Anthropology 101: Chapter 12

Cultural Oppression

Imposing the dominant/ foreign viewpoint (culture) on a group of people, making the perspectives of minority groups invisible while also stereotyping them. ex: making everything McDonalds

Domination

Power and control over another person/society.

Institutional Discrimination

The denial of opportunities and equal rights to individuals and groups that results from the normal operations of a society.

Banditry

a form of aggressive conflict that involves socially patterned theft, usually practiced by a person or group of persons who are socially marginal and who may gain a mythic status

Prestige

a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.

Ideology

a set of basic beliefs about life, culture, government, and society

Authority

an administrative unit of government

Prejudice

an opinion or strong feeling formed without careful thought or regard to the facts

De jure

by right of law

Ethnic Conflict

conflict between ethnic groups that struggle to achieve certain political or economic goals at each other's expense

De facto

existing in fact whether with lawful authority or not

Biopower

forms of power preoccupied with bodies, both the bodies of citizens and the social body of the state itself

Persuasion

inducement to act by argument or reasoning or entreaty

Feuding

lasting conflict between people or families

Power

one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

Governmentality

the art of governing appropriately to promote the welfare of populations within a state

Hegemony

the domination of one state over its allies

Free Agency

the freedom of self-contained individuals to pursue their own interests above everything else and to challenge one another for dominance

Political Anthropology

the study of power and authority and systems of organizing social life

Warfare

the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

Discrimination

unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice