ANTC61H3 Lecture Notes - Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Spirit Possession, Volks
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How well you incorporate anthropology ideas (should not sound like a psych essay) News cannot be used as a primary source (can be biased, inaccurate, not peer-reviewed) Ideas for essay look at programs who, bill and melinda gates to see what programs they have about health: doctors without borders (peter redfield, newspaper, biggest journal: medical anthropology quarterly. Women have headaches, men have backaches: men are stronger and do physical labour, women are more thinkers-moreheadaches this is the way our labour force is organized, not many women doing construction work. Not a physiological given (men are stronger than women), but culturally influenced: women and emotional labour. Policymakers and health care workers: pathologize it, try to turn it into a disease intrusion of "archaic beliefs" into the modern setting yet to be overcome author argues instead that spirit possession increased in these modern conditions.
