ANTHROP 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Homicide, Bioarchaeology, Taphonomy
7 Sep 2016
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Believed to be in large part self inflicted. Leprosy as a cross-cultural phenomenon sri lanka. Leprosy as a cross-cultural phenomenon - nigeria: washing in water a leprosy patient has used. Leprosy as a cross-cultural phenomenon usa: medical treatment get rid of the pathogen. Lepers, after seeking treatment, will often work to educate others about the disease. Sickness is not just an isolated event, nor an unfortunate brush with nature. It is a form of communication through which nature, society and culture speak simultaneously . What happens to bodies after death and how to forensic anthropologists study them? adipocere 1. Forensic science on tv they do it all: make arrests bones. The experience of illness varies according to culture. Take down criminals in a blazing gun fight!! Autolysis degeneration of body tissues by digestive fluids. Putrefaction bacteria reproduce & start to consume tissues, muscles, etc . badly decomposed skeletonized. Argentine forensic anthropology team training workers in ethiopia.
