Identification Terms for the Final Exam

Note: These terms are from the lectures, readings, and films from the second half of the course. The final will cover only these terms.

witchcraft
spirit possession
interpretive drift
Cao Dai
Intellectualist conception of religion
David Schneider
Morgan on kinship
classificatory kinship
family forms
types of descent
residence patterns
uterine family
sim pua
sex
gender
muted group
universal subordination theory
Sherry Ortner
female : male :: nature : culture
transsexual
transgendered
transvestite
intersexual
travesti
silicone
man/not man
Paris is Burning
"realness"
gender as performance
Rene Descartes
medicalization
3 bodies
personalistic vs. naturalistic systems of disease
sent illness
Anita
dam project
hermeneutic of generosity
curandero
oikos
Adam Smith
enlightened self-interest
homo economicus
Trobriand Islands
kula
potlatch
Mauss
hau
total social fact
use value/exchange value
radical leveler
alienation of labor
cooking money
moka
5 characteristics of modernity
globalization
Rostow/modernization theory
World Systems Theory/Wallerstein
core/periphery
turtles
Miskito
structures of common difference
McDonald's
Miss Belize
Zambia/disconnection

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