COLLAB 2M03 Lecture Notes - Infibulation, Female Genital Mutilation, Labia Minora

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Collaborative
• Course: COLLAB 2M03
• Professor: Dan Popowich

Document Summary

Health & healing in cross-cultural perspective sept 6/12. Kuru sorcery 1950"s papua new guinea women, children & elderly are dying from this. Gajdusek"s approach failed & they brought lindenbaum in. Our approach is holistic meaning we"re broad in our approach. We look at it from a psychological perspective, sociological, biological, cultural, economical, and even political. Ethnography live with them participate in way of life what do they do what is society like and how do they think. She begins to learn about the fore [this group of people]. She learns that in many ways they are similar to us. There is a high degree of social inequality; they are stratified just like us (people are treated differently). Men have the most amount of status (higher status). [men in anthropology can be noted with a triangle/women + children with a circle] Food most important food in papua new guinea is pig.