ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Anthropology, Structural Violence, Medicalization
6 Feb 2019
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Why: offers scholars, students, and practitioners new ways to understand how culture and ritual are embedded in the education/socialization of health care providers. Senior cultural anthropologist research fellow at the university of texas. Spent over 20 years researching issues in the anthropology of reproduction, focusing most closely on childbirth, obstetrics, and midwifery. Identified the characteristics of the technocratic, humanistic, and holistic models of birth. "paradigm" as a conceptual model of and template for reality: becomes this through ritual (in this case, the ritual of hospital birth: ritualistic practice/ritual: something that is patterned, repetitive, and symbolic enactment of cultural value/belief. The body as a machine: diagnosis and treatment from the outside in (curing disease, repairing dysfunction), a profit-driven system. "catholic religious hegemony" in the west gave us the male/female opposition, in which the. "violent hierarchy" of male as valued/female as devalued dichotomy dominates.
