamy

polygyny

polyandry

sagali

Transnational

Geopolitical

in vitro fertilization

assisted reproductive technologies

Chapter 5

Race

Ethnicity

a priori

monogenism

stereotypes

diversity

essentialize

discrimination

Sickle-cell disease

Cystic fibrosis

Diabetes

power dynamics

Chapter 6

Sex

Gender

Gender roles

Gender stereotypes

Sexual dimorphism

Agency

Stereotypical

Sexual preference

Objective

Cultural construct

Compulsory heterosexuality

Binary

Heteronormativity

Cisgender

Transgender

Settler colonies

Chapter 7

Economics

GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

Hunting and gathering (foraging)

Foodways

Horticulture

Pastoralism

Social stratification

Inequality

Intensive agriculture

Industrialism

Luddites

Capitalism

Gig economies

Free Trade Zones (FTZs)

Reciprocity

Taxes

Chapter 8

Health

Medical Anthropology

Biocultural

Obesity

Ethnomedicine

Critical Medical Anthropology

Structural Violence

World Health Organization (WHO)

Pandemic

Globalization

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Demographic Transitions

Diabetes

Aging

Biopower

Chapter 9

Theology

Monolithic

Homogenous

Religion

Kula

Magic

Witchcraft

Sorcery

Animism

Polytheism

Monotheism

Rituals

Proletariat

Alienation

Rite of passage

Performance Studies

Liminality

Communitas

Hajj

Pilgrimage,

Effervescence

Secular

Sacred

Profane

Anomie

Symbol

Symbolic/Interpretive Anthropology

Postcolonialism

Neoliberal

Chapter 10

Media

Visual Anthropology

Photography

Photovoice

Advocacy

Performing Arts

Aesthetic

Orientalism

Documentary filmmaking

Digital media

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