The systematic identification and description of sounds of all languages.
The smallest units of sound that have meaning in a language
Indigenous, or other forms of knowledge regarding sustainability of local resources that is often embedded in language
The idea that language shapes the way we see and think about the world.
This is a set of words developed by a culture in relation to their particular environment or circumstances
These real estate and zoning techniques that characterized some neighborhoods as "high-risk" led to generational wealth disparity beginning with the FHA housing program.
The belief that many human behaviors (like criminality or poverty) are innate and controlled by an individual's genes.
A set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population by having humans rather than the environment define what traits offer adaptive “fitness”.
This form of racism refers to inequality that is built into cultural institutions that perpetuate patterns of inequality.
What aspect of population genetics and evolution likely contributes the most to our inability to separate human populations into discrete biological racial groups?
.A theory that describes globalization as a system structured to benefit the core, drawing resources from the periphery nations.
Power that organizes the systemic interaction within and among societies, directing economic, political forces and ideological forces
Power that coerces others that is backed up by economic and/or military power.
Power that co-opts and persuades rather than coerces, getting people to change their behaviours, beliefs, values.
Physical and/or psychological harm caused by impersonal, exploitative, and unjust social, political, and economic systems
An intervention philosophy that historically has encouraged industrialization, modernization, westernization, and individualism as desirable evolutionary advances to address issues like poverty and hunger.
An ambitious set of objectives for improving the human condition by 2015.
Canada’s federal development agency.
The application of anthropological perspectives to the multidisciplinary branch of development studies.
Both UNICEF and the Mustard Seed Soceity are examples of this type of aid organization.
What is phonetics
What are morphemes
What is TEK (traditional ecological knowledge)
What is linguistic relativity, or the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis
What is red lining
What is biological determinism
What is eugenics
What is institutionalized racism
What is gene flow
What is World Systems Theory or approach
What is structural power
What is hard power
What is soft power
What is structural violence
What is development
What are the UN Millennium Goals
What is CIDA
What is development anthropology
What are NGOs, or non-governmental organizations
