ANT220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Arthur Kleinman, Warlpiri People, Medical Anthropology
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People accuse those they are jealous of: people accuse those they believe are jealous of them, people accuse those who are different in some way. Role of air, water, insects in determining health. Ritual pollution: indigenous navajo culture, indian hindu culture. Strong emotion: nursing mothers in latin america. Explains all human behavior in terms of adaptive mechanisms. Suggests evolutionary forces such as natural selection act on behavior because behavior is biological. Protective vs deleterious effects of small gene pool on survival and reproductive success. Ressisive diseases because of interbreeding with families. Adaptive mechanism that protects and expands a societies territory. Source of high quality protein for competitive males. Decrease interbirth interval by ending maternal lactation. Reduce resource competitive for a male"s kin. Criques: reductionist reduces behavior to biology. Ascribes a biological course (adaptation) to outcomes (behavior) that many believe are influenced by non biological, sociocultural processes. Our primary mode of biological adaptation is culture not anatomy.
