ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Infant Mortality, Paleopathology, Tooth Pathology
7 Sep 2016
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Major css of the west : anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Culturally linked to concern with appearance and body weight. The ideal 1950s female body type in north america vs. Involve structural suffering (social suffering) are caused by powerful forces like poverty, war, migration. Eg. sufriendo del agua (suffering from water) in valley of mexico. Structural suffering poverty the cause of high infant mortality rates. Paleopathology the study of disease and injury in the human skeleton (& sometimes mummies) Establish presence of disease based on evidence from skeletal remains. Major types of evidence: mummies soft tissue. Copy of 1042 - principle sites of human mummies. Have to remember that you are dealing with a small subset. Some variables that affect the expression of disease. Need a fairly good immune system - you have to survive the disease: most diseases will only affect the skeleton in chronic (long term) phases.
