anthro AOIs

The body

Significant way we use and perceive the human body

Classifying the World

The way in which people organize and divide the world into meaningful systems.

Conflict

The intersection of structure and agency, specifically in terms of how power and authority influence identity and create violence and or resistance.

Consumption, production and exchange

Relates to these three concept to examination of the impact of globalization, work, modernity and labor on structure, gender and inequality.

communication, technology, and expression

The way in which we communicate and transmit ideas within and between groups and generations of people.

Belonging

The way in which individuals come together to form groups.

Movement, time and space

These three concept act individually or in concert to influence humans groupings, experiences and cultures.

Health, healing, and illness

Relates to scientific, mental and spiritual ways that different cultures perceive these three aspects of wellness.