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Global health Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

Throughout the twentieth century, ‘global health’ was an uncommon term. The terms ‘world health’ or ‘international health’ were commonly used instead to discuss expansive … See more

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Medical pluralism Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBMedical pluralism describes the availability of different medical approaches, treatments, and institutions that people can use while pursuing health: for example, combining …

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Mental Health Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBWhen we talk about mental health, we could seem to be talking about some self-evident reality. However, the very notion of mental health can be seen to both assume and …

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Hunting and gathering Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBHunting and gathering constitute the oldest human mode of making a living, and the only one for which there is an uninterrupted record from human origins to the …

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Depression Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBDepression, which psychiatrists regard as a most common mental illness, has been examined by anthropologists especially closely since the 1980s. While most medical …

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Autism Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBThe concept of autism is historically contingent. It did not exist, in any proper sense, before it was invoked by medical and mental health professionals in the twentieth century. This …

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Care Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBThere are many universal assumptions about what care is and how it ought to be provided. Such assumptions are widely embedded in public debates, government policies, and …

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Climate change Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBClimate change, largely a product of human activities, is arguably the most comprehensive and dramatic challenge facing humanity. In the first decades of this century, its …

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Professionals Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBProfessions are institutionalised bodies of specialised knowledge and practice around which divisions of labour within contemporary societies are organised. As well as performing a …

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Dependence Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBDependence is often considered as a primarily negative state of being. It has gone from being described as a threat to individual self-reliance in early modern political theory in …

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Social reproduction Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBSocial reproduction is a lens through which to analyse the persistence of society over time, even as its human and material components keep changing. Its main value is in …

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Digital anthropology Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEB‘The digital’ is defined here as new technologies that are ultimately reducible to binary code. These have made many cultural artefacts easier and quicker to both reproduce and to …

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Farming Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBFarming has become increasingly visible in recent years, following a growing public interest in how food is produced. Anthropologists have been studying farming since the founding …

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Addiction Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBIntroduction. As a prism through which to contemplate the contemporary human condition, there are few phenomena that can rival addiction. Indeed, if anthropology is the study …

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Race and racism Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBRacism is premised on the idea that humanity could and should be divided into distinct biological groups or ‘races’, and that different races stand in a ranked and hierarchical …

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Divination Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBDivination is a widespread cultural practice that takes varied forms worldwide. It can be diagnostic, forecasting, and interventionist, in the sense of changing the receptor’s …

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Infrastructure Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBIntroduction. Rarely a day passes without infrastructure being mentioned in the news, with recent crises making their importance ever clearer. Climate change raises questions …

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Political ecology Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEBPolitical ecology is a critical research field within anthropology and related disciplines that examines how and why economic structures and power relations drive environmental …

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Latin America Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

WEB‘Latin’ America is a region constructed in a context of imperial rivalries and disputes about how to build ‘modern’ nations that made it an ‘other America’ distinct from ‘Anglo’ …

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