ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Paralanguage
10 Mar 2019
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Disease etiologies: personalistic, a medical system where a disease is due to the active, purposeful intervention of an agent, human (witch, sorcerer) Illness is part of a comprehensive explanatory system - it"s a special case in the explanation of misfortune. The same ghost, deities, witches, etc. may cause illness, as, for ex. , drought. "disease" the same as misfortune: practices and ideas relating to medicine inseparable from religion; specialists are often curers/healers and religious specialists, naturalistic, explanatory system is restricted to disease, religion plays limited role because it doesn"t factor into etiology. Prevention: personalistic, prevention of illness through "do"s" - fostering positive social relationships. "time and money" required: less control over the conditions that lead to illness, naturalistic, prevention of illness based on "shouldn"t"s" and "don"t"s" Through avoidance - requires knowledge of the system: responsibility for health resides with the patient - illness is evidence of "lack of care"
