Anthropology Ch. 6

Culture-bound syndrome

A mental disorder specific to a particular cultural group.

Intersexual

A person born with reproductive organs, genitalia and/or sex chromosomes that are not exclusively male or female.

Transgender

A person who willingly changes their gender identity.....apparently it's all a 'binary' social-construction

Dependence Training

Childrearing practices that foster compliance in the performance of assigned tasks and dependence on the domestic group, rather than reliance on oneself.

Independence Training

Childrearing practices that foster independence, self-reliance and personal achievment.

Temporal Orientation

One's sense of their position in a continuum

Normative Orientation

Standards that indicate what ranges of behaviour are acceptable.

Object Orientation

The cultural explanation of one's surroundings. Imposes a measure of order and provides individual with sense of direction.

Personality

The distinctive way a person thinks, feels and behaves.

Spatial Orientation

The way in which one gets from one object or place to another.

Modal Personality

Those character traits that occur with the highest frequence in a social group and are therefore the most representative of its culture.

Core values

Those values especialy promoted by a particular culture.