ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Endocannibalism, Biomedical Model, Fore People
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There is basic research and applied research: basic research is finding stuff out for the sake of requiring knowledge, applied research is solving solutions with the knowledge. Health and wellness is located inside the body. Locates health and wellness in the body. Claude bernard: described homeostatic: constant internal balance of body. Believe the cultural model is more correct then the biomedical model. The fore people were getting it more than anyone else. The fore women children of both sexes were getting it more then the general population. There was no biomedical reason there was a cultural reason. They practice endocannibalism, they eat a piece of the relative, it is a ritual. Anthropologist observed that when some onedies that has kuru, the first thing that was eaten was the brain. Mom will have a bite and the children will eat it, and hen men were not allowed since they were at work.
