ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Medical Anthropology, Religious Studies, Biological Anthropology
11 Jan 2019
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Illness and healing bring together medicine and religion. Studies of the healing rituals of small-scale societies and indigenous healing specialists across. Africa, the pacific, and the americas are sources that medical anthropology drew from: these sources described medicine"s role in providing explanations for mysterious events, and healing as a social process. E. g. , evans pritchard picture: built these shelters to store their grains, the explanation for collapsing of the shelters was witchcraft. Illness may be caused by magic, witchcraft or spirit possession. Development of a subdiscipline: as a subdiscipline, medical anthropology started out as the comparative study of medical systems. These interests take place in highly complex contexts, including the global movement of bodies, parts of bodies, technology, capital, drugs, etc: examples: Indian women selling kidneys for access to anti-retroviral drugs: global movement of capital, a lot of these organs from the global north to the global south. The boom of alternative modes of treatment including naturopathy, osteopathy in.
