ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Victim Blaming, Medical Anthropology, Zande People
13 May 2016
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Chagnon"s writings on yanomami how the people are represented. Is this how they would represent themselves if they had an opportunity. Indigenous tribe"s blood returned to brazil after decades. Returning human remains, artifacts etc. back to the people. You might try to explain to a child now that the brain works like a computer. Years ago people would have used a metaphor for how memory works to a filing cabinet. A disease had a singular cause and it"s the same for everyone with the same disease. What we think about organ transplantation and death. 1978 anthropologist a women with cardiovascular disease. She forced herself to vomit and constantly urinate. She was the daughter and wife of plumbers. The doctors used the phrase too much water in her lungs . Her understanding of body as a machine and her plumber background her behaviour stops.
