Links relatives through males only.

ex) most of the people in India, Japan, & China

Links relatives through females only; Women are considered the head of the household.

 ex) Mosuo minority group in China

Links relatives through both males and females simultaneously.

ex) Americans

The marriage of 1 woman with more than 1 man.

 ex) "Goldstein's Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife"

Materialistic- prevent division of family farm & facilitate a higher standard of living. (Tibetans of North Nepal)

When stigmatized, dommed infants are left to die of neglect.

ex) "Scheper-Hughes' Death without Weeping"

In Brazil, the indifference of Alto women to the death of their infants. Death seems wholly natural & anticipated.

Women are considered the head of the household.

Property is passed through the female line.

Women make business decisions.

ex) Mosuo minority group in China

The genetic traits of an individual based on their sexual reproductive organs. A binary system.

ex) "Gottlieb's Gender & Sexuality" relates gender to Noah's Ark- only male & female.

The natural urges or desire for a specific gender type  based on biology.

ex) "Gottlieb's Gender & Sexuality" addresses distinction amongst straight, gay, bi-sexualality

Categorized as neither man nor woman. Recognized in South Asia.

ex) The kathoey of Thailand; The Hijra of India

Veil worn by women in Islamic cultures to hide their and body in public

ex) "Abu-Lughod's Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?" these garments signify modesty and the separation of private family-oriented lives from the public realm or the ultimate sign of oppression by men.

A way of categorizing a person based on physical features or arguably biological differences.

ex) Fish: race is a myth

Brace: There is no such thing as a biological entity that warrants the term 'race'.

Gill: believed in assessing race from skeltan (biological) remains

Groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, cultural origin or background

ex) "Ritzer's Race & Ethnicity" claims that ethnicity relates to a sense of who one is; one's collectiveness to which one belongs. Identities are at the heart of collective bonds.

Belief that one racial group is superior and another is inferior.

ex) "Ritzer's Race & Ethnicity" reflects that minorities sometimes seem subhuman and are denied human qualities.

Judging people based on their culture; setting boundaries that you define as impossible to cross based on where people are born.

ex) "Ritzer's Race & Ethnicity" talks about Nazi Germany

Portuguese word that in the Brazilian folk taxonomy corresponds with the American word for "type". Refers to a series of physical features.

ex) "Fish's Mixed Blood" lists louras, brancas, morenas, multatas, pretas, etc.

Categorizing people based on their physical features.

ex) "Fish's Mixed Blood" tipos

When the offspring inherits the less prestigious racial category of mixed parentage.

ex) "Fish's Mixed Blood" a child of a white and black is considered black.

Acts committed withh the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

ex) Rwanda: Tutsis & Hutus 

Nazi Germany

Forcibly removing people of another ethnic group.

ex) Rwanda in 1973, there was an ethnic cleansing held by the Hutu to throw out the Tutsi and keep Rwanda purely Hutu.

the manner in which the speeding up of economic & social processes has experientially shrunk the globe so that distance and time no longer appear to be major constraints on the organization of human activity.

ex) "Inda & Rosaldo's Tracking Global Flows" the pressures of tech and economic change have continually collapsed time and space.

The conditions under which time and space are organized so as to connect presence and absence.

ex) "Inda and Rosaldo's Tracking Global Flows" social life consists of 2 fundamental kinds of social interaction: face to face contact and remote encounters.

When the value of goods decreases due to inventory build-up in highly industrialized economies.

ex)T-shirt travels: No one buys clothes made in Africa anymore because American-produced clothes are cheaper.

Economy based on finding new markets, diversification (niche markets), reconstructed labor (part-time w/ reduced benefits), deregulation of financial markets.

ex) U.S. and the global market.

A weakening of ties between culture and place.

ex) "Inda & Rosaldo's Tracking Global Flows" suggests that globalization has radically pulled culture apart from place.

The creation and maintenance of unequal relationships between civilizations favoring the more powerful civilization.

ex) "Inda & Rosaldo's Tracking Global Flows" Western imperialist expansion- history of global cultural hegemony

The ability of a social group to coincide with another cultural group; Pluralism

ex) "Bourgois' Poverty at Work: Office Employment & the Crack Alternative"

The movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland

ex) South Africa & Jim Crow laws; Nazi Germany

points of weak or no connection, showing that some benefit little from global flows.

"Ritzer's Race & Ethnicity"

A processing point for cocaine in Bolivia.

"Weatherford's Cocain and the Economic Deteriorization of Bolivia"

Organized around the need to meet material necessities and social obligations. Based on reciprocity and redistribution.

ex) "Weatherford's Cocain and the Economic Deteriorization of Bolivia" hunting and gathering in the jungle; incentive farming in the highlands.

refers to that part of an economy that is not taxed, monitored by any form of government, or included in any gross national product

ex) "Weatherford's Cocain and the Economic Deterioration of Bolivia" cocaine.

any self-reinforcing mechanism which causes poverty to persist.

ex) "Weatherford's Cocaine and the Economic Deteriorization of Bolivia" they work to have cocaine, but then take the drug to numb the pain from production.

the policies implemented by the IMF and the World Bank in developing countries.

ex) "Weatherford's Cocaine and the Economic Deteriorization of Bolivia" no luck trying to dissuade the country from cocaine production.