ANT220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Susan Sontag, Ayurveda, Zande People
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The study of the medical systems or healing practices of a cultural group. Discusses that this tribe is a chiefdom and that the males often have multiple wives. Believes witchcraft is an inherited substance and acts separately from the separately from the individual. Believes it is always around and goes through rituals daily. Witchcraft accusations can be amended through reparation payment. People accuse those they believe are jealous of them. People accuse those who are different in some way. Explanatory model: a set of rules, an explanation for why something occurs. An illness develops when there is an imbalance of hot and cold within the body. Hot diseases have cold remedies whereas cold remedies whereas cold diseases have hot remedies. See the body as a whole with every body part having a soul which interacts with souls of other parts of the body. If one body part gets sick, it can spread. Birth itself is also a state of cold.
