ANTC61H3 Lecture Notes - Coconut Oil, Spiritualism, Biomedicine
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10 min for the first consultation spiritualists know everything also ask little questions: biomedicine face to face contact. Healer recruitment: spiritualist sick before becoming a healer experiential evidence that healing works that they understand, biomedicine. Young, healthy upper middle class cannot relate with the patient treatment repertoires: spiritualists complex reprtoires (patient were responsible for cure-had to have enought faith) Patients always agree with treatment: biomedicine simple repertoires. Physicians responsible for cures but not failures. Learn from parents and family, but one was taught by a local healer (children are around older people all the time) trained from a young age (mostly by relatives: midwives they are taken from lineage (family) Believed it is a gift from god trained by watching and internship with their mother or grandmother: healer. Use bark from different trees fro medicine: massage therapists learned healing from father who learned from his mother.
