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habitus
Pierre Bourdieu holds that socialized norms guide people’s behaviour and thinking. These become lasting tendencies to think, feel and act in certain ways in particular social situations.
healing practices
Culturally specific ways of treating illnesses.
health
Anthropologists examine how human beings’ efforts to secure health and treat illness are impacted by cultural processes.
holism
The whole of a social system is identified as being more than just the individuals who participate in it.
hybridity
Multiple cultures mix, bringing together traditions as they negotiate their shared and unshared identities.
idealist
Idealist perspectives focus primarily on the activities and categories of the human mind (for example, beliefs, symbols and rationality), and seek explanations for the human condition in terms of them.
insider/outsider
In field research, different viewpoints may be apparent: from within the social group (the perspective of the subject) and from outside (the perspective of the observer).
interpretation
Cultural symbols are decoded and analysed by anthropologists to determine their meaning.
kinship
The web or pattern of social relationships, which connects people through descent or marriage, although other forms of social connection may be included.
knowledge system
Culture is socially learned and provides people with what they need to know to act appropriately. Cognitive anthropology investigates and seeks to explain cultural knowledge.
