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Anthropology and education
Anthropological research in classrooms, homes, and neighborhoods, viewing students as total cultural creatures whose enculturation and attitudes toward education belong to a larger context that includes family, peers, and society
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Applied Anthropology
The application of anthropological data, perspectives, theory, and methods to identify, assess, and solve contemporary social problems
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Curer
Specialized role acquired through a culturally appropriate process of selection, training, certification, and acquisition of a professional image; the curer is consulted by patients, who believe in his or her special powers, and recieves some form of special consideration; a cultural universal
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Development Anthropology
The branch of applied anthropology that focuses on social issues in, and the cultural dimension of, economic development
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Disease
An etic or scientificallly identified health threat caused by a bacteria, virus, fungusm parasite, or other pathogen
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Equity, increased
A reduction in absolute poverty and a fairer (more even) distribution of wealth
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Health Care System
Beliefs, customs, and specialists concernd with ensuring health and preventing and curing illness; a cultural universal
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Illness
An emic condition of poor health felt by individual
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Medical Anthropology
Unites biological and cultural anthropologists in the study of disease, health problems, health care systems, and theories about illness in different cultures and ethnic groups
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Overinnovation
Characteristic of development projects that require major changes in people's daily lives, especially ones that interfere with customary subsistence pursuits
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Scientific Medicine
As distinguished from Western medicine, a health care system based on scientific knowledge and procedures, encompassing such fields as pathology, microbiology, biochemistry, surgery, diagnostic technology, and applications
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Underdifferentiation
Planning fallacy of viewing less developed countries as an undifferentiated group; ignoring cultural diversity and adopting a uniform approach( often ethnocentric) for very different types of project beneficiaries
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Urban Anthropology
The anthropological study of life in and around world cities, including urban social problems, differences between urban and other environments, and adaptation to city life
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