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Terms

• Disease: A biological/physiological condition impairing normal function.
• Illness: Subjective experience of symptoms and suffering.
• Sickness: Social recognition and cultural interpretation of a health issue.
• Ethnomedicine: Study of traditional medical practices and beliefs.
• Biomedicine: Western medical approach emphasizing biology and technology.
• Social Suffering: Societal and collective impact of health conditions and inequalities.
• Stigma: Social disapproval or discrimination due to perceived deviance (e.g., illness).
• Medical Pluralism: Coexistence of multiple medical systems.
• Syncretism: Blending of different cultural traditions into a new practice.
• Medicalization: Defining a non-medical issue as a medical one.
• Embodiment: How social structures manifest physically in the body.
• Structural Violence: Systematic ways social structures harm individuals (e.g., poverty, racism).
• Liberation Theology: Christian movement focusing on social justice and helping marginalized groups.
• Foraging: Hunting and gathering as a subsistence strategy.
• Horticulture: Small-scale, low-intensity farming.
• Pastoralism: Rearing and herding animals for subsistence.
• Agriculture: Large-scale, intensive farming of crops and livestock.
• Industrialism: Economic system based on industrial production and mechanization.
• Moral Economy: Economic practices guided by social norms and ethics.
• Neoliberalism/Free Trade: Economic policy promoting deregulation, privatization, and global free markets.
• Capitalism: Economic system emphasizing private ownership and profit.
• Alienation: Marxist term for workers' disconnection from their labor, products, and fellow humans.
• Colonialism: Domination and exploitation of one territory by another.
• Dependency Theory: Global inequalities stem from exploitation of poorer nations.
• Commodity: Goods produced for exchange.
• Capital: Resources used for economic production or investment.
• Mode of Production: Ways societies organize production (e.g., feudalism, capitalism).
• Stratification: Social hierarchy and inequality.
• Habitus: Ingrained habits, skills, and dispositions shaped by one's environment.
• Social Reproduction: Processes that perpetuate social inequality.
• Bourgeoisie: Capital-owning class in Marxist theory.
• Proletariat: Working class in Marxist theory.
• False Consciousness: Workers' inability to see their exploitation under capitalism.
• Civil Disobedience: Nonviolent resistance to unjust laws.
• Tequio: Collective labor system in Indigenous Mexican communities.
• Cargo System of Leadership: Traditional community leadership roles.
• Cinéma vérité/Kino pravda: Documentary style emphasizing realism.
• Ethnofiction: Film blending ethnography and fictional storytelling.

Key Works

• Farmer (2004): Demonstrates how structural violence shapes health inequalities.
• Blanchette (2020): Explores sex work and moral economies in Brazil.

Additional Concepts

• Stone (2019): Indigenous challenges to liberal governance in Mexico.
• Malefyt (2024): Discusses capitalism and advertising anthropology.
• Ong (2006): Examines Chinese guanxi and globalization's impact on labor.
• Framing the Other (2011): Examines tourism's role in stereotyping.
• Chronicle of a Summer (1961): Early cinéma vérité film exploring lived realities in France.
• Biomedical Models in Spirit Catches You: Cultural clashes in Hmong care.
• Partners in Health: Structural inequalities and community-based solutions.
• Scheper-Hughes and Health as Power: Health systems perpetuate power imbalances.
• Life Expectancy Charts: Often overlook differences in infant mortality and long-term survival.
• Acephie and Chouchou (Farmer): Illustrate structural violence through poverty.
• Three Challenges in Describing Structural Violence (Farmer): Historical specificity, structural complexity, and cultural nuance.
• Sahlins on Wealth and Foraging: Foragers are "affluent" by wanting less and easily meeting needs.
• Foraging Societies and Starvation: Foraging societies typically are sustainable.
• Political Left vs. Right: Left advocates equality, Right tradition/hierarchy.
• Classical Liberalism: Individual freedoms, limited government, free markets.
• Neoliberalism: Deregulation, privatization, market-driven policies.
• Inter-Species Ethnography: Studies human-animal relationships.
• Marx on Bourgeoisie and Proletariat: Irreconcilable class conflict over production.
• Early vs. New social movements: Early focused on class, new on identity/culture.
• Framing Social Movements: Presenting ideas to gain legitimacy.
• Social Movements and Power (Stone): Dramatizing power struggles to expose inequalities.
• Resistance vs. Autonomy: Resistance opposes the system, autonomy builds alternatives.
• Radicalism and Reform: Often operate together.
• Co-opting Movements: Diluting or redirecting goals of social movements.
• Indigenous Challenge to Liberal Democracy (Stone): Emphasizes communal decision-making.
• Work from Vice to Virtue (Weber): Protestant ethic linked work with moral value.
• Guanxi (Ong): Chinese relationship networks.
• Margaret Mead on Film: Cameras could document cultural practices objectively.