ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Medical Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, San Healing Practices
21 Oct 2015
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Anthropology 1aa3 - lecture # 2 - illness. Ethno medicine cross-cultural study of health and health systems. Illness perceptions and experiences of a health problem, could be psychological or spiritually. Disease biological health problem; universally applicable. Explanatory models for why we get sick are products of culture. Most known and oldest maker of models. If humors were out of balance, temperament/ health would change. To cure, humor balance has to be restored. Most sick people - excess heat & moisture (fever, sweating, cough) All illness came from being out of humor . Important aspect of latin-american folk medical practice. Used hot and cold drink, environment to cure. Disease is spread through contact with germ. Extrapolated to thought disease caused by damage to tissues. Treatment = kill microorganism eliminate disease. Immune system seen as army to fight of microorganisms. Believe existing in spain and portugal, central & south america. Soul loss" separation of soul and body.
