ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Marlon Brando, Margo Wilson, Nancy Hughes
15 Mar 2016
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Illness: perceptions & experiences of a health problem. Major types of evidence: skeletal & dental pathology, mummies soft tissues with bones & teeth, source of info. Paleoanthropology: study of disease in human skeleton (& sometimes mummies, subfield physical anthro, reconstructive reconstruct from remains, see presence from evidence from skeletal remains. Changes in adult stature: pre-agricultural vs. agricultural, variation in this, nutrition & disease stressors play large role, decreasing heights b/c less nutritional value or variability in diets. Pre historic diseases free: no, infectious disease is natural of existence. 98% of human history as foragers: small mobile groups w diverse diet, palaeolithic diet veggies, low fat, sodium & carbs, little to no disease of affluence (heart disease etc. , died o infection. Epidemiological transition theory: stay determinants dynamics & distribution of disease, who & why, 3 major transitions, shift in human ecology new disease ecology new disease. Associated w major change sin human life & behaviour.
