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Culture Exam 2
Cultures and Global Systems
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04/01/2007

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Community-based Collaboration
Definition
Brings diverse stakeholders together to work towards a shared vision for their communities and landscapes using consensus- based decision- making
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Alaska Beluga Whale Committe (ABWC)
Definition
An organization detecated to prtecting the Beluga Whale.Formed proactively in 1988 and their mission is to Adequate subsistence harvest and help in Protecting the hunting privileges for Native Alaskan subsistence hunters.
-The reps are made up of Native leaders and people from the the ADF agency.
-They also do research in Gentics, tagging, and sattlite servalence of the migration path ways.
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Perspective on Tourism
Definition
Some people feel that Tourism can be good for the culture and help build a stable community, but for the natives of the land sometimes they feel that their culture is being invaded and is taking part in assimilition.
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Euphoria
Definition
a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimes exaggerated in pathological states as mania.
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Apathy
Definition
Lack of interest or concern, especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal; indifference.
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Antagonism
Definition
Hostility that results in active resistance, opposition, or contentiousness.
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Relative Deprivation
Definition
the perception of an unfair disparity between one's situation and that of others.
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Local Reactions to Tourism
Definition
-Resist, retreat, boundary, maintenance, revitalized local culture, adoption.
-Disruption of day-to-day
-Severs Sector
-Relative depravation (rich meets poor)
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International Tourist Consumption and Expectations
Definition
Explane Please...
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Types of Tourists
Definition
Explorers, elite, offbeat U.S. incipient mass, mass and charter.
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State Political Interests in Tourism
Definition
-Need stability and safety for tourists
o Security, policing
o Tourist needs over local population
o Suppression of essential political expression
-Generate foreign exchange
o Foreign cash dollars share up nations currency reserves
o Keep balance of payments favorable
 Imports and exports leveling out
 Credit and investment available and attractive tissues
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Foreign Exchange
Definition
the system by which one currency is exchanged for another; enables international transactions to take place
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International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Definition
An international financial agency that is affiliated with the United Nations and has as goals the stabilization of foreign exchange rates, lowering of trade barriers, and correction of trade imbalances among countries. The IMF, which was established in 1944, works with countries much as a credit counselor works with individuals having financial difficulties.
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World Bank
Definition
an international bank established in 1944 to help member nations reconstruct and develop, esp. by guaranteeing loans: a specialized agency of the United Nations.
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IMF Conditions
Definition
Explane Please...
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Arun III
Definition
World Bank Projects (Nepal Project).
-Cost $1.1 Billion
-Produce 200 megawatts for urban areas
-Required 100% increase in electricity tariff for whole country
-Annual per capita income (1994) 170$
-Annual budget for country 500$ mil
-Did not plan for adequate compensation of indigenous people who would be dislocated
-French and Italian competition would build dam, using unskilled local labor
-Arun III did not proceed, but many other projects have
-Result is debt for countries
-Increased infant mortality, unemployment deteriorating schools and general health and welfare problems
-May borrow more money to pay off interest
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Travel Restrictions
Definition
-Landing rights (explane)
-Visas
-Selection of destinations promoted
-Trade barriers
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Leakages
Definition
-Tourists want familiar franchises, westernized surroundings (McDonalds)
-Major tour company: MCNs= 47%
-Guides: NNCs= 7%
-Less than 10 cents from each dollar to the local community (90% of profits leave country)
-No real assistance to balance of payments for small, underdeveloped country
o Reverses multiplier effect
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Linkages
Definition
-Locally produced food
-Hotels, restaurants locally owned
-Tours locally owned and operated
-Souvenir shops contain locally made items
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Tourism as Development
Definition
-Fluctuations based on seasons
-Political changes
-Natural disasters
-Tourist whims
-International currency exchange rates
-Planning/ carrying capacity
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Idealized Cultural Encounter
Definition
-Culture and environments supply side of tourism
-Ethnic tourism is the fastest growing sector
-Power of marketing and image creation
-Corporate- controlled fantasies
-Manufactured culture
-Manipulation of symbols
-Misinformation about local traditions and practices
-No information to interpret poverty, crime, prostitution, child labor, begging
o Condemned as local immorality
o Products of tourism and other aspects of the world economy
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Propaganda
Definition
to present local people as happy accommodating, masking local resentments
o Class conflicts
o Ethnic conflicts
o Gender identity
o Political conflicts
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Ecotourism
Definition
responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environmental and sustains the well being of the people.
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Green washing
Definition
(Ecotourism) Is a way that a tourist destination makes it self appear enviromental friendly when eally they are jsut covering up their mistakes.
-Not changing sheets every day or recycling water and other resources.
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Foundation for Clean Air Progress (FCAP)
Definition
(1995)Formed to represent polluting industries
Purpose is to lobby against clean air act
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World Ecotourism Summit
Definition
-Quebec 2002- World Ecotourism Summit and UN’s International Year of Ecotourism
-Promoted tourism and tourism industry
-Did not allow public input
-Indigenous people were criticized for trying to voice concerns
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Culture Change vs. Racial Dominance/Westernization
Definition
o“Locals must participate not as objects or dependents on tourism on their economies but as shapers of their own cultures with the right to maintain their own privacy and limits”
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Dugong
Definition
an herbivorous, aquatic mammal, Dugong dugon, of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, having a barrel-shaped body, flipperlike forelimbs, no hind limbs, and a triangular tail: widespread but rare.
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Ibex
Definition
any of several wild goats of the genus Capra, inhabiting mountainous regions of Eurasia and North Africa, having long, recurved horns.
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Beluga whale
Definition
The beluga whale is a small, toothed whale that is white as an adult. The beluga's body is stout and has a small, blunt head with a small beak, tiny eyes, thick layers of blubber, and a rounded melon. They have one blowhole. Beluga means "white one" in Russian.[image]
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Quandamooka
Definition
The Quandamooka Land Council Aboriginal Corporation (QLC) was established in 1990 and incorporated in 1991 to represent the views of traditional owners and people with historical association to Moreton Bay and Minjerriba (North Stradbroke Island). It plays an active role in statutory planning processes covering land and sea management and mining operations on Minjerriba and Moreton Bay.
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Lakota
Definition
The largest and westernmost of the Sioux peoples, made up of seven groups including the Oglala, Hunkpapa, Brulé, and Miniconjou. The Teton became nomadic buffalo hunters after migrating westward in the 18th century and figured prominently in the resistance to white encroachment on the northern Great Plains.
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Sinta Gleska College
Definition
Explain and know the College background and process for 10 year accredidation.
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Mendi
Definition
Mendi, Papua New Guinea, is the provincial capital of the Southern Highlands Province, and is also the name of one of the seven districts of that province.
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Melpa or Milpa?
Definition
a tract of land cleared from the jungle, usually by burning, farmed for a few seasons, and then abandoned.
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Huli
Definition
The Huli are an Indigenous people that live in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. They number over 65,000 and have been living in the area for at least 600 years. They speak Huli, Tok Pisin, and English.
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Gwich’in
Definition
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Inupiat
Definition
a member of a group of Eskimos inhabiting northern Alaska along the Bering, Chukchi, and Arctic coasts, and some distance inland.
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Poverty
Definition
the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor; indigence.
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Core Consumers
Definition
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Digital Divide
Definition
A term that describes the division of the world into two camps, those who have access to the Internet and other advanced information technologies and those who don't. The term highlights the issue that those who do not have access to such technology are potentially destined to futures where they will be at an economic disadvantage.
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Consumer culture
Definition
- Industrialism gave rise to a consumer culture
-Historically, a limiter ability to extract and use resources limited consumption
-Religious and other belief systems promoted frugality
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New Ideology of Pleasure
Definition
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Crises of overproduction
Definition
-Industrialization and technology led to “crisis of over production” (blamed on stock market crash, globalization)
-Political, economic and social changes encouraged consumerism to deal with the crisis of over production
o Department stores
o Advertising
o Fashion (but for style, not need)
o Business schools
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Census of consumption
Definition
-Political Changes
oGovernment promoted home ownership
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Planned obsolescence
Definition
a method of stimulating consumer demand by designing products that wear out or become outmoded after limited use.
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Conspicuous consumption
Definition
(Being obviously rich, showing off your wealth)
-Five out of six ships delivering goods to the United States from China return home empty
-Waste material, scrap metal or recyclable paper are among the fastest- growing American exports in China
-House sizes in the US are increasing
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Logic of capitalism
Definition
an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations, esp. as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth.
Term
NGO
Definition
nongovernmental organization
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Types of NGO’s
Definition
Charitable Orientation, Service Orientation, Participatory Orientation, Empowering Orientation
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NGO levels of interest
Definition
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NGO’s v. MNC’s
Definition
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Problems of NGO’s
Definition
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Anthropology
Definition
The study of human beings
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Facets of Anthropological studies and field work
Definition
oBiological
Primatologists
Paleaoanthropolgists
Medical
Forensic
oCultural
Ethnology
Ethnography
oLinguistic
oArchaeology
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Biological Anthropology
Definition
or physical anthropology, studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of human evolution.
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Cultural Anthropology
Definition
the branch of anthropology dealing with the origins, history, and development of human culture, and including in its scope the fields of archaeology, ethnology, and ethnography.
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Archaeology
Definition
the scientific study of historic or prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments, and other such remains, esp. those that have been excavated.
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Linguistics
Definition
the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.
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Positivism
Definition
-A science that you are able to isolate things that are true can be laws
-a philosophical system founded by Auguste Comte, concerned with positive facts and phenomena, and excluding speculation upon ultimate causes or origins
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Modernism
Definition
1. modern character, tendencies, or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern.
2. a modern usage or characteristic.
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Postmodernism
Definition
movement, particularly in architecture, that reacted against the pared-down modern school by reintroducing classical and traditional elements of style. An example of this style is Philip Johnson's AT&T Building in New York City.
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Applied Anthropology
Definition
refers to the application of method and theory in anthropology to the analysis and solution of practical problems. Inasmuch as anthropology proper comprises four subdisciplines -- biological, cultural, linguistic, and archeological anthropology -- the practical application of any of these subdisciplines may properly be designated "applied anthropology. Indeed, some practical problems may invoke all subdisciplines.
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Symbols
Definition
Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.
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Constructive Use of Anthropology
Definition
Explain Please...
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Controversial Uses of Anthropology
Definition
explain Please...
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Hunting Cultures
Definition
Either Natvie people to the land or the Out siders that jsut hunt for fun.
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European Hunting Cultures
Definition
The used hunting as a form of entertanment and recreation
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American Hunting Cultures
Definition
Explain Native and Rec hunting Please...
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Indigenous Hunting Culture (Pre- and Post- Contact)
Definition
Explain how they use it for speical events such funerals and birthdays. Also it is a right of passage for the youger boys in the tribe to become men.
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The influence of world and indigenous religious paradigms on wildlife and resource management
Definition
Explain Please...
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Wildlife Management Conflicts and Solutions
Definition
-Local, personal interests and values, animist beliefs
-Global, impersonal interests and values, command and control to produce a continuous supply of goods and services
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
Definition
Knowledge past down from generation to generation about the environment????
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Epiphenomenal Conservation vs. “The Ecologically Noble Savage”
Definition
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Conflict between Western and Indigenous Management
Definition
Explain Please...
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Resource Competition
Definition
-Indigenous view may not be uniform
-Local people need to represent themselves in the language of power in order to be recognized as legitimate interest in public discourse
o People who CAN debate determine what is “serious”
o “The best science wins”
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Local/Global Ecology
Definition
-(Global) Locals can’t manage resources as they lack proper understanding
-Rural people threaten biodiversity
-(Local) ????
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Ecological Values
Definition
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Natural Resources
Definition
the natural wealth of a country, consisting of land, forests, mineral deposits, water, etc.
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Collaboration
Definition
To work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort.
To cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.
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Collaborative Learning
Definition
-Increase knowledge and understanding by:
-Sharing existing information
-Learning from participants (the public)
-Educating the public
-Joint research and fact- finding to reduce uncertainty
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Social Capital
Definition
An economic idea that refers to the connections between individuals and entities that can be economically valuable. Social networks that include people who trust and assist each other can be a powerful asset. These relationships between individuals and firms can lead to a state in which each will think of the other when something needs to be done. Along with economic capital, social capital is a valuable mechanism in economic growth.
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