Marginalized Groups, Identity, and Indigenous Knowledge

Flashcards on Marginalized Groups, Identity, and Indigenous Knowledge

Marginalization

Treatment of a person or social group as minor, insignificant, or peripheral; exclusion from social interactions.

Vulnerable Groups

People exposed to possibilities of attack, harms, or mistreatment.

Minority Groups

A small group of people within a community, region, or country, differing from the majority in race, religion, ethnicity, or language.

Gender Inequality

Discrimination against a group of people based on their gender.

Vulnerability

State of being exposed to physical or emotional injuries.

Tanners, Potters, Ironsmiths

Craft workers marginalized in Ethiopia, excluded from social interactions and economic resources.

Spatial Marginalization

Living on the outskirts of villages, near forests, or on poor land; segregation at market places.

Economic Marginalization

Exclusion from certain economic activities, such as crop cultivation and land ownership.

Social Marginalization

Exclusion from intermarriage, sharing burial places, and membership of associations.

Cultural Marginalization

Negative stereotyping and labeling marginalized groups as impure, polluting, unreliable, or lacking morality.

Age-based Vulnerability

Susceptibility of people, especially children and older people, to different forms of attack, physical injuries, and emotional harms.

Ageism

Stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination against people based on their age.

Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Conflict, and Nationalism

Words that became common after WWII

Nation Building

The creation of political cohesion and national identity in former colonies

Ethnos

Greek term meaning a group of people bound together by the same manners, customs, or other distinctive features.

Max Weber

Sociologist who first tried to define ethnicity and ethnic group in 'Economy and Society' (1922).

Biological Determinism

The idea that physical traits are linked to behavior.

Social Darwinism

The idea that as societies and nations evolved, morally superior societies would prevail.

Eugenics

State regulation of marriages, family size, and reproduction based on perceived genetic characteristics.

Race

Human groups defined by perceived common physical characteristics held to be inherent.

Primordial Model of Ethnicity

The oldest and most popular theory sees ethnicity is fixed at birth.

The Oromo Gadaa

One of the well-studied indigenous systems of governance

Gedeo Baalle

Indigenous system of governance for the Gedeo people.

Seera

Customary law of the Gedeo people.

Deres

local administrations among the Omotic peoples of southern Ethiopia

Dere Woga

Governance of the Gamo is embedded in the Gamo belief system

Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS)

is a technical insight of wisdom gained and developed by people in a particular locality through years of careful observation and experimentation.

Indigenous Peoples

Refers to a specific group of people occupying a certain geographic area for many generations