ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Structural Violence, Medical Anthropology, Social Forces

• School: UTM
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT102H5
• Professor: Andrea Muehlebach

Document Summary

There are two approaches and answers: the structural & cultural approach. Structure: suffering is structured, both acephie & chouchou (stories about two people from vilioent ways in haiti while suffering from aids). Structural violence a systematic way through which individuals are preventing from achieving their full potential. Poverty, racism and sexism are forms of these kinds of violence. {rational choice theory} - humans only make ration choices that. Maximize personal advantage regardless if they are selling, buying, or marrying. No matter what geography says, women are always at risk ands suffering and gender plays a role in being a transcendent factor that plays a part in suffering and violence. Race and poverty is the same thing: but no matter what poverty is the worlds greatest killer. Cultural difference: refer to slide don"t confuse that structural violence. Medical antrhopology - one of the fastest growing areas of reaserch is in anthropology.